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The past weekend flashed a neon sign, more garishly beaming than ever, that U.S. foreign policy is in shambles, a three-ring circus of tripping clowns and miscued jugglers.

The Trump administration’s 28-point Russia–Ukraine “peace” plan, which Axios published on Thursday, set the stage for this chaos. First, Trump embraced it, giving Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky till Thanksgiving to accept its terms or continue to “ fight his little heart out .”

Then, Marco Rubio, who’d been cut out of the plan’s drafting despite the two hats he wears as secretary of state and national security adviser, told American lawmakers attending a security conference in

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