Little Diplomatic Progress Made on Ukraine After Trump-Putin Meeting in Alaska

‘Nothing materially has changed’ – former Obama official on Trump-Putin Ukraine talks

We spoke to Dr Evelyn Farkas – she was Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense looking after Russia and Ukraine under President Obama. We began by asking her how long ago the Alaska and DC summits felt –  in light of everything that has transpired in the past week.

Pomp but little progress at Trump's Ukraine talks

What happenedA meeting between President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska and a White House summit with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and seven European leaders left Trump seemingly no closer to a deal to end the Ukraine war this week, with the Kremlin rebuffing his call for direct peace talks between Putin and Zelensky and Ukraine rejecting Moscow's demand that it surrender a vast swathe of territory. In a show of s…

Little diplomatic progress made on Ukraine after Trump-Putin meeting in Alaska

NPR's A Martinez talks to David Sanger of The New York Times about President Trump's stalled diplomacy with Russian President Vladimir Putin 10 days after their meeting in Alaska.

Putin meeting was farce

Trump’s meeting with Putin in Alaska was an orchestrated farce from the beginning, a publicity stunt.

The Illusion of Diplomacy: Unmasking the Trump-Putin Summit's Mirage of Progress – Archyde

Archyde Echoes of Past Summits: scrutinizing Recent Diplomatic Exchanges Table of Contents 1. Echoes of Past Summits: scrutinizing Recent Diplomatic Exchanges 2. The Illusion of Progress: A Familiar Pattern 3. PutinS… You can read the full story here: The Illusion of Diplomacy: Unmasking the Trump-Putin Summit’s Mirage of Progress.