[T]rump has sent a message to every autocrat on the planet: aggression pays, and Western patience has its limits. History will harshly judge this capitulation dressed as diplomacy.
One of the cardinal mistakes made by the U.S. administration was to conclude the summit in Anchorage with no mention of a desperately needed ceasefire agreement.
If the Alaska talks do indeed pave the way toward ending the war, this would mark the greatest foreign-policy achievement of Donald Trump’s presidency.