Putin’s Mesmeric Sway on Trump

Edward Luce: “If there were a Nobel Prize for patience, Volodymyr Zelenskyy would run away with it. The Ukrainian leader’s February encounter with the just-inaugurated Donald Trump went down as the most infamous spectacle of schoolyard bullying in recent history. Zelenskyy had no choice but to shrug off that Oval Office taunting. His endurance test shows little hope of flagging.”

“In Trump’s latest dressing down last Friday, he warned Zelenskyy his country would be destroyed unless he ceded territory to Russia. Zelenskyy has characteristically downplayed this recent bout of nastiness. Has Trump once shouted at Putin? That was a rhetorical question.”