Zelinsky shows spunk against a probable Trump sell out. Ukraine must be a NATO member for any Putin deal to work.

By Donald A. Collins | 11 August 2025
Church and State

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Leaving Zelinsky on the sidelines as Trump prepares to meet in Alaska with Putin shows the stupidity and arrogance of Trump’s longtime embrace of Putin, arguably the world‘s most vicious dictator.

Now Putin says he will stop his attacks on Ukraine if he picks up a huge piece of Ukraine to add to the huge piece he stole in the Crimea when Obama was president.

Zelinsky just now stated that he’s not prepared to give that away the part of Ukraine Russia now occupies from its current invasion even though Zelinsky knows that the absence of American support will make his resistance against Putin almost untenable. Such wonderful bravery and spunk!

Now, just as Zelinsky did so bravely at the time of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, he is showing that he is willing to stand up for his country and for the world against this stupid handling by Trump.

We know that there must be something Putin has over Trump that keeps Trump kissing Putin’s ring despite the facts.

There has been no doubt in the minds of many people for many years that Trump has long been a Russian asset and certainly he keeps making that supposition more and more plausible.

Our NATO allies know full well that any deal with Putin must conclude with strong prohibitions against a further Russian attack and this definitely includes making Ukraine or what is left of it after the giveaway a strong member of NATO.

The stupidity and weakness of President Trump is incalculable, but probably explainable by what I have written above. However, our NATO allies in Europe have much more at stake here. To date Trump and the EU NATO members have said no to a Ukraine NATO member.

But no deal with Putin will be successful without making Ukraine a member of NATO now. To do otherwise would be simply opening the door for another attack by Putin.

NATO has to call Putin’s bluff of using tactical nuclear weapons!!!

We should have long ago provided offensive weapons to Zelinsky so that he could penetrate great harm way inside the Soviet Union to make them understand that this deal is not to be broken by the fact of President Trump’s fealty for Putin.

We have watched Putin succeed in continuing this horrible war while at the full-time it was fully clear he was seeing if the West would break first, and he will continue his war despite any sanctions that may be placed on him particularly ones using oil. So as we must finally say it’s really time to cut the mustard.

Former US Navy officer, banker and venture capitalist, Donald A. Collins, a free lance writer living in Washington, DC, has spent over 50 years working for women’s reproductive health as a board member and/or officer of numerous family planning organizations including Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Guttmacher Institute, Family Health International and Ipas. Yale under graduate, NYU MBA. He is the author of “From the Dissident Left: A Collection of Essays 2004-2013”, “Trump Becoming Macbeth: Will our democracy survive?”, “We Humans Overwhelm Our Earth: 11 or 2 Billion by 2100?”, “What Can Be Done Now to Save Habitable Life on Planet Earth?”, “Vote”, “Can Homo Sapiens Survive?”, “Will Choice and Democracy Win?”, “Can Our U.S. Survive 8 Plus Billion of Us”, “Economic Growth: A Cancer on all Earthly Life”, “On the Precipice of Political Disaster in 2024”, “Democracy at Red State Risk”, “Does Trump Go to Jail or to The Oval Office?”, “Trump: Pardon or Punish?: The Nixon Precedence Was Not A Trump Coup Denied!”, and “Common Sense: When will Trump be Impeached, Indicted, and Exited?”.

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