The Administration is signaling that it is going to withdraw from ceasefire efforts between Ukraine and Russia in the next few days unless a potential deal is identified:

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio warned Friday that the Trump administration is ready to walk away from Ukraine ceasefire talks in the coming days if it becomes clear that a deal is impossible.

"We are now reaching a point where we need to decide and determine whether this is even possible or not," Rubio told reporters at the airport before leaving Paris, where he had traveled to coordinate with allies.

"I'm talking about a matter of days, whether or not this is doable over the next few weeks," he added. "If it is, we're in. If it's not, then we have other priorities to focus on."

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This, after Trump repeatedly claimed during the campaign that he would be able to bring the war to a swift end.

The problem, of course, isn't with the fact that Trump appears likely to fail at brokering the war's end. After all, Presidents fail at lots of things - every modern President has failed to achieve a lasting resolution to the longstanding conflicts in the Middle East, for example. The problem lay in Trump's blithe insistence that he would have the ability to broker a solution to the conflict, his failure to recognize that the war involved very inconsistent real interests and goals that the two sides were vastly apart on.