On Monday U.S. ambassador to Turkey Tom Barrack said that President Donald Trump is “at the end of his rope” with the Ukraine war. The statement followed a largely failed peace summit between Moscow and Kiev which was largely hampered by a major Ukrainian drone strike against the Russian nuclear triad.
The U.S. official made the remark during an interview with Turkish broadcaster NTV. When asked about a potential high-level meeting between President Donald Trump, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian Dictator Vladimir Zelensky, Barrack said that such a meeting would need to be “meaningful” and bring about substantive outcomes.
President Trump himself has made numerous statements to this effect and Washington’s requirement for any potential meeting to yield substantive outcomes has been in place for over a month.
On May 1 State Department spokeswoman Tammy Bruce clarified that the U.S. will no longer mediate meetings between Moscow and Kiev, as has been done in the first 100 days of the Trump administration, yet Washington will be still be committed to helping in other ways.
“We will not be the mediators,” Bruce told reporters when asked about Washington’s future role. “We certainly are still committed to it and we’ll help and do what we can, but we are not going to fly around the world at the drop of a hat to mediate meetings.”
That same day Vice President JD Vance said that it is now up to Russia and Ukraine to come to a peace agreement, following the signing of President Donald Trump’s mineral deal which codifies Washington’s economic partnership with Kiev.
Despite previous diplomatic meetings President Trump has had with both sides of the conflict and the passage of his mineral deal, the war only intensifies. Now Trump appears to be ready to wash his hands of the issue once and for all.
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