The Guardian: Trump’s team reveals its lack of patience and experience in resolving conflicts!

The Guardian newspaper wondered whether the Trump administration threatened to abandon the peace agreement between Russia and Ukraine as a negotiating tactic, or simply because it lacked the focus necessary for complex negotiations—a flaw that has negatively impacted the administration’s foreign policy during its first three months in office.

The Guardian noted that if US Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s threat from a Paris airport tarmac to stop mediating the largest military conflict in Europe since the Second World War is serious, the US will be facing a radical change for an administration that has already backed away from negotiating peace in Gaza and backed away from implementing the global tariffs that rocked financial markets around the world earlier this month.

The Guardian added that despite numerous meetings between Trump’s envoy, Steve Witkoff, and Russian President Vladimir Putin, and contact between Marco Rubio and his Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov, “there are few signs of any new progress, that the United States has exerted any pressure on the Kremlin, or that the negotiations have identified the types of security guarantees that will be provided to ensure that Russia doesn’t continue the war whenever it deems it appropriate,” and this, according to The Guardian, an indirect American pressure on Ukraine.

“If Trump backs out of the agreement and the war altogether, the decision will still be in Putin’s favor, relieving Ukraine of a key ally and financial backer in its war against Russia… Moscow appears to see the situation as a win-win situation: either accept a favorable deal with the White House or wait for Trump’s patience to run out, which he is now threatening to do”.

The Guardian added, “There has long been a lack of experience in difficult negotiations over a ceasefire in Russia’s war in Ukraine, and now the administration appears to be running out of patience and has signaled a willingness to withdraw, but Ukraine doesn’t have that option”.