Picture this: You’re driving down a desolate road at night accompanied by a friend. It’s not only dark, but cold and windy enough to make a polar bear shiver. A light dusting of fresh, dry snow is blowing across the macadam road, evidenced by the headlights causing the flakes to glisten.
Ahead, you see a faint shape that appears to be a human figure. A right arm with a pointed thumb raises to signal a desired ride; you stop.
With pity, you let the stranger into your toasty SUV to provide some free transportation to safe civilization. And the introductions begin.
Suddenly, the hitchhiker interrupts the just-started time consuming conversation with, “Mind if I change the radio?” Taken aback, you suggest the radio be turned off to prevent trouble.
About this time the stranger reaches over to adjust the blower because defroster’s hot air is blowing into his face creating an annoyance.
Now is when you gently pull your vehicle to the side of the road to insist the new rider be transformed into the new walker.
Our nation experienced something very similar two-weeks ago when the hitchhiker, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the current president of Ukraine, visited the White House to meet with President Donald Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance, the SUV driver and passenger friend. Together they were gathered to discuss ending Ukraine’s war with Russia.
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| The hitchhiker, driver, and friend, respectively |
Under then-President Joseph Robinette Biden, Russian President Vladimir Putin began a full-scale invasion of Ukraine to realign territorial boundaries disconnected when the USSR collapsed in the 1980’s.
Now could not have been a better time to retrieve their land restoration to Russia.
Joe Biden was viewed as weak by the entire world. His tenure in the U.S. Senate had shown his vulnerabilities, especially his lack of comprehension of international functions and relations. Entering the Senate in 1973, Biden has been on the wrong side of every foreign matter since that time. He was clearly susceptible to being duped, as evidenced by his tenure.
Giving away hundreds of billions of unaccountable dollars to Zelenskyy since 2022, Biden was being taken to the cleaners by both Zelenskyy and Putin, alike. Shipping America’s precious money, in addition to arms, military vehicles, ammunition, rockets, jets, missiles, and medical supplies to Ukraine, Biden unwittingly entered the United States into a proxy war with Russia.
Without going into great detail, Biden withdrew American troops from a twenty-year war in Afghanistan in 2021, to malign his predecessor, Donald Trump, and Republican military strategists, ahead of the upcoming September 11th terrorist attacks’ twentieth anniversary.
Although forewarned about this withdrawal, casualties were suffered by American forces, while this abrupt removal ceded Afghanistan back to the Taliban, essentially negating two-decades of bodies, blood, and money lost, all in the name of spite.
With the exit from Afghanistan, the United States lost its supply of precious minerals for maintaining a secure and balanced existence. Barite, chromite, coal, copper, gold, iron ore, lead, natural gas, petroleum, salt, sulfur, lithium, talc, and zinc, are some of the resources once available from Afghanistan.
All these materials vanished with the unexpected departure from that forsaken Middle East pile of rocks and sand. Ukraine, on the other hand also possesses large quantities of many of these resources which makes Ukraine a desirable trophy for Putin and any other developing nations.
But excelling at squandering America’s needs, Democrats, as well as some unwell Republicans, have been capitulating to Ukraine’s Zelenskyy for three-years by sending copious supplies of military arms, ammunition, money, and medical supplies, without conditions.
Enter President Donald Trump. In a redux of his previous stint as America’s Commander-in-Chief, The President has developed a plan to stop the battlefield killings on both sides of this seemingly endless conflict.
In an attempt to stop the violence, Trump recently met with Zelenskyy, in the White House, to hash out the war’s details. Live, before news cameras and a gaggle of reporters, Zelenskyy appeared to develop cold feet when presented with a viable solution.
President Trump suggested Zelenskyy call an armistice. American interests would then be able to enter a peaceful Ukraine to mine needed minerals, thereby creating a U.S. presence which would preclude Russia from re-entering a conflict with Ukraine. Pretty simple, actually.
Unfortunately, the deal couldn’t be consummated over Zelenskyy’s shouting and bravado, and life goes on. But so does the killing, maiming, looting, kidnapping, destruction, if for nothing, than false pride.
Democrats immediately sniffed out microphones and television cameras like a pig searching for truffles. The consensus was nearly unanimous: “Trump is a puppet of Putin.”
In fact, it was Trump driving the SUV who took umbrage that Zelenskyy, the hitchhiker, did everything except demand to drive the SUV. I hope his shoes match his casual dress. It’s going to be a long, cold walk.
