Pakistan, March 24 -- No matter what one may think about President Donald Trump, he certainly has moved to end the war in Ukraine in ways many thought would not succeed. And it may not work. But yesterday's phone call with President Vladimir Putin seemed to start in motion a possible ceasefire or truce.

Caution is needed. As in Trump's first term, the effort to charm North Korea's boss Kim Jung Un failed, dealing with Putin is not without risk. In fairness, as Trump's initiative with Russia is urgently needed, US and Western treatment towards Putin has produced great cynicism and resentment on his part.

In 1994, with the removal of Soviet nuclear weapons from Ukraine-and these were not Ukrainian but Soviet and controlled by the Strategi...