People look at a damaged apartment building after a Russian attack in Kyiv, Ukraine, on November 25. Andrii Hodkov/Apostrophe/Global Images Ukraine/Getty Images

Bullish assessments by US officials are driving President Donald Trump’s latest effort to end the war in Ukraine toward a familiar and inevitable acid test.

Will Russia agree to any deal that Ukraine and its European partners modify to secure their sovereignty and security?

Trump is pining for an agreement — both because he lives for deals and because he’s trying to bill himself as a global peacemaker as he builds a legacy. He has shown he’s not too worried about whether any final pact ends up rewarding the aggressor, Russia, or whether it will leave NATO’s European states fearing further expansionism by the Kremlin.

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