The USA is immediately lifting the pause in intelligence sharing and resuming security assistance to Ukraine

My thoughts exactly. Tell Ukraine an attack is planned on X and evacuate to Y only to have Russia attack Y. I'm sure Ukraine isn't stupid, and they are on top of it, but this is just a way to point out that "actually we are cooperating with Ukraine" while basically all of our information is compromised, if not at least heavily questionable in origin. So, his supporters get to say Trump is actually assisting Ukraine when people point out that he's a Russian asset. It's so transparent.

Zelenskyy is in the unenviable position of being partially fucked or fully fucked. He also may be playing a longer game, waiting for the EU to fully replace U.S. support. With Germany staying somewhat stable, that's likely doable.

You really only need one industrial powerhouse sending weapons.

lol learning. This chucklefuck isn't learning anything.

Trump is playing "bully pocker", his goal is to look good to his bases, whoever that might be at the moment. It's the game that has worked for him his whole life, and he's good at it.

What he doesn't realize, is the world stage is an agreements game, based on trust and good faith, where others can join forces and render anyone at the table irrelevant. He's trying to bully everyone into doing what he wants like he was in a single-country sandbox, by playing his strong economy and military "cards" in a carrot+stick teasing approach... without realizing those same "cards" are also based on trust and good faith. Both of which he's been losing at an increasing rate.

I don't think he will stop teasing and gaslighting everyone around, he doesn't know how to do anything else. He will just run the US presidency into the ground, while everyone increasingly ignores him.

I’m ascribing agency and competency to the military planners and to Rubio. Trump wouldn’t know which end of a lollipop to lick.

Because Trump literally was talking about deporting legal Ukraine nationals from the US for no reason and no criminal actions, just because they came from Ukraine and were here legally. Don't come at me when you don't know.