{"id":6050,"date":"2025-08-21T14:27:30","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T14:27:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/?p=6050"},"modified":"2025-08-21T14:28:37","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T14:28:37","slug":"did-trump-leave-a-bigger-ukraine-russia-mess-after-his-show-summits-heres-what-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/2025\/08\/21\/did-trump-leave-a-bigger-ukraine-russia-mess-after-his-show-summits-heres-what-to-know\/","title":{"rendered":"Did Trump leave a bigger Ukraine-Russia mess after his &#8220;show summits&#8221;? Here&#8217;s what to know\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It turns out that diplomacy is hard &#8211; very, very hard, in fact &#8211; and maybe real estate millionaires are not quite suited to the task. And back-to-back summits may have made things worse<\/p>\n<p>Overnight, <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/International\/russia-hits-ukraine-massive-drone-missile-attack-kyiv\/story?id=124837267\">Vladimir Putin&#8217;s Russia hit Ukraine with a &#8216;massive&#8217; wave of drone and missile attacks<\/a>. You just might come to the conclusion that Putin is not interested in peace.<\/p>\n<p>Putin is showing zero interest in a summit with Ukrainian president Volodomyr Zelenskyy \u2013 a glaring fact that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2025\/08\/20\/trump-ukraine-moscow-setback\/\">demonstrates Trump&#8217;s impotence as a &#8220;peacemaker&#8221;<\/a>, so much so that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/aug\/21\/trump-ukraine-russia-peace-talks\">the aging former game show host has stepped back from peacemaking efforts<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Russia is also demanding it force its way into <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/aug\/20\/russia-international-talks-ukraine-security-putin-europe\">international talks on Ukraine&#8217;s security<\/a>. Zelenskyy correctly calls bulltrump on Russia, citing the overnight Russian attack on Ukraine as further evidence that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/russia-ukraine-war-trump-putin-zelenskyy-peace-talks\/\">Putin isn&#8217;t &#8220;really going to engage&#8221; in any peace effort<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/articles\/republicans-subtly-plead-trump-please-214538110.html\">Republicans are quietly telling Trump not to compromise with Putin<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s about time.<\/p>\n<p>DEVELOPING\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The headlines stack up \u2013 and they paint a picture of a tectonic shift.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5039,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6050"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6062,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6050\/revisions\/6062"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}