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ADAPTIVE INDOMITABLE UKRAINE: EU Sends Message to Trump and Putin..Ukraine is Europe. We Shall Stand [1]

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Date: 2025-02-18

Over many many years after WWII Robert Schuman, Jean Monnet, Konrad Adenauer, Alcide Gasperi and many other European leaders labored mightily to put in place the early framework which will eventually mature into what we know today as the European Union or EU. It was an effort born of the devastation wrought in Europe by the unbridled ambition of one man, Adolf Hitler(real family name before the change was “Hiedler” … much like you know who whose father changed his real Germanic name once in America), wanting to become the global hegemon.

The aforementioned European leaders were determined to unite Europe in order to forestall the rise of another demagogue who, skilled in manipulation and fear mongering, would use latent and newly manufactured grievances and difference finding to set people from one group against others and cause another unchecked conflagration which could once again convulse Europe and the world in war. It would appear, by recent events, that not only is Ukraine being raked through a fiery crucible by Putin’s unjustified genocidal war but Trump seems to want to side with Putin.

If this week’s kissy face between the minions of Putin and Trump in Saudi Arabia is to be credited, Europe is once again about to be forced to face another historic challenge by external forces inimical to its stated purpose of a United, Peaceful and Prosperous Europe. Will Europe stand by Ukraine and put its blood and treasure where its mouth is or will it cave and throw Ukraine under the Putin bus to repeat the 1938 ignominious and fatal appeasement of Hitler by Neville Chamberlain in pursuit of an illusory “peace for our time”?. Appeasement never works. Here’s hoping that Europe has learned that bitter lesson.

Donald John Trump is butt hurt again with Zelensky. Claiming today, for example, that Zelensky started the war. The truth of course is that Russia had already invaded Crimea and the Donbas in April 2014. Zelensky became President of Ukraine in 2019. Why the volte-face from only a couple of weeks or so ago?

Because once again Trump has failed to get Zelensky to agree to another bilious quid pro quo… to essentially sign over much of Ukraine’s national mineral wealth over to America for a nebulous promise of “protection”. What a shameless shit show. So now in his usual puerile petulance, he’s making kissy face with Putin to spite Zelensky. And showing his long-standing disdain of America’s European allies by not inviting them to the conclave in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Zelensky and Ukraine have made it clear that Putin and Trump will not be the only parties deciding whatever Peace and the end to the war will be. That Ukraine is an European country and Europe, too will have to be at the table. Bravo! Bravo!

And today, Europe made it clear it agrees and WILL STAND with Ukraine:

The EU plans to deliver a military aid package worth at least €6 billion to Ukraine to strengthen Kyiv's strategic position ahead of possible negotiations with Russia global.espreso.tv/...

With the European countries looking through their stores for what could immediately be sent, the package could be as much as €10 billion.

And now China, a rising global power and America’s nemesis in the emerging “Thucydides Trap” of global power jockeying, also made it clear it wants to be at the table, too.

'Critical moment': China calls for all stakeholders to be part of Ukraine peace talks www.yahoo.com/...

Sorry Trump. It ain’t all about you … the daily circus and cacophony notwithstanding.

ADAPTIVE INDOMITABLE UKRAINE is European and will forever so remain.

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