Like (I'm sure) most of you, I'm aghast or appalled or asomething about what happened today between that guy who occupies the White House, his next-in-the-line-of-succession and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. The whole thing with Ukraine has been a bad, bad situation from Day One and today, it got even worse.
Kevin Drum thinks today's brouhaha was engineered by Trump in a desire for revenge against Zelensky for not digging up dirt on Joe Biden when then-President-for-the-first-time Donald demanded that as a quid pro quo for U.S. aid to Ukraine. Everyone else who's shocked — and both views could be right about this — think it's all about Trump trying to deliver Zelensky's country to Big Daddy Putin.
I dunno what to think except that it's bad, real bad. Fred Kaplan may have the best take on it. Don't write me about this, folks. I don't want to think too much about it.