The Russia–Ukraine War: Trump Handed Putin All the Best Cards

Putin has all the cards only because Trump placed them on silver plates.

The Russia–Ukraine war has now stretched close to its fourth year.

What was once expected to be a short, decisive conflict has metastasized into a grinding stalemate.

For the West, the stakes have only grown: unless Washington and its allies can force Moscow into a credible negotiation framework, the costs of delay will reshape not only Europe but the arc…