Ending a war in 24 hours is tricky – as self-proclaimed peacemaker Donald Trump is discovering. Even four months isn't a long time when the conflict you’ve offered to help resolve involves a maniacal head of a nuclear-armed mafia state determined to take over a plucky democratic neighbour.
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky’s refusal to wave a white flag presents a serious obstacle not only to Trump’s peace plans, but more importantly, to his hopes of a Nobel prize – an award that the narcissist in the Oval Office desperately wants and thinks he deserves.
