On the face of it, the US involvement in Ukraine bears little similarity to the 20-year Afghanistan war, not least because there are no American boots on the ground in Europe.

Your guide to what Trump’s second term means for Washington, business and the world In the past two weeks, Donald Trump has woken up to something that has long been clear to most observers: Vladimir Putin has been playing him.

He also keeps saying it’s “Joe Biden’s War,” even though the tranche of weapons Biden got Congress to approve last year has run out, and the new weapons shipments confirm this now is Trump’s Ukraine War.