President Donald Trump came into office promising to end the wars in Ukraine and Gaza, but seven months later both conflicts have escalated.

Trump’s deadline for Russia to end its war in Ukraine expires Friday, but he has not committed to imposing consequences for failure and has opened the door to a private meeting with Vladimir Putin, and the president has not publicly spoken out against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s plan to launch a new military operation to occupy the entire Gaza Strip.

“There’s a reason why Bibi Netanyahu and Vladimir Putin have been in power as long as they have,” said New York Times podcaster Lulu Garcia-Navarro. “They’ve dealt with many many, many. U.S. administrations, and what you can see is the result of that, this administration came in with a lot of promises. They haven’t been able to move what are admittedly, really difficult conflicts, but the improvisational way in which Donald Trump deals with this, setting deadlines and letting the deadlines move, saying maybe, maybe not, you know, in regards to Ukraine talking about, you know, the same situation in Gaza – actually, there has to be a humanitarian aid, you know, well, maybe not, you know, all these things, like, and give provide opportunity for two very savvy political operators to push in and do what they want to do, do what they want to do that’s best for, they believe, their country.”

“He’s getting strung along,” Garcia-Navarro added. “I mean, he’s getting, I mean, that is clear. He came in very clearly saying he wanted an end to both of these conflicts, and that has not happened.”

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