By putting deals over values, President Donald Trump may pry apart a fledgling pact among China, Russia, North Korea and Iran. But at great cost.

President Donald Trump has come to see Vladimir Putin as less of a willing participant in the peace process and more of a dictator who, now that Trump is elected, cares little for his art of the deal.

If the Trump-Putin call was an ice hockey match, Russia would have won 12 nil and Putin – a competent and aggressive ice hockey player – would have barged waddling golfer Trump through the crowd barrier and rammed the puck down his throat,

Far from ushering in a real ceasefire, the Putin-Trump call reveals the enduring effectiveness of diplomatic theater. Putin gets to appear flexible without conceding anything of substance, while Trump gets to bask in the glow of a deal that doesn’t exist.

If you’re a MAGA partisan, however, every national-security idea that might seem crazy — annexing Canada and Greenland, building Rivieras in the Gaza Strip, sending heart emojis “to Russia with love” — instead reflects Trump playing four-dimensional chess,

President Donald Trump dialed back his criticism of Russian President Vladimir Putin and instead accused Ukraine of attempting to renegotiate an economic deal with the US.

While President Trump has previously praised Putin, he said he was “pissed off” at the Russian president this week for seemingly slow-walking a possible peace deal by suggesting a UN-run transitional government be installed in Ukraine.