I'm posting links to all of Fred Kaplan's war reporting on Slate because I think he's really good at reporting what's actually happening and explaining it in terms even I can understand. Here's his latest which is about J.D. Vance and his odd relationship with Volodymyr Zelensky. There's so much in the news about ballrooms and reflecting pools and Epstein files and ICE that it's easy to forget we're still involved in what's transpiring with Iran and Ukraine.