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Traitor President
So far the enduring mark of the Trump presidency isn’t political reform or economic strength. It’s betrayal.
In one of history’s most consequential acts of betrayal, at least until now, Adolf Hitler discarded the cooperation agreement he’d made with Joseph Stalin and on December 18, 1940, ordered his Luftwaffe and Panzer divisions to invade Russia. The end result would be millions dead, including Hitler in his bunker beneath the rubble of Berlin.
That grim historical passage came to mind when I read about Donald Trump’s stark betrayal of the war-ravaged Ukrainian people.
In the early months of the Ukrainian war, I wrote that standing up to the Russian invaders was one of the few moments of absolute moral clarity the world had seen in all the years since World War II.
“Seeing Ukraine in flames is like looking into the sun. There are no shadows left for the lies to hide in. On one side is the bracing courage of the Ukrainians fighting for their homes and their lives. On the other is the pitiless Russian war machine, and the falsehoods with which Putin is attempting to drive it.”
Sadly, we shouldn’t be surprised that Trump has put himself on the wrong side of that equation. What sends a shock through the system is the depths of his betrayal.
