There is no pressure the West can bring to bear on Russia and no military support that can be given to Ukraine which can produce any definition of a positive outcome for Ukraine.
The longer the West travels down the road of seeking the diplomatic and militarily unattainable, the greater the final cost of the failure for the Ukrainian people. The blunt, painfully evident truth is the war was lost long ago.
Trump, who has been trying to bring the war to an end since his inauguration, has become “increasingly frustrated,” White House Spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt said, that neither side seems willing to make the concessions necessary to reach a mutually agreeable settlement.
State Department Spokesperson Tammy Bruce said the U.S. has reached the point “where concrete proposals” need to be quickly agreed upon by both sides, or the U.S. will “step back as mediators in this process.” Many establishment figures in Washington, and a host of voices in Europe, are aghast at such talk, accusing Trump of blaming Zelensky for the war and for failing to “put pressure on Putin.”
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