Firefighters work at a heavily damaged residential building following Russian drone and missile strikes in Kyiv on Sept. 7. That day's biggest-ever aerial barrage at Ukraine set the seat of the Ukrainian government ablaze, authorities said.

“What’s with Russia violating Poland’s airspace with drones?” President Donald J. Trump posted on Truth Social last week.

It was a suitable question if the person asking it was a standup comedian or a bar patron two stools over, but a deeply strange one coming from the nation’s commander in chief, who presumably has access to the work product of a vast international intelligence-gathering system. Shouldn’t the president know what’s up with a cross-border incursion against our ostensible ally, especially when that nation's leader had been in the Oval Office just a few days earlier?

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Mr. Trump ended his post with an almost jaunty “Here we go!” Which prompted other questions: Where are we........

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