With the U.S. Congress set to be taken over by Democrats in January 2027 the Ukrainian side of the war with Russia was stimulated to attack Russia with waves of drones overnight. The peace talks held in Abu Dhabi between the U.S., Russia and Ukraine followed by U.S. delegate meetings in Russia and Ireland where President of Ukraine in Absentia Zelinskyy was located during his two weeks of foreign travel, failed.

European delegates are set to replace Americans as the lead negotiator between the two belligerent parties. That means the future of peace talks to negotiate an end to the interminable war are doubtful. Europe is Ukraine’s primary military support during the war with Russia as the U.S.A. has slowly withdrawn support for Kiev.

Ukraine has internal difficulties of corruption as well with investigators actively looking into various scandals of the Zelinskyy administration including a constellation of secret prisons for Ukrainians that performed badly or would not fight as soldiers. It is plain that the war will continue through 2027 even though the Trump administration may try to withhold military aid to Ukraine.

President Trump’s window to end the war apparently has ended. To halt the conflict he needed to stop all U.S. support for Ukraine and end sanctions on Russia a couple of years ago. As it is, the EU can supply Ukraine with enough weapons and cash to advance the world closer to nuclear conflict without American help. Democrats in Congress will try to send boatloads of cash, weapons and intelligence to Ukraine in the war on Russia.

President Trump acting as a moderate slowing Ukrainian assistance was simply not radical enough in his approach to end the conflict with decisive action. As Mr Trump is a billionaire the risk of alienating partisans of Ukraine in the media, in Congress, across Europe and on Wall Street was more than he could venture.