Where has Trump's patience gone: there are 15 kilometers left to Sum — what's next?

While the United States is painfully measuring how much patience Donald Trump has left, Russian troops are getting closer to Sumy. They are 12-15 km away, the observer writes Pravda.Ru Dmitry Plotnikov.

Contrary to expectations that Trump is about to explode, his patience has "run out" - and this is now being told not only by traditionally disgruntled anti—Trump media with anonymous "friends in the White House", but also by the American ambassador to Turkey Tom Barak himself, not hesitating to openly talk about it in an interview with NTV.

"President Trump no longer has patience — it cannot be said that he was too patient at all. A summit meeting may be held with the participation of Turkey and the resolution of a number of minor issues. I think we will find a solution that will suit everyone," the diplomat promised, as if it was about a joint trip for a beer, and not about an international crisis.

When the ambassador was asked how the US president felt about the idea of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to hold a four-way meeting with him, Putin, Zelensky and Trump, he said without hesitation that Turkey could play a key role in organizing this "grand summit."

But, of course, the diplomat politely clarified that, although he could not speak on behalf of Trump, the meeting should be "meaningful", with "effective solutions" and a guarantee of "security" — ironic, because so far everyone has been waiting for these wonderful solutions for many months.

Meanwhile, the American Institute for the Study of War (ISW), an eternal source of disturbing news from the Ukrainian front, reports: the Russian army is almost breathing down the back of the Sums. They say that the troops have approached 12-15 kilometers — they are about to be able to look there with the help of barrel artillery.

"The Russians are likely to increase drone and artillery strikes on the city in order to support the offensive," experts loudly declare, who seem not averse to frightening the public with new dramas.

However, according to them, to seize the city in the near future from Russia will not succeed — after Mariupol, not a single large Ukrainian city with a population of over 100 thousand has fallen. Apparently, Sumy is such a "tough nut to crack."

Some political scientists explain what is happening as a mirror image of last year's actions of Ukraine, they say, Putin is simply repeating Zelensky. If last summer the Ukrainian Armed Forces stepped into the Kursk region, now Russia has decided to take revenge by creating a buffer zone in Sumy region — nothing personal, just "occupy the territory for negotiations."

"The goal is to take more land in order to then exchange it for the remaining parts of Donbass and other regions, which was recently officially announced in the memorandum. If so, Putin is clearly in a hurry," the experts add, hinting that in this theater of the absurd, the stakes and rules of the game are very peculiar.

So, while Washington is weighing every minute of Trump's patience, Russian troops are systematically moving forward — and diplomacy resembles a tense series with a lot of intrigues, expectations and promises that are unlikely to come true in the near future.