The end of the Anglosaxon transatlantic alliance

Anyone who’s not a fan of Putin or who hasn’t drunk deep of the MAGA Kool-Aid was horrified by the disgusting scenes in the Oval Office yesterday when America’s extortionist in chief and his pet rodent JD Vance ambushed the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy who was in Washington DC ostensibly to sign a deal giving the USA the rights to extract and exploit hundreds of billions worth of Ukrainian mineral resources. In return Zelenskyy wanted the USA to guarantee Ukrainian security should a peace deal be agreed between Ukraine and its invader Vladimir Putin. Ukraine has learned the hard way that Putin is not to be trusted.

Prior to his invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Putin published a nakedly imperialist manifesto in which he set out his Russian nationalist belief that Ukraine is not as real country and Ukrainians are not a real nation. Putin has made no secret of his long term aim to absorb almost all of Ukraine into his Greater Russian Empire, at best to reduce it to the status of a compliant kleptocratic dictatorship client state like Belarus, or at worst to annexe most of Ukraine directly into Russia, in which the Ukrainian language would be classified as the Little Russian dialect.

It is worth noting that prior to the invasion, ethnic Ukrainians were in a majority in the predominantly Russian speaking east of Ukraine, now illegally occupied and annexed by Putin and the majority of Russian speakers in Ukraine were Russian speaking Ukrainians. Russian occupation forces have closed down Ukrainian language schools in the occupied territories and have embarked on a concerted campaign of russification.

Ukrainians fear, rightly, that without security guarantees Putin would merely use a ceasefire to consolidate the Russification of those parts of Ukraine he already occupies while rebuilding his armed forces in order to have a second go at subduing Ukraine.

It seems clear now that Trump has never been interested in a lasting peace in Ukraine, He wants a Putin victory. Trump’s goal in that meeting was to extort Ukraine out of its natural wealth, then hand the country over to his pal Putin, crashing attempts to reach a peace deal while putting the blame for it on Ukraine. Hence the abusive partner abusive partner in a dysfunctional relationship vibe of Trump and Vance going at Zelenskyy over never saying thank you. Vance even attempted to lecture Zelenskyy about the war in Ukraine because he’d followed it on TV. There were the ludicrous attempts to accuse Zelenskyy of disrespect from a man who was happy to allow his casually dressed ally Musk into the Oval Office, carrying his child like a bullet proof vest, and doing nothing as Musk allowed the boy to talk back at Trump, pick his nose and wipe his fingers on the historic Oval Office Resolute desk. The meeting with Zelenskyy was all too obviously an occasion to display some manufactured outrage.

Now I can really see why J D Vance’s mum tried to sell him for a bottle of OxyContin. It was a disgusting and revolting spectacle, but to Zelenskyy’s immense credit he stood up to the bullying and refused to be cowed. Trump did not humiliate Zelenskyy. He humiliated himself. He humiliated America, Zelenskyy stood on his principles. Trump showed he has none.

The disgraceful scenes in the Oval Office would have been vile enough in isolation, but they continue a consistent pattern by Trump, which he has has followed since taking office, of cosying up to dictators and far-right, neo-Nazi politicians while attacking America’s long-standing allies.

The scenes in the Oval Office signalled the death of the post WW2 transatlantic alliance. Ukraine has been an ally of the US since it became independent, but America has sold it out and betrayed it. If the US will do that to a country enduring Russian invasion and occupation, it will do it to any European state. Even if the pro-Putin conspiracy theorists are correct, and Putin was merely reacting to Ukrainian provocations inspired and driven by the CIA, that merely makes Trump’s betrayal even worse. It would mean that Ukraine is suffering this war in consequence of allowing itself to be America’s proxy, and now America is abandoning it.

Keir Starmer’s strategy of appeasing Trump now lies in tatters. Trump is a bully with the mind set of a mafia boss, appeasing such people only encourages them to increase their demands. Starmer is allowing the UK to become a hostage to Trump’s whims.

Starmer wanted to be a bridge between Trump and Europe, but no one wants a bridge to a criminal extortionist with the attention span of a goldfish whose only constant is his willingness to do Putin’s bidding. You can’t be a bridge to fascism without being a fascist yourself. I remain convinced that Trump has agreed to hand over Ukraine to Putin and in return Putin will put up only a token objection when Trump’s ally Netanyahu annexes the West Bank and embarks on the ethnic cleansing of Gaza and hands the territory – which Trump tellingly referred to as a “property” – to Trump.

When even the Daily Mail, the Tory party, right wing commentators in the UK, and Italy’s far right Prime Minister are criticising Trump, you know Trump has burned the bridge that the supine Starmer is so keen on building.

This is the end of the post WW2 Anglo-Saxon model of the USA and its obedient British poodle. The only future lies in uniting with Europe. America is on Putin’s side now. For an independent Scotland this merely reinforces the message that Scotland’s future security and prosperity relies upon joining the EU as an independent state.

Calls are growing for the British Government to withdraw its offer of a second state visit to Trump. A petition calling for the visit to be cancelled had 35,000 signatories yesterday afternoon, at the time of writing this article it had over 86,000 signatories, the number is rising rapidly. If Trump does come to Scotland thanks to the spineless Starmer and a King who has shamelessly betrayed Canada – a country of which he is head of state – by honouring a man who has repeatedly stated his desire to annexe Canada and is embarking on economic warfare in pursuit of that goal, then ordinary Scots must turn out in our thousands to channel the spirit of the late Janey Godley and let Trump know what we think of him. You can sign the petition calling for the cancellation of Trump’s state visit here.

https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/no-2nd-state-visit-for-donald-trump

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