Cash test: can Europe support Ukraine alone?

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  The Economist.

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  Hello, and welcome to The Intelligence from The Economist.

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  I'm Rosie Blau.

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  And I'm Jason Palmer.

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  Today on the show, private science institutions thrive in Trump's America,

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  and European museums see a spike in art theft.

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  But first,

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  Steve Witkoff, the Trump administration's Uber-envoy, landed in St. Petersburg this morning,

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  on his way to meet Russia's President Vladimir Putin.

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  He'd come from Oslo, where yesterday he met with President Volodymyr Zelensky

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  and worked up yet another proposal to end the war in Ukraine.

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  Will it work this time?

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  Experience doesn't inspire a lot of hope.

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  And what if it doesn't?

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  America has struck a deal to buy Russian diesel,

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  knocked back new sanctions on the country, allegedly pinched off intelligence to Ukraine.

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  One adjective you might use to describe President Trump is transactional.

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  We've given a lot to Ukraine.

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  We've gotten absolutely nothing back, except grief, death, tremendous monetary loss.

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  The Ukrainians hardly need a lesson on grief and death and loss,

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