Ghosts of bikes past

🇺🇸What MAGA Will Be Remembered For Russia has just put a missile into the National Academy of Sciences in Kyiv, a building full of researchers rather than soldiers, while crews still dig through the rubble for anyone trapped inside. The same day brought strikes on a pharmaceutical company, on petrol stations, on a business centre in Dnipro and on civilian infrastructure across the country. People died. That is what a peaceful neighbour gets from Moscow on an ordinary Monday. And while it happens, the world sees an American movement siding with the enemy of the West. MAGA, too frightened of Putin to stand up to him, told Ukraine to do the cowardly thing on its behalf: lie down, hand over the land, and leave the wives, the children and the men to Moscow. That is not a small thing, and it is nothing to be proud of. It is the entry MAGA has written for itself in the record, and it will not be edited later. Normal America, the part that still believes in allies and decency, will spend years explaining that Trump's failed regime never spoke for it. MAGA will have no such excuse. History will file it under the worst thing the United States ever served the world.

Zelensky: "Sometimes it may seem that Ukraine is focused only on war because we speak about weapons, we speak about defence and sanctions against the aggressor. But Ukrainians did not choose this war. We choose not to die, not to lose our country, our families, not to lose our independence, our freedom." That was Zelensky, saying plainly what the map has been showing for four years. To the failed Trump regime, this is a foreign tongue. Surrender is what they know, and they are fluent in it. Give the aggressor what he asks for, then a little more, and call it a deal. The house and the car, the wife and the children, all handed over before a single shot is fired, because fighting is tiring and the other man seemed so reasonable on the phone. Ukraine chose the harder road because the alternative was not peace but disappearance. Washington once understood that distinction. Not this regime.