The world is topsy turvy at the moment. There are a lot of things being done by Trump and Musk that sicken me and frankly should outrage any American worthy of being called a citizen. But if there is one thing I have to pick that angers me the most it is how the U.S. is now treating the Ukraine and Russia.
Apparently the Ukraine is to blame for Russia illegally invading them, destroying Ukrainian cities, and killing tens of thousands of innocents. If I understand correctly, they are guilty of not surrendering their home and land to the Putin dictatorship. Oh, and Putin isn’t the dictator: Zelensky is.
Why is the leader of the U.S. parroting Russian propaganda lies? And how can any ‘peace’ negotiated by this toddler possibly be considered ‘fair’?
What the U.S. has said and done under Trump about the Ukraine
The Great Orange God King has completely flooded the zone during his first month. It is almost impossible to keep up with the lies, hatred, and cruelty that this man and his ‘volunteer’ President, Musk, are spewing. But the things this so-called government have specifically targeted at the Ukraine can be teased out from the sewer full of toxicity being pumped”.
These are all things done or said by the United States under Trump since January of 2025:
- Ukraine caused the war
- LIE: Russia first invaded in 2014 taking the Crimea. They then massed over 200,000 troops and invaded the Ukraine, unprovoked, in 2022. Both invasions have been declared illegal by the U.N. with American approval on these resolutions.
- Zelensky is an unelected dictator
- LIE: Zelensky was elected in 2019 and, per the Ukraine constitution, cannot step down while the nation is at war. We all know that Putin is the real dictator, imprisoning and killing any opponents who pose any credible threat to his control of power.
- Zelensky has only 4% support from the Ukrainian people
- LIE: Zelensky has over 54% support
- Russia deserves something for all the pain they suffered in this war
- DISGUSTING: Russia caused the war by invading. Anything they’ve lost while killing and destroying property is their fault. If anything, Russia owes reparations
- the EU hasn’t given as much support and it is a loan that has to be paid back
- LIE: 60% of all the money and equipment sent to the Ukraine has come from the EU nations. A fraction of that is in the form of repayable loans, but the majority of it is free grants
- Ukraine has to ‘pay’ for any further American support
- DISGUSTING: this kind of ‘protection racket’ is how the Mafia behaves. Furthermore, Trump has made it clear that this doesn’t promise any actual support to stand against Russia, and that Russia may still take over the Ukraine as part of his ‘peace’
- the U.S. voted in the U.N. against blaming Russia for the Ukraine invasion
- the 18 other nations that voted against the motion included North Korea, Belarus, and Russia
- the only negotiations so far were by the U.S. and Russia in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
- there was no Ukrainian involvement in these discussions. Basically, the Russian dictator met with representatives of Trump’s oligarchy in the territory of the Saudi Arabian dictatorship.
Trump and the U.S. government clearly stand on the side of Russia and Putin. There is no light between them currently, and no intention to stand against the Russian aggressors.
Why is Trump doing this?
King Cheeto loves dictators
Trump and his loyal peons admire dictatorships, and Putin in particular is Trump’s best buddy. Putin knows exactly how to push Trump’s buttons: “polezniye duraki”, indeed.
There is also the fact that Trump carries grudges to an extreme degree, and Zelensky once said ‘no’ to him during the previous election cycle. He wanted Zelensky to ‘create’ some dirt on Biden, Zelensky said there was none to be had, and that ‘perfect’ phone call made Trump feel like he had been wronged.
Toddler-level idea of ‘deals’
Another consideration is that Trump sees all interactions from the viewpoint of a pathetically weak but thuggish Mafia boss. The only deals he makes are ones where he gets something more in return than what he gives. His conceptual model barely rises above the level of “I’ll give you my baseball if you give me your bicycle”. Actually in the case of the Ukraine, it is more like “I might protect you from the bully if you give me your bicycle- or I might not. But definitely not if you don’t give me your bike…”
Concepts of world order, peace, progress of democracy, human rights, opposition to military aggressors against peaceful neighbours… none of that is comprehensible by King MAGAt. He completely lacks basic human empathy: the only concept he has of other people relates to what they can do for him.
I’ve heard some people say that Trump practices “realpolitik” like this is some sort of advanced thought and strategy. Realpolitik is supposed to be a form of political thinking based more on tangible reality rather than ethical or moral consideration. But setting up one of your greatest foes with a rationale for and zero obstacles to invading other nations is more Neville Chamberlain than “realpolitik”.
There is no such complex thinking going on with Trump: just his dumbass ‘art of the deal’ playground deal making.
No guard rails
Trump’s first term was kept from completely going off the rails by the fact that he had a number of experienced advisors curtailing his worst instincts. This time he has intentionally engineered exactly the opposite: no one in his second administration can or will contradict him. His perverse definition of loyalty boils down to “you have to agree with me 100% of the time”, and no one around him is there without slavishly professing such loyalty.
This is evident in how the U.S. UN representatives voted in lock-step with Russia regarding the Ukraine. That is exactly how Trump wanted it. No one will say to him that “Hey, Donny, you do realize Russia is not our friend, right?” Putin and Russia are now the bosom buddies of all Americans, and if you don’t get in line you are a traitor.
Kompromat?
Sometimes Trump’s fawning adoration and complete subservience to Putin’s every want or wish seems outlandishly improbable. In these times it becomes reasonable to ask if Putin might have something ‘on’ Trump: something the Great Cheeto fears could damage his reputation. Kompramat- compromising material- is certainly the sort of thing a KGB agent would arrange.
But I don’t think that is the case. Such material probably exists, but it would be completely ineffective. Trump has absolutely no shame, and has nothing whatsoever to fear from his followers. A live video of Trump having conjugal relations with a boar would probably not cause more than a brief flicker amongst the MAGAts before being declared ‘fake news’. Perhaps it would trigger a movement to support pig-bothering as a proper anglo-evangelical Christian thing to do.
Instead I think Trump is just incredibly easy for someone like Putin to manipulate. The Combover King is already predisposed to love dictators. Trump has a complete lack of empathy or moral compass and is totally unburdened by any knowledge of the world or history. He is just a vast, narcissistic ego which was raised with an absolute lack of consequence for its actions. A KGB trained operative like Putin must find redirecting Trump’s opinions, fears, and outrage to be child’s play.
What kind of ‘peace’ does the Orange Emperor want?
Trump clearly sides with Russia. Putin wants Russia to ‘own’ the entirety of Ukraine, border to border, along with all Ukrainians. But my suspicion is that even Trump and Putin know that total absorption of Ukraine on day one of ‘peace’ would be a hard sell on the international stage.
My expectation is that any ‘peace’ achieved under the watchful eye of America’s Emperor will involve Russia retaining all the Ukrainian territory they have already seized through their illegal invasion. Ukraine will be explicitly forbidden from joining any international military protection alliance like NATO.
I further expect that a Russian-administered Ukrainian election will be forced as part of the deal, and a candidate favouring unification with Russia will be elected in a landslide under Putin’s rather dubious oversight. A year or two later, Ukraine will disappear into Russia.
Where I stand
This entire situation sickens me. It is bad enough for the U.S. to step back from supporting the Ukraine from an illegal invasion by the Russian dictatorship. But to whole-heartedly stand in support of Russia’s aims is beyond traitorous.
I stand firmly on the side of an independent and self-governed democratic Ukraine. Russia should be required to turn over the Ukrainian territory they have seized through their illegal war of aggression. I want the nation and people of Ukraine to be protected through a military alliance by being fast-tracked into NATO membership. Russia should be required to pay reparations for rebuilding of the nation they attacked.
Any compromise in this should strictly be in the hands of the Ukraine. Perhaps they can live without reparations and maybe they would be willing to let Russia keep Croatia. But the world should stand shoulder to shoulder with them to push the Russian aggressors back.
The entire premise of the MAGA movement is that the strong get to prey upon the weak. Their attitude towards Ukraine and Putin is perfectly in line with this and to be expected. Culturally the USA is more susceptible to this than many because they are trained to be unable to admit weakness, so they won’t look at those who might abuse them, but instead who can they have power over and abuse. Also standard MAGA. They dangle the myth that you can become a billionaire too, and people accept it because they live in a “land of opportunity” Not, I am at times weak, like everyone else, and we need to cooperate to look after each other when sick, and protect each other from rich predators. Until Americans are strong enough to accept they can be weak, they will slay be a culture of bullies
I like to imagine you are wrong, Chris, but I fear you are completely correct.
There is this strange blindness amongst many people to how much they have been helped by their government and the rest of society. The MAGAt farmers who receive subsidies and are suddenly finding that the radical cuts being made will cause them to lose their farms… the MAGAt trailer dwellers who only now are discovering that their medicare or medicaid is going away… the MAGAt veterans who are surprised to find that their benefits are being cut.
Or the entire damn middle class getting a tax increase so that people making over $500k a year can get a tax cut. It is like the MAGA movement is all about billionaires getting richer instead of ‘owning the libs’: who could have known?!
I still see people celebrating how Trump and Musk are ‘owning the libs’. The jackassery seems to have no end with these morons, even the ones living in Canada.
If you accept weakness, then you will share your strength, knowing others will do the same in a community of people where no one is fundamentally better than anyone else.
If you were raised to believe in a hierarchy where one doesn’t question their ‘betters’ where one doesn’t talk back, and affection is a reward for compliance then you will not rebel or revolt. You will accept abuse as part of the natural order of things.
That doesn’t mean they don’t feel pain or anger or injustice. They do. But they are psychologically incapable of fighting the true targets that cause their misfortune.
They lack the mental framework to grasp the concept. Like trying explain to your cat you are not getting up because of daylight savings time. It doesn’t matter how patient you are, how well spoken you are, or even how hard your cat tries – the won’t see it.
So they can’t even see the true cause of their pain, much less fight it. So they lash out randomly and when that doesn’t produce results, they settle for making sure everyone is as miserable as they are.
The other only thing that will change them is when they are so consumed by rage they will attack anyone, even the most powerful, because those are the only people left happy and “genuinely having fun” as the White House described itself.
Since those people can’t be made to see, the real question for the rest of us is how do the majority of us that don’t have authoritarian personalities move forward?
After today’s scene in the White House I have never been so ashamed to be an American
No nation is perfect, Wilhelm, but the U.S. has a long and proud history of standing up for what is right alongside some rather dark chapters. Democracy, freedom of speech, immigration, helping nations in need, scientific and technological excellence… basically, an ally that other nations can rely on.
To see it all thrown away is heart-breaking. The destruction of the middle class by billionaires and huge corporations intent on the most toxic forms of capitalist excess seems to have taken away the good and just left behind… whatever it is we are seeing now. Supply-side economics, trickle down theory, reagonomics, Newt Gingrich, Citizens United: a drum beat of corruption by the ultra-rich and power hungry.
The good (?) news is that it looks like the EU and the rest of the world may find a way to step up on Ukraine’s behalf. And maybe the mid terms will weaken the MAGAt stranglehold on two of the pillars of American democracy. But boy howdy, are the next few years ever going to be a challenge for the good people who don’t agree with the way things are going.