President Donald Trump has privately talked of Ukraine’s drone operation deep inside Russia as “strong” and “badass,” Axios reports . He’s right on that — but not so much, we’d suggest, in his worries that the attack will make it harder to reach a cease-fire.

Consider: Kyiv once again targeted the enemy’s military assets, specifically Moscow’s long-range bombers — including nuclear-capable planes central to Russia’s atomic deterrent.

In that, the Ukrainians not only served their own cause, but made the whole world a bit safer.

And Vladimir Putin’s response in the days that followed was simply more blitzing of Ukrainian civilians — no different from what he’d been doing before that, indeed has done from the start of his invasion.

That is, Vlad didn’t truly “escalate” because he

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