President Donald Trump sees his upcoming Alaska summit with Vladimir Putin as a “listening exercise” to obtain “a better understanding of how we can end this war,” the White House said Tuesday.

But if peace is his goal, Trump must do more than listen — he’ll need to show his negotiating mettle and impress upon the Russian autocrat that his maximalist demands will yield nothing but more death and economic destruction for Moscow.

Trump has already racked up an impressive peacemaking record, brokering deals between Pakistan and India, Thailand and Cambodia, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda, and Armenia and Azerbaijan.

But stopping the bloodshed in Ukraine would be an accomplishment that not even his critics could ignore — provided Trump doesn’t throw Ukraine and Europe under

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