Trump said he could stop war in 24 hours, but team appears daunted by negotiation with ‘a lot of detail attached to it’
Diplomacy, it turns out, is hard. The 24 hours that Donald Trump promised he would need to halt the fighting in Ukraine have long since passed. And the administration has done little of the hard diplomatic work that was required to secure landmark deals like the Dayton agreement or the Camp David accords in the past.
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Rubio clearly wished to vent frustration on Friday, a day after Trump had said in the White House that he was waiting for Russia’s response to the proposed framework for a peace deal and expected to have it this week. The White House appears to be increasingly frustrated with Moscow, something that both European and Ukrainian officials had hoped would take place.
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There was always an expertise gap in the difficult negotiations over a ceasefire to the Russian war in Ukraine. Now the administration appears to have a patience gap and has signaled it is ready to walk away. Ukraine does not have that option.
Waiting for a Trump quote along the lines of “negotiating peace between 2 countries is complicated… Who knew?” like the healthcare line from his last term.
"Expertise - and Patience - "
…i think the word they’re looking for is competence…
They never wanted peace. Trump has never tried to get a real peace deal. Putin wants Trump to deliver Ukraine’s capitulation, and Trump, so far, has failed to come up with the goods, because Zelenskyy is 100 times the man Trump is, and refuses to grovel.
They are MEDIOCRE
This is the Dunning-Kruger Government in action!.. enjoy
The only reason Shitler wanted this deal to work was for a Nobel prize. I guess the juice isn’t worth the squeeze. Still, it’s small comfort knowing Obama having one while he doesn’t eats him up inside
Is anyone surprised?
I’m at the point where serious media should just put all the lies and empty promises of this regime in a single section, titled ‘From Trump world’. And use the serious sections to dissect the lies and analyse (IN SIMPLE TERMS) what’s really going on.
Especially the media from outside us
“lack of patience” is an extremely charitable take. They are lazy. They seek power for its privileges, not its responsibilities.
Amazing that they are frustrated with Moscow - they opened the negotiations with Putins maximum demands…
Bro really thought, after everyone else involved since 2014, he could just get in the room and say:
- “Hey, c’mon. Let’s just stop this. Killing is bad, peace is good. I also want Ukraine to give up all the taken territory and I want 50% of Ukraine’s minerals in perpetuity, in exchange for nothing.”
Who would have thought this matter could be ‘just a smidge’ more complicated than “you should probably just stop it”? Children raised on silver spoons often expect others to simply obey them, regardless of what the situation is.
I guess he meant he’ll stop trying in 24 hours. Not that he ever started.
“Trump team reveals lack of expertise”
NO
SHIT
The weirdest thing is that people expected a buch of real-estate guys to somehow be good at international diplomacy.
I don’t expect my butcher to also be good at cutting my hair!
Someone made a comment awhile back, if international diplomacy was as easy as real estate then we would have had much less wars. It is hard, it requires specific skills, it requires years of trust building and give and take. All these idiots get is short timed wins that end up costing more in the long run.
I still get triggered when I hear people say they figured he would be better for the economy “since he was a business man.” Way too many people buy into the “rich therefore smart” myth.
Yes and even if he would be smart, I know really smart people that would probably suck at running the economy. Having 0 experience doing something makes you a n00b by default.
“We abandon this task, not because it is easy; but because it is hard.”
Blast him as a failure that can’t even negotiate a single peace agreement. His ego will love that; it’ll definitely just allow him to move on and not stew over it for years to come.
God the Trump admin is such a hot HOT mess… What did they expect? That Russia would just cave? They are so terrifyingly stupid, it genuinely makes me worried and we are only three months into his term…
They thought Ukraine would just cave.
There’s nothing in it for Trump. If he can’t personally profit, it’s a low-priority issue not worth spending effort on.
