America Aligns with the Bad Guys

 

by Pa Rock

Citizen Journalist

This past Monday, the day before yesterday, during a session of the United Nation's General Assembly, the United States ditched its long-term alliance with the democracy of Ukraine and voted against a European-backed Ukrainian resolution which condemned Moscow's aggression and called for the withdrawal of Russian troops from Ukraine.  This stunning betrayal of a country that two months ago was one of our strongest allies, comes just days after US President Donald Trump publicly referred to Ukraine as the aggressor in that war.   Trump also called Ukraine's leader, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy  a "dictator."  Both of those statements are bald-faced lies, a Trump speciality.

Last week Trump sent Secretary of State Marco Rubio to Saudi Arabia to meet with Russian diplomats and begin negotiating a peace deal between Ukraine and Russia.  The meeting did not contain representatives from Ukraine or Europe, the continent that Russia will begin rolling over as soon as it seizes Ukraine.

Trump also recently stated his own view of how the war in Ukraine would end - with Russia retaining control of lands that it seized during the siege and the United States gaining control of Ukraine's rare mineral resources as payment for money that the US has spent in defense of Ukraine.  The country was to be raped from both ends of the peace conference table.

The vote in the UN Monday on the resolution to condemn Russia's aggression in Ukraine passed 93 to 18, with 65 countries abstaining.  Other countries besides the United States who voted in support of Russia included authoritarian states like Hungary, North Korea, and Russia itself.  China was one of the sixty-five nations which abstained from the vote.

The United States of America has been the world's leading democracy for almost 250 years.  We should not be aligning ourselves with authoritarian despots.

The old saying, "you are judged by the company you keep," can and should be applied to nations as well as individuals.  Once shiny American ideals seem to be rapidly losing their luster and their meaning - and it's obvious who is to blame for that.