I didn’t think that a second Trump-Putin summit was a particularly good idea; the last summit didn’t move the needle on resolving the war, and I didn’t think the second meeting would have a significantly different result. I never got around to writing a piece arguing against the second summit, and now, apparently, it is no longer happening.

The White House said Tuesday that the planned meeting in Budapest, announced by Trump just last week after his two-hour phone call with Putin, was no longer in the works after Secretary of State Marco Rubio spoke Monday with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.
“Secretary Rubio and Foreign Minister Lavrov had a productive call,” said a White House official granted anonymity to discuss the plans. “Therefore, an additional in-person meeting between the Secretary and Foreign Minister is not necessary, and there are no plans for President Trump to meet with President Putin in the immediate future.”

If you don’t like the Trump administration’s approach to Russia and Ukraine on any given day, just wait; it will change.