Donald Trump is eyeing a deal on Ukraine, but ending the war is only part of it. The real prize is access to Ukraine’s valuable reserves of critical minerals.

And Trump’s attack on Zelensky, who was hailed as a hero in the United States for resisting Russia’s Blitzkrieg on Kyiv early in the war, was a graphic sign of how the new American administration has reversed Washington’s stance of supporting the victim of the invasion and is now rewarding the aggressor.