Tomahawk missiles were the talk of Washington this week. Would President Donald Trump give long-range weapons to let Ukraine strike even deeper into Russia? The decision was expected to hang over Friday’s meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. But Trump seemed to back off on Thursday after a two-and-a-half-hour phone conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Instead of Tomahawks, Trump agreed to another meeting with Putin, to take place in Budapest in the coming weeks.
Trump is not chickening out. His Tomahawk diplomacy made Putin blink.

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