This was supposed to be the foreign policy high point of Donald Trump ’s second term.

A further step towards the Nobel Peace Prize. A crowning victory against all the doubters and naysayers. Except it wasn’t.

No sooner than he’d landed, the schedule was ripped up.

No one-on-one meeting with Vladimir Putin , instead it was to be a three on three, with Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Special Envoy, Steve Witkoff.

Then the widened talks were cancelled, the working breakfast binned and the press conference turned into a brief statement with no questions.

Despite Putin suggesting an agreement had been reached, President Trump soon contradicted that interpretation, saying “There’s no deal until there’s a deal”.

There were no details about what they discussed, no read-out on the

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