It is hard to understand how Trump has moved the GOP to becoming big fans of Russia and of Putin. What would Reagan think of this?
Trump himself loves strong dictators and even had the nerve to compliment Viktor Orban during the debate with Kamala Harris.
And Putin shares Trump’s hatreds of gays and trans people. And Putin is well known to have had 40 or more reporters killed who tried to tell the truth about him.
But siding with the naked invasion of another country? And telling the standard Trump lies: Zelensky has low popularity in Ukraine?
The stories that Trump was recruited by the KGB keep showing up, but that explanation is not really necessary. He loves all dictators and is trying to dismantle our government so he can be Putin here.
And Ukraine? He wants them to give us half of all mineral rights in return for the aid we gave them, which is just organized crime extortion.
Seems he will let Russia take whatever they want from Ukraine and he will try to extort what’s left.
Of course, one very difficult aspect of the Ukraine war is that US defense companies are making the planes and bombs and other materials being used there, and it seems unlikely that those defense corporations will stand by and let Trump stop the arms shipments.
The difficulty here is finding oneself on the side of endless war, along with the military-industrial complex. But letting Russia just win…
WHAT WE CAN DO:
This is very difficult. All we can do is, once again, to try to get Senators and Reps from red states to stand up to Trump. With many defense plants all over the country it should be possible to persuade some GOP leaders that we should keep supporting Ukraine.