Playing Along in Trump’s Ceasefire Charade

In this week’s Europe Dispatch, Minna Ålander looks at the chaotic day in Istanbul from Europe’s perspective.

Hello Everyone,

It has been a hectic week and frankly, it is a bit hard to know what to feel. On the one hand, Zelenskyy called Putin’s bluff about direct negotiations. On the other hand, a potential meeting between Trump and Putin is fraught with traps. Apart from the fact that it will be easy for Putin to play Trump like a fiddle, the idea of having th…