Hail Melania Trump, the one US diplomat making a difference in the Russia-Ukraine war

Exactly one US diplomat is showing results when it comes to Russia’s war on Ukraine: First Lady Melania Trump, whose focus on small, discrete goals yields real victories.With minimal publicity, she’s gotten dozens of Ukrainian kids returned to their families and locked down a temporary local ceasefire in the frontline city Oleshy, opening vital evacuation corridors allowing nearly 800 civilians to evacuate.She hopes to enlarge on that next week, hosting a White House sitdown looking at a larger ceasefire across the Kherson region.

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Never miss a story.Meanwhile, the Kremlin continues its long-distance slaughter of the innocents, killing dozens one day by dropping bunker-busters on a school used as a relief center, and dozens more the next by targeting another aid station.

Not to mention its nightly bombing and droning of Ukrainian power plants.All this is Vladimir Putin’s tone-setter for next week’s talks in Abu Dhabi, where the likes of special envoy Steve Witkoff will again try for a full ceasefire.Of course, the first lady isn’t pretending she’s going to end the war; she’s just trying to save some lives.Then again, she’s succeeding.

You have to wonder what the president’s other diplomats might achieve if they quit pretending, too....