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Peace in His Time

Donald Trump doesn’t care about the long-term success of any deal between Ukraine and Russia.
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Illustration by Noah Hickey/The Dispatch. (Photograph of Neville Chamberlain from Universal Images Group/Getty Images. Photo of Donald Trump by Nicholas Kamm/AFP/Getty Images)

I don’t say this often, but let’s give Donald Trump the benefit of the doubt.

During Trump’s instantly infamous Oval Office meeting with Volodymyr Zelensky last week, the Ukrainian president was determined to make one point above all: that Russian President Vladimir Putin is not to be trusted. Again and again, Zelensky noted that Putin has a long record of breaking promises.

Jonah Goldberg is editor-in-chief and co-founder of The Dispatch, based in Washington, D.C. Prior to that, enormous lizards roamed the Earth. More immediately prior to that, Jonah spent two decades at National Review, where he was a senior editor, among other things. He is also a bestselling author, longtime columnist for the Los Angeles Times, commentator for CNN, and a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. When he is not writing the G-File or hosting The Remnant podcast, he finds real joy in family time, attending to his dogs and cat, and blaming Steve Hayes for various things.

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