As peace talks stall, Russia and Ukraine share one aim: keep Trump happy

Wall Street Journal: The upbeat diplomatic buzzwords belie the impasse in a peace process that many observers, and even some participants, said has turned into political theater.

“These talks aren’t moving us closer to ending the war,” said Ivo Daalder, who was a U.S. ambassador to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization during the Obama administration. “It’s a game to avoid being blamed for Trump’s failure to end the war.”…