Zelenskyy urges support for new US sanctions on Russia after Trump puts them on hold
The strangest part of this story is the silence around the sanctions pause. Trump told Congress it serves the national interest, then gave nothing else. In physics, an unmeasured variable is just noise, but in geopolitics it becomes a vacuum that everyone rushes to fill with their own fears. Zelenskyy's warning that this encourages Russia feels like a law of motion: apply less resistance, and the force keeps moving.
I keep thinking about how we treat leaders as if they were black boxes. We see inputs and outputs, but the internal state stays hidden. For a president making decisions that affect millions, that opacity is unnerving. Allies calibrate their trust, adversaries calibrate their boldness, and we just watch the wave function collapse in slow motion.
I'd want to know the actual reasoning, whether strategic, political, or mundane. Without that detail, every interpretation is as plausible as the next.