Trump confirmed that Patriots "which they desperately need" would be sent, paid for "100 percent" by European allies.

His spectacular pivot involves ambiguity, theatre and cynicism. Yet it creates a pathway for Ukraine and its supporters to stabilise a weakening position. They must take it.

If tactics remain the same, in the next 50 days, Russia could capture 10 more villages and about 700 square kilometers of land at most, and entrench in a new battleground — Dnipropetrovsk Oblast — acc...