The utter singularity of Monday’s White House assembly requires book-length treatment to explain exactly why and how such an extraordinary emergency meeting took place. What went on during the hours of meetings between U.S. President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, as well with the heads of government of the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy and Finland, not to mention the secretary general of NATO and the president of the European Union? Apparently, Trump used a lifeline, too, calling his friend President Vladimir Putin during the goings-on.