Talk about mood swings: is that epic White House bust-up that we are still processing already water under the bridge? Donald Trump’s envoys making that recent dumpster fire of a sitdown with Volodymyr Zelensky sound like a fading memory. The US now unpausing military assistance to Kyiv and talking up the imminence of a rare minerals deal in exchange for Ukraine agreeing to a 30-day truce with Russia. All is forgiven … up to a point. 

With the ball now in the Kremlin’s court, Ukraine is still shut out of direct bargaining over its own fate. For now, it is still between Moscow and Washington.

We will ask about the dizzying ups and downs of diplomacy à la Trump, and how allies feel about this rollercoaster ride. On that score, special attention to all the huddling we have seen in London and Paris as Europeans figure out how to rewrite their own security strategy on the fly, what with a US-led NATO no longer what it used to be.

Produced by Théophile Vareille, Rebecca Gnignati and Ilayda Habip.