DONALD Trump is not a details man. He wants a deal at any price (as long as he is not paying for it) to end the war in Ukraine.
He doesn’t seem to care if it is drafted by Russia, tramples on Nato and encourages tyrants to take neighbouring land by force.
Those are details. Minor details. Unless, of course, you are Europe or Ukraine.
Then they are fundamental.
How this war ends matters.
Russia must pay a price and know the bill for the next would be higher.
We should take it with a pinch of salt when US officials say the deal is done, save for “minor details”.
In fact, these minor details are 44,000 square miles — some 20 per cent of Ukraine’s territory.
There are still questions like who controls Crimea, the Donbas and occupied Zaporizhzia and Kherson.
And about guaranteeing Ukraine’s security against a third Russian invasion.
Ukraine wants peace more than anyone.
But not peace at any price.
It wants a peace that lasts.
Russia wants a conquest.
If it gets one it won’t be its last.
