..just when we thought that Trump was finally going to deliver the peace in Ukraine, Putin failed to show up in a rebuff to near diplomacy success....but instead he has doubled down on the war.
..Trump was more into achieving personal success in ending the war than being serious about going about the appropriate way to end it.
..the question now is whether he is about to return to the NATO fold and support Ukraine - it looks that way, and all for just a minerals agreement in Ukraine???
..for all the bravado and upmanship, Trump's actions proved to be all showmanship and of little substance.
..the world is getting used to it...which perhaps explains why his tweets would lose its desired effect over time.
*RUSSIA DEPLOYS 640,000 TROOPS IN WAR AGAINST UKRAINE: MILITARY
Putin skips Ukraine talks, dimming hope for ceasefire despite Trump's push
Story by CBSNews
Istanbul — Russia and Ukraine traded insults on Thursday as negotiators were due, tentatively, to meet in Turkey for the first direct peace talks in more than three years. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy slammed Russia for sending a "decorative" delegation as he touched down in Ankara for a meeting with his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Russian officials, for their part, called Zelenskyy "pathetic" and a "clown" for challenging President Vladimir Putin to show up in person for the talks, while touting further territorial gains in eastern Ukraine.
The Kremlin made it clear on Thursday that President Trump's push for a ceasefire in the three-year war — a war he repeatedly claimed he could end within hours — was not changing Moscow's entrenched position on the standoff.
The exchange of personal barbs between Moscow and Kyiv undermined the chances of any breakthrough at the talks in Turkey. It wasn't even clear if any talks between the warring parties would take place.
