Meanwhile, the ‘Trump locomotive’ has been accelerating efforts to pressure Moscow into ending the fighting: announcing deadlines, ultimatums, threats of additional sanctions against Russia and hefty tariffs on Russia’s trading partners, like India and China.
Add to all of that the two US nuclear submarines which President Trump claims he’s repositioned closer to Russia.
When you switch from talking about locomotives to nuclear subs, you know things are serious.
But does that mean the White House is really on a “collision course” with the Kremlin over Ukraine?
Or is a visit to Moscow this week by Donald Trump’s special envoy, Steve Witkoff, a sign that for all the posturing, a deal between Russia and America to end the fighting is still possible?