But the isolationist tone that U.S. President Donald Trump had in the past has been replaced by much more interventionist policies, from Venezuela to Greenland. "The harder Russia pushes back, the harder the Trump Administration appears to come back and lean on Ukraine. Russia wants to make a deal with the U.S. — only to secure that deal, Trump needs Zelensky to stop resisting." "Trump has the cards to end the war, but those cards need to be played against Russia and not Ukraine," Sweet and Toth argue. Anything less equals a Team Trump forever war in Europe."