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Trump’s new approach to Russia’s war in Ukraine might be his worst yet The American president’s latest plan to end the Russia-Ukraine conflict is to stop trying to end the conflict. What could possibly go wrong?

June 6, 2025, 12:00 PM EDT

By Steve Benen

Donald Trump and his team have spent a fair amount of time recently trying to convince the public that the president’s policy toward Russia’s war in Ukraine is having a positive impact. In mid-March, for example, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt boasted , “I can say we are on the 10th yard line of peace, and we’ve never been closer to a peace deal than we are in this moment.”

Two months later, Trump participated in a two-hour phone meeting with Vladimir Putin, and the Republican touted the discussion a

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