Not a good day for Ukraine

It seems to me that Putin is getting everything he wanted: All of Donbas, including cities and towns he hasn't managed to conquer after throwing away a million men killed, wounded, or disappeared; all of Crimea, of course; and presumably the great slice of southern Ukraine now occupied by Russian troops. Weirdly, this last bit includes the Chernobyl-sized Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, now to be managed by the United Nations and half of its output reserved for Russian electric meters! Ukraine's army will be cut nearly in half, with no NATO or other foreign boots allowed, and the Kyiv government forbidden to join the European Union. The Russian language and religion will regain their former privileged status. And so on and on.

What Putin has failed to win on the battlefield, Trump now proposes to give him at no cost. It's a betrayal that makes Joe Biden's flight from Kabul look positively Churchillian.