Friday is the ten-day deadline given to Moscow by the American president, who has become fed up with “Putin’s bullshit,” to accept a peace plan. If this does not happen, he has promised more brutal sanctions than ever before. These would not only hit the Russian economy directly, but also the largest buyers of Russian oil: China, India, and everyone who indirectly finances the war in Ukraine – and whom Trump points to for other reasons.

However, all of this is as unpredictable as the foreign policy of the world's leading power since Donald Trump's second inauguration. After the bluff of the one- and then one-hundred-day peace promise, the courtship of Putin, the humiliation of Volodymyr Zelensky in the White House, and the suspension of aid to Ukraine, it still seemed that the Russians had an absolute win-win situation with the regime change in Washington.

By now, however, it seems that Moscow has not been able to credibly imitate its negotiating skills even for Trump, and with its spectacular blunder and sabotage of ceasefire plans, it has angered the American president so much that it may lead to a stronger sanctions policy than ever before. It would be an exciting circus show to see how long the Hungarian government's communications department can try to sell this as"peace sanctions".