Retreating from power and influence - The Times Gazette

Retreating from power and influence - The Times Gazette

By most accounts, on both sides of the aisle, President Trump lost Round 1 of the negotiations with Vladimir Putin over a ceasefire and the end to the war in Ukraine. Sending an old friend and business executive, Steve Witkoff, a real-estate investor and property developer, to handle negotiations with a decades-long KGB intelligence officer and political strongman was akin to putting me into the ring with Muhammad Ali. Putin didn’t accede to any…