Here is one final NYT gift link for this incredible story about the unraveling of the U.S. Ukraine relationship under Donald Trump. I don't think the world could be any more threatened than it is by this president.

An excerpt:

The next morning, the president posted his own announcement, on Truth Social. He had just finished a "highly productive" call with Mr. Putin; their teams would start negotiations immediately.

On the call, according to two U.S. officials, Mr. Putin had praised Mr. Witkoff. He would lead Mr. Trump's team, along with John Ratcliffe, the C.I.A. director; Marco Rubio, the secretary of state; and Mr. Waltz. The post did not mention the special envoy for Ukraine and Russia, Mr. Kellogg.

In Germany on Feb. 14 for the Munich Security Conference, unsure whether he still had a job or what it entailed, Mr. Kellogg encountered European and Ukrainian leaders in their own storm of confusion. "Do we still have an alliance?" the Polish deputy prime minister, Radosaw Sikorski, asked. Mr. Kellogg sought to reassure them, describing himself as "your best friend" in the administration.

A Hegseth loyalist at the conference, though, rendered it differently in messages to Washington, accusing Mr. Kellogg of claiming, "I'm holding the line against these isolationists in the administration." This only cemented the envoy's outsider status, as did a Fox News item juxtaposing his latest social media post about Mr. Zelensky (he was "the embattled and courageous leader of a nation at war" ) with one from Mr. Trump (he was "a dictator without elections" ).

When Mr. Kellogg visited the Oval Office soon after, the president pounced.

"So you call Zelensky embattled and courageous?" he snapped, according to two officials.

"Sir, he is," Mr. Kellogg responded. "He's an existential fight on Ukrainian soil for his nation's survival. When was the last time an American president faced that? It was Abraham Lincoln."

Recounting the episode later to other advisers, Mr. Trump grumbled, "He's an idiot."

There is only one leader who can compare to Abraham Lincoln and we know who that is, don't we? And let's just say that Lincoln doesn't really compare favorably.

That's the tip of the iceberg. We are led by morons, greedheads and warmongers. But you knew that.

People ask this question all the time: if Trump really were a Russian asset, what would be the difference?

Read the whole thing when you have time. If this is the first draft of history I hesitate to think what we're going to find out as time goes on. It's much worse than I thought.