After the cozy Macron and Starmer meetings, this should serve an oversized bucket of cold water dumped on the heads of European leaders. No, things are not going well. No, things cannot be finessed or managed into going well. This was as premeditated as it was unprecedented.
No, the meeting did not go badly for Ukraine. It exposed in the most undeniable, unequivocal way possible the pro-Putin commitments of the president and vice president. That was information Americans and allies needed to have clear before them.