Trump’s Peace Gamble: Washington Admits Ukraine War Won’t End Anytime Soon
For all the campaign bravado, it turns out stopping the bloodshed in Ukraine isn’t as simple as snapping your fingers. Even the Trump White House now admits it.
When US Chief of Protocol Monica Crowley went on Fox News this week, her words carried a dose of reality: peace doesn’t happen overnight. And despite all the dramatic handshakes and photo ops, Washington knows this fight could drag on far longer than voters were promised.
Last Friday, Trump sat down with Vladimir Putin in Anchorage, Alaska — their first face-to-face since the Ukraine war erupted in 2022. Days later, Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky flew into Washington with a full entourage of European power players — Macron, Scholz, Sunak, Meloni, and even the NATO brass — to hash out what the White House insists was a “game-changing” set of talks.
But here’s the kicker: everyone’s talking about peace, no one’s putting a timeline on it.
Crowley echoed the blunt truth: “All parties are interested in achieving peace,” she said, before quickly adding the caveat: “But this isn’t going to happen overnight.”
That statement hits a sore spot. Why? Because Trump himself repeatedly boasted on the campaign trail that he’d end the war in 24 hours if elected. Now, reality is sinking in. Even his own aides admit the situation is messier than the slogans.
Moscow isn’t rushing, either. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has made it clear that setting deadlines for peace is a fool’s game: “There is no point in trying to squeeze a settlement into a short period. This is a thankless pursuit.”
Trump’s latest play? He wants Putin and Zelensky to meet one-on-one, perhaps even before he steps in to “close the deal.” But let’s be honest — given the bad blood between Moscow and Kiev, no one’s betting on a handshake fixing years of war in a single afternoon.
Zelensky says he’s open to talks. Putin says maybe, but only at the “final stage” of negotiations. Which stage we’re actually at? No one really knows.
For now, the world waits. The White House talks about a “light at the end of the tunnel,” but the tunnel itself seems endless. And while leaders trade polite soundbites, soldiers and civilians on the ground are still paying the price.
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