WSJ scorches Trump's openness to stunning 'grand bargain' with dictators: 'Worst idea'

The Wall Street Journal’s editorial board warned that President Donald Trump’s openness to a three-way summit with Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping “could blow up alliances at home and abroad,” in a Tuesday editorial titled “Trump’s New Global Triumvirate?”“It’s hard to know what President Trump is up to at any one moment because he operates so much on tactical impulse," wrote the board. "But he has long coveted grand bargains with Russia and China, and that may be his motivation now as he hardens his hostility to Ukraine and Europe and courts a Yalta 2 summit with Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping.”The board conceded the analogy isn’t exact, since “Russia and China are now adversaries.” But “the trio did try to carve up the globe, and that’s the danger with what Mr. Trump says he’s open to now.”On Putin’s overture, the board noted the Russian leader floated a summit to...