The Trump administration appears to be behind Ukraine, as long as there's something in it for the United States.

That seems to be the growing consensus among European politicians, diplomats, experts and editorial writers.

On the one hand, there's a growing number of voices who say they believe U.S. President Donald Trump's stunning pivot this week toward backing Ukraine is nothing more than crass politics and image management in the face of a flailing peace process.

Others say it actually signals Washington is deliberately taking a step back from the long-running war and the peace process that Trump started.

"It seems to me like he's walking away and handing the key to the car to the Europeans," said Matthew Schmidt, an Eastern Europe expert at the University of New Haven, Conn.

"I th

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