Judging by his body language — and by the goals he had initially set for the summit — President Donald Trump could not be satisfied with the outcome of his meeting with Russia’s leader, Vladimir Putin, in Alaska.

“I won’t be happy if I walk away without some form of a cease-fire,” he told Fox News’ Bret Baier hours before arriving in Anchorage. “There will be very severe consequences,” the president warned days before the summit.

Much as he likes to be unpredictable, the US president would do well to the predictable thing and stand by his earlier threats. On Aug. 1, after a major aerial attack on Kyiv, killing 31, he called Russia’s actions “disgusting” and promised fresh sanctions.

The summit with Putin, on American soil no less, was a major pivot. Going into the meeting, it w

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