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Boomer in the Grauniad blames Trump for betraying Ukraine.

Viewed from Europe, the US’s failure to defend the people of Ukraine against Russian aggression is the greatest and most consequential of a host of recent American betrayals. It’s not just the sickening subservience shown to Vladimir Putin, an indicted war criminal and mass killer. It’s not only the victim-blaming and bullying of Kyiv into making concessions. It’s not even Donald Trump’s crass attempts to monetise the war and milk the misery of millions for Nobel glory, while undercutting Nato allies and trampling sovereign rights.

I don’t know if Trump wanted a Nobel peace prize but he represents the part of America that thinks Europe are freeloaders. And I am sorry, this whole pile of sour grapes proves how much the Eurocucks are dependent on Murica. And I must add that without Murican financial and military help, Russia would probably be done with Ukraine by now.

“The question of how this war is going to end is actually an existential question for Europe,” said Wolfgang Ischinger, chair of this month’s Munich Security Conference. “It will determine – in more ways than one – the future of this continent.” But the war is proving definitive, too, for Trump and his blinkered, bigoted Maga ideologues. Glossing over Russian depredations (and the illegal Venezuela coup), Rubio chose in Munich to target globalisation, “climate cults” and multiculturalism.

I thought the war is existential for Putin, now it looks like he isn’t the only one. And clearly, Trump represents the part of Murican establishment that does not see Ukraine as essential. I am not sure Murica ever had a government that saw Ukraine as essential. Now, if Europe thinks this is essential, they should put their money and gear where their mouth it.

The US betrayal of Ukraine, foreshadowing its broader treachery, did not start with Trump. Bill Clinton’s post-independence 1994 security assurances for Kyiv proved meaningless. Barack Obama blinked when Putin seized Crimea in 2014. Joe Biden, haunted by cold war ghosts, reacted with fatal overcaution to the 2022 invasion.

What should have Obama done about Crimea? Murica enacted sanctions on Russia over Crimea before Europe did. Europe need the strange events of MH17 flight to enact anti-Russia sanctions. Obama’s administration was responsible for supporting the Maidan demonstrations, which were the catalyst to the current war. Had Murica not meddled in Ukrainian internal politics with money and cookies, there would have never be this stand off. Biden provided money, modern weapons like Patriot batteries and HIMARS rocker artillery, intelligence data to navigate Ukrainian missiles and drones, and lots of money to help the Kiev regime survive. Yet according to boomers and bugmen, he should have done more.