[T]rump has sent a message to every autocrat on the planet: aggression pays, and Western patience has its limits. History will harshly judge this capitulation dressed as diplomacy.
The elderly president, vengeful and bearing a grudge, is conducting an all-out war against individuals, private and public institutions, cities and against U.S. states.
[I]n a virtual meeting with the Ukraine Defense Contact Group to discuss ... aid and the allies’ intentions, U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s absence was striking.