It’s been an extraordinary week in Donald Trump’s quest for peacemaking in Ukraine, between a summit with Vladimir Putin in Alaska a week ago and a White House meeting with Volodymyr Zelenskyy and seven European leaders on Monday. But has anything been accomplished — and which way is Trump pivoting now?

The twists and turns have been dizzying. The Alaska summit seemed to confirm the worst fears of those who thought Trump was in Putin’s pocket: The red-carpet welcome for the Russian dictator, Trump grinning as if he had just met his childhood hero, and Trump’s subsequent statements in which he seemed to revert to blaming Ukraine for getting into the war and urged Zelenskyy to "make a deal" — that is, give away Ukrainian lands Putin wants — because Russia is bigger and stronger.

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