Dictators and Looters in the Oval Office

By Madi Jobarteh

Donald Trump and his clueless vice president JD Vance just disgraced themselves and the US in front of a small leader of a desperate country at war!

In their own house, Ukraine’s Zelenskyy had to confront, expose and stop the lies, false equivalences, threats and dishonesty of Trump and Vance.

The only advantage Trump has is that his country is the strongest, most consequential country otherwise Zelenskyy had shut them down.

It is so shameful that all that Trump could be concerned about is the rare earth minerals of a country which is under attack by a more powerful nation. That means trying to bully and rob Ukraine because Ukraine is in a very weak and desperate position right now. How could the strongest nation that claims democracy and freedom ignore that reality but force a desperate country to sell its future away.

And then to make matters worse was when JD Vance kept on harping on ‘thanking America’. How many times did Zelenskyy thank America and the rest? Uncountable.

What Trump and JD are doing is the most inhuman, unconscionable and evil thing anyone could do. If a rape victim is running to you for help from a rapist, how can you tell her to give you her only clothes first before you can save her! Who does that?

It’s really unfortunate that such a powerful and consequential country like the US is led by the most immoral, narcissistic and selfish people like the Trump Administration.

Ukraine was not used by the West to fight Russia. Ukraine is an independent country with the right to join NATO just like Russia has a right to join any alliance as well. No nation has the right to stop another nation from associating with others much more attack them for that.

Yes, the West are no saints and have a terrible imperialist history but Russia is also no saint nor had a justification to attack Ukraine.