What has been going on in his Russia and Ukraine policy since Donald Trump took office as US President could – as far as the unsuccessful efforts of the unfortunate Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyj for US arms aid be concerned – with the famous sentence from the prose piece by the Irish writer and Nobel Prize winner Samuel Beckett (Worstward Ho1983): “Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.”