Two weeks after President Donald Trump met Russian President Vladimir Putin at a U.S. air base in Alaska, and two weeks after European leaders traveled to Washington for follow-up talks at the White House, the Trump administration's ongoing peace process in Ukraine is at best on life support. Although Vice President JD Vance continues to press the argument that diplomacy is making progress, the reality is precisely the opposite. The Russians are as inscrutable as always, and Putin has reportedly agreed to stop his territorial conquest of the entire Zaporizhzhia and Kherson regions; he insists on full control of Ukraine's Donbas region as the price for a ceasefire.

There are two negotiations going on right now. The first, between Ukraine and Russia, is at a standstill . The secon

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