Exactly one US diplomat is exhibiting outcomes when it comes to Russia’s battle on Ukraine: First Lady Melania Trump, whose focus on small, discrete targets yields actual victories.

With minimal publicity, she’s gotten dozens of Ukrainian children returned to their households and locked down a non permanent native cease-fire in the frontline metropolis Oleshky, opening important evacuation corridors permitting almost 800 civilians to evacuate.

She hopes to enlarge on that next week, internet hosting a White House sitdown wanting at a bigger cease-fire across the Kherson area.

Meanwhile, the Kremlin continues its long-distance slaughter of the innocents, killing dozens one day by dropping bunker-busters on a college used as a aid middle, and dozens more the next by concentrating on another support station.

Not to point out its nightly bombing and droning of Ukrainian energy crops.

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All this is Vladimir Putin’s tone-setter for next week’s talks in Abu Dhabi, where the likes of particular envoy Steve Witkoff will again attempt for a full cease-fire.

Of course, the first woman isn’t pretending she’s going to finish the battle; she’s just making an attempt to save some lives.

Then again, she’s succeeding.

You have to surprise what the president’s other diplomats might obtain if they stop pretending, too.