President Donald Trump made a wise move in tapping his secretary of State to get the Ukraine peace talks back on track; it looks like Marco Rubio’s consultations in Geneva mean “something good may just be happening,” as Trump put it Monday.

We saw major problems in the original 28-point proposal, which resembled Vladimir Putin’s wish list and looked to be impossible for Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky to accept.

But the rumored 19-point plan that Rubio and special envoy Steve Witkoff hashed out with a Kyiv delegation sounds a lot better, not least because it won’t require Ukraine to get rid of half its army.

Crucially, talks have momentum again for the first time since Putin wasted the opportunity Trump offered him in Alaska

Trump and Zelensky apparently need to settle a few more issues (“We just need more time than what we have today,” Rubio explained), but that’s fine: It clearly sidelines the supposed Thanksgiving deadline for Kyiv to take the deal or else.

Witkoff worked out the early version purely after talks with Moscow, which at least got Putin to set down hard terms short of “everything I want” for the first time; the Ukrainians were inevitably going to want their own input included.

Rubio has plainly made Kyiv feel heard; now all can hope that negotiations lead to something more productive.

An honorable peace may still be a ways off, but it now looks a lot more possible than it did just days ago.