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President Donald Trump has said he is considering the sale of long-range Tomahawk cruise missiles to Ukraine. Having tried and failed to convince Russian President Vladimir Putin to end the war through a negotiated settlement, Trump is now ready to escalate and increase military help for Kyiv. This is the correct and only path to stop the conflict and stabilize Europe’s eastern frontier. The war, which started in 2014 with the Russian occupation of parts of Donbas and Crimea and then intensified in 2022 with Russia’s attack on Kyiv, has to reach a military stalemate before any negotiations are feasible.