Advisory Warning to European Tourists: Cancel Plans to Visit US

As the battle heats up between Europe and Trump's US, the acrimony is most visible at ports of entry into the US, where Europeans are being routinely treated like scum by Customs and Border and Protection (CBP) or Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) employees. It almost feels like all of this is deliberate and a way for the Tump administration to send a message to the EU.

There are stories every day about Europeans being held for weeks on the US border for made-up allegations of visa violations. Read the story of the British young woman [ https://lebanoniznogood.blogspot.com/2025/03/ordinary-people-get-shafted-high.html ] who remains detained at an ICE facility near the Canadian border on the West Coast.

WARNING TO EU NATIONALS AND EUROPEANS IN GENERAL: AVOID TRAVEL TO THE US AT ALL COST. YOU COULD END UP HANDCUFFED TO A WALL INSIDE A HOLDING PEN WITH HUNDREDS OF OTHER MISERABLE TRAVELERS.

AFTER ALL, WHY WOULD ANY SANE PERSON GO MINGLE WITH RACIST IGNORANT XENOPHOBES WHO ELECTED A CRIMINAL JERK TO BE THEIR PRESIDENT. THE US HAS BECOME MORE LIKE A HUMAN ZOO: TOURISTS ARE ADVISED TO WATCH THE ANIMALS FROM ACROSS THE BORDER FENCE FOR THEIR OWN SAFETY.

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German Tourist Detained by ICE While Visiting Fiancée: ‘Experience Nobody Wants’
Nandika Chatterjee
Tue, March 11, 2025

A German man visiting his fiancée in the U.S. has claimed he was forced to spend two weeks in immigration detention after being arrested by border officers near San Diego.

Lucas Sielaff, 25, told ABC News 10, that the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers handcuffed both him and his American fiancée when they tried to enter the San Diego-Mexico border from Tijuana last month.

“They accused me [of living] in America instead of visiting, but there was no proof that I overstayed anything,” Sielaff told the station last week from Germany.

Sielaff had been in Tijuana with his American fiancée, Dr. Lennon Tyler, because she needed to get an expensive surgery for her dog. But when they tried to return on Feb. 18 to the U.S., where Tyler lives, CBP officers raised concerns about Sielaff’s foreign passport and ordered them to undergo further screening.

“They rip my hair tie out. They do a body check. They make me open my mouth. They fingerprint me,” Tyler told the outlet. “I say, ‘Is this legal? Can I have a lawyer?’ They say, ‘You don’t have a right to have a lawyer. You’re being detained in a secure building.’”

She said when she asked to speak to a supervisor, they shackled her to a bench for hours.

“They take me over to a bench. They chain my ankle to a bench. Hours go by. I keep asking questions. They tell me to shut up,” she explained, adding that the CBP officers were using scare tactics on Sielaff. “They use fear and confusion to control you. I’m a psychologist and that’s what was happening,” she said.

According to Tyler, Sielaff has traveled between the U.S. and Germany without issue before and has always complied with his visa.

Sielaff’s Electronic System for Travel Authorization (ESTA) visa was canceled and was taken into custody at the Otay Mesa Detention Center.

“It was like a psychological game, and you have to tell yourself every time to be strong and be calm. It’s an experience nobody wants,” Sielaff said.

While in detention, Sielaff was allowed to call his fiancée to ask her to book him a flight back to Germany. He was given just minutes to enter a flight confirmation on a tablet inside the detention center that inmates use to communicate with ICE officers.

Then on Wednesday evening, ICE escorted Sielaff to the San Diego airport, where he boarded a flight to Munich.

An ICE spokesperson said in a statement to ABC10: “His detention is related to the violation of the terms and conditions of his admission. All aliens in violation of U.S. immigration law may be subject to arrest, detention and, if found removable by final order, removal from the United States, regardless of nationality.”

This is not the first time a German national was held by ICE. Last week, Jessica Brösche was taken into custody by ICE after trying to enter San Diego from Mexico with her American friend. ICE also accused the German tattoo artist of violating her visa terms.

Trump Whisperer Musk: Bring Racist White South African Afrikaners to US

Elon Musk has fathered upwards of 15 children with a number of concubines – all white – perhaps to counter the demographic time bomb that “darker” immigrants have been building throughout the 20^th century. He has described his father as a “terrible human being” who had “done almost every crime you can possibly think of.” His father Errol’s personal life has been filled with controversy, including the revelation in 2018 that he had fathered a child with his former stepdaughter, Jana Bezuidenhout. “White civilization's superiority”, they claim.

Elon Musk is a racist white South African who fled his country of birth when Nelson Mandela was released after 27 years in the prisons of the Zionist-backed, colonial white racist, apartheid Afrikaner segregationist government of F. W. de Klerk and the Nazi movement of Eugène Terre'Blanche. 

Musk did not like the fact that the majority African population was restored to its rights to govern the country, and so he decided to leave for countries where white rule remained possible. The US, with its superficial democracy in which is embedded a watermark of white Christian, segregationist racist KKK, supremacist NRA-armed Nazi thugs, was Musk's best option to find a place to call home.

And now that he has cheated his way as an illegal immigrant to the US and has become a billionaire by funding his enterprises - all failing as we speak, Tesla trucks blowing up, Tesla car sales vertiginously down and his space rockets exploding one after the other - with billions of dollars of US taxpayers' money, he is whispering in the ear of the dumb moron president of the United States.

Among the many "sound" advices Musk is giving Donald Dumb, including gutting the federal government and handing it over to predatory private corporations like his own, Musk wants to rescue the residual white Christian Nazi settlers of south Africa, and he has instructed Trump to extend citizenship to "any farmer" from South Africa because they are being mistreated at the hands of their Black African government.

On his Truth Social platform, Trump all of a sudden - he's an illiterate ignoramus who knows nothing about the world - discovered the "problems" that white neo-Nazi settlers of South Africa who stole large swaths of land from the indigenous African population are facing. He declared:

“Any Farmer (with family!) from South Africa, seeking to flee that country for reasons of safety, will be invited into the United States of America with a rapid pathway to Citizenship. This process will begin immediately!”

But legal critics are quickly pointing out that Trump has no such authority to grant citizenship to whomever he pleases. Only Congress does. “There is no such thing as a 'rapid pathway to citizenship’” said Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, a senior fellow at the American Immigration Council. "Trump can't create a new pathway without Congress."

In addition to neo-Nazis from South Africa, Trump and Musk want to grant easy pathways to citizenship (so-called Gold Card) to fellow billionaires who have $5 million to throw away. But poor disenfranchised people who are in the US legally under Temporary Protected Status (TPS), like Venezuelans and Ukrainians, Trump and Musk want to get rid of.

White South African settler land thieves are complaining that the state wants to confiscate lands they have stolen to redistribute them to their rightful owners, and Trump wants to protect this “ethnic minority Afrikaners” community. Trump’s executive order directed his administration to start a refugee program for “Afrikaners in South Africa who are victims of unjust racial discrimination.”

I think that the South African government would be very happy to rid itself of these residues of white racist apartheid colonialism. But Americans should not be happy to see the ranks of seditious White American neo-Nazis grow either.

French Senator Malhuret on Trump and European Security (French & English)

 [English translation. French original follows.]

04-March-2025

Claude Malhuret, Senator in the French Senate
Speech on Situation in Ukraine and European security
March 4, 2025

Mr. President,
Mr. Prime Minister,
Ladies and Gentlemen Ministers 

Dear colleagues,

Europe is at a critical juncture of its history. The American shield is shirking its responsibility, Ukraine runs the risk of being abandoned, and Russia empowered.

Washington has become the court of Nero. An incendiary emperor, surrounded by enslaved sycophants, and with a Ketamine-sedated buffoon put in charge of the cleansing of public function. It’s a tragedy for the free world, but it is foremost a tragedy for the United States.

Trump’s message is that there is no point being his ally since he will not defend you, he will impose more tariffs on you than on his enemies, and he will threaten to seize your territories while backing the dictatorships that are invading you.

The king of the deal is demonstrating to us the art of the deal on one’s knees. He thinks he can intimidate China by laying flat before Putin. But at the sight of this shipwreck, Xi Jinping is undoubtedly accelerating his preparations to invade Taiwan.

Never in the history of the United States has its president capitulated before the enemy. Never has a president backed an aggressor against an ally. Never has a president trampled on the US Constitution, or issued so many illegal orders, or dismissed the judges who could prevent him from doing so, or fired in one sweep the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the military, or weakened all the checks and balances, or taken control of the social media. This is not illiberal abuse; this is the beginning of the confiscation of democracy.

It took one month, three weeks and two days [for Hitler] to bring down the Weimar Republic and its constitution. I have faith in the resilience of the American democracy, and the country is already protesting. But in a mere one month, Trump has caused more harm to America than during the four years of his first term.

We were at war against a dictator [Putin], but now we are fighting this dictator backed by a traitor [Trump]. Eight days ago, when Trump was patting Macron on the back at the White House, the United States was voting with Russia and North Korea against the Europeans. Two days later, in the oval office, the coward draft dodger Trump was lecturing the war hero Zelenskyy on strategy before dismissing him like a stable boy and ordering him to submit or resign.

What to do in view of this treason? The answer is simple: Confront.

But before all else, not make a mistake. The defeat of Ukraine will be the defeat of Europe. The Baltic states, Georgia, Moldavia are already on the list. Putin’s objective is to return to Yalta where half the continent was conceded to Stalin. The countries of the South are watching the outcome of the conflict before deciding if they should continue to respect Europe or if they are now free to trample it.

What Putin wants is an end to the world order put in place by the United States and its allies and whose first principle is to prohibit the acquisition of territories by force. This idea is the very foundation of the United Nations where the US nowadays votes for the aggressor and against the victim because Trump’s vision coincides with Putin’s: A return to the spheres of influence, where great powers dictate the fate of smaller countries. To me Greenland, Panama and Canada, to you Ukraine, the Baltic states and Eastern Europe, and to him Taiwan and the China Sea. In the evening parties of the Mar-a-Lago Gulf oligarchs, they call this “diplomatic realism”.

We are therefore alone. But to say that one cannot resist Putin is erroneous.

Contrary to Kremlin propaganda, Russia is not well. In three years, the so-called second army in the world has managed only to nibble crumbs from a country three times less populated. Interest rates are at 25%. Currency and gold reserves have collapsed, just as its demography. All of this shows that Russia is facing the abyss. The salvatory American nudge is by far the greatest strategic error ever to be committed during a war.

The blow is certainly violent, but it has a silver lining: The Europeans are walking out of denial. In one day in Munich they have understood that the survival of Ukraine and the future of Europe are in their own hands and that they have three imperatives:

Accelerate military aid to Ukraine to compensate for the American retreat. So that it holds the line. But also to impose its presence and that of Europe in any negotiation. It will be costly. We will have to break through the taboo of using the frozen Russian assets. We will have to go around Putin’s accomplices right here inside Europe, through a coalition of only those willing countries with, of course, the United Kingdom.

Second, demand that any deal include the return of the kidnapped children and the prisoners of Ukraine, and absolute security guarantees. After Budapest, Georgia and Minsk, we know the value of these deals with Putin. Those guarantees must rest on sufficient military force to deter a new invasion.

Finally, and this is the most urgent because it will take time, we must rebuild the defense of Europe, neglected because of the American umbrella in place since 1945, and undermined since the fall of the Berlin wall.

It’s a herculean task. But it is on its success or failure that the history books will judge the leaders of democratic Europe.

Friedrich Merz has just declared that Europe needs its own military alliance. Which is to admit that France has always been right for decades in pleading for a strategic autonomy. Now we must build it.

We will have to invest massively, boost the European Defense Fund outside of the framework of the Maastricht sustainability criteria, rationalize armaments and munitions systems, accelerate the entry into the Union of Ukraine whose army is the first European army, rethink the role and terms of the nuclear deterrent on the basis of French and British capabilities, and relaunch the programs of anti-missile shield and satellites.

More will be needed. Europe will not regain its military power unless it becomes an industrial power. Simply put, we must implement the Draghi report. For good.

But the real rearmament of Europe is its moral rearmament. We must convince public opinion against wariness and fear of war, and most of all against Putin’s sidekicks, namely the extreme right and the extreme left. Only yesterday at the National Assembly they were pleading against European unity, against European defense. They say they want peace. But what they or Trump do not say is that their peace is capitulation, the peace of defeat, the replacement of De Gaulle-Zelenskyy by a Ukrainian Petain under the jackboot of Putin. The peace of collaborators who for three years have refused any assistance to Ukraine.

Is this the end of the Atlantic Alliance? The risk is great. But for the past few days, Zelenskyy’s public humiliation and all the mad decisions taken over the past month have finally moved the American people. Polls are heading downwards, elected GOP representatives are shouted down by hostile crowds in their districts. Even Fox News has become critical. The Trumpians are no longer in the forefront. They control the executive, Parliament, the Supreme Court, and the social media, but throughout American history, the partisans of freedom have always overcome the odds and are now beginning to raise their heads.

The fate of Ukraine will be determined in the trenches, but it also depends on those in the United States who want to defend democracy and our own capacity here to unite the Europeans, to find the means of their own common defense, and to remake of Europe the power that it once was but which it is hesitating at reassuming. Our parents vanquished Fascism and Communism but paid the price of all sacrifices. The task of our generation is to vanquish the totalitarianisms of the 21st century.

Long live free Ukraine. Long live Democratic Europe. 

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[French original]

04-Mars-2025

Monsieur le Président,
Monsieur le Premier ministre,
Mesdames et Messieurs les Ministres,

Mes chers Collègues,

L'Europe est à un tournant critique de son histoire. Le bouclier américain se dérobe, l'Ukraine risque d'être abandonnée, la Russie renforcée.

Washington est devenue la cour de Néron, un empereur incendiaire, des courtisans soumis et un bouffon sous kétamine chargé de l'épuration de la fonction publique.

C'est un drame pour le monde libre, mais c'est d'abord un drame pour les États-Unis. Le message de Trump est que rien ne sert d'être son allié puisqu'il ne vous défendra pas, qu'il vous imposera plus de droits de douane qu'à ses ennemis et vous menacera de s'emparer de vos territoires tout en soutenant les dictatures qui vous envahissent.

Le roi du deal est en train de montrer ce qu'est l'art du deal à plat ventre. Il pense qu'il va intimider la Chine en se couchant devant Poutine, mais Xi Jinping, devant un tel naufrage, est sans doute en train d'accélérer les préparatifs de l'invasion de Taïwan.

Jamais dans l'histoire un président des États-Unis n'a capitulé devant l'ennemi. Jamais aucun n'a soutenu un agresseur contre un allié. Jamais aucun n'a piétiné la Constitution américaine, pris autant de décrets illégaux, révoqué les juges qui pourraient l'en empêcher, limogé d'un coup l'état-major militaire, affaibli tous les contre-pouvoirs et pris le contrôle des réseaux sociaux.

Ce n'est pas une dérive illibérale, c'est un début de confiscation de la démocratie. Rappelons-nous qu'il n'a fallu qu'un mois, trois semaines et deux jours pour mettre à bas la République de Weimar et sa Constitution.

J'ai confiance dans la solidité de la démocratie américaine et le pays proteste déjà. Mais en un mois, Trump a fait plus de mal à l'Amérique qu'en quatre ans de sa dernière présidence. Nous étions en guerre contre un dictateur, nous nous battons désormais contre un dictateur soutenu par un traître.

Il y a huit jours, au moment même où Trump passait la main dans le dos de Macron à la Maison-Blanche, les États-Unis votaient à l'ONU avec la Russie et la Corée du Nord contre les Européens réclamant le départ des troupes russes.

Deux jours plus tard, dans le bureau ovale, le planqué du service militaire donnait des leçons de morale et de stratégie au héros de guerre Zelensky avant de le congédier comme un palefrenier en lui ordonnant de se soumettre ou de se démettre.

Cette nuit, il a franchi un pas de plus dans l'infamie en stoppant la livraison d'armes pourtant promise. Que faire devant cette trahison ? La réponse est simple : faire face.

Et d'abord ne pas se tromper. La défaite de l'Ukraine serait la défaite de l'Europe. Les Pays-Bas, la Géorgie, la Moldavie sont déjà sur la liste. Le but de Poutine est le retour à Yalta où fut cédée la moitié du continent à Staline.

Les pays du Sud attendent l'issue du conflit pour décider s'ils doivent continuer à respecter l'Europe ou s'ils sont désormais libres de la piétiner.

Ce que veut Poutine, c'est la fin de l'ordre mis en place par les États-Unis et leurs alliés il y a 80 ans, avec comme premier principe l'interdiction d'acquérir des territoires par la force.

Cette idée est à la source même de l'ONU, où aujourd'hui les Américains votent en faveur de l'agresseur et contre l'agressé, parce que la vision trumpienne coïncide avec celle de Poutine : un retour aux sphères d'influence, les grandes puissances dictant le sort des petits pays.

À moi le Groenland, le Panama et le Canada, à toi l'Ukraine, les Pays-Baltes et l'Europe de l'Est, à lui Taïwan et la mer de Chine.

On appelle cela, dans les soirées des oligarques du golfe de Mar-a-Lago, le "réalisme diplomatique".

Nous sommes donc seuls. Mais le discours selon lequel on ne peut résister à Poutine est faux. Contrairement à la propagande du Kremlin, la Russie va mal. En trois ans, la soi-disant deuxième armée du monde n'a réussi à grappiller que des miettes d'un pays trois fois moins peuplé.

Les taux d'intérêt à 25 %, l'effondrement des réserves de devises et d'or, l'écroulement démographique montrent qu'elle est au bord du gouffre. Le coup de pouce américain à Poutine est la plus grande erreur stratégique jamais commise lors d'une guerre.

Le choc est violent, mais il a une vertu. Les Européens sortent du déni. Ils ont compris en un jour à Munich que la survie de l'Ukraine et l'avenir de l'Europe sont entre leurs mains et qu'ils ont trois impératifs.

Accélérer l'aide militaire à l'Ukraine pour compenser le lâchage américain, pour qu'elle tienne, et bien sûr pour imposer sa présence et celle de l'Europe dans toute négociation.

Cela coûtera cher. Il faudra en terminer avec le tabou de l'utilisation des avoirs russes gelés. Il faudra contourner les complices de Moscou à l'intérieur même de l'Europe par une coalition des seuls pays volontaires, avec bien sûr le Royaume-Uni.

En second lieu, exiger que tout accord soit accompagné du retour des enfants kidnappés, des prisonniers et de garanties de sécurité absolues. Après Budapest, la Géorgie et Minsk, nous savons ce que valent les accords avec Poutine. Ces garanties passent par une force militaire suffisante pour empêcher une nouvelle invasion.

Enfin, et c'est le plus urgent, parce que c'est ce qui prendra le plus de temps, il faudrait bâtir la défense européenne négligée, au profit du parapluie américain depuis 1945 et sabordée depuis la chute du mur de Berlin.

C'est une tâche herculéenne, mais c'est sur sa réussite ou son échec que seront jugés dans les livres d'Histoire les dirigeants de l'Europe démocratique d'aujourd'hui.

Friedrich Merz vient de déclarer que l'Europe a besoin de sa propre alliance militaire. C'est reconnaître que la France avait raison depuis des décennies en plaidant pour une autonomie stratégique.

Il reste à la construire. Il faudra investir massivement, renforcer le Fonds européen de défense hors des critères d'endettement de Maastricht, harmoniser les systèmes d'armes et de munitions, accélérer l'entrée dans l'Union de l'Ukraine, qui est aujourd'hui la première armée européenne, repenser la place et les conditions de la dissuasion nucléaire à partir des capacités françaises et britanniques, relancer les programmes de boucliers antimissiles et de satellites.

Le plan annoncé hier par Ursula von der Leyen est un très bon point de départ. Et il faudra beaucoup plus.

L'Europe ne redeviendra une puissance militaire qu'en redevenant une puissance industrielle. En un mot, il faudra appliquer le rapport Draghi. Pour de bon.

Mais le vrai réarmement de l'Europe, c'est son réarmement moral.

Nous devons convaincre l'opinion face à la lassitude et à la peur de la guerre, et surtout face aux comparses de Poutine, l'extrême droite et l'extrême gauche.

Ils ont encore plaidé hier à l'Assemblée nationale, Monsieur le Premier ministre, devant vous, contre l'unité européenne, contre la défense européenne.

Ils disent vouloir la paix. Ce que ni eux ni Trump ne disent, c'est que leur paix, c'est la capitulation, la paix de la défaite, le remplacement de de Gaulle Zelensky par un Pétain ukrainien à la botte de Poutine.

La paix des collabos qui ont refusé depuis trois ans toute aide aux Ukrainiens.

Est-ce la fin de l'Alliance Atlantique ? Le risque est grand. Mais depuis quelques jours, l'humiliation publique de Zelensky et toutes les décisions folles prises depuis un mois ont fini par faire réagir les Américains.

Les sondages sont en chute. Les élus républicains sont accueillis par des foules hostiles dans leurs circonscriptions. Même Fox News devient critique.

Les Trumpistes ne sont plus en majesté. Ils contrôlent l'exécutif, le Parlement, la Cour suprême et les réseaux sociaux.

Mais dans l'histoire américaine, les partisans de la liberté l'ont toujours emporté. Ils commencent à relever la tête.

Le sort de l'Ukraine se joue dans les tranchées, mais il dépend aussi de ceux qui, aux États-Unis, veulent défendre la démocratie, et ici de notre capacité à unir les Européens, à trouver les moyens de leur défense commune, et à refaire de l'Europe la puissance qu'elle fut un jour dans l'histoire et qu'elle hésite à redevenir.

Nos parents ont vaincu le fascisme et le communisme au prix de tous les sacrifices.

La tâche de notre génération est de vaincre les totalitarismes du XXIe siècle.

Vive l'Ukraine libre, vive l'Europe démocratique.

True Heroes like Lech Walesa Are Horrified by Trump

Lech Walesa is a Polish hero who stood up against the Soviet Union's imperial rule over his country. He was a simple dock worker who led the Solidarity protest movement against the pro-Russian occupation Communist regime in Warsaw and won.

Walesa says he is horrified by Trump's behavior and submission to the Russian dictatorship's annexation of Ukraine. If you were to choose between, on one hand, the words of a convicted felon, a serial adulterer, a coward draft dodger like Trump who thinks soldiers are suckers and losers for risking their lives for their country, and who has turned the US into an ally of the neo-imperialist Russian criminal dictatorship and its impending annexation of Ukraine, and on the other hand, the words of a real fighter against the Communist regime in Poland who liberated his country from Soviet rule and who earned the Nobel Prize for his life's accomplishments for peace and freedom, which would you choose to believe in good conscience?

The coward or the hero?

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Polish democracy hero Wałęsa says Trump's treatment of Zelenskyy filled him with 'horror'
Associated Press
Mon, March 3, 2025


FILE - Poland's former president and Nobel Peace Prize winner, Lech Walesa, is greeted at parliament in Warsaw, Poland, Dec. 11, 2023. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski, File) (ASSOCIATED PRESS)


WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland's democracy hero Lech Wałęsa and dozens of other former political prisoners in Poland have written a letter to President Donald Trump, telling him that his treatment of Ukraine's president at the Oval Office last week filled them “with horror and distaste.”

Wałęsa, who served as president soon after Poland embraced democracy, and the others tell Trump that they found it offensive that he expected Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to show respect and gratitude for the material assistance the United States has given Ukraine as it defends itself against Russia's invasion.

“Gratitude is due to the heroic Ukrainian soldiers who shed blood in defense of the values ​​of the free world. They are the ones who have been dying on the front lines," they say.

The White House has demanded that Zelenskyy show more openness to potential concessions in order to bring the fighting to an end, but Zelenskyy has been resistant, saying Monday that any deal with Russia is still “very, very far away," while seeking greater security guarantees from Washington.

Wałęsa posted the letter on Facebook on Monday along with a photograph of himself with Trump. It was signed by himself and 38 other former democracy activists who were imprisoned by Poland's Moscow-backed communist regime before 1989. Among the others who signed are Adam Michnik, Bogdan Lis, Seweryn Blumsztajn and Władysław Frasyniuk.

“We were also terrified by the fact that the atmosphere in the Oval Office during this conversation reminded us of the one we remember well from interrogations by the Security Service and from the courtrooms in communist courts," they wrote.

"Prosecutors and judges, commissioned by the omnipotent communist political police, also explained to us that they had all the cards in their hands, and we had none. They demanded that we cease our activities, arguing that thousands of innocent people were suffering because of us. They deprived us of freedom and civil rights because we did not agree to cooperate with the authorities and did not show them gratitude. We are shocked that you treated President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in a similar way,” they wrote.

Starting in 1980, Wałęsa spearheaded Poland’s pro-democracy Solidarity movement that nine years later led to the peaceful ouster of communism from Poland and inspired other countries to shed Moscow’s domination.

In 1983 he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. In 1990-95 he served as democratic Poland’s first popularly elected president.

Trump's Regime Bound to Collapse: Totalitarianism is Fundamentally Un-American

Recommended reading:

https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/5171000-why-trumps-regime-is-fated-to-collapse/

Zelenskyy Ambushed in Oval Office: Trump-Vance's Chamberlain "Deal" with Putin

When Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich Pact with Hitler on September 30, 1938, he was trying to avoid World War II by making a deal with Hitler over German-speaking territories in Czechoslovakia. He returned to England claiming he had secured "peace for our time". Less than a year later, Hitler invaded Poland and triggered WWII in which he invaded much of Europe. To this day, Chamberlain's reputation remains one of a naive foolish appeaser for believing Hitler's word.

What the criminal autocrat moron Donald Dumb and his sidekick J D Vance were trying to do yesterday by ambushing Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the Oval Office was to make a similar deal with the Russian criminal autocrat Putin over Russian-speaking territories in Ukraine. The two assholes were pressuring Zelenskyy to sign a deal that they claimed would avoid World War III and usher peace in the world. 

There is one difference though between Neville Chamberlain and the two morons in the White House: From Chamberlain's perspective, he was trying to avoid war because the British army was not ready for war with the growing German war machine. But the two White House morons couldn't care less about military readiness or any geopolitical considerations: They had a gun pointing at the back of Zelenskyy's neck so he signs some fucking rare earth deal with them, without giving him anything in return. No security guarantees. No military aid. For the master of the "art of the deal" that Trump claims to be, this is one stupid con job that only a fool would accept to sign.

Kudos to war weary Zelenskyy for standing up to the convicted felon Trump who is a draft dodger and who knows nothing of war. The coward criminal evaded the Vietnam war by claiming he had bone spurs in his feet as his father pulled somne strings, and goes on repeating that soldiers, veterans, prisoners of war are all suckers and losers for risking their lives for their country. How else could we not see the chasm separating a hero and resistance fighter Zelenskyy (in his military fatigues, which Trump mocked as "dressed up") and the two barking business con hounds Trump and Vance?  

It was clear that Trump and Vance ambushed Zelenskyy. They planned the whole confrontation to produce a "great television" moment. All their arguments were about:

- Defeatism  - Oh you can't win that war, they kept telling Zelenskyy - as if wars are fought only if you can win them. How many wars that the dumb US fought and lost since 1945? ALL, except the walk in the park in Kuwait in 1991. All the others the US lost despite spending trillions of dollars, losing hundreds of thousands of its finest, and causing the deaths of millions of innocent civilians. Vietnam, Korea, Iraq, Somalia, Lebanon, Afghanistan...

- Grocery store grinches - Oh we gave you billions and you haven't won, they told Zelenskyy. When former republican administrations funded terrorist organizations like the Contras in Nicaragua or other right-wing killing squads across Latin America, Africa and elsewhere to fight Communism... did they expect them to win? By insisting on Ukraine's defeat before the war is even over, the two assholes were surrendering to Putin. They, in fact, are in cahoots with Putin who is a co-conspirator in the White House ambush of Zelenskyy. 

- The only thing that the two assholes wanted was for Zelenskyy to give up his territories in Eastern Ukraine so they make a deal with Putin over extracting rare earth minerals. Money is behind the whole thing. Not one word on the values of freedom, self-determination, fighting totalitarian criminal regimes like Putin's, democracy, etc.. It was all about making money out of exploiting Ukraine's resources in a for-profit partnership with Russia's ruling gang of oligarchs. Trump and Vance (and Musk and other billionaires) want to turn the US into a similar regime than the one now in power in Russia: A few billionaires owning all the country's resources, and fuck the rest of the American people.

- Old stale campaign lies - It's the fault of Obama, it's the fault of Joe Biden, it's the fault of Hunter Biden, its's the fault of Hilary Clinton.... When will the supreme moron in the White House stop blaming his predecessors for his own failures? When will he take responsibility?

Zelenskyy told the two assholes in their face that they are naive and credulous for believing Putin. He was being nice. Their "naivete" is not like Chamberlain's. It is more a criminal enterprise hiding beneath their genetic imbecility. Zelenskyy knows that Trump has already made a deal with Putin behind his back. He couldn't tell them they're criminals on television; he used the stupid, naive, moron card to argue his point, which is part of, but not the whole, truth.

Trump kept shouting that Zelensky doesn't have the "cards" for making a deal, that he lacks any leverage to negotiate a "ceasefire" with the dictator Putin. Zelenskyy replied that he is not interested in a ceasefire that Putin who, just like Hitler in 1938, would not respect anyway. Zelensky replied: “I’m not playing cards”, I want a peace treaty that safeguards my country.

Just like Hitler did in 1938, Putin will sign but then will renege and re-invade and take all of Ukraine.

Just like Chamberlain talked about Hitler, Trump claimed he was working closely with Putin, a man he can trust, to get to a deal. Trump avoided saying one negative thing against Putin (arguing that if he did, Putin would not come to the negotiatiosn table), yet he hurled one insult after another at Zelenskyy - ungrateful, misguided... after he called him a dictator earlier this month. Why the double standard? Because Trump idolizes Putin and identifies with criminal strongmen like him, while decent and brave Zelenskyy is an easy target. Cowards is what Trump and Vance are.

Trump also accused Zelensky of risking a broader global conflict if the war were to continue, the implication being that if Zelenskyy did not surrender to Putin at this stage of the conflict (and sacrifice his country's eastern territories to make the deal), Putin will invade all of Ukraine, perhaps Poland and the Baltic States... and thus take the world into World War III. In their deranged minds, Trump and Vance are blaming victim Zelenskyy for irritating dictator Putin who could react by causing World War III. Textbook example of caving in to a brutal bully.

Bottom line: The assholes Trump and Vance's co-called "deal" consists in Zelenskyy's selling his country twice: Once to the "businessmen" Trump and Vance who would profit with their billionaire corporate friends from extracting Ukraine's rare earth minerals, and a second time to Putin who would annex parts of Ukraine, and use it later as a springboard to "take back" former territories that the defunct failed Soviet dictatorship once occupied by force like Poland, Hungary, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania... That is "peace for our time" that the two idiots wanted for the rest of us.