6 Takeaways on the Unwinding U.S.-Ukraine Alliance [emphasis on women -- see last paragraph]
A Times investigation reveals the inside story of the Trump administration’s chaotic push for a peace deal and its erratic role in the war. President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine and President Trump at Mar-a-Lago on Sunday.Credit...Tierney L. Cross/The New York Times By Adam Entous, The New York Times , Dec. 30, 2025 At least 83 times during his campaign to return to power, President Trump pledged to negotiate an end to the war between Russia and Ukraine within 24 hours, even before taking office. After nearly a year of painful on-again, off-again negotiations, Mr. Trump would come to acknowledge a hard reality. As he put it on Sunday after meeting with the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, at Mar-a-Lago: “This is not a one-day process deal. This is very complicated stuff.” The New York Times spent the year chronicling the hidden story of the negotiations; the ambition, the tenacity, the ideological and personal infighting; the cruelty and the inconsistency that Mr. Trump’s cam...