If there is one lesson President Donald Trump is learning during the first four months of his second term, it’s that talking about peace isn’t the same as fostering it. In Ukraine and Gaza, host to two of the most intractable wars in the world, the president is striking out.
The self-professed master dealmaker devoted considerable time on the campaign trail trumpeting his ambitions for a more peaceful world and bragging about how he was the only person on the planet with the talent and stamina to end the wars his predecessor Joe Biden couldn’t.
On the war in Ukraine, Trump boasted how he would quickly get Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Russian President Vladimir Putin in the same room to hash out the issues like adults, perhaps not appreciating just how difficult it would be to corral the men together.
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