Is Trump a Russian agent?

Susan Glasser today in The New Yorker:

With today’s extraordinary televised fight in the Oval Office between President Trump and President Volodymyr Zelensky, we all saw clearly something that has been unfolding over the past couple of weeks: the United States of America has switched sides in the war between Russia and Ukraine. The country is no longer on the side of Ukraine.

This is a momentous shift by Trump, one that has implications not only for Ukraine’s very survival but for the survival of America’s partnership with its European allies. 

Last week, I wrote my column about what I called Trump’s Putinization of America, both in a foreign-policy sense—as in, actually pivoting toward Russia—and also in the sense of deploying an array of Putin-like tactics at home. 

This week, we see that shift even more clearly. On the third anniversary of Russia’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine, Donald Trump—even before he fought with Zelensky today—directed the United States to vote with Russia, Belarus, and North Korea at the United Nations....

Axios: The free world needs a new leader

Is Trump literally a Russian agent?

Trump shames the US by bullying Zelensky

Are we the bad guys now?

Our president tried to bully the leader of Ukraine in the White House today. Zelensky wasn't having it, which of course made both our bullying president---and our vice president bully---mad. 

What gall this leader of that small country has! Doesn't he understand that Trump and Putin want him to shut up about how Russia invaded his country and is still occupying it?

Liz Cheney tries to salvage what little honor our country has left:

“Generations of American patriots, from our revolution onward, have fought for the principles Zelenskyy is risking his life to defend. But today Donald Trump and JD Vance attacked Zelenskyy and pressured him to surrender the freedom of his people to the KGB war criminal who invaded Ukraine,” Cheney wrote in a post on the social platform X. “History will remember this day— when an American President and Vice President abandoned all we stand for.”

Recall how in his first term Trump betrayed and denigrated the Kurds. 

Putin is pleased with Trump

See also Donald Trump: Chickenhawk.