Who would ever have thought that dealing with the Middle East would look easy?
But that is what President Trump has shown since he came into office.
And though there is still needs to be a hostage-return and cease-fire deal in Gaza, the President’s strong and decisive action against the mullahs in Iran helped pacify the world’s least pacifist region.
By contrast, the other great foreign policy challenge President Trump inherited remains as complicated as hell.
The president and vice president’s duffing-up of President Volodymyr Zelensky in the Oval Office in February might have been a low point in US-Ukraine relations.
But in the months since then it is Vladimir Putin who has started to annoy President Trump.
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Because it is Putin who has been so completely unwilling to budge.
Every time a cease-fire has