To do anything else will betray our people, our ancestors, and our history.

A wet, drab, cloth, flying at half-mast.

To do anything else will betray our people, our ancestors, and our history.

A wet, drab, cloth, flying at half-mast.

Let’s talk about the USA, the land of the free, a nation built on something new. Freedom of religion, equality, the pursuit of happiness and so on. This was (past tense) the nation of Lincoln, the Roosevelts, (Eleanor included), Eisenhower, Carter, Reagan, McCain. The USA was a nation that believed its own philosophy. For the past century, the world grew up on their movies. The good guy with the white hat, who risked everything for his town. The tough cowboy who kept his word, the soldier who sacrificed for his comrades.

That’s all gone, in one month Donald Trump has erased history and rubbed so much shit in the face of America and the free world, it can never be removed. ‘Zelensky is a dictator,’ ‘Ukraine started the war.’

The shame that the USA must bear on the world stage will hang around its neck for as long as history is written. The USA has betrayed its allies, betrayed its trading partners, betrayed Ukraine, and most of all betrayed itself.

The checks and balances written into the US constitution are ignored. Bribed judges sit in the Supreme Court. The House of representatives is packed with obedient fools who simply ‘obey orders.’ The Senate is packed with oligarchs who have no interest in people, they only care about power and money. This so-called Christian nation worships no other god but money. A nation that imprisons the poor and frees the wealthy. Nowhere else in the world, nowhere, could a politician attempt to make a violent takeover of his country and undermine the rule of law and then remain free to be elected back to office.

It isn’t enough to claim that Trump was ‘democratically elected,’ so was Hitler. The monster has taken up the baseball bat of democracy and beaten his own people to death with it.

What will the people do now? Nothing! You will talk on TV and argue in congress, you will make sarcastic remarks and complain, some of you will cry. Many will lose their jobs. Take a note from the words of a great British singer and poet Labi Siffre, ‘Crying never did nobody no good no how’ or words by Kenny Rogers that great American country singer?

The higher you build your barrier
The taller I become
The farther you take my rights away
The faster I will run

You can deny me
You can decide to turn your face away

No matter 'cause there's

Something inside so strong
I know that I can make it
Though you're doing me wrong so wrong
You thought that my pride was gone, oh no

There's something inside so strong
Something inside so strong

The more you refuse to hear my voice
The louder I will sing
You hide behind Walls of Jericho
Your lies will come tumbling
Deny my place and time
You squander wealth that's mine

Shame on you, shame on you all. You don’t have it anymore; you don’t believe it anymore. You aren’t Lewis or Merryweather. Ain’t no longhorns in this herd son. Only domesticated dairy cows who get fed and milked every day. When the milk is gone your farmer will sell your carcass for dogfood and put one of your ignorant children in your place. Your farmer is a Russian stool pigeon, and you are living in Animal Farm.

If you want to get out of the shitshow you have voted yourselves into, you have best stop crying and do something about it. I think it’s too late, you are lost. Please - prove me wrong!

Across the oceans in Europe, Australia, Japan and even Africa we must decide whether we allow the same appalling programs to succeed. We aren’t so far away from the same disgusting political policies and leaders. We have our own extremists (funded by who knows) that are threatening in the UK, Germany, and France. They already have power in Hungary. We aren’t so godly that we can claim all the moral high ground and hold it without a fight. The extreme left are just as dangerous, but two wrongs do not create a right. UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer says ‘we need an American backstop.’

We don’t. Not anymore.

Excluding the USA, the combined forces of the remaining NATO countries have more than double the forces of Russia. If we add the forces of Ukraine to that number, we are quite capable to defeating Russia in the battlefield. We have a larger combined population, an immensely greater economy, superior technology, and a superior moral philosophy. Add Australia and New Zealand, add Japan and we will not need the untrustworthy psychopath in Washington.

We must not lose it! We must combine our resources and stand united against Russia and against Trump’s America. To do anything else will betray our people, our ancestors, and our history.

The USA held that honourable position for eighty years. They owned the shining castle on the hill and flew the flag of freedom. The flag flying over the Whitehouse is no longer a star-spangled banner, it is a wet, drab cloth flying at half-mast.

Shame on you, shame on you, shame on us all!

Slava Ukraini!

Robin Horsfall

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