A Diplomatic Rollercoaster for Ukraine

In Ukrainian and Russian, the term for rollercoaster is "American hills." That's an apt description of the whiplash diplomacy this past week over Russia's war against Ukraine, particularly when it comes to the rocky relations between Washington and Kyiv. A White House meeting that was supposed to produce a US-Ukraine mineral-resources deal cast by US President Donald Trump as a key step toward ending the war went badly awry: No deal was signed, and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy left early after a bitter clash in the Oval Office. Trump…