Ignatius: Outlines of sustainable Ukraine peace deal inch into view

December 10, 2025

David Ignatius: The biggest mistake Trump can make is to insist that it’s now or never. Diplomacy doesn’t work that way, and good business doesn’t, either. As Trump observed several decades ago, “The worst thing you can possibly do in a deal is seem desperate to make it. That makes the other guy smell blood, and then you’re dead…