I would like to convey the following comments coming from Benjamin Wittes, editor-in-chief of Lawfare, penning a moving article that captures the depravity and significance of Trump’s betrayal of Ukraine. See Lawfare, “The Situation: What America Stands For Now.”
Wittes writes, “Today, let’s stare betrayal in the face. The United States has betrayed allies before. It has sponsored coups against democratic regimes. It has left people behind when it withdraws from conflicts it has come to regret. It has done its share of ugly things, and I’m not romantic about the history of American foreign policy.
I cannot, however, think of a time when it has ever before turned against a democratic ally to side with a monstrous dictator pursuing a genocidal war of aggression.
I cannot think of a time it has lurched so readily to side with evil against the values it purports to represent.
I cannot think of a time it has so brazenly presented itself as running a protection racket for the democratic world – a pay-to-play, resource-extraction-oriented foreign policy designed to force other countries to pay tribute or risk predation from stronger powers.
And I cannot think of a time when the most fundamental defense of such a global extortion scheme was a bald-faced set of lies about a country fighting for its continued existence.”
Jim Bolen
Durango
