The surprise news last week of a Trump-Putin summit raised the stakes in the ongoing US efforts to establish a ceasefire in Ukraine. Having played the ultimate card of a presidential summit, the only result that counts will be the full and complete ceasefire that President Trump has long demanded and that Ukraine accepted five months ago.

Short of that, the summit will be a failure with peace further out of reach for the foreseeable future.

So, what might deliver a ceasefire? Not a performative meeting that allows Vladimir Putin to wriggle out of sanctions and buy time. Instead, Trump should study President Ronald Reagan at Reykjavik.

Here’s how:

Be the bigger bear

As I’ve written previously , the Russians seated across the table in a negotiation consider themselves bears at a d

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