When will Trump realize he's being played for a fool?

Donald Trump cut off military aid to Ukraine, scolded the Ukrainian president like an errant schoolboy, and kissed Vladimir Putin's ass, to borrow a metaphor the American president used recently in another context. Trump proposes a 30-day cease-fire. Putin yawns, proclaims his own three-day cease-fire in hopes Uktaine will refrain from dropping explosive drones on Moscow during his chest-pounding Victory Day parade -- then violates the cease-fire himself! Turkey's president-for-life offers Istanbul for peace discussions. Zelensky accepts; Putin yawns and sends his junior-varsity team instead of his own important self.

What does it take for Trump to understand? Putin has accepted Trump's offerings without a blink of his rattlesnake eyes, as if waiting for the American president to offer better terms. Ease up on those sanctions, Donald! And while you're at it, put some pressure on France and Germany and those pesky Baltic nations to stop sending munitions to Ukraine! Then maybe I'll talk about a cease-fire.

The US hasn't humiliated itself like this since it fled from Kabul and left Afghanistan to the tender mercies of the Taliban.