Every time I speak with Vladimir, I have good conversations, and then they don’t go anywhere,” said Donald Trump, after his latest peace initiative, this time in Ukraine, once again ran into the mud of Russian obfuscation.
In spite of the warmth shown at the Alaska summit in August, and a history of credulity when it comes to Moscow’s version of events, it sounds like Donald Trump may have finally lost patience with Vladimir Putin. True, he has expressed concern aloud in the past that President Putin is stringing him along, before being mollified by another long telephone conversation with the Kremlin. This time, Putin might have pushed his luck too far.
