The main thing President Trump has going for him as he seeks a deal in respect of Ukraine is that he’s standing on the platform on which he ran for a second term. He told the American voters that he would try to end the war in Ukraine — in one day,* he boasted — and it was certainly one of the platform planks on which the American voters, who in their millions know what they’re doing, gave the 47th president a mandate.

It’s no small thing. If there’s one point we’ve pressed throughout this long debate it is not to take the American people for granted. Here at the Sun we still see the world through the prism of Vietnam. Congress sent two and a half million GIs halfway around the world and into a war without having gained a proper war declaration binding Congress. Some 58,000 of them fell for their country in a war that ended in an American debacle.