So, now, Donald Trump’s puppet-master in Russia has provocatively launched some drones into Poland. What will the putative leader of the free world do? Probably nothing. Why? Any number of reasons.
Again, my inference is that Putin has him somehow by the short hairs. No national leader can be so geopolitically ignorant, so lacking in self- and national-respect, and so uncoercedly servile as to misunderstand Putin’s behavior and contempt for this President of the United States. Trump must have no choice but to take it like a simp.
Second, Trump sees nothing in it for himself—anymore. They don’t give out a Nobel Prize for Surrender, which is how a bone-spurred draft-dodger seems to understand peace-making in Ukraine.
Third, the spirit shown by President Zelensky and Ukraine—intrepid, innovative, resilient, and fundamentally decent—is not only foreign to Donald Trump, it’s a standing rebuke to how he understands the world and lives his life.
Any energy, leadership, or creative initiative in support of Ukraine will originate elsewhere than the Oval Office. There remain a few senatorial Cold War holdovers in the RINO Party who might be able to join with Democrats to counter Putin’s most recent aggressions. Perhaps Europe will assemble a backbone. Such are the non-despotic paths to resistance. As they should be.
