Continetti: Trump falling into familiar Putin trap as peace talks stall

There is someone sitting with popcorn overdose to enjoy the show that the Trump administration is giving us. And that’s Vladimir Putin. Neither in his best dreams nor in the plans of poisoning and dirty war that he practices with rage in the West could imagine the show that we’re contemplating: the U.S. military and security leadership radiating live the bombing of Houthi rebels in a chat before a journalist invited by mistake. Like the one who …

Trump: in Putin's trap?

Ukraine and Russia do the Trump dance to shift blame for peace-talk problems

But there’s fear in Kyiv that the U.S. president doesn’t care and will lean toward Moscow.

Appeasement then and now

President Donald Trump's appeasement of Vladimir Putin regarding Ukraine is reminiscent of Neville Chamberlain.

Continetti: Trump falling into familiar Putin trap as peace talks stall

Russian President Vladimir Putin may be delaying a peace deal with Ukraine, President Donald Trump recently admitted — although the U.S. president still says that Russia ultimately wants to end the war. As Trump works to broker a potential peace deal between Kyiv and Moscow, Ukraine and its allies accuse Putin of obstructing negotiations by presenting a series of delaying conditions. Ukraine agreed to a 30-day unconditional ceasefire earlier thi…

Trump's people are convinced that a ceasefire in Ukraine is near at hand, but Vladimir Putin has no interest in it at all.