A ‘peace through strength’ Iran-Russia bank shot for Trump

Nobody expects any surprises out of this week’s NATO summit, but President Donald Trump could offer a pleasant one by applying the “peace through strength” approach that just worked so well on Iran and Israel to Russia and Ukraine.

No, we’re absolutely not suggesting anything cookie-cutter: Neither US airstrikes nor any new US military initiative makes sense in this conflict.

But the prez could put Vladimir Putin on notice that his blowing off US peace efforts is a losing strategy.

Step 1: Announce he’s throwing Joe Biden’s silly hesitancy to the winds and allowing Kyiv access to more and better US weapons, and without the micromanaging restrictions on their use that the last administration insisted upon.

Step 2: Give the go-ahead for passage of Sen. Lindsey Graham’s bipartisan sanctions bill — which hits the enablers of Moscow’s war machine by slamming a 500% tariff on imported goods from countries that buy Russian oil, gas, uranium, etc.

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Yes, the NATO gathering will already be a big win for the president, finally setting an expectation that every alliance member will devote 5% of GNP to defense spending — as he was pushing back in his first term.

But on the heels of his Mideast tour de force, the momentum is now clearly with Trump on the global stage, and it makes plenty of sense to leverage that toward winding down the other major war that broke out on President Autopen’s watch.

We won’t be surprised if the prez chooses his own path to pulling off this bank shot, but we feel safe in betting he’s got some creative moves in mind.