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“We have learned our lesson; no one’s liberty is expendable. In the long run, our security and true stability depend on the freedom of others.” Franklin D. Roosevelt, after the Yalta Conference
On February 28, 2025, the world witnessed one of the ugliest, shameful, and degrading puppet shows performed by our Government. It marked, again, paraphrasing President Roosevelt, a Day of Infamy in our country’s history. The U.S. administration showed the globe’s inhabitants how much they are deprived of statesmanship and how low they can steer our national honor to fulfill their ego.
I shivered watching the insult thrown at the White House visiting dignitary by our President and his crony, Mr. Vance. The idiotic question of a third-rate news reporter, Brian Glenn, about the guest’s attire. What significance did Mr. Zelenskyy’s clothes have in signing a document? By all criteria and by the evidence in hand, the meeting was premeditated and pre-arranged to humiliate the President of a small country, whose only crime was and is fighting an aggressor to maintain his country’s independence and integrity.
The Ukrainians are to be blamed for not realizing the true nature of the big governments when they signed an agreement with Russians to give back all their stockpiles of nuclear weapons. They did so after a promise from the United States that America will protect their independence and that Russia would respect, accept, and uphold their security: ” Ukraine committed to full disarmament, including strategic weapons, in exchange for economic support and security assurances from the United States and Russia.”[1] If Ukraine had nuclear power, Putin would never have attacked that country, or at least he would have thought twice before getting engaged in such action.
One should never trust any aggressing governments, especially the Russians. They adhere to no rules. On September 17, 1938, Stalin’s army attacked Poland from its eastern borders, while Russia and Poland had a nonaggression treaty signed in 1932 and again in 1934.
Was President Trump or any members of his Government aware that the U.S. had signed a commitment to uphold Ukraine’s security? Did Mr. Trump or any of his cronies have any knowledge that signing the statement and giving nuclear goods to Russia was based on the promises made by the United States to protect the security of Ukraine? Now, why does someone not bring them up to their attention? Even if someone brings the matter up, would Mr. Trump listen or accept it, or can he not contradict his idle and roll model, Putin?
President Zelenskyy was a guest of Mr. Trump, our President, and was due all respects that a guest deserves. Representing a small country does not constitute a crime and further does not diminish the authority of its President.
After such a horrendous performance, we found out what the world thinks of us, our Government, and our way of life! All the international degradation we suffered because of our President’s love for a totalitarian regime—a regime unacceptable by the founders of our nation. Russia’s Putin attacked Ukraine in February 2022 and started a conflict that persists to the present, and there are no buts, ifs, or any other excuses. Russians’ Government, irrespective of its types, understands only one language: the language of force.
Putin has started several wars during his presidency:
- In 2008, Putin began a five-day war with Georgia; he was supporting the breakaway state of South Ossetia and the Federal state of Abkhazia.
- In 2014, Putin annexed Crimea, during the attack on February and March 2014.
- During the 1990s and the first decade of 2000, Russia had several wars with Chechnya.
- Moldova, a small country next to Ukraine, was invaded by Russia in 1990.
- Georgia, Putin attacked this country in August 2008
- Their latest is an attack on Ukraine, which Russia started on that sovereign nation on February 19, 2022.
In one of my earlier blog posts, I alluded, in detail, to this problem, and I urge you to read it if you have the time. It is titled “Russia and Ukraine—Are We on the Verge of Another War?”
During the era of WWII, Iran, my country of birth, was occupied by the Anglo-Russian forces. On January 29, 1942, a treaty (Tripartite) was signed between Iran, USSR, and Britain. The treaty contained nine articles and three annexes, among them article five, which explicitly stated that the Allied had to leave the country no later than six months after the completion of the war. However, Russians refused to leave the country as per their signed agreement. Instead, they created two puppet states in the north and western parts of the country, Azerbaijan (Southern) and Kurdistan. If it were not for the help of President Harry Truman and the influence exerted by the U.S. on the Security Council, Russia would never leave Iran.
The present behavior of the U.S. Administration in support of Russia and its dictator, Putin, places the independence of the small European countries in danger. These countries are concerned that Putin will find some excuses to attack them. Countries in the Baltic sea such as Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, and Finland will be the major targets. All south-central European countries will be in severe danger. Countries like Moldova, Romania, Bulgaria, and Poland. These are just a few to name.
I read in a note from the Associated Press that “US President Donald Trump said Tuesday that Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky had written to him to say he appreciates US support for his country in its war with Russia and is ready to sign a deal that could ensure future American support.” If what Mr. Trump is saying is correct, I feel sorry for the leaders of small countries who have been depending on U.S. for help tin remaining afloat and should tolerate the demeaning that Zelenskyy had from our President and the Vice President.
If the Associated Press story is correct, it would remind me of Fénelon’s letter to Louis the Fourteenth, the French Emperor. The letter criticizing him for his behavior toward their neighboring countries.
He wrote to the King, “Sire, the peace treaty signed by the defeated is never signed on a free will. It is signed because we have our foot on their throat, suffocating them. They will sign out of despair, giving their fortune or dying (Ukraine minerals).[2]” The history showed that French monarchy was annihilated in “French 1789 Revolution” and ended with beheading the Emperor Louis Sixteen on January 21, 1793, in a span of seventy-nine years from the reign of Louis fourteenth.
Mr. President, what you did to a friend was terrible and wrongful. I don’t recall reading any similar story in recent memory. Your action was demeaning, Not only it did not increase your standing among world leaders, but according to what we see in the news, it caused the world to see our Government as an unreliable partner and not worthy of their trust.
A few days ago, the ex-president of Poland addressed Mr. Trump by a letter stating among many wise suggestions: “We find it insulting that you expect Ukraine to show respect and gratitude for the material assistance provided by the United States in its fight against Russia. Gratitude is owed to the heroic Ukrainian soldiers who shed their blood in defense of the values of the free world.” How beautifully he expressed these thoughts.
A little farther down in his, note he writes: “Our alarm was also heightened by the atmosphere in the Oval Office during this conversation, which reminded us of the interrogations that we endured at the hands of the Security Services in the Communist courts.”
Mr. Walesa ends his letter with these sentences: “Mr. President, material aid—military and financial—can never be equated with the bloodshed in the name of Ukraine’s independence and the freedom of Europe and the entire free world. Human life is priceless; its value cannot be measured in money. Gratitude is due to those who sacrifice their blood and their freedom.”
Putin is following the same procedures that Hitler has done in 1930s, annexing small European countries, one after another. Is he trying to establish a Russian Reich? Is our President acting as Mr. British’s Neville Chamberlain, The British Prime Minister before WWII?
Mr. President when you are engaged in the defense of freedom, you do not ask to be reimbursed for your services. You get involved to protect the integrity and security of our country and those of the world.
[1] – 1994 Trilateral Statement: The Massandra Accords set the stage for successful trilateral talks. As the United States mediated between Russia and Ukraine, the three countries signed the Trilateral Statement on January 14, 1994.
[2]– The letter was written in 1694 to Louis Fourteenth, criticizing his leadership. It was not long after, during Louis’s reign, that the 1789 French Revolution started, and Louis, sixteen, was beheaded.
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