In 1867, Russia sold Alaska to the United States. It was, territory-wise, a historically big, beautiful real estate deal.

Alaska is thus a most suitable place for an ambitious real estate developer to touch down for a summit with Vladimir Putin. Ukraine is not as big as Alaska, and not even President Donald Trump is inclined to give it over entirely to Putin. As land deals go, there is more territory in Ukraine — including prime waterfront, as the president recently noted admiringly — to barter with than, for example, Trump Gaza.

The Alaska summit could well be a big, beautiful Black Sea betrayal.

President Putin should have invited his American counterpart to Yalta. Trump likes resorts, which Yalta was in 1945 and is now. Along with the rest of Crimea, Putin seized and illegally annexe

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