Who could have guessed that the immortal words of baseball’s unique sage Yogi Berra would become an apt description of the US’s failures in international affairs caused by the “fucking moron” and his sycophants? But here we are!
Trump version 2.0 is much worse than version 1.0, of course, simply because in his first term he hired some qualified people who at least tried to keep him tethered in reality and not completely out of control. But I said back then that our wannabe Il Duce had initiated an era in American politics that looked awfully like 1930’s Germany. That’s even more the case with Trump version 2.0 because Narcissus le Grand has only hired incompetents whose only real qualifications are their desires to pucker up and kiss his fat ass.
Moving on to be more explicit while still crediting the inimitable Yogi, what we see now is the advance of a ruthless dictator, Putin playing the role of Hitler, attacking a helpless European country, Ukraine playing the role of Czechoslovakia and Poland, and Trump, playing the “peace in our time” role of Chamberlain. It seems like the revival of a terrible play, doesn’t it?
Thank God for Europe, then and now. Churchill realized that Europe wouldn’t survive if they appeased Hitler even while FDR was playing peacenik. The latter, whose New Deal had saved the US (Trump’s economic policies are destroying the country and starving or killing its citizens), finally got his butt in gear and probably looked the way with Pearl Harbor to get the country to come to its senses and support Europe. (I wrote a term paper during the summer I took US history in high school that supported this. The prof disagreed with my conclusions but gave me an A+ for my research!) We don’t have a Churchill or FDR now (although the sum total of the current NATO leaders might equal a Churchill). Trump is the chump in control in the US, so the ending of the revival of the 1930’s play could turn out to be much worse for the country and the rest of the world. At least Europe seems to realize that they must stop Putin or they’ll be overrum as well after Ukraine falls.
Can they persevere without the US, though? Not with the “fucking moron” as US Commander-in-Chief! You see, what’s different this time—sorry, Yogi!—is that lack of an FDR. I don’t think European leaders can do it alone. And Putin must be fought to the death! That’s what’s needed. WWII ended only when Hitler’s army was beaten and he committed suicide. Putin, who’s aiming for world domination like Hitler; but, unlike Hitler, Putin’s enemies in the West are weaker.
The bromance between Narcissus le Grand and Putin doesn’t help. The “peace plan” of the “fucking moron” might as well have been written by the Russian dictator because it essentially rewards Putin for invading a sovereign, democratic country! Zelenskyy correctly sees it as a loss of dignity and an important ally, although not a reliable one because our wannabe Il Duce allows Putin to pull his puppet strings.
I agree with Zelenskyy, but I’d say it differently: He’d be stupid to accept this US plan written by Putin! Appeasement never works for Hitler-like dictators like Putin (or Trump, for that matter). WWII showed that appeasement never deters dictators’ aspirations for ruling the world! You have to go to war with them and smash them! You must destroy them before they destroy you!
We might soon need to learn Russian because of Trump’s idiotic foreign policy choices. Maybe Europe and the US could save a lot of lives by surrendering to Putin now? If all the world’s becoming a fascists’ playground, that could bring “peace in our time,” couldn’t it? Of course, then all the fascists would just fight each other, leading to many more lives to be lost!
It seems that with the scurrilous Trump version 2.0, peace doesn’t really have a chance. (Maybe he should receive a Nobel prize for war to match his change of the defense department’s name?) Neither does freedom or individual human rights. Will the US be “celebrating” its 250th birthday as a satellite of Putin’s Russia? Nah, Putin’s not that clever or efficient. He’s just an evil little weasel with a despotic, murderous mind. It will take him a few years at least to gobble up all of Europe. Or King Trump rewriting the US Constitution to become president for life like Putin and join the Russian leader’s team?
Stay tuned!