Tucker Carlson’s recent video on Rep. Thomas Massie’s defeat provided an excellent analysis of the country’s optimism at the time of Donald Trump’s election in 2024. Carlson included an assessment of Trump’s transition with alarming foreign policy shifts that most Americans had not voted for.
Carlson went on to question an eerie premonition on Trump’s transformation that was perhaps already on the agenda with the sudden appearance of Miriam Adelson at an early morning Church service on Inauguration Day.
I can relate to Tucker’s disappointment, echoing my own alienation that our newly elected President not only failed to fulfill his America First agenda but abandoned his loyalty to the US in favor of becoming a Zionist President aligned with a foreign country with less than honorable intentions; some of the President’s behavior may be attributed to a malignant narcissism or other progressive cognitive decline.
My support for Donald Trump dated back to his “No New Interventionist War” pledge during the 2016 campaign which first caught my attention which later found expression in his 2025 promise to end the Ukraine war “on day one.”
The Peace President spoke to my anti war roots (my middle name is Dove after my Scottish grandmother Emma Dove) as the promise to end Ukraine failed as Trump continued to provide funding and weapons to the Ukraine conflict which was soon followed by a month of bombing attacks on Yemen.
As weeks moved into months and the US maintained its ‘proxy’ status on Ukraine, the new President proved inept at understanding how to bring the war to a conclusion with a startling lack of initiative and sufficient experiential power to understand where the levels of power were.
Eliminating the funds and weapons took little effort when all he needed was to give The Order, “no more to Ukraine” – but that never occurred as Trump continued to blame “Biden’s War” as if repeating that mantra relieved him of any responsibility to end the war as promised.
During those early months of Trump’s administration, it was more than noticeable that he never spoke against the inhumanity of the massacre being committed as a horror show on the Palestinians in Gaza. The President continued his supply of providing the weapons and bombs for the Zionists to continue its slaughter of Palestinian families and their children.
Why was my Peace President bombing Yemen, one of the poorest country’s on the planet with no explanation and in violation of the Constitution and international law? Who was this monster who pretended to be the Peace President that I voted to elect.
Over the course of the next several months, another six more countries were bombed for no discernible reason – until the sudden appearance of Israel’s war criminal Prime Minister Netanyahu became an ominous vulgar presence on the Presidential scene forming a militarist alliance. This was not my Peace President.
There was no place on the President’s agenda to report to the American public his change in policy as if the American people were the last to be given any satisfaction.
The loss of Trump’s high stakes opportunity in Alaska with Putin (Russian President Vladimir Putin) was a turning point in the Administration’s half-hearted attempt at peace in Ukraine; indicative of a personal incompetence that resulted in no progress toward peace.
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With that failure, the Ukraine war morphed into an opening for the Europeans to step in to fulfill their own warped irrational hatred of Russia.
With no appreciation for Russia’s legitimate security needs, diplomacy remains nonexistent between Russia and the entire EU population with strident warmongering rhetoric driving EU policy as its descent into an ethno-hatred of Russia.
The potential of NATO expanding to the Ukraine border was the genesis of the Ukraine coup in 2014 culminating with Russia’s Special Military Operation in February 2022 which remains a source of Europe’s perilous inflammatory rhetoric.
As European Russophobia led to a needless existential crisis, the Europeans would be smart to inform themselves of the declassified historic records regarding the widespread Agreement on German reunification in February 1990.
At that time, US Secretary of State James Baker assured Soviet leaders including President Mikhail Gorbachev, and made verbal commitments to Soviet officials that NATO’s jurisdiction would not expand eastward toward the Russian border. In other words, there would be no militarist threat to Russian sovereignty.
Since no treaty documented the Agreement, it did not take long for NATO to attempt to sabotage the Agreement; with NATO on the Ukraine border and US inferred support solidified a climate of distrust with the US for the next forty years.
In other words, the Russians accepted that a unified Germany was worth the trade that NATO would never broach its borders. The Russians were deceived by the US and its European allies. As the Iranians have only recently discovered, the American word is not worth the paper it’s written on.
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While the Iran attack began on February 28 as an unprovoked, unconstitutional war of aggression at Netanyahu’s direction, the US continued to be lured into a deeper, ongoing conflict with no logic or easily identified path of withdrawal. That same inability to assert his executive authority to end the Ukraine war is now apparent as Trump’s lack of proficient skill to bring the Iran conflict to a conclusion.
With no competent, experienced national security staff of grifters to advise him, the President’s ineptitude to accept a peaceful resolution, to make the necessary compromise, to act assertively for a fair conclusion, a promising venue with the Iranians remains elusive.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov once correctly identified the US including Donald Trump as ‘agreement-averse’, unable to make an agreement and stick to its principles. Donald Trump’s administration has proven to be no exception.
From there Trump’s unprovoked war of aggression against Iran grew into an authentic conflict of war crimes killing 170 children with double-tap Tomahawk missile strike on its first day along with assassination of Ayatollah Khamenei – attacks that the US has still not explained or apologized for.
The war against Iran was another unconstitutional illegal military act with little resistance from a feckless Congress which remain intimidated by feeble a President and its AIPAC funding – except for Rep. Tom Massie and Sen. Rand Paul and a handful of others. The House has recently cancelled its proposal to vote on War Powers Act which the Senate has already approved.
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In recent years with European support, Ukraine has escalated its frequent attacks within Russia, on Russian civilian and its infrastructure including Belgorod, the Druzhba pipeline, the Crocus theatre attack in Moscow, the use of European air space for drone attacks, Ukraine invasion of Kursk region, Ukraine’s attack in Russia in violation of the New Start Treaty in 2025, European presence has allowed Ukraine to function as a dictatorship under martial law, as a radical government disrespectful of international law with no democratic tendency, denial of elections and massive corruption.
Fast forward to Ukraine’s recent targeted, deliberative attack on a five story dormitory with 85 sleeping students (14 – 18 years) in Starobelsk at Luhansk Pedagogical University. Reminiscent of Israel attacks on civilians, sixteen western supplied drones created a triple-tap strike in the night time killing of at least 21 sleeping students meaning that sixteen drones repeatedly targeted the same location on three occasions.
Luhansk is considered one of Zelensky’s disputed oblasts as its citizens voted for realignment with Russia in 2022 with the Luhansk attack as if repayment for its betrayal of Ukraine.
Meanwhile, no condemnation or voices of disapproval of the attack were heard from the collective west.
Putin called the raid a “terrorist attack by the neo-Nazi regime,” adding that he ordered the military to prepare retaliation while confirming there are “no military facilities, intelligence service facilities or related services in the vicinity.” Putin promised retaliation with Oreshnik hypersonic missile focused on military targets in Kyiv.
It would be foolish to not expect a Russian response to Ukraine’s latest and most lethal drone attack killing twenty one teenagers. The Russian red line has been crossed and its gloves have been removed.
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The EU has openly dismissed Russian warnings of retaliation, accusing Moscow of “unacceptable escalation.” While Ukraine’s drones were allowed access to NATO air space in its approach to Luhansk (via Finland and Baltic countries) was deemed “unacceptable.”
In admitting its role in the attack, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, a component in Europe’s effort to destroy Russia, said after the attack “We are bringing the war back home—to Russia—and that’s only fair.”
Germany’s Foreign Ministry said online that it had summoned Russia’s ambassador and made clear “that we will not be intimidated by threats and will continue to support Ukraine wholeheartedly.”
Britain said that “the incident has not been objectively or independently verified” adding that “there would be no civilian deaths if Russia had not launched its illegal, full-scale invasion of Ukraine.”
French President Emmanuel Macron said the deployment of the hypersonic Oreshnik missile “only reinforced” the EU’s determination to continue supporting Kiev. A spokesperson for the EU said the EU delegation would not be vacating its Kyiv offices.
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In other words, the short of this story is that if Trump had shut down the Ukraine war when he promised, the war would have ended three years ago, saving thousands of lives including the Luhansk Dormitory as well as whatever foolishness the Europeans will persist in provoking.
In a press conference at the UN, Russian Ambassador to the UN, Vassily Nebenzia presented a summary of conditions at Luhansk calling the attack a “barbarity,” a “war crime” and citing the “nazi terrorist character” of Ukraine. Nebenzia continued, “It is Kiev’s revenge against the people of the Lugansk People’s Republic who chose Russia [in a referendum in 2022]. Zelensky is actually killing his own former compatriots… he is exterminating his former fellow citizens for refusing to live under his neo-Nazi rule.”