By Anders Aslund

Copyright kyivpost

Trump says so, praising Putin for being a genius invading Ukraine.

Trump has not imposed any sanctions on Russia since January.

Trump is not enforcing the previous sanctions on Russia.

Trump votes with Putin and a dozen rogue states in UN.

Trump has stopped all US financial and military aid to Ukraine, even though Ukraine enjoys broad popular support also in GOP.

Trump absurdly and falsely claims that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky started the war, when in fact Putin did.

Trump has not imposed any conditions on Russia for ceasefire.

Instead, Trump has imposed conditions on Ukraine, the victim.

By ending the sanctions on Belarusian airline Belavia (for no good reason), Trump has facilitated US supplies of parts to Boeings standing in Russia.

Trump and Steve Witkoff, the president’s special envoy to Russia, are itching to invest in Russia.

Trump broke the isolation of Putin by inviting him to the US. He gave Putin an unconditional red-carpet treatment, whereas he had ambushed Zelensky in the Oval Office.

After claiming that he would do something after two weeks seven times if Putin did not accept ceasefire, he has done nothing.

No US diplomat has ever appeared in the Kremlin more ignorant and unprepared than Trump’s special envoy Witkoff: no own interpreter; no assistant taking notes; no Russian knowledge; apparent misunderstandings about everything.

Only Trump could fail to dismiss such a useless character, and he did.

Trump’s “diplomacy” with Putin is a complete sellout and failure: No actual conditions = no Putin concessions; no ceasefire.

Fortunately, Trump and Witkoff’s private business deals with Putin appear to have not materialized as yet, but things may get worse. This is a low point in US-Russia relations from the US point of view, but Trump can probably aggravate it further by focusing on his personal interests.