President Donald Trump says he’s agreed to another in-person meeting with Russia’s Vladimir Putin in coming weeks with an eye to ending the Ukraine war; we expect the prez will heed the lesson of his own Middle East diplomacy — and quietly pin down the autocrat in advance.

Give Kyiv a few dozen Tomahawk missiles now, with more to follow if necessary, and let Moscow and the world know that secondary sanctions will kick in if this Budapest sitdown doesn’t yield an immediate cease-fire.

Setting a hard deadline for tariffs to soar worked to get world leaders rushing to ink trade deals with the United States; official notice of serious sanctions pain can force Putin’s hand now.

Yes, Putin may already be bending: The Kremlin reached out to the White House to set up Thursday’s Trump-Putin

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