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Renee Parsons<\/p>\n
Tucker Carlson\u2019s recent video on Rep. Thomas Massie\u2019s defeat<\/span><\/a> provided an excellent analysis of the country\u2019s optimism at the time of Donald Trump\u2019s election in 2024.\u00a0 <\/span>Carlson included an assessment of Trump\u2019s transition with alarming foreign policy shifts that most Americans had not voted for. \u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Carlson went on to question an eerie premonition on Trump\u2019s transformation that was perhaps already on the agenda with the sudden appearance of Miriam Adelson<\/span><\/a> at an early morning Church service on Inauguration Day.<\/p>\n I can relate to Tucker\u2019s disappointment, echoing my own alienation that our newly elected President not only failed to fulfill his America First agenda but abandoned his loyalty to the US in favor of becoming a Zionist President aligned with a foreign country with less than honorable intentions; some of the President\u2019s behavior\u00a0 <\/span>may be attributed to a malignant narcissism or other progressive cognitive decline.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n My support for Donald Trump dated back to his \u201cNo New Interventionist War\u2019<\/span><\/a> pledge during the 2016 campaign which first caught my attention which later found expression in his 2025 promise to end the Ukraine war \u2018on day one\u2019<\/span><\/a>. <\/i> \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The Peace President spoke to my anti war roots (my middle name is Dove after my Scottish grandmother Emma Dove) as the promise to end Ukraine failed as Trump continued to provide funding and weapons to the Ukraine conflict which was soon followed by a month of bombing attacks on Yemen.<\/p>\n As weeks moved into months and the US maintained its \u2018proxy\u2019 status on Ukraine, the new President proved inept at understanding how to bring the war to a conclusion with a startling lack of initiative and sufficient experiential power to understand where the levels of power were.<\/p>\n Eliminating the funds and weapons took little effort when all he needed was to give The Order, \u2018no more to Ukraine\u2019<\/i> \u2013 but that never occurred as Trump continued to blame \u201cBiden\u2019s War<\/i>\u201d as if repeating that mantra relieved him of any responsibility to end the war<\/span><\/a> as promised.<\/p>\n During those early months of Trump\u2019s administration, it was more than noticeable that he never spoke against the inhumanity of the massacre being committed as a horror show on the Palestinians in Gaza.\u00a0 <\/span>The President continued his supply of providing the weapons and bombs<\/span><\/a> for the Zionists to continue its slaughter of Palestinian families and their children.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Why was my Peace President bombing Yemen, one of the poorest country\u2019s on the planet with no explanation and in violation of the Constitution and international law?\u00a0 <\/span>Who was this monster who pretended to be the Peace President\u00a0 <\/span>that I voted to elect.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Over the course of the next several months, another six more countries<\/span><\/a> were bombed for no discernible reason –\u00a0 <\/span>until the sudden appearance of Israel\u2019s war criminal Prime Minister Netanyahu became an ominous vulgar presence on the Presidential scene forming a militarist alliance. This was not my Peace President.<\/p>\n There was no place on the President\u2019s agenda to report to the American public his change in policy as if the American people were the last to be given any satisfaction.<\/p>\n The loss of Trump\u2019s high stakes opportunity in Alaska with Putin<\/span><\/a> (Russian President Vladimir Putin) was a turning point in the Administration\u2019s half-hearted attempt at peace in Ukraine; indicative of a personal incompetence that resulted in no progress toward peace.<\/p>\n ***<\/p>\n With that failure<\/span><\/a>, the Ukraine war morphed into an opening<\/span><\/a> for the Europeans to step in to fulfill their own warped irrational hatred<\/span><\/a> of Russia.<\/p>\n With no appreciation for Russia\u2019s legitimate security needs, diplomacy remains nonexistent between Russia and the entire EU population with strident warmongering rhetoric driving EU policy as its descent into an ethno-hatred<\/span><\/a> of Russia.<\/p>\n The potential of NATO<\/span><\/a> expanding to the Ukraine border was the genesis of the Ukraine coup in 2014 culminating with Russia\u2019s Special Military Operation<\/span><\/a> in February 2022 which remains a source of Europe\u2019s perilous\u00a0 <\/span>inflammatory rhetoric.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n As European Russophobia led to a needless existential crisis, the Europeans would be smart to inform themselves of the declassified historic records<\/span> regarding the widespread Agreement on German reunification in February 1990.<\/p>\n At that time, US Secretary of State James Baker assured Soviet leaders including President Mikhail Gorbachev, and made verbal commitments to Soviet officials that NATO\u2019s jurisdiction would not expand eastward<\/span><\/a> toward the Russian border.\u00a0 <\/span>In other words, there would be no militarist threat to Russian sovereignty.<\/p>\n Since no treaty documented the Agreement, it did not take long for NATO to attempt to sabotage the Agreement; with NATO on the Ukraine border and US inferred support solidified a climate of distrust with the US for the next forty years.<\/p>\n In other words, the Russians accepted that a unified Germany was worth the trade that NATO would never broach its borders.\u00a0 <\/span>The Russians were deceived by the US and its European allies.\u00a0 <\/span>As the Iranians have only recently discovered, the American word is not worth the paper it\u2019s written on.<\/p>\n ***<\/p>\n While the Iran attack began on February 28th<\/sup><\/span> as an unprovoked, unconstitutional war of aggression at Netanyahu\u2019s direction, the US continued to be lured into a deeper, ongoing conflict with no logic or easily identified path of withdrawal.\u00a0 <\/span>That same inability to assert his executive authority to end the Ukraine war is now apparent as Trump\u2019s lack of proficient skill to bring the Iran conflict to a conclusion.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n With no competent, experienced national security staff of grifters to advise him, the President\u2019s ineptitude to accept a peaceful resolution, to make the necessary compromise, to act assertively for a fair conclusion, a promising venue with the Iranians remains elusive.<\/p>\n Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov once correctly identified the US including Donald Trump as \u2018agreement-averse\u2019<\/i>, unable to make an agreement and stick to its principles.\u00a0 <\/span>Donald Trump\u2019s administration has proven to be no exception.<\/p>\n From there Trump\u2019s unprovoked war of aggression against Iran grew into an authentic conflict of war crimes killing 170 children with double-tap Tomahawk missile strike on its first day along with assassination of Ayatollah Khomeini \u2013 attacks that the US has still not explained or apologized for.<\/p>\n The war against Iran was another unconstitutional illegal military act with little resistance from a feckless Congress which remain intimidated by feeble a President and its AIPAC funding \u2013 except for Rep. Tom Massie and Sen. Rand Paul and a handful of others. \u00a0 <\/span>The House has recently cancelled its proposal to vote on War Powers Act which the Senate has already approved.<\/p>\n ***<\/p>\n In recent years with European support, Ukraine has escalated its frequent attacks within Russia, on Russian civilian<\/span><\/a> and its infrastructure<\/span><\/a> including\u00a0 <\/span>Belgorod<\/span><\/a>, the Druzhba<\/span><\/a> pipeline, the Crocus theatre attack<\/span><\/a> in Moscow, the use of European air space for drone attacks, Ukraine invasion<\/span><\/a> of Kursk region, Ukraine\u2019s attack in Russia<\/span><\/a> in violation of the New Start Treaty in 2025, European presence has allowed Ukraine to function as a dictatorship under martial law<\/span><\/a>, as a radical government disrespectful of international law with no democratic tendency, denial of elections and massive corruption. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Fast forward to Ukraine\u2019s recent targeted, deliberative attack on a five story dormitory with 85 sleeping students (14 \u2013 18 years) in Starobelsk at Luhansk<\/span> Pedagogical University.\u00a0 <\/span>Reminiscent of Israel attacks on civilians, sixteen western supplied drones created a triple-tap strike in the night time<\/span><\/a> killing of at least 21 sleeping students<\/span><\/a> meaning that sixteen drones repeatedly targeted the same location on three occasions.<\/p>\n Luhansk is considered one of Zelensky\u2019s disputed oblasts as its citizens voted for realignment with Russia in 2022 with the Luhansk attack as if repayment for its betrayal of Ukraine.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, no condemnation<\/span><\/a> or voices of disapproval of the attack were heard from the collective west.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Putin called the raid a\u00a0\u201cterrorist attack by the neo-Nazi regime,\u201d<\/i>\u00a0adding that he ordered the military to prepare retaliation while confirming there are “no military facilities, intelligence service facilities or related services in the vicinity<\/i>.” Putin promised retaliation<\/span><\/a> with Oreshnik<\/span><\/a> hypersonic missile focused on military targets<\/span><\/a> in Kyiv.<\/p>\n It would be foolish to not expect a Russian response to Ukraine\u2019s latest and most lethal drone attack killing twenty one teenagers.\u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span>The Russian red line has been crossed and its gloves have been removed.<\/p>\n ***<\/p>\n The EU has openly dismissed Russian warnings of retaliation, accusing Moscow of\u00a0\u201cunacceptable escalation.\u201d<\/i>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>While Ukraine\u2019s drones were allowed access to NATO air space in its approach to Luhansk (via Finland and Baltic countries) was deemed \u201cunacceptable<\/i>.\u2019<\/p>\n In admitting its role in the attack, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky<\/span><\/a>, a component in Europe\u2019s effort to destroy Russia, said after the attack \u201cWe are bringing the war back home\u2014to Russia\u2014and that\u2019s only fair<\/i>.\u201d<\/p>\n Germany’s Foreign Ministry<\/span><\/a> said online that it had summoned Russia’s ambassador and made clear “that we will not be intimidated by threats and\u00a0will continue to support Ukraine wholeheartedly<\/i>.”<\/p>\n Britain\u00a0said<\/span><\/a>\u00a0that \u201cthe incident has not been objectively or independently verified<\/i>\u201d adding that \u201cthere would be no civilian deaths if Russia had not launched its illegal, full-scale invasion of Ukraine<\/i>.\u201d<\/p>\n French President Emmanuel Macron said the deployment of the hypersonic Oreshnik missile\u00a0\u201conly reinforced\u201d<\/i>\u00a0the EU\u2019s determination to continue supporting Kiev. \u00a0 <\/span>A spokesperson for the EU said the EU delegation would not be vacating its Kyiv offices.<\/p>\n ***<\/p>\n In other words, the short of this story is that if Trump had shut down the Ukraine war when he promised, the war would have ended three years ago, saving thousands of lives including the Luhansk Dormitory as well as whatever foolishness the Europeans will persist in provoking.<\/p>\n In a press conference at the UN<\/span><\/a>, Russian Ambassador to the UN, Vassily Nebenzia presented a summary of conditions<\/span><\/a> at Luhansk calling the attack a \u201cbarbarity<\/i>,\u201d a \u2018war crime\u2019<\/i> and citing the \u2018nazi terrorist character\u201d<\/i> of Ukraine.\u00a0 <\/span>Nebenzia continued \u201cIt is Kiev\u2019s revenge against the people of the Lugansk People\u2019s Republic who chose Russia [in a referendum in 2022]. Zelensky is actually killing his own former compatriots\u2026 he is exterminating his former fellow citizens for refusing to live under his neo-Nazi rule.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n Renee Parsons\u00a0<\/i><\/b>has been an elected public official in Colorado, an environmental lobbyist with Friends of the Earth and a staff member in the US House of Representative in Washington, DC. Before its demise, she was also a member of the ACLU\u2019s Florida State Board of Directors and President of the ACLU Treasure Coast Chapter.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65663\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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