ON UKRAINE, TRUMP CHANGED THE CONVERSATION. “Thank you for changing the conversation,” British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said to President Donald Trump at the White House on Thursday before the two went into meetings on ending the war in Ukraine.

Just the day before, at his Cabinet meeting, Trump said of Ukraine, “I’ve had very good conversations with President Putin. I’ve had very good conversations with President Zelensky. And until four weeks ago, nobody had conversations with anybody.”