Insane In Ukraine

 So back in the campaign when Donald Trump said he could end the war in Ukraine and he said he could end the war easily, how many of you figured out well in advance that Li'l Donnie's strategy would just be this:

• Trump: "So, Vlad, you want Ukraine, huh?"
• Putin: "Dah!"
• Trump: "Well, you can have it!"

So POOF! goes American aid, Russia rolls over Ukraine and war, it is over. 

Simple, no?

Well, Trump is going there. 

I'm trying to be surprised by this development but no. Li'l Donnie has his lips puckered against Vladimir Putin's back side since day one.  

Putin wants Ukraine. Trump wants that for him too.

Putin casts Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy as the real enemy. Trump is down with that. 

Trump says Zelenskyy is...

• a dictator
• only has a job approval rating of 4% 
• the war is his fault. 

Seriously....

• What?
• What the...?
• What the fuck?!?

Do we really need to break this down? OK, fine!

• Zelenskyy is the duely elected President of Ukraine. The next election cycle has been postponed due to Russia bombing Ukraine every god damn day.
• In the most recent polling data available, Zelenskyy is polling  in the 60% to 70% range and even opposition leaders speak highly of his conduct while Russia is bombing Ukraine every god damn day.
• The war started when Putin sent Russian troops to attack and invade Ukraine. Of course a cowardly bully like Trump would view Ukraine at fault because they fought back. And Ukraine continues to fight back while Russia is bombing Ukraine every god damn day.

How much has Trump put himself on the wrong side of history

When Trump called into this favorite propaganda machine Fox News, the ever obsequious butt kisser Brian Kilmeade pushed back on the assertion that the Ukraine/Russia war is Ukraine's fault. 

Kilmeade reminded anyone listening that the war started when Russia attacked Ukraine.

Trump refused to hear it.

Kilmeade tried again by asserting the war started when Russia attacked Ukraine.

Trump blew right past it as if Kilmeade had not said a word.  

There is some push back against the petulant man baby.

The hope is slim but possibly Volodymyr Zelenskyy and the people of Ukraine have not quite been abandoned yet.

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Meanwhile there are a million other levels of fuckery coming from Donald Trump and our unelected acting President Elon Musk and I've only got so much bandwidth to deal with all of this.

So that needs to wait for another post.