Very underreported, but it looks like Melania Trump has managed to get the Donald to do a near 180 on Ukraine. Putin had been playing Trump for a complete fool and had just lied to his face about inking a peace deal then the next day he sent a massive wave of drones and missiles to Kyiv. This happened several times. Despite having Tulsi re-writing intelligence briefing to put a pro-Russian spin on everything, Melania apparently stepped in and convinced Trump that Putin could not be trusted and the US had to stop Russia in Ukraine or else Putin will just keep marching across Eastern Europe. Melania is from Slovenia. Slovenia had a similar trajectory as Ukraine. During WWII, Slovenia was taken over by the Nazis and the fascist Italians. The Soviets liberated Slovenia, but then crushed the country under collectivization and Tito's brutal rule. Slovenia broke from the Soviet Union in 1990 and later joined the EU and then NATO in 2004. Slovenians are in Putin's crosshairs because the country borders both Italy and Austria and has a very well developed port city on the Adriatic. If Ukraine falls and Hungary's Orban becomes Putin's poodle, Russian forces would be able to quickly sweep across Slovenia and return it to the Russian fold while gaining a lot of very significant strategic territory. While the Baltic states are probably first on Putin's post-Ukraine list, Slovenia and the rest of the Balkans are definitely in Russia's crosshairs for its next conquest.
Melania grew up in communist Yugoslavia and saw the country liberated in the late 80s. She saw Reagan as the hero in standing up to the Soviet Union and now sees Trump as the next Reagan to stand up to Putin. This has caused Trump to completely do a 180 on Ukraine. Trump is now threatening India for buying Russian oil and has sent Witkoff to Russia for a "last chance" effort to get a cease fire deal. Trump even moved two nuke subs closer to Russia and there is a bipartisan deal to approve more war funding for Ukraine in Congress. Amazingly, Putin's years' long efforts to influence MAGAworld into letting him run over Ukraine is evaporating in a matter of days as Melania has effectively taken control over US policy on Ukraine.