The US administration has struck a warmer tone of late as Ukraine has shown its value as an ally in the Middle East
As leadership pairings go, Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelenskyy is not a match made in heaven.
It is a far cry from the warm rapport and kindred spiritedness that defined Ronald Reagan’s relationship with Margaret Thatcher, or even the guarded pragmatic friendliness Reagan forged with Mikhail Gorbachev to effectively end the cold war.