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Historic Sellout — America’s Looming Betrayal of Ukraine and Europe
Welcome, visitors, to the United States of Sellout, where all your dreams can come true! Whether it’s visiting one of our luxurious casinos in the Gaza Strip or witnessing the majesty of Trump’s likeness at Mount Rushmore, everything is for sale, including your country’s future!
On November 18 last year, I wrote the following words:
“The specter of Trump’s return has European leaders breaking out the Tums.
A Trump 2.0 presidency means cutting US military aid, backroom deals with Putin, and the unthinkable — a de facto alliance of the US and Russia, hell-bent on dismantling the post-WWII global order.”
Welp… Welcome to our collective nightmare. Let’s face facts — I’m not an oracle — anyone could see this coming. Some European leaders certainly had an opportunity to prepare for this moment and squandered it by hoping Trump would do the right thing.
But in a move that surprised precisely no one who has been paying attention, President Donald Trump picked up the phone and had a “lengthy and highly productive” chat with his old handler, Vladimir Putin.
This unilateral action, without NATO, without Europe, and without Ukraine, is the worst possible scenario for Ukraine.