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[janice shell]

A very good column from Heather Cox Richardson late last night:

.. And yet, by Friday, Trump said he expected Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelensky to sign onto the plan by Thanksgiving: next Thursday, November 27. Former senate majority leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) said: “Putin has spent the entire year trying to play President Trump for a fool. Rewarding Russian butchery would be disastrous to America’s interests.”..

... This morning, Bill Kristol of The Bulwark reported rumors that Vice President J.D. Vance was “key to US embrace of Russia plan on Ukraine, Rubio (and even Trump) out of the loop.” He posted that relations between Vance and Rubio are “awful” and that Rubio did, in fact, tell the senators what they said he did.

Yaroslav Trofimov, chief foreign affairs correspondent of the Wall Street Journal, posted: “Foreign nations now have to deal with rival factions of the U.S. government who keep major policy initiatives secret from each other and some of which work with foreign powers as the succession battle for 2028 begins, is how one diplomat put it...”

November 23, 2025
HEATHER COX RICHARDSON
NOV 24

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/november-23-2025?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=20533&post_id=179794342&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=1kxqrv&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

Jesus. A bunch of five year olds, led by a four year old, are running the country.