QOTD -- Why Europe's Leaders Are In DC

 

Sam Kiley, world affairs editor at The Independent (UK):

No higher delegation of European leaders has ever assembled for a mission of such extraordinary importance - talks with an American president who now wholly represents the interests of Russia.

Donald Trump has represented Russia’s strategic interests against Ukraine, Europe, and arguably his own country, consistently since his inauguration this year.

He will be speaking the Kremlin’s mind when he meets Volodymyr Zelensky in the Oval office. And he will rehearsing Putin’s talking points when he meets the assembled European leaders later.  [snip]

In his own country, he has flooded the capital with soldiers. He’s sought to undermine federal and state courts, he’s sent heavily armed masked ICE police across America sowing terror in a campaign against illegal immigrants, and muses on subverting the US constitution with a third term in office.

If there was any doubt about where Trump stands, consider how he admires the methods used by Putin to deal with his internal opponents – many of whom have fallen to their deaths from windows, died in prison, been poisoned or simply disappeared.

“I said, ‘Vladimir, how do you deal with your opponents? Do you have them vanish? Do you have them taken out in the middle of the night? What’s your secret?’” said Trump on May 17 this year in Des Moines, Iowa.

That’s why Europe’s leaders are in DC.

We shouldn't have to rely on our European allies to deal with this quintessentially un-American fascist buffoon, but that's where we are right now.  Until we can boot him out, we have to fight for American resistance to grow and be successful, and for our friends in the world to take up the fight along side of us -- with the conviction that someday soon the wrongs will be righted and the guilty punished.