US Russophobia hampers efforts to end lost Ukraine war

US Russophobia hampers efforts to end lost Ukraine war

The Trump administration is moving expeditiously to end the 3 year long war destroying Ukraine. Trump promised to end it as candidate and is fulfilling that promise. It cannot be ended soon enough.

But rampant Russophobia, particularly among Democrats and progressives may impede, if not derail Trump’s peace initiative.

Their charges are hyperbolic, even delusional.

He’s ‘switched sides from peaceful, democratic Ukraine to warmongering, autocratic Russia.’

He’s ‘a Russian agent.’

He’s ‘enabling his hero Putin to reestablish the Soviet Union.’

He’s ‘putting Western Europe at risk of Russian invasion.’

Their Russophobia has been unrelenting since the 2016 election loss they largely attributed to Russian election interference. They completely ignore his first term policies that were decidedly anti-Russian. He imposed severe sanctions on Russia. He reversed Obama’s policy of neutrality by arming the ultra-nationalist Kyiv government to destroy the Donbas separatist movement on Russia’s border. He aided delaying implementation of Minsk II Accords which could have ended civil war in Donbas. He did nothing to discourage Ukraine membership in NATO.

When successor Biden provoked the Russian invasion of February 24, 2022, they totally ignored, dismissed, refused to believe any of the 8 year long US provocations which made the Russian invasion inevitable.

Once started they viewed Russia as an existential threat to world peace and US national security. To do that they pretended that America did not sabotage the April, 2022 Russian Ukraine peace agreement that could have ended the war without Ukraine losing a single square mile of territory.

Their view Trump is aligned with Putin is so all consuming they push for continuation of the war which will incur hundreds of thousands more Ukrainian casualties in a lost cause.

They appear oblivious that their Russophobia has put peoplekind at risk of nuclear war for all 1,111 days of needless warfare.

Yet, as critical as defeating evil Russia is to US Russophobes, they dare not offer one drop of US blood in their quixotic quest doomed to failure.

Trump’s return to diplomacy to end a catastrophic war that could go nuclear should be embraced and supported by every American regardless of partisan political considerations. They should heed the lesson of JFK during the Cuban Missile Crisis 63 years ago. Kennedy told the Russophobes in his war cabinet who wanted to set off WWIII to go to Hell. He used diplomacy to end the crisis, prevent nuclear war and begin détente with the Russophobes’ ‘Putin’ of 1962, Nikita Khrushchev.

Sixty-three years on Trump is trying to do the same. On this issue he needs our support, not the promotion of endless war.