Trump's "Showboat Diplomacy"

Get the Point!

By now, I am sure that you have watched or read about Donald Trump's disgraceful, pro-Russia clown show in the White House during Ukraine President Volodomyr Zelensky’s visit yesterday afternoon. If not, and if you can stomach to watch it, take a look at the depths that the MAGA “Re-pukes” have sunk in the name of “appearing” tough as aired on C-Span:

As I posted on Facebook earlier, the real tragedy in the way in which Ukraine's President Volodomyr Zelensky was mistreated by Trump/Vance is that the United States, per the Budapest Memorandum of 1994, is contractually bound to defend...wait for it...Ukraine!

I marvel at the composure that Volodomyr Zelensky showed during today's Oval Office ambush…

The Budapest Memorandum was signed three years after the collapse of the former Soviet Union and at the time, Ukraine had the third largest nuclear arsenal in the WORLD behind the United States and Russia.

To coerce Ukraine into transferring its arsenal to its former fellow Soviet state Russia (under the guise of further arms reductions), President Bill Clinton, Russian President Boris Yeltsin, and Great Britain's Prime Minister John Major assured Ukraine of its sovereignty and defense in exchange for eliminating its nuclear capabilities. No one alive at the time would have imagined that within 30 years, Russia, under its latest Dictator Vladimir Putin, would break the treaty—twice—by invading Ukraine!

Or, that the U.S., led (in name) by a sick Putin sycophant like Donald Trump, would take sides with Russia by falsely blaming Ukraine for the latest war, and by demanding that Ukraine beg and bow for U.S. assistance that, per that old Budapest Memorandum, it should be providing anyway!

Picture of then Russian President Boris Yeltsin, President Bill Clinton, and British Prime Minister John Major signing the Budapest Memorandum circa ‘94

Trust, if Ukraine was still sitting on the world's third largest nuclear arsenal, Russia NEVER would have invaded and Trump wouldn't be trying to pimp the nation's vast mineral resources.

But just like the U.S. has broken treaty after treaty with Indigenous American tribes over the past 200 plus years, I believe that Ukraine MUST turn to the European Union to supply all of its armament needs in the near future! Right on cue, just about every leader in Europe, Canada, and Australia took to social media to remind Ukraine and President Zelensky that they are not alone in their fight against Russia!

Still, as a longtime student of world history, I similarly fear that several old U.S. allies like Taiwan, South Korea, Germany and Japan had better be prepared for anything because the U.S., at least while under MAGA control, is NOT to be trusted to uphold treaties that provide for mutual defense and stability.

Lest we forget…