This is a genuine policy catastrophe that will have generational consequences, enacted fully by choice, by people who know better, allowed by Congress because it’s afraid to say no, all because the Republican Party is entirely organized around the principle of “Daddy Trump is never wrong”

The United States now playing the role that communist satellite states once played in the UN: sponsoring resolutions in its own name but on behalf of Moscow.

1/3. It should be astonishing, though it’s not, that the American negotiators want to begin from the premise that Russia was right and that Ukraine is not sovereign. Accepting the lies of the aggressor isn’t just unethical, it’s also unstrategic.