A circle of disinformation
Zelensky points out that Trump tells a lot of lies.
“I would like to have more truth with the Trump team,” Mr. Zelensky told reporters in Kyiv during a broader discussion about the administration, which this week opened peace talks with Russia that excluded Ukraine. Mr. Zelensky said that the U.S. president was “living in a disinformation space” and in a “circle of disinformation.”
Which is a lightly veiled way of saying he lies non-stop.
Later Tuesday, Mr. Trump said of Ukraine’s leadership and the war, “You should have never started it”…
Note: he didn’t start it.
“Yesterday, there were signals of speaking with them as victims,” he said of the Trump officials’ tone in discussing the Russian officials, whose government sparked the largest war in Europe since World War II, which has killed or wounded about a million people on both sides over three years. “That is something new.”
It’s what they do. It’s what trans ideologues do and it’s what Trumpists do. Blatantly reverse victim and victimizer and ignore all corrections.
“Why did you put your nose in the path of their fist?”
And it’s not just that he lies. It’s also that he listens to lies. He only watches news that tells him lies. He takes them in and he spews them out. He’s very GIGO.
In Trump’s view, Ukraine’s refusal to surrender to Russia immediately “started” the war. There would have been no war if they’d given Putin what he wanted. In Trump’s view, that refusal to bow down to superior firepower makes the Ukrainians stupid losers who don’t deserve to live in their own country. So why give them a seat at the table where its dismemberment is being negotiated by Trump on their behalf? After all he knows what’s best for them; God knows they don’t, otherwise they wouldn’t have
resisted Putin’s invasionstarted the war in the first place.I am slowly coming to a conclusion that I wish to avoid: That the United States of America is now an enemy of the free world. Someone please tell me I am wrong.
No, Harald, you’re 100% correct. But we’re only the enemy of the free world because one (maybe two) men decided that we should be so. That ancient, feeble, senile mad man doesn’t have to live in the world he’s destroying which is all the more galling. He gets to be the beneficiary of the Pax Americana literally from the year of his birth and then he steals that wealth, that security, that safety from the rest of us. Our “Golden Age” ended for good in 2025.
If we’re lucky enough to make it out of this even marginally intact I hope we have our own Nuremberg trials (though much like Hitler he’s unlikely to make an appearance).
Those two, and all the republicans in Congress who either don’t possess a spine or a brain, or enthusiastically go along. Not to mention all the MAGA supporters who still haven’t got a clue.
But I appreciate and am thankful that many Americans oppose the madness, and hope you will prevail in time.
“That ancient, feeble, senile mad man” – the trouble is he’s not a bit feeble! If only he were! He’s mentally feeble of course but physically he seems to be horribly robust. GOD how I wish he were feeble.
He is feeble, just not feeble enough. Listening to him, seeing pictures, and his changes in makeup all point towards that conclusion.
He’ll not easily recover from disease or injury again.
Can you elaborate? I’m not seeing what you’re seeing. I’d like to, but I’m not.
I am beginning to think that our only hope—dog help us—is that enough military officers who take their oaths seriously will refuse to follow orders to invade Canada or Greenland or even “only” formally leave NATO, or to fire on protesters; leading to a widespread mutiny, or even a counter coup to T****’s coup.