Zelenskyy and the Free World

 

Ukraine President Volodymir Zelenskyy sat with both President Joe Biden today as well as spoke before the US Congress, and he represented his country and their struggle against the invasion and persistent oppression by Russia with sincerity and a good understanding of the culture and respect for the audience he was appealing to, He spoke about the fight Ukrainians are facing this winter--this Christmas, to have a light against the darkness of Russian totalitarianism. And me, I admired how a Ukranian Jewish man turned the struggle against Russia from a mostly Christian nation into a story about Christian rebellion against oppression, and paralleled the festival of lights with our Christian solstice story. 

Because we all must know--the light must survive. We preserve what is meaningful and good against the dark, the winter, the time of trial and tribulation.  We all understand the context of freedom versus oppression, the same as we understand the story of David versus Goliath. We know in our guts that there is a life worth fighting for, and sometimes it is even a life worth sacrificing against a regime that wants the deaths of so many of your compatriots. 

And because I love freedom, and hate oppression, I want to castigate the Zelenskyy haters, the Ukraine-averse, the oppositional defiant fuckfaces and kneejerk contrarians who see virtual genocide--the bombings of schools and maternity hospitals, and still think--maybe mad Vlad is still our political dad. And who venttheir oppostion to free Ukraine by challenging Zelenskyy's outfit, like he wasn't a world leader trying to rep his people at war and respect their privations by not wearing a suit. 

A degenerate former KGB guy who came to power with a murderous false flag and has formed alliances with Iran and Syria while encroaching on liberated former territories for fun and profit is their guy? Like, what the entire fuck? What do people like Thomas Massie, Andrew Clyde, Marjorie Taylor Greene, and even Kevin Fucking McCarthy even believe about the balance of world powers? 

And I don't think they have a belief, and for Republicans, that's pathetic, because as a party, they once had an answer and it was absolutely not this. Not just accepting totalitarianism, welcoming it, thinking it was great that Russia had more sway in the world. But I have a belief as a liberal in opposition to totalitarianism everywhere, and I know my party has tried to be good allies to the cause of freedom and democracy. 

The GOP is no longer united on this most important world front. They don't unify around our flag and our idea of democracy and freedom. They stand for autocracy and censorship and Christian Nationalism. 

They have shown their special asses, as a problem to be solved. 

They can not be trusted with our foreign relations, our international causes. They don't see threats and allies, only opportunities and pawns. 

I wish they were different, but they have over time made their shallowness and naivety too obvious--especially for having made Trump president, when he was an open-faced corruption sandwich with Russian dressing.  I don't know how to get over that. 

I don't think I will.