It took less than three hours with Vladmir Putin for Donald Trump to show the world why he’s earned the sobriquet TACO, or Trump Always Chickens Out.

Before leaving Washington recently, the American president told Fox News, “I won’t be happy if I walk away without some form of a ceasefire” in the 3 1/2 year-old Russia-Ukraine war. Lacking that, he vowed, “there will be very severe consequences.” Once face-to-face with the Russian leader he chickened out

A ceasefire is no longer necessary, Trump declared afterwards, adding he and Putin “determined” that the best course would be to “go directly to peace agreement, which would end the war, and not a mere ceasefire agreement, which often does not hold up.”

Trump has spoken repeatedly of the urgency of stopping the killing yet at the first o

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