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The Axis of U.S. Evil? [1]
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Date: 2025-03-03
About a week before the President of the United States capitulated to Russia in the most embarrassing of ways—with Trump’s Oval Office meeting with the President of Ukraine—it was forewarned in the United Nations. A European resolution condemning Russia’s incursion on Ukraine's territorial integrity was voted down by the U.S., joining Belarus and North Korea. The U.S. then offered up its own resolution for a vote, but the United Kingdom and France abstained from voting because its tepid language failed to condemn Russia's unprovoked aggression. In one of the greatest demonstrations of hypocrisy in the history of public diplomacy, two weeks ago, South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham said to the Ukraine leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy, “You’re the ally I have been hoping for all my life.” Following President Donald Trump’s attempt to publicly scold Zelenskyy, Graham, in his latest performance of Camille, again showed his ability to fawn—calling on Zelenskyy to resign. “He either needs to resign and send somebody over that we can do business with, or he needs to change,” Graham said.
The specter of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s boyfriend (Brian Glenn) berating President Zelenskyy for not wearing a suit—to the Vice President’s insulting suggestion that he prostrate himself in thanks to a President who is in Putin’s galliffet pocket was appalling. Vance, who voted against giving his country aid, should make every decent person feel creepy. The fact that the President of the United States is so mentally fragile that he needs a ‘love letter’ from a despot or submissive and effusive praise from other world leaders is a problem of immense proportions.
The goal of Mr. Trump is to withdraw the United States from NATO because Vladimir Putin has convinced him it is in his financial interest. The Russians have been courting Donald Trump, reportedly, for nearly 40 years. Yuri Shvets, a former Russian KGB agent, told the Guardian following the 2016 election, “This is an example where people were recruited when they were just students, and then they rose to important positions; something like that was happening with Trump,” Shvets said via phone. Fearfully, the former Soviet Union, now Russia, and the United States may be forming a new axis of evil. Until now, former Republican presidents and candidates have over and over condemned Russian aggression. In the [Dwight] Eisenhower Doctrine of 1957, he was eerily clairvoyant, writing,
…a country could request American economic assistance and/or aid from U.S. military forces if it was being threatened by armed aggression from another state. Eisenhower singled out the Soviet threat in his doctrine by authorizing the commitment of U.S. forces “to secure and protect the territorial integrity and political independence of such nations, requesting such aid against overt armed aggression from any nation controlled by international communism.”
Democratic and Republican presidents maintained that posture of loyalty to democracies worldwide, especially with our NATO allies, until the emergence of Donald Trump. President Trump, who famously sided with Mr. Putin against American intelligence agencies in Helsinki, has been at the heel of Vladimir Putin throughout both his administrations. Tomorrow night, Mr. Trump will address a joint session of Congress. Between the embarrassing rising, bowing, and scraping from the right, I hope the American people listen carefully and take note of a fascist at work.
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