IMAGINE
Like Hitler invading Poland, Putin has invaded Ukraine.
You go to war with the President you have.
It’s disheartening and sobering seeing what has happened to our nation. It isn’t even within the realm of possibility that a political party would have come out in open support of Hitler during World War Two, let alone major news outlets. Yet here we are today with the Trump Party and Fox Pravda et al openly supporting and talking up Europe’s new Hitler—Vladimir Putin.
It’s sickening to watch men like former Secretary of state Mike Pompeo and others praise Putin and what he is doing in Ukraine as being genius. I’m not going to list all their descriptions because praise doesn’t belong to a man like Putin. He isn’t a genius. He’s a thug. He’s a bully. They are in awe of him while they denigrate our President and nation as being weak.
Trump said that he wants to do our southern border like Putin is doing to Ukraine. Where it really gets almost overwhelmingly sad is we have 30 million citizens or so in the United States that not only support what Putin is doing but would do it here because that’s what Trump wants. The Trump Party lies and tells the world that our Commander in Chief is weak not because of reality but because that’s the narrative that helps Putin.
On Russian Television Trump’s praise of Putin is being covered and presented as justification for their invasion of Ukraine. Tucker Carlson of Fox Pravda also a big hit in Russian media along with others from the Trump Party. They want to be Putin’s Vichy government in America.
They are Russian propagandists.
Valor
Meanwhile in Ukraine on a small island off the coast where 13 Ukrainian border guards were stationed:
Audio from Snake Island, Black Sea:
Russians: This is a Russian warship. I propose you lay down arms and surrender to avoid bloodshed & unnecessary victims. Otherwise, you’ll be bombed.
Ukrainians: Russian warship, go fuck yourself.
They were all killed.
This kind of valor is taking place all over Ukraine, a nation that stood up to an evil super power. Their national courage is as inspiring as it is remarkable. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy intends to stay in Kyiv. In a video call with European leaders he said that might be the last time that they see him alive. Russian assassins were in the city looking for him and his family.
Options
In spite of what those from the Trump Party say there are limited options as to what can be done in Ukraine in response to what is taking place currently short of starting World War Three and if our nation’s military were to go in WWIII would be immediately on the table. Nobody wants that. Putin already alluded to a nuclear attack. Macron informed him that NATO was a nuclear alliance. AND nuclear disarmament is now off the table. If Ukraine had held onto their nukes this would be a whole different story.
Shared pain
That leaves non-military actions on the table. Economic sanctions work slowly and the pain is shared by all sides. Putin and his Oligarchs will still be billionaires. During WW2 everyone was in on the war effort. There was rationing and shared hardship. Think that the American public will go through something like that for Ukraine? Good grief, the majority of the Trump Party wouldn’t even wear masks or get vaccinated during a pandemic. Think that they will accept economic hardship to support a country being overrun by a godless Putin?
Thoughts and prayers aren’t going to stop Putin any more than they stopped Hitler or any other conflict that’s taken place. The only thing that Evangelicals have contributed is more division.
According to polls the majority of the Trump Party supports Putin over Biden.
Glorious Leader Trump has made what is happening in Ukraine about himself. It happened because the election was stolen from him, a lie, and had he been President it wouldn’t have happened. Except for the small detail that he has been a stooge for Putin for longer than he was President.
It’s a wrap.
Putin isn’t even done with piling bodies up in Ukraine and he has moved on to threatening Finland and Sweden to not join NATO or they can expect what happened to Ukraine to happen to them. This is the man that 30 million Americans or more are siding with because the Trump Party and their Glorious Leader of the Master race says so. Putin. The man that has thousands of nuclear missiles pointed at us and the rest of the free world.
Fawn
Here’s what Biden didn’t do. He didn’t undermine NATO, the EU, our allies, our form of government, our democratic institutions, our free press, our Constitution or fawn all over Putin and praise his brutal accomplishments. He didn’t pardon Manafort who worked with the Russian opposition in Ukraine. He didn’t pardon Flynn who lied about working with the Russians. He didn’t try and blackmail the President of Ukraine by withholding war material in order to dig up make believe dirt with Russian operatives on opposition. He didn’t ask the Russian agents for help with his campaign and then lie about meeting with them. He didn’t give classified information from our ally (Israel) to the Russians. He didn’t believe Putin over our own intelligence agencies whom Trump has also referred to as being like Nazis.
President Biden put America and what we’re supposed to stand for first.