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A lot of leaders are big-picture people who don’t sweat the details. Donald Trump takes the approach to the extreme: He hates details. He has never sweated a detail for a fraction of an instant. Facts bounce off him like bullets bounce off Superman.

You are probably familiar with the downsides of this approach; we needn’t get into them here. But right now, when it comes to the war in Ukraine, the president’s unique method of processing information—or, rather, not processing information—is showing great promise.

Trump has an outcome in mind: The war ends. He seems invested in this outcome largely because he wants to win the Nobel Peace Prize and thinks it will

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