Putin has defied Trump once again – and paid no price
Two presidents do not need to talk for 90 minutes to serve up the thin gruel in the public account of their call. What else did the two leaders discuss and what private agreements might they have made?
Donald Trump’s ambition to “stop the killing” and secure a ceasefire in Ukraine has collided once again with the intransigence of Vladimir Putin. Yet, astonishingly, the American president seems not to have noticed.
Last week he told Ukraine’s leadership that they would never receive another US weapon or intelligence report unless they agreed in principle to a 30-day ceasefire. So they did.
