President Donald Trump has announced a new strategy to arm Ukraine — without sending American weapons directly. Instead, he wants NATO allies to donate their existing weapons systems, particularly Patriot missile batteries,

Trump said that he is “very unhappy” with Russia and that the U.S. will send weapons to Ukraine through NATO, which will pay for and distribute them, and threatened secondary tariffs targeting Russia ...

But a day later, a real sense of skepticism about Trump’s threats has crept in.