Trump said he could stop war in 24 hours, but team appears daunted by negotiation with ‘a lot of detail attached to it’
Diplomacy, it turns out, is hard. The 24 hours that Donald Trump promised he would need to halt the fighting in Ukraine have long since passed. And the administration has done little of the hard diplomatic work that was required to secure landmark deals like the Dayton agreement or the Camp David accords in the past.
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Rubio clearly wished to vent frustration on Friday, a day after Trump had said in the White House that he was waiting for Russia’s response to the proposed framework for a peace deal and expected to have it this week. The White House appears to be increasingly frustrated with Moscow, something that both European and Ukrainian officials had hoped would take place.
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There was always an expertise gap in the difficult negotiations over a ceasefire to the Russian war in Ukraine. Now the administration appears to have a patience gap and has signaled it is ready to walk away. Ukraine does not have that option.
The weirdest thing is that people expected a buch of real-estate guys to somehow be good at international diplomacy.
I don’t expect my butcher to also be good at cutting my hair!
Someone made a comment awhile back, if international diplomacy was as easy as real estate then we would have had much less wars. It is hard, it requires specific skills, it requires years of trust building and give and take. All these idiots get is short timed wins that end up costing more in the long run.
I still get triggered when I hear people say they figured he would be better for the economy “since he was a business man.” Way too many people buy into the “rich therefore smart” myth.
Yes and even if he would be smart, I know really smart people that would probably suck at running the economy. Having 0 experience doing something makes you a n00b by default.