Trump team reveals its impatience as it threatens to walk away from Russia-Ukraine peace talks
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Fri, 18 Apr 2025 21:02:50 +0300

Trump said hed stop the war in 24 hours if elected, but his team appears daunted by negotiation with a lot of detail attached to itOne key to a successful negotiation is always being willing to walk away from the table.
But it isnt clear whether the Trump administration has threatened to give up on a RussiaUkraine peace deal as a negotiating tactic or simply because it lacks the concentration for a complicated negotiation a shortcoming that has dogged the administrations foreign policy through its first three months in office.Standing on a tarmac in Paris, the US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, issued a threat that the US could simply move on from mediating the biggest military conflict in Europe since the second world war.
That would be the latest aboutface for an administration that has already taken a back seat on negotiating a peace in Gaza and retreated on implementing worldwide tariffs that shook financial markets around the globe earlier this month.
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