Tagged: Ukraine

Did the Trump Administration’s Demeaning Anti-Europe Rhetoric Awaken a Sleeping Giant?

The European Union appears to be on the verge of doing the bravest thing anyone could do in this moment of escalating and ever-more blatant pro-Kremlin machinations by the White House, namely taking their collective security into their own hands the way one must do when one finally comes to terms with the fact that one has been abandoned by one’s strongest ally....

A Picture Truly Worth A Thousand Words

In a brilliant response to the infamous meeting in Miami in which Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner attempted to sell their country and all their allies to the Kremlin in exchange for some financial kickbacks for themselves and their immediate supervisor, i.e., Vladimir Putin’s American branch plant manager, Donald Trump, Ukraine has sent its own team of negotiators to the same city to...

The Abyss of Nihilism

The following is an account of a new interview of Donald Trump’s chief “negotiator” with Vladimir Putin, Steve Witkoff, conducted by the perfect interviewer for putting Witkoff at his ease in expressing his true thoughts about his assignment, namely Tucker Carlson, who has been the American media’s number one apologist for the Kremlin since the weeks before Russia’s full-on invasion of Ukraine. “What...

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...