Trump Is Confident He Will End Ukraine War As Putin Seems Unmoved

President Donald Trump listens during a meeting with Polish President Karol Nawrocki in the Oval Office of the White House, Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2025, in Washington.President Donald Trump on Wednesday appeared confident that he will manage to broker peace between Russia and Ukraine, even though he has so far failed to convince Russian President Vladimir Putin to end his brutal war.In a phone interview with CBS News, Trump said he expected to make progress toward his said goal of ending the three-year war but suggested that Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy “are not ready yet.”“I’ve been watching it, I’ve been seeing it, and I’ve been talking about it with President Putin and President Zelenskyy,” Trump said. “Something is going to happen, but they are not ready yet. But something is going to happen. We are going to get it done.”Trump, once again, conceded that he underestimated how hard it would be to bring that conflict to a close, but said: “I think we’re going to get it all straightened out.”Following his meeting with Putin in Alaska on August 15, where he rolled out the red carpet for the Russian dictator and rode with him in “the Beast,” the US president’s armored limousine, Trump had claimed peace talks, including a potential trilateral summit between him and the two foreign leaders, would soon follow. Yet, those talks haven’t materialized and Putin has seemed unwilling to make any concessions to Kyiv, while continuing to escalate his attacks on Ukrainian civilians.President Donald Trump greets Russia's President Vladimir Putin on Aug. 15 at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Alaska.Speaking to reporters in Beijing, the Russian leader said: “It seems to me that if common sense prevails, it will be possible to agree on an acceptable solution to end this conflict.”“If not, then we will have to resolve all the tasks before us by force of arms,” he continued.Putin added that he would be willing to sit down with Zelenskyy as long as the Ukrainian president came to Moscow, an offer that was predictably swiftly rejected by Kyiv as “unacceptable.”Still, despite the lack of progress and Putin’s repeated decision to violate arbitrary deadlines set by Trump for him to end the conflict, the US president has failed to hold him accountable.On Wednesday, Trump told reporters in the White House he didn’t have a new message for his Russian counterpart.“He knows where I stand and he’ll make a decision one way or the other,” Trump said. “Whatever his decision is, we’ll either be happy about it or unhappy. And if we’re unhappy about it, you’ll see things happen.”Meanwhile, leaders of the countries belonging to the “coalition of the willing” and Zelenskyy are meeting in Paris on Thursday to discuss security guarantees for Ukraine that would go into effect as soon as Ukraine entered into a peace agreement with Russia.While the U.S. is not part of the group, Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff sat down with several senior European officials ahead of that meeting, according to Reuters.Trump is also expected to speak to Zelenskyy and French President Emmanuel Macron over the phone on Thursday, Reuters added.Related...'A Car Crash': Nigel Farage Slammed For Praising Trump And Thatcher During US TripInternet Wits Mock Trump For Now Calling Epstein Files Scandal A ‘Democrat Hoax’Trump Goes On Another Bonkers AI-Fuelled Social Media Posting Spree

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