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 fashion Ukraine’s radical decimation of Russia’s war-making equipment, which is perhaps even more impressive than her radical decimation of Russia’s military men.
Meanwhile, back at KGB headquarters, Putin’s number one bootlicking servant Donald Trump, along with Trump’s own bootlicking servants J. D. Vance, Marco Rubio, et al, continue to play not-so-subtle moral equivalency games, publicly mewling about how stubborn Uncle Vladdy is being, while brazenly belittling Putin’s counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky in the most aggressive ways, as though a bloodthirsty tyrant, however hapless, may be judged on the same moral and political scale as the elected leader of a small nation trying (and succeeding) against all conventional odds to repel the hapless tyrant’s invasion. Let’s be blunt for the umpteenth time: Trump and his team of miscreants are actively trying to save Putin’s regime from ignominious defeat, before it is too late. They see the writing on the wall almost as well as their master does, and they are flagrantly running interference for him, right on cue, attempting to undermine Zelensky’s leadership at every turn, and begging the world to let Putin get away with his historically catastrophic folly, and with all the killing and kidnapping, rather than being held to account once and for all, as Ukraine, with the heel-dragging assistance of NATO, has shown herself more than capable of doing for three years.
When the book is finally written on today’s global situation, assuming there is anyone left to write it, the reality of the Trump administration’s subservience to Putin’s aims and needs will probably be the second most shameful chapter. The most shameful chapter will be the one about the American population that was emotionally and intellectually reduced by fear and manipulation to the point of believing in, supporting, and defending to their country’s and their own souls’ death, the puppet or personification of national suicide that is Donald Trump.
