The best news for Ukraine is that Donald Trump hasn’t forgotten about its war and is still trying to solve it. This is the optimal way to view the summit between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Trump, in Alaska next week.

Ukraine is fighting a war of attrition against an aggressor that has far greater manpower and is not afraid to squander the lives of its soldiers on Putin’s orders. Ukraine knows it can’t survive without US aid and engagement, despite warm encouragement from Britain and other European allies.

Embarrassing though it was for President Zelensky to be berated by Trump at the White House last winter, he learned his lesson and now feeds Trump’s insatiable vanity by routinely including sycophantic messages of “gratitude” in all of his dealings with the US.

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