The World Is Taking Notes

How Trump’s incompetence, corruption, and repression are teaching allies to hedge and adversaries to probe

Good morning! Let’s start with the part where the mask isn’t slipping so much as being hurled across the room. The Kyiv Independent published a quietly devastating piece that should have set off five-alarm bells across Washington: Donald Trump’s top envoy negotiating Ukraine’s fate appears not to understand Ukraine’s political system, the basic timeline…