“President Trump’s intensifying effort in the past few weeks to rehabilitate Russia and usher President Vladimir V. Putin back into diplomatic society is remarkable for its speed, its characterization of Mr. Zelensky as the primary obstacle to peace, and its brazen denial that Russia is continuing the war that Mr. Trump says he is trying to end,” the New York Times reports.Said Trump: “Russia, frankly, has been fine on Ukraine. They haven’t been doing much.”In contrast, he added: “We’ve given a lot to Ukraine. They’ve given nothing to us. Remember that.”