Trump’s power play

Judging from the first week or so, the Trump doctrine is going to be, We can do it the easy way or the hard way.

Those are the words the president used in a post on Truth Social last week threatening tariffs on Russia if it didn’t cut a peace deal with Ukraine.

Trump is a president who understands and has no hesitation in using, the leverage the U.S. has abroad as the world’s preeminent economic and…