Trump takes notice

It's been a long time coming, but Mr Trump has finally noticed that Russia is a somewhat shifty colllaborator. "We thought we had that settled numerous times, and then President Putin goes out and starts launching rockets into some city like Kyiv and kills a lot of people in a nursing home or whatever," he said yesterday while on the golf links in Scotland. So he's canceling his 90-day window for Putin to stop shooting. The limit now is 10-12 days, or about August 8. That's progress, provided Mr Trump doesn't forget the ultimatum after he packs up his clubs.

Happily, NATO (except for its perennial deadbeat, Spain) seems to be stepping into the breach, as Germany pledges to deliver 55 of its own IRS-T air-defense launchers to Ukraine. Originally intended as a replacement for the American Sidewinder air-to-air missile, it has now been adapted to the surface-to-air mission, as a shorter-range version of the US Patriot system that we can't seem to manufacture in sufficient quantities.