US-Brokered Ukraine-Russia Talks Show Little Hope Amid Stalemate and Global Distraction

As the world marks nearly four years since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, American-brokered peace talks in Geneva offer little more than a theater of diplomatic delay while national security concerns mount at home. Despite Washington’s optimistic June deadline for settlement, neither side appears willing to budge on the core issues threatening European stability—and by extension, our own borders and economic prosperity. Can Washington Break Through Entrenched Positions That Ignore America’s Interests? The Ukrainian delegation, led by National Security figures like Rustem Umerov and General Kyrylo Budanov, travels hundreds of miles through closed airspace merely to sit down with Russian...