President Donald Trump promised that he would end the war between Russia and Ukraine with one swift diplomatic master stroke.
That promise remains unfulfilled.
Now, Trump hopes his face-to-face meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin will give him that elusive breakthrough.
Nancy Soderberg, former US Ambassador to the United Nations and Director of the UNF Public Service Leadership Program, joined us on The Morning Show to offer some perspective on the big meeting.
The ambassador says hosting the meeting is one of the biggest gambles of President Trump’s second term. And it’s raising expectations that he can stop the fighting.
He made threats and applied pressure, and the bombs kept falling. The biggest question is, are the expectations realistic this time?