Major-General Arnaut Moreira analysed the visits of Donald Trump's envoys, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, to Moscow and Kiev. The two members of the North American administration travelled to both the Russian and Ukrainian capitals as part of ongoing diplomatic efforts.
According to the presented analysis, Trump is seeking in Ukraine a political breakthrough that he can display publicly, especially in a context of the midterm elections approaching. The need to demonstrate diplomatic results has become more pressing for the North American administration.
The article indicates that this search for a visible result in Ukraine arises because, regarding Iran, there is nothing substantial to present. Iran thus represents an absence of diplomatic success that Trump intends to compensate with progress on another front.
The strategy suggests that North American diplomacy is attempting to obtain concrete results on the Ukrainian issue for domestic and political consumption, particularly as the midterm elections approach and pressure for tangible achievements increases.
