President Trump has ruled out sending Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine for now. What does that mean for the prospects of ending the war?

In the last three months, President Donald Trump has shifted his stance considerably on how to bring the Russia-Ukraine War to an end. In February, he dismissed Ukraine’s chances of victory and berated Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky in the Oval Office. In August, he welcomed Russian president Vladimir Putin to Alaska in what turned out to be a largely unproductive summit. In September, he announced that he believed that Ukraine could regain Russian-occupied territory and ramped up his sanctions campaign to squeeze Russian oil exports from the international market. 

Now, after meeting with President Trump at the White House on Friday, President Zelensky

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