Doubtlessly, Donald Trump has constructive intentions and is one of the few under the world‘s leaders which give hope for a political change to the better. But partly his statements and decisions need firmer guidance by principles, a problem that exists widely at the level of his advisors. It is a failure considering the restauration of Ukraine’s 1991 borders a just solution, as this would ignore the population's right to SELF-DETERMINATION according to Article 1 of the UN Charter.
Far away from his correct former position, Trump recently commented about the possibility of Ukraine reconquering the Russian occupied territories. But these territories are exactly the ones with a Russian speaking majority. In 1991, Ukraine has gained independence after the people having been granted the right to decide on this issue in a referendum. But the Ukrainian government rejected the same right to the Crimean peninsula’s population, when it demanded solution from Ukraine and reunification with Russia in a referéndum (after the undemocratic transfer to Ukraine in 1954).
Meanwhile, Ukraine has exercised an increasingly oppressive policy towards its Russian speaking population, with the discriminating 2017 Education and 2019 Language Laws. Since, this kind of politics has intensified to "extinguishing everything Russian in the country" by even forbidding Russian village and street names. This is uncivilized, barbaric behavior against basic principles of the UN charter, confirming the accusations of Nazi attitudes.
Even if a nuclear war may be avoided, for the Ukrainian and Russian Nations, a continuation of the military confrontation would be disastrous, as it growingly takes on the profile of the Korean War (1950-1953) – only longer and now with DU shells, cruise missiles and cluster bombs. This has nothing to do with defending one Nation against the other, but with wiping out both. - This 1-minute video gives an impression: https://brilliantmaps.com/korean-war-in-60-seconds/
The second worrying point is, that Trump continuously uses the US security apparatus as if it was a reliable tool of his government and under democratic control, while the revelations of Edward Snowden and Julian Assange have shown the very opposite. Immediate action is required, far beyond the few isolated personal changes already exercised to make this unreliable state within the state a true defender of constitutional freedom and democracy again. Til today, it is a wasteful, most obviously counteractive monster. - This will remain so as long as the financial aristocracy retains decisive influence through the MIC - even 64 years after Dwight D. Eisenhower's warning in 1961. https://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/eisenhower001.asp /Points IV, V, VI
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