Has Trump finally lost patience with Vladimir Putin and what's become of the George Floyd Cultural Revolution?

Five years later, we'll discuss all this and more on this edition of the editor.

I'm Rich Lowry, and I'm joined as always by the good neighbor Noah Rothman, the dominator, Dominic Pino, and the sage of authenticity, woods, Jim Garrity.

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what you hear here, please forget. I said anything. So Jim Garrity, we got some

rhetorical action around Russia where Putin launched this major aerial strike on Ukraine. Trump was shocked and surprised that he would do

such a thing, posted on Truth Social that just the Vladimir he knew no longer exists, just

something's happened to the guy. He's gone crazy and is attacking Ukraine for no reason.

The Russians clapped back and Trump says they are playing with fire and lots of bad things would have happened inside of Russia already if it weren't for Donald Trump.

What do you make of it?

If you have even the most cursory passing familiarity with the Russia-Ukraine conflict,

this is kind of infuriating.

Among the reasons, you know, like I could almost forgive Trump wondering, has Putin changed?

There were a lot of people who looked at Putin's long stretch

of isolation during COVID and wondered if that had, or people have speculated about Putin having

some health issue. And people wondering of, you know, is the Putin of, say, 22 on a different

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