As Erasmus said, "The less talent they have, the more pride, vanity and arrogance they have. All these fools, however, find other fools who applaud them."
Rory Stewart summarized it perfectly when he said;
“Was it for this that the U.S. spent 80 years building power and alliances? Not to be a force for good. But instead to impoverish neighbors, threaten those it protected, rob minerals from war torn countries and break its promise to 100s of millions of the poorest in the world?”
Trump has not only cut off military aid already appropriated, he has also lifted sanctions on Russia. So what did Putin, an indicted war criminal do to earn this reward from the US? ABSOLUTELY NOTHING! The President of the United States is rewarding one of America’s most dangerous adversaries for murdering 153,000 innocent Ukrainians. He is rewarding a man whose soldiers raped women and young girls. A man who was party to the execution of men and boys. Their only crime? To be Ukrainian.
Trump has in the words of the Kremlin, ‘aligned’ the U.S. with a communist thug, brutalizing an ally whose soldiers died on the battlefields of Iraq alongside his own.
To say I feel sick to the stomach would be an understatement. I have no words to articulate just how I feel right now.
As with everything else, Trump has used executive orders to circumvent the legislative process, He has decided to use ‘impoundment’ to deliberately misinterpret Article I, Section 9 of the Constitution, by abusing the Take Care Clause. This states the chief executive “shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed.” This needs to be challenged IMMEDIATELY in court.
Trump’s not stupid, he knows a legal challenge will mean the aid can stay on hold long enough for him to hold a gun to Zelenskyy’s head and force him to sign a deal to extort his country’s mineral rights. While an indicted war criminal partners with America, to carve up Ukraine. Is this what Trump calls a just and lasting peace?
I don’t know who America is anymore. Our young men and women died in Afghanistan and Iraq after coming to the aid of a nation in distress. This nation is now aiding and abetting an indicted war criminal to rape an ally and sovereign country. Is this what they gave their lives for? It is beyond disgusting, but Trump would just say they were ‘suckers and losers’.
Europe and the rest of the free world needs to unequivocally condemn the actions of this sociopathic thug. We can talk diplomacy all day long. Trump doesn’t care about diplomacy. He has already demonstrated he doesn’t even care about the rule of law in his own country. Which bit of the man is an unrepentant convicted criminal are people struggling with?
It’s time to build a coalition of the willing, to stop two criminals from dismantling the free world. Trump has decided to declare war on the world in revenge for Zelenskyy not digging up dirt on Joe Biden in 2019, that’s who this man is. If we force Zelenskyy to step down what next? Who will be the next leader Trump wants to remove?
It’s time to forget America and take ownership of the Ukraine situation. If we fail, Putin WILL regroup and the Baltic States will be next. We should not wait for Trump to leave NATO allowing him to use US membership as leverage. He should be expelled. While he remains in the alliance, he is Putin’s fox in the hen house and this represents an existential threat to global security.
We have reached an inflection point which will be discussed by historians for generations to come. This is Britain’s 1939 Poland moment and Keir Starmer has the opportunity right here, right now, to put together a leadership team to defeat the threat to all of us.
Tonight Trump will address the world in the State of the Union. His book of lies for the nation. Time for Democrats to send a message. Every Democrat member should enter the chamber wrapped in a Ukrainian flag 🇺🇦to demonstrate to the world that this is not who America is
This is sadly what America has become.
Last Friday a tag-team of wild-eyed hillbilly diplomats went after President Zelenskyy with a hammer in the Oval Office. Since that didn’t work, they’ve been threatening him across all media channels with the sickle (despite the fact that he is the elected president of a sovereign country). We may have cut off aid to Ukraine, but we don’t have to wonder where this gang is getting their weapons of choice . . .
We are watching a payback in real time. Two people put Trump in office. Trump would be in jail had this not happened. That’s how dire it was. Putin and Musk are being paid back. Putin threatened Trump when he said there are others ready to take Trumps life. That was a creepy veiled Putin threat,after one of Trump’s assassination attempts. Trump had no response to the huge outpouring for Ukraine after his stunt on Friday. He is a man with a gun to his head. Trump perhaps has been a Russian agent for years, but no matter- it is payback time.
That’s what we’re witnessing.
His followers, his cabinet, find this exhilarating. They are each that far off the mark in their previous lives. They had to be whacked out cabinet choices, or he could never have led them down this absurd path. That’s why Marco Rubio looked so shell shocked on that sofa on Friday. He knows the other side of this.
It is a pressure cooker set up. Somebody could go off the rails. We need to keep the pressure going.