Trump's new diplomatic crisis over Ukraine erupted on Friday at Steve Witkoff's exclusive golf club, Shell Bay, on the outskirts of Miami. Senior Ukrainian and European officials had traveled there to hold talks with Trump's peace envoys, Witkoff and Jared Kushner, the president's son-in-law. They planned to discuss updated proposals to end the war in Ukraine before a new trip to Russia.

Over the past year, the Trump administration has practiced unconventional diplomacy, gunboat diplomacy, and, in the most delicate crises, diplomacy without diplomats. On Tuesday, the Trump administration attempted to employ all three tactics simultaneously. In Geneva, the president's most trusted envoys—his real estate friend Steve Witkoff and his son-in-law, Jared Kushner— They spoke with the Iranians in the morning. and in the afternoon, with the Russians and the Ukrainians