I finally forced myself to watch the press conference with President Zelenskyy from the White House. It wasn’t easy viewing.
I was quite impressed by the dignity and restraint shown by President Zelenskyy, considering the circus he found himself in. It was as though the two other people in the conversation were trying to convince all of us that they are complete idiots.
Or maybe they really are complete idiots. It’s possible that they simply don’t understand how high the stakes are for our own country.
The U.S. hasn’t been supplying arms to Ukraine out of generosity. We’ve been supplying arms to Ukraine because if Russia actually gets away with destroying a sovereign European democracy on our watch, the negative consequences for the U.S., both political and economic, are profound, and potentially devastating.
It’s scary to realize that we have a president who doesn’t seem to know that. Or maybe our president, and his little pet attack dog, just have a deep hatred and contempt for the United States of America.