Trump’s Favorite Role? Foreign-Policy Czar.

In diplomacy, the U.S. president always seems to follow his own transactional view of human affairs.

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Trump’s Second Term

Ongoing reports and analysis

When U.S. President Donald Trump’s 28-point plan for peace in Ukraine first leaked in late November, its potential consequences were widely viewed as an unmitigated disaster for the besieged country.

The terms—several of which have been dropped, walked back, or otherwise modified by Trump’s national security team—would have obliged Ukraine to cede strategically vital territories in its east that Russia has been unable to conquer, even at the cost

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