Tagged: Ukraine

Nothing New to Report, All Reports to the Contrary Notwithstanding

Every few weeks, the news media on all sides of the issue try to find evidence of a substantial change of perspective in Donald Trump’s actions regarding the war in Ukraine. Being a quintessential pitchman and obfuscator for profit, Trump is excellent at offering superficial alterations to his rhetoric in order to string his customers along with false promises of appreciating their wishes....

A Few Notes On The Wars

Three and a half years into the Ukraine war, millions of people on both sides are dead or wounded — every single one of those casualties firmly and clearly resting on the head of one man, the man without whom the war would not exist, would have no reason to exist. Donald Trump’s mental acuity and moral compass are encapsulated in the fact...

Peace In Our Time, Again

Well, Donald Trump has staged another of his great summits with a tyrant, in which the only clear purpose, as usual, was to legitimize and normalize the tyrant’s brutality while belittling The United States of America and marginalizing her Western “allies.” This time, most impressively — if you agree with me that unmitigated gall and civilizational suicide on a grand scale can be...

What to believe

Does anyone believe that Donald Trump, who has been more consistent in his admiration for and allegiance to Vladimir Putin than he has been consistent in anything over the past ten years, apart from his ever-present scorn for everything that he does not perceive as serving his delusions of a very petty grandeur, is going to forsake his hero and geopolitical leash-holder at...

Profiles In Courage

The absurdity of the Trump administration accusing Barack Obama of staging a “years-long coup” to “overthrow” Trump’s first presidential term, when Trump himself is of course the only president in U.S. history to actually, publicly, incite a mob to storm the U.S. Capitol in a violent attempt to overturn an election result. Opposing a rival politician by semi-nefarious means, as Trump and Tulsi...

The Emperor’s New Week

Suddenly, Donald Trump is getting tough with Vladimir Putin, after ten years of political grovelling at the man’s feet. Suddenly, Trump is demanding that the press and the rest of the whole wide world forget about all the fake news related to that “creep” Jeffrey Epstein, after helping to wind up his cult for years with vague insinuations about “the list” which would...

Random Reflections on the Fading Wish Formerly Known As The U.S.A.

President Trump’s “Big, Beautiful Bill” has passed the United States Senate, surviving the No votes of the only three Republican senators who are apparently still able to muster a bit of shame. For the GOP, in abject obedience to the MAGA mob and its cult leader, has just produced one of the biggest and most beautiful instantiations of everything that is wrong with...

Random Reflections On Current Nonsense

Donald Trump attended the G7 economic summit, as American presidents always do. And as Donald Trump always does at such summits — unlike all other American presidents — he used his opening public remarks at the conference to advocate yet again for the interests of Russian “President” Vladimir Putin and to berate America’s major democratic allies for not including and embracing the notably...

When the Slime at the Bottom of Any Old Barrel Is Your King

Donald Trump, proving himself yet again to be the softest of soft tacos, has answered his own recent weakly-uttered and moral-equivalency-diluted half-criticism of Vladimir Putin’s maniacal bloodlust by immediately, and in the most public way, returning to his knees before his master, in the process thereby returning his country, the former United States of America, to the status of unequivocal fellow traveller of,...

The Wrong Side of History

Ukraine has just carried out a stunningly clever military operation at multiple and far-flung locations throughout Russia, successfully destroying a remarkable proportion of Vladimir Putin’s military aircraft at their home bases, before they could be used to inflict more destruction upon Ukraine’s civilian population and infrastructure. This operation was apparently planned and prepared for over a year in secret. It continues in spectacular...