Trump’s New Ukraine Policy Is Old Hat

The White House may soon preside over the first negotiated defeat of a modern democracy.

The city of Pokrovsk, Ukraine, shrouded in fog, where destroyed homes and buildings seem to be abandoned among the city's trees following intense fighting. November 21, 2025, 3:05 PM Comment icon View Comments ( )

President Donald Trump has a new Ukraine policy. It’s the same as his old Ukraine policy—force Kyiv to make more concessions and hope that Russian President Vladimir Putin will be satisfied, take the deal and set the stage for Trump to get his Nobel Prize. It hasn’t worked before, and it won’t work now. Worse, it comes at a moment of critical vulnerability for Ukraine. Reports from the field suggest that the fighting has intensified, the metr

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