It’s not ‘Who lost Ukraine?’ It’s ‘Who destroyed Ukraine’?

 It’s not ‘Who lost Ukraine?’ It’s ‘Who destroyed Ukraine’?

When Mao won the Chinese civil war in 1949, adding China to the USSR in the roster of commie countries, the US war hawks of that era excoriated the Truman administration for ‘losing’ China’. Their unhinged claim was that the commie filled State Department made Mao’s inevitable takeover possible. That helped fuel Sen. Joe McCarthy’s equally unhinged campaign to smoke out all those imagined commies in the Truman administration a year later.

A whiff of that 1949 anti commie hysteria is playing out on mainstream media ahead of Friday’s sit down between President Trump and Russian President Putin seeking a ceasefire and end to this disastrous war destroying Ukraine.

Morning Joe Scarborough this morning pondered whether Trump will cave to the evil Putin’s Ukraine dismembership demands to achieve the peace that might garner him a Nobel Peace Prize. Yep, Moring Joe laid out the ‘Who lost Ukraine’ meme on Trump to prepare us for the onslaught of anti-Trump, anti-Russian hysteria sure to follow if a settlement reflecting the reality of Ukraine’s dismembership is inked in Alaska tomorrow.

A settlement is only possible if a US/Russia settlement verifies the battlefield reality. Ukraine’s military is teetering on collapse with over a million dead cannon fodder and 4 oblasts gone to Russia forever. If Trump accomplishes peace…which is far from likely, the blame game will focus on Trump who ‘lost’ Ukraine which will end up as a greatly diminished rump state dependent on US/European life support for years to come.

Historians instead should begin with the 6 administrations preceding Trump’s second term 2.0: George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, W. Bush, Barack Obama, Donald Trump 1.0 and most grievously Joe Biden. H.W. Bush, Clinton, W. Bush, Obama, Trump 1.0 and Biden all promoted NATO expansion into Ukraine and dismissed all Russian security pleas that such expansion was a Red Line Russia would view as an existential threat.

While his predecessors put Ukraine on the road to destruction, Joe Biden essentially pulled the trigger on a war Ukraine had no chance of winning. Putin tried to avoid invading. He saw Ukraine massing 60,000 elite troops on the Donbas border to polish off the Ukrainian separatists there seeking independence and safety from Kyiv neo fascists. His plea of December 21 2021 was dismissed out of hand. Biden told Putin that Russia’s security interests, which included autonomy for Ukrainian separatists as well as a neutral Ukraine not in NATO, were ‘not subject to discussion whatsoever.’

Biden knew that response would provoke a Russian invasion. But Biden miscalculated that US weapons combined with draconian Russian sanctions would result in a Vietnam style defeat for Russia, possibly even the overthrow of President Putin.

So here we are three years, eight months later with Putin, not Trump holding all the cards in tomorrow’s negotiation. Trump knows the correct outcome is settling on Russia’s terms: no return of Ukraine territory, no NATO for Ukraine and a demilitarized Ukraine that can never attack inside Russia territory again. He also knows he’ll be branded by America’s ravenous war hawks as ‘The man who lost Ukraine’ should he end the war.

Nobody lost Ukraine. But we now know who destroyed Ukraine. The only question to be answered is…How severely Ukraine will be destroyed before the guns go silent.

Walt Zlotow, West Suburban Peace Coalition, Glen Ellyn IL

Germany’s Merz to Israel’s Netanyahu: ‘No more genocide weapons for you.’

 

Germany’s Merz to Israel’s Netanyahu: ‘No more genocide weapons for you.’ 

 

Germany, conductor of the worst genocide in the 20th century, is pushing back against Israel, conductor of the worst genocide this century.

 

German Chancellor Merz halted all offensive weapons sales to Israel in a vailed understatement, “The even harsher military action by the Israeli army in the Gaza Strip, approved by the Israeli Cabinet last night, makes it increasingly difficult for the German government to see how these goals will be achieved. Under these circumstances, the German government will not authorize any exports of military equipment that could be used in the Gaza Strip until further notice.”

 

Given that Israel, with near total US complicity, is determined to eliminate all 2,300,000 Palestinians from Gaza’s 139 square miles to expand Greater Israel, its unlikely German weapons exports will ever resume.

 

Germany’s principled action is not insignificant in the effort to cripple Israel’s destruction of the Palestinian people. That’s because Germany accounts for 30% of Israel’s grisly genocide arsenal. Sadly, the US accounts for 69% of the remaining 70%. The Trump administration is so ecstatic about Israel clearing out the remaining 2 million or so Palestinians not yet murdered, that it may simply increase its grotesque weaponizing of the genocide to make up the slack.

 

Americans should contemplate that would equate with America supplying Nazi Germany with the Zyklon B gas to eliminate European Jewry and other Nazi undesirables in WWII.   

 

Trump can fuel Israel’s genocide because not a single member of the Trump administration dare call US policy genocide. Nor does a single member mainstream media. Congress is a teensy better with just 10 of 535 congresspersons having the moral clarity to charge Israel with the G word. 

 

Until Trump channels Germany’s Merz and tells Netanyahu, ‘No more genocide weapons for you’, the genocide will continue till all 2,300,000 Palestinians in Gaza are dead and gone.

 

Walt Zlotow, West Suburban Peace Coalition, Glen Ellyn IL 

 

Does Trump have the guts to end America’s lost proxy war against Russia?

 Does Trump have the guts to end America’s lost proxy war against Russia?

For seven months Trump has reneged on his promise to end in one day America’s proxy war against Russia destroying Ukraine. Ukraine loses more soldiers and more territory every day with no chance of prevailing.


Tho a one day settlement was impossible, Trump came close to following thru by publicly berating Ukraine President Zelensky for continuing the war and threatening to cease all US weapons which keep Ukraine fighting. Then he pivoted back to war, demanding Russia’s Putin implement immediate ceasefire or face draconian sanctions. Putin responded to that nonsense with increased military attacks. Now with the upcoming summit this Friday, Trump has the opportunity to achieve peace in Ukraine.


Russia has already signaled concessions to achieve ceasefire. According to the Wall Street Journal, Russia told US envoy Steve Witkoff Russia would implement a full ceasefire if Ukraine would withdraw its remaining troops in the Donbas almost entirely controlled by Russia. In return Russia would freeze the lines in Kherson and Zaporizhzhia, the other 2 Ukraine oblasts Russia demanded full control over, rather than push on for full annexation. Russia would require Ukraine to remain neutral between East and West, giving up all intentions to join NATO.


Implementing that ceasefire would be a good start to permanently ending hostilities. But neither Ukraine President Zelensky nor European NATO leaders have bought into this sensible solution.


Zelensky maintains his delusional refusal to give up a single square mile of territory that will never return to Ukraine control. He could have kept every square mile of territory had he completed the peace deal with Russia in April 2022 that the US and UK sabotaged. Seventy percent of Ukrainians want the war to end forthwith. But the fool Zelensky keeps demanding ‘push on.’


European NATO leaders, especially UK’s Starmer, France’s Macron and Germany’s Merz are still committed to this failed war to maintain NATO dominance and isolation of Russia. They fear the loss of the US gravy train that pumps up their economies. They are as delusional as Zelensky.


Trump’s third obstacle to peace is the US national security state which abhors the US losing a senseless war of choice. War fanatics like Senator Lindsey Graham and retired generals paid off by the weapons makers, dominate mainstream news condemning inevitable US surrender. No voice for ending this proxy war madness is allowed to pitch peace on the airwaves or op ed columns. They will pound on Trump relentlessly should he chalk up another US war loss, albeit one bringing peace to Ukraine.


The only ceasefire and permanent war settlement possible will go down as a US/NATO defeat. Wonderful. NATO needs to disband as it has gone on trying to weaken, isolate Russia 34 years after becoming obsolete upon dissolution of the USSR in 1991.


Does Trump have the guts to force a settlement that overcomes the resistance of Zelensky, NATO leaders and the US war party? We may soon find out.


Walt Zlotow, West Suburban Peace Coalition, Glen Ellyn IL

Krishnamoorthi’s support of Israeli genocide in Gaza makes him unfit to remain in House, much less ascend to Senate

Krishnamoorthi’s support of Israeli genocide in Gaza makes him unfit to remain in House, much less ascend to Senate

For 23 months Krishnamoorthi has watched as over $20 billion in US bombs, providing over 50,000 tons of explosives obliterate almost every habitable building in Gaza, including every hospital, medical facility, school, university, business, sewerage treatment plant. He knows starving Palestinians are being shot down like stray rabid dogs simply grasping for the tiny morsels Israel deigns to allow in.

Yet, Krishnamoorthi claims we cannot stop supplying the genocide. “What is needed now is a cease fire that ends the suffering in Gaza . . . the return of the hostages still held by Hamas to their families in Israel, and . . . lasting peace in the region. Cutting off military aid did not right that wrong.”

A ceasefire “now” Congressman? How’d you miss the ceasefire the US brokered that ran from January 19 2025 till March 18 which achieved 8 Israeli hostage, Palestinian prisoner exchanges? You know damn well Israel broke the ceasefire with a dastardly, massive bombing that killed over 400 Palestinians. We know from a leaked March 1 Israeli cabinet meeting transcript that Netanyahu broke the ceasefire to resume the genocidal attacks including forced starvation upon the decimated Palestinians. In so doing he rejected more humane Israeli officials who sought continuation of the ceasefire to return all remaining Israeli hostages.

So your sick policy for Gaza in not only ensuring the complete destruction of Palestinians not yet dead under US bombs, It ensures all remaining Israeli hostages you claim to champion will die.

We can only guess as to your motivation for this ghoulish policy. Political expediency as you seek to become Illinois Senator alongside follow genocide supporter Tammy Duckworth? The $269,530 in campaign cash you receive from the Israel Lobby which will go to your opponent if you oppose Israeli genocide? A moral defect which makes you turn away from the Israeli genocide destroying Gaza? Maybe all 3 and more.

You call the current situation a Gaza a ‘moral catastrophe’’. Yes, genocide always is a moral catastrophe. In Gaza it is enabled by the moral catastrophe in the heart and soul of Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi.

Walt Zlotow, West Suburban Peace Coalition, Glen Ellyn IL 

Ten of 535 congresspersons condemning US enabled Israeli genocide not enough to end it

 Ten of 535 congresspersons condemning US enabled Israeli genocide not enough to end it

 

Every peaceful American beseeching our cowardly Congress to call out US complicity in Israeli genocide in Gaza should salute the pitifully small but morally decent congresspersons who have used the ‘genocide’ word.` And they’re not using it to support the genocide like Congressman Randy Fine (R-FL) who grotesquely called for Palestinians in Gaza to “starve away.”

 

Republican Congresswomen Marjorie Taylor Green joined 9 Democrats, Rashida Tlaib (MI), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY), Ilhan Omar (MN), Ayanna Pressley (MA), Summer Lee (PA), Al Green (TX), Delia Ramirez (IL), Bonne Watson Coleman (NJ), and John Garamendi (CA) to stand out against a sea of congressional depravity.

 

But 10 of 535 congresspersons correctly calling out US enabled Israeli genocide will not stop this monstrous war crime. Why? No one in the Trump administration dare call it genocide and demand its end. No one in a mainstream media dare call it genocide and demand its end. And the great majority of congresspersons dare call it genocide and demand its end.

 

We need the trickle of congresspersons charging genocide to become an avalanche that will sweep away America’s great moral stain of genocide enabler besmirching every moral principle America should represent.

 

Walt Zlotow, West Suburban Peace Coalition, Glen Ellyn IL

Trump and Zelensky, two cornered rats with no way out of Ukraine catastrophe

 Trump and Zelensky, two cornered rats with no way out of Ukraine catastrophe

Ukraine’s military is being systematically obliterated on the battlefield. US President Trump knows this. Ukraine President Zelensky does as well.

Yet, both are pretending the war can be won on terms favorable to the US and Ukraine. Trump is threatening secondary sanctions on nations buying Russian oil if Russia doesn’t end the war by August 8. Zelensky applauds this threat. Trump is also selling additional weapons to NATO allies to give to Ukraine’s lost cause.

Neither of Trump’s actions will have any effect on Ukraine’s impending battlefield defeat. Trump gets the ‘rat’ designation because he broke his campaign pledge to end the war by withdrawing US support and forcing Ukraine to negotiate the war’s end. But since that signals defeat of the US proxy war to weaken Russia, he clearly has decided it’s better to keep the war going rather than suffer a humiliating defeat. That merely ensures Ukraine’s near complete destruction as a functioning state.

Zelensky earned his ‘rat’ designation when he bailed out of ending the war in April, 2022. He was on the cusp of a negotiated settlement with Russia that would have ended Ukraine’s effort to join NATO and guaranteed regional independence for Russian cultured Ukrainians in Donbas. For Ukraine it would have mean no lost territory and no massive casualties or infrastructure destruction. That is classic diplomacy achieving win-win.

But the rat Zelensky caved to US/UK pressure to dump that deal because Zelensky believed US/UK lies he could win simply with continued Western weapons. That, along with Trump’s refusal to end the war after promising to end it, has put Ukraine into a death spiral.

So with no way to win on the battlefield, our cornered rats are risking nuclear war every day this catastrophe continues. Zelensky keeps begging for long range NATO missies to attack deep into Russia. While that has no strategic value, it has value in provoking a Russian nuclear response, something to which Zelensky remains oblivious.

The nuclear risk Trump has embarked upon is even more reckless. He responded to a harmless Russian social media comment about a potential US/Russia nuclear confrontation, by sending two Ohio Class nuclear submarines toward Russian waters. Just as provocative and reckless, Trump’s sent B61-12 nuclear gravity bombs to the UK. These are offensive weapons having nothing do with will standard NATO defensive weaponry. They are the first delivery of these offensive weapons to the UK since removing them in 2008.

To Trump, reckless action is an appropriate response to relatively harmless words. Particularly since Trump is the world champ at using social media to threaten, browbeat friends and foes alike.

It’s not just the beleaguered people of Ukraine whose lives are threatened by the two cornered rats with no sane, safe way out of the lost war in Ukraine. It is all of us.

Sen. Lindsey ‘Ghoulish’ Graham compares Israeli genocide in Gaza favorably to America’s WWII atomic bombings

 Sen. Lindsey ‘Ghoulish’ Graham compares Israeli genocide in Gaza favorably to America’s WWII atomic bombings

 

No US senator loves America’s senseless wars more than Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC).

 

And Graham loves no US war more than the current US enabled Israeli genocide in Gaza. Graham observes the ongoing Israeli genocide in Gaza, near wholly financed, by the US, and declares,

 

“When we were faced with destruction of our nation after Pearl Harbor, fighting the Germans and the Japanese, we decided to end the war by bombing Hiroshima Nagasaki with nuclear weapons. That was the right decision. Give Israel the bombs they need to end the war. They can’t afford to lose.”

 

This is not new genocide support territory for Graham. During the Biden presidency he used the same Japanese atomic bombing analogy in blasting Biden for threatening to withhold weapons from Israel if it launched a military operation in Rafah where a million Palestinian civilians were sheltering.

 

In a just world Graham would be referred to the International Criminal Court for a war crimes investigation. As an influential government official having the ear of President Trump, he is fervently promoting the ongoing genocide of 2,300,000 Palestinians in Gaza to its grisly completion.

 

The Senior Senator from South Carolina has truly earned his damning moniker ‘Ghoulish Graham'

Walt Zlotow, West Suburban Peace Coalition, Glen Ellyn IL

Trump puts Putin on ‘Double Secret Probation’ for not ending Ukraine war

 Trump puts Putin on ‘Double Secret Probation’ for not ending Ukraine war

President Trump channeled ‘Animal House’ Dean Vernon Wormer in trying to reign in the out of control John ‘Bluto’ Blutarsky, a.k.a. Vladimir Putin.

Trump is livid over Putin’s refusal to cave into Trump’s demand he end the Ukraine war he’s on the cusp of winning. And what will Trump do if Putin doesn’t enact ceasefire in “10 to 12” days?

Send in American troops to replace the rapidly disappearing Ukraine soldiers filling up numerous freshly dug Ukraine cemeteries? Nope.

Pour another $170 billion in US weapons that have done nothing but cause loss of one fifth of Ukraine territory to Russia? Nope.

Threaten Russia with nuclear annihilation? Nope.

Trump is planning something so horrific Putin will cave the moment Trump drops it on him…the Mother of all Sanctions. Only Trump knows what horrifying sanctions he has in store for Putin. Hence, Double Secret Probation.

Putin’s Bluto simply thumbed his nose at Trump’s Dean Wormer, hurling hundreds of drone bombs into Ukraine every day since Trump imposed DSP.

Trump’s Ukraine war policy is as chaotic as the administration of Faber College in ‘Animal House.’ Big difference? Trump’s presiding over a US provoked and enabled catastrophe, destroying Ukraine in the lost cause to weaken Russia. All things considered, I prefer John Landis’ ‘Animal House’ to the Donald Trump version.

Walt Zlotow, West Suburban Peace Coalition, Glen Ellyn IL 

Trump ‘shocked, shocked’ Palestinians are starving in Gaza

 

 

Trump ‘shocked, shocked’ Palestinians are starving in Gaza

For 188 days President Trump has been voraciously supporting the Israeli genocide of Palestinians in Gaza. He’s given Israel billions in weapons, Intel, logistics, vetoes of UN ceasefire resolutions, public support.

On day 188 Trump encouraged Israel to “finish the job in Gaza. I think they want to die. It’s very, very bad.” They don’t want to die more than you do, Mr. President. Netanyahu, with Trump's support is bombing, shooting and starving them to death. It’s more than very, very bad. It is genocide and Trump is all in, following his predecessor Biden who originally enabled the genocide’s start 21 months ago.

Twenty-four hours later Trump appeared to have an epiphany during a meeting with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer in London. Or maybe he just forgot his cue cards of genocide support “There is real starvation’ in Gaza. That’s real starvation stuff, I see you. You can’t fake that.”

Trump actually contradicted Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu who claimed there was no starvation. Trump’s evidence? “Based on television, I would say not particularly because those children look very hungry. They don’t look very hungry Mr. President. They’re dying every day from your encouragement for Israel to starve those Palestinians not killed by your bombs and bullets.

The grotesque reality is the US and Israel abandoned the Gaza ceasefire talks so both can continue the genocidal ethnic cleansing there unabated.

While Biden kept a low profile about the extermination he greenlighted, Trump is positively ecstatic about completing it for his ultimate real estate project.

We can hope Trump is feeling the pressure of living out his remaining days damned to eternity for enabling the Gaza genocide. Maybe it will force him to buck Netanyahu who is starving Palestinians right before our eyes. Or maybe on Trump presidency day 190 he will go back on script and ignore the monstrous death toll he’s enabled.

While most of the civilized world is repulsed by the Israeli/US genocide tag team, everyone in the Trump administration and nearly the entire 535 member Congress is on board the Genocide Express. It's all 'self defense' they mutter.' Mainstream media has blocked discussion of the genocide, the word and subject that dare not speak their name.

We need a 21st century Nuremberg War Crimes Trial. First up in the dock? Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, closely followed by Joseph R. Biden and Donald J. Trump.

We cannot say we didn’t know. Unless we hold them to account…we are complicit in their guilt.

Walt Zlotow, West Suburban Peace Coalition, Glen Ellyn IL 

‘Release Israeli hostages? Get serious. We’ve got a genocide to complete.’

 

‘Release Israeli hostages? Get serious. We’ve got a genocide to complete.’

 

Israeli Heritage Minister Amichai Eliyahu told The Times of Israel July 26, “The government is racing ahead for Gaza to be wiped out. God, we are wiping out this evil. We are pushing out, this population that has been educated on Mein Kampf. All Gaza will be Jewish,” Eliyahu, who previously suggested nuking Gaza as an option, offered this twisted disclaimer, “We aren’t racists.”

 

Tho one of the most explicit Israeli public statements admitting Israel’s Gaza genocide, it’s just one of many from Israeli government officials and pundits thruout this 22 month long atrocity. America remains fully committed to the genocide with tens of billions in weapons, Intel, logistics, vetoes of UN ceasefire resolutions. That would be like FDR sending the Nazis Zylon B gas to finish off European Jewry and other Nazi undesirables during WWII.

 

The US and Israel just withdrew from ceasefire negotiations between Israel and Hamas because Hamas wants a permanent ceasefire ending the genocide before releasing remaining Israeli hostages.

 

Neither Israel nor America prioritizes the hostages’ release. That goal a distant second to wiping out the remaining starving Palestinians so Gaza can be rebuilt, possibly by Trump Inc., as a waterfront showplace of Greater Israel.

Keith Raffel’s hit piece on mayoral candidate Mamdani ignores Israel’s genocide in Gaza, Mamdani’s principled efforts to end it

 

Keith Raffel’s hit piece on mayoral candidate Mamdani ignores Israel’s genocide in Gaza, Mamdani’s principled efforts to end it

 

In his lengthy Daily Herald op-ed, Keith Raffel makes two major rhetorical mistakes that undermine his entire premise of Mamdani’s unfitness to become New York s mayor.

 

He fails to mention the singular reason Mamdani is in solidarity with the Palestinian cause in Gaza…the Israeli genocidal ethnic cleansing of 2,300,000 Palestinians there. Raffel never mentions the genocide, strongly implying Israel and Gaza were at peace broken only by the October 7, 2023 Hamas attack. His reasoning? ”There were Israeli no troops on October 7.” But not mentioned is that Israel has controlled movement of food, medicine, indeed all life’s essentials to Gaza since the early 1990’s. This has caused thousands of needless deaths and living conditions horrible beyond imagination.

 

The October 7 attack was not unprovoked terrorism. It was ‘blowback’ made inevitable by inflicting death and destruction on 2,300,000 Palestinians degraded in the world’s largest open air prison. It was not only inevitable, it was exploited by Israel’s leaders to implement the long sought removal of all Palestinians from Gaza to expand Greater Israel.

 

That genocidal campaign has brought the following condemnation from the foreign ministers of 25 Western nations: “The suffering of civilians in Gaza has reached new depths. The Israeli government’s aid delivery model is dangerous, fuels instability, and deprives Gazans of human dignity. We condemn the drip feeding of aid and the inhumane killing of civilians, including children, seeking to meet their most basic needs of water and food. It is horrifying that over 800 Palestinians have been killed while seeking aid. The Israeli Government’s denial of essential humanitarian assistance to the civilian population is unacceptable. Israel must comply with its obligations under international humanitarian law”

 

Ignoring Israel’s life suffocating blockade before October 7, 2023, and the resulting genocide in response, undermines Raffel's entire argument Mamdani is anti-Israel and giving aid and comfort to those attacking Jews.

 

Mamdani is simply in sync with most of the civilized world, including those aforementioned 25 Western foreign ministers, who want an end to the genocide, end to life destroying blockade and finally creation of a Palestinian state. Over a third of Americans have expressed disgust with the blockade and genocide. The UN demands it end. One hundred forty-six of the UN’s 193 countries, but not America, recognize the Palestinian state being snuffed out by Israel’s ghoulish occupation and now near complete destruction.

 

Here in the western suburbs, West Suburban Peace Coalition demands an end to the genocide, end to the blockade, and serious negotiations to create long sought, long overdue Palestinian state. We would welcome Keith Raffel and everyone else of good Will in the Western suburbs to join us.

 

Walt Zlotow, West Suburban Peace Coalition, Glen Ellyn IL

 

 

Rubio AWOL from Gang of 25 condemning US enabled Israeli genocide in Gaza

 Rubio AWOL from Gang of 25 condemning US enabled Israeli genocide in Gaza

The foreign ministers of these 25 Western nations had the moral backbone to condemn Israel’s genocide in Gaza and call for its end: UK, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland.

Their statement pulled no punches. “The suffering of civilians in Gaza has reached new depths. The Israeli government’s aid delivery model is dangerous, fuels instability, and deprives Gazans of human dignity. We condemn the drip feeding of aid and the inhumane killing of civilians, including children, seeking to meet their most basic needs of water and food. It is horrifying that over 800 Palestinians have been killed while seeking aid. The Israeli Government’s denial of essential humanitarian assistance to the civilian population is unacceptable. Israel must comply with its obligations under international humanitarian law,”

One prominent Western foreign minister was absent from their scathing anti genocide statement…US Secretary of State Marco Rubio. No surprise as Rubio is a ravenous supporter of the Israeli genocide which could not last a month without tens of billions in US bombs, Intel, logistics, and vetoes of UN anti genocide resolutions.

Rubio remains oblivious of the hundred or so Palestinians shot dead daily seeking a smidgeon of food trickling into Gaza due to Israel’s ghoulish food restrictions. Palestinians face a terrible choice: starve to death or dodge Israeli bullets to get a few morsels.

Rubio has supported the Israeli genocide thruout its 22 months, first as Senator, for the last 6 months as Secretary of State. He calls it “self defense”, opposing ceasefire till Hamas is wiped out. But since Israel considers every Palestinian Hamas, Rubio has sentenced all 2,300,000 Palestinians to death or removal. He’s in sync with Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu that it’s better to let the remaining Israeli hostages die rather than fail to cleanse Gaza of Palestinians.

Rubio sanctioned individuals and organizations such a UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese and the International Criminal Court who accused Israel of genocide and sought action against Israeli officials through international bodies. It’s likely not lost on Rubio that the very folks, organizations he’s sanctioning could accuse him of war crimes.

Every day the shootings and starvation wastes over another hundred Palestinian lives marks another day of shame and disgrace for the man who should change his title to US Secretary of Genocide.

Trump, Zelensky, Rutte: evil leaders risking nuclear war

 Trump, Zelensky, Rutte: evil leaders risking nuclear war

When it comes to world leaders putting peoplekind at risk of nuclear annihilation, evil is an appropriate label.

That applies to US President Donald Trump, Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky and NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte.

Trump gets first prize in risking nuclear war putting the world at nuclear peril on 3 fronts: China, Middle East and Ukraine.

He’s filled his administration with China hawks preparing for war with China due to their challenging America for economic and political dominance. To Trump’s China Hawks that’s an existential threat to America justifying war preparations.

He’s obliterated international law and nuclear non-proliferation guidelines by enabling the Israeli sneak attack on Iran, then launching his own deadly attack. The potential for all out regional war that could go nuclear was narrowly avoided, but remains possible.

Worst of all he’s risked nuclear war every day of his current term by refusing to end America’s proxy war against Russia in Ukraine that one misstep, one misunderstanding, one rogue action could trigger nuclear war. From campaigning to end it he’s pivoted to supplying more weapons to keep Ukraine losing more soldiers and more land every day along with the specter of it going nuclear.

A close second to Trump is his proxy war puppet, Ukraine President Zelensky. He has spent every day of this three and a half year war destroying Ukraine trying to get the US and NATO to attack deep into Russia. That could trigger a nuclear response. Early on he claimed an errant Ukraine missile that inadvertently landed in Poland killing a Pole was fired by Russia, requiring NATO retaliation. Just this month when asked by Trump if he could hit Moscow with long range US missiles, Zelensky replied “Absolutely.” Zelensky may have a death wish but he appears oblivious he risks taking the entire world with him.

Last and least well known is NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte. He’s running around NATO countries like Chicken Little. But instead of shouting ‘The sky is falling’, its ‘The Russians are coming, the Russians are coming.’ He’s demanding NATO countries, already economically distressed from the war, raise defense spending from 2% of GDP to 5% paid for by cutting social programs. His preposterous argument is that NATO must make “a quantum leap in our collective defense” to prepare for a Russian invasion within 5 years.

Rutte hit pay dirt with his NATO gig, making a cool tax free salary over €300,000 and living in a new Brussels 20 bedroom NATO residence. Rutte’s unhinged utterances may be good job security for top dog at NATO obsolete now for 34 years. But it’s not good life security for a world edging toward nuclear annihilation.

Trump, Zelensky, Rutte…3 unwise fools oblivious to the nuclear risk they impose on peoplekind every day they’re on the job.