Now Trump could walk away from a Ukraine deal

You never know quite where you are with the Trump administration. Marco Rubio, the secretary of state, came out of a meeting with Europeans on Ukraine and said unless there was a sign in the next few days that a deal to end the war was genuinely on the cards, the US could walk away fromn Ukraine. In other words, the US would stop supporting Ukraine and leave it to the Europeans and that would be it. It's probably just a negotiating tactic but it shows that there is not a lot of patience around in the White House. Trump wants to get shot of Ukraine but preferably by brokering a deal to stop the death and destruction. A good objective, except there is one person who is not interested in making any deal except on his terms. That's Vladimir Putin. So with the US threatening to walk away that just hands Putin what he wants. He is not going to make any deal with the Europeans, so the war will go on and on and on. Europe will get increasingly immersed in the war and it will bankrupt us all. This is a disastrous moment.