President Trump’s proposed guns-for-minerals deal with Ukraine reflects a radical about-face in Washington’s relations with Kyiv. Details emerge of a minerals grab that, if consummated, would rank alongside annexing Greenland or retaking the Panama Canal.

Long gone is the talk of shared values, democracy, independence, and blocking Russia’s Western expansion. In its place is the hardball language of commerce, percentages of revenues, New York law, and “payback.”