Will the real Trump White House strategy to end the Ukraine war please stand up? In the past few days a welter of confusing, sometimes conflicting, messages has emerged from the administration. Secretary Hegseth said there will be no American GIs on the ground to enforce a peace deal. Vice President Vance then equivocated in a Wall Street Journal interview. The European Union’s top diplomat is leveling a charge of “appeasement.”

That approach, says the former Estonian prime minister, Kaja Kallas, now the EU’s foreign affairs chief, “has never worked.” She was “hardly the only European diplomat uttering the word ‘appeasement,’” the Times reports. Yet Ms. Kallas “was one of the few willing to do so on the record.” Her remarks point to what the Times is calling America’s “disorganized and often publicly contradictory approach” to the Ukraine peace question.