Donald Trump, convicted felon, sex offender and US president, is going to Russia this week to meet mass murderer and war criminal Vladimir Putin. We know because he told us twice at a weird and unhinged press conference today. I thought this to be very brave of Trump, leaving the safety of the west to cross over into Putin’s fascist state and checked where he was actually going to. Alaska, it turns out, which was bought by the USA from Russia in 1867. Clearly, it’s a mistake anyone with declining mental faculties could make, perhaps say someone with dementia. but for the President of the USA it is concerning that his grip of geography, or maybe even anything else, is so sketchy.
Having someone like Trump in the White House, must make Putin feel like it’s Christmas. Putin plays him like a fiddle because, if nothing else, Russia’s fascist president is no fool. Or maybe I underestimate Trump and the moment Putin sets foot in Alaska, he will find himself arrested and carted off to The Hague where he will be charged and obviously convicted of war crimes. Don’t hold your breath on that one, by the way.
We all know how this ends, though, don’t we? It ends with Trump agreeing that Russia can keep all the land it stole from Ukraine, after which he proclaims himself this great negotiator for peace and demands he be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. In other words, the man whose ghostwritten book ‘The Art of the Deal” was so successful will prove yet again he is the worst dealmaker in the world. The rest of the world can only sit by and watch as Trump sells out the people of Ukraine and the rest of the free world whilst sucking up to Trump, but the people of Alaska could make this very awkward for both ‘leaders’.
A former Ukraine government advisor, Anton Gerashchenko has a better idea. He has posted this on Bluesky:
“If you live in Alaska, I need you to buy a Ukrainian flag and turn any area that Putin is going to be into a sea of Ukrainian flags – so many that, when Putin lands, all he’s going to see is just yellow and blue.”
Simples, isn’t it? The good folk – and most of them are good folk – of Russia won’t see the film footage on state TV, but Putin will and so, more importantly, will the people of Ukraine and the whole of the rest of the world. If the media in the free world has the bottle to show a yellow and blue supporting country, it’s a very bad look for Russia.
We the people have previous little power these days, beyond national elections every four or five years and local elections to decide who fills our pot holes, but a sea of flags could achieve what a million worldwide protests could ever do.
Trump wants the war over and he will be happy to sell out Ukraine in the process. The people of Alaska have a rare opportunity to influence their president in a very simple way. I hope they take it.
