After a three-hour summit meeting in Anchorage last Friday, which most observers described as a “big win” for Vladimir Putin, U.S. President Donald Trump met in Washington on Monday with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and key European leaders for in a stunning display of high-stakes global diplomacy. Most significantly, they agreed to NATO Article 5-style security safeguards for Ukraine, involving European and possible U.S. monitors on the ground, as a key element in peace negotiations, a concept Trump claimed Putin had supported in principle in Alaska. The Russian foreign minister later walked back that claim, stating “Moscow won’t agree with collective security guarantees negotiated without Russia.”

Nevertheless, the consensus in Washington is that the two meetings are expect

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