Trump is surrendering much more than Ukraine to Putin

At the conclusion of talks with the Russian delegation in Saudi Arabia this week, Michael Waltz, the U.S. national security adviser, noted that “only President Trump” could have shifted the global conversation on how to end the war in Ukraine. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, determined not to be outdone, quickly noted that the first important point he wanted to make was that “the only leader in the world who can make this happen … is President Trump.” Welcome to America’s new North Korea-style diplomacy, where our diplomats are more worried about their boss than their adversary.

It is true that Donald Trump has found a lightning-fast way to end the war in Ukraine: surrender. At least when France fell in 1940, it did so in the wake of a German blitzkrieg that swept through the country. Ukraine has actually held back Russian forces for three years now, and despite fighting a much more powerful adversary, even taken some Russian land.

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