Josh Rogin: Trump’s Handling of Ukraine War Is a ‘Comedy of Errors’

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ROGIN: “And the narrative that comes out of the Trump Administration‘s negotiators, like Steve Witkoff, is, are all Russian narratives that are ahistorical and victim blaming. And this is the complete opposite way of how to set up a negotiation that‘s likely to be successful. So we can say that President Trump probably is being genuine when he says he wants to stop the war, but the way that he‘s doing is is undermining his own goal, and he‘s finding that out the hard way by fumbling it and actually telegraphing that he‘s getting bored with it, that he‘s going to abandon it, which is the exact thing that plays right into Putin‘s hands. So it‘s just a comedy of errors. It‘s a diplomatic malpractice in action. You know, all of that plays to Putin‘s advantage because, of course, Putin doesn‘t want to stop the war, and now he has the perfect excuse. And it‘s — I think it‘s all a pretext for the Trump Administration pulling U.S. aid from Ukraine, which will, again, not end the war. It will just make the Ukrainians suffer more."