United States support for Ukraine was never about securing mineral rights.
Or providing security for money.
It was about democracy and sovereignty. And a willingness to defend our allies and oppose our enemies.
Trump is betraying Ukraine, but also our values. Our history and our legacy.
Generations of Europeans will remember that when Europe faced the biggest existential threat since the Nazis, not only did the US use it for extortion, but sided with the enemy.
America is gone.
Here is Europe. We have happily paid three times as much to Ukraine as the USA. We are not asking for anything in return and we are not extorting the Ukrainians while they are fighting for their lives. Because we are not assholes.
BREAKING: President Zelensky just completely demolishes Trump's Kremlin propaganda that he's a dictator.
He says: "If Peace for Ukraine Requires It, If You Need Me to Step Down—I'm Ready. I Can Trade It for NATO."
All he wants is safety and security for the people of Ukraine. He's a true hero.
BREAKING: Former Prime Minister of the UK, Boris Johnson, just completely went off on Trump’s idea that Ukraine is the aggressor and debunked all of the Russian propaganda that is being spread:
“Putin launched his war not because he was worried about Nato – that's pure Kremlin propaganda – but because he is a ruthless opportunist, who had been in power for two decades, and who thought he could revive his political fortunes with a short, sharp war to rebuild the Russian empire… and everybody can see that Volodymyr Zelensky is not a dictator but a democrat courageously defending his country against an aggressor. He doesn't shoot journalists. He doesn't poison his opponents or send them to the Gulag. That's Putin."
Canadian MP Charlie Angus: An Eastern European colleague told me: “The Ukrainian people survived the Holodomor. They survived Stalin. They survived Chernobyl. They’ve survived Putin. Do you really think Donald Trump is going to break the Ukrainian people?”
So Donald—just put a sock in it.