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The Trump-Putin summit on Friday, followed by Monday’s unprecedented White House meeting with Ukrainian President Zelensky and seven other European leaders, has left analysts wondering whether recent diplomacy will result in an end to hostilities—or if it’s all just pageantry. Andrea Kendall-Taylor and Sergey Radchenko sit down with Ravi Agrawal to debrief these two high-level meetings.
Kendall-Taylor is a former CIA analyst and a senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security. Radchenko is a Johns Hopkins University professor and the author of To Run the World: The Kremlin’s Cold War Bid for Global Power.
Ravi Agrawal: Grading Trump’s Ukraine Diplomacy
Ivo H. Daalder: Russia and Ukraine Are as Far Apart as Ever
Stephen M. Walt: Trump Has No Idea How to Do Diplomacy
Rishi Iyengar: Key Takeaways From Trump’s Meeting with Zelensky
Keith Johnson: 7 Lingering Questions After the Trump Ukraine Summit
Michael Hirsh: Trump’s Putin Gambit Failed—but Maybe It Was Still Worth Trying
Sergey Radchenko: Not Unprecedented but Unprincipled
Christina Lu: ‘There’s No Deal Until There’s a Deal’
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