Ask A Genius 1588: Zelensky’s Mar-a-Lago Optics, Trump’s Putin Signals, and the Donbas Deadlock

“Putin is unlikely to agree to that outcome. Trump is seventy-eight and was never known for sustained intellectual discipline. He is not unintelligent, but he is mentally undisciplined. He will likely keep acting in increasingly blatant ways until the midterms or remaining institutions restrain him. Through courts, lawsuits, or polling.”