Professional Wrestling Match Aside, Israel Resuming Genocide With U.S. Backing

When my husband was growing up, his Slovak immigrant grandparents watched professional wrestling matches on television while cheering and stomping their feet as if they believed the matches were real rather than staged. This annoyed his mother, their daughter-in-law, who was living downstairs. She was embarrassed by their naïveté, and the noisy spectacle aggravated her Anglo sensibilities. At least that's the way her son remembers it.

I woke up this morning intending to write about the professional wrestling-themed meeting between President Zelensky, 47, and VP Vance but, as is often the case, Australian Caitlin Johnstone got there first. In "Trump Sends Netanyahu Weapons While Talking Tough to Zelensky" she writes:

Democrats are rending their garments over the public humiliation of Saint Zelensky and crying about the “bullying” behavior of Trump and Vance, while Republicans are applauding the whole ordeal as a sign that Trump is a strong and heroic peacemaker who doesn’t take any guff from Washington’s warmongering proxies. But the most immediate and glaring point about Zelensky’s public castigation is that this same administration doesn’t appear to be taking that same energy to Benjamin Netanyahu as he prepares to resume a genocide.

Two of the dumbest takes I've seen on last Friday's Oval Office match are from politicians using the opportunity to put on their own performances -- likely to ingratiate themselves with the real empire managers behind the scenes.

Senator Bernie Sanders weighed in on the elongated muskrat's platform to say:

Trump berates Zelensky, the leader of a democratic country courageously fighting Russian imperialism, while he allies himself with Putin, a dictator who started the bloodiest European war in 80 years.

Sorry, President Trump. We believe in democracy, not authoritarianism.

Let's unpack those claims. Zelensky declared martial law and suspended elections in Ukraine, so "democratic" in this sentence strains credulity. Russian "imperialism" is just blatant propaganda from an elected official in the belly of the only global empire that exists in our day. "Dictator" Putin was re-elected in 2024 and that's an indication that 88% of people in Russia know who actually started "the bloodiest European war in 80 years" i.e. Victoria Nuland et al.

The phrase "we believe in democracy" is especially rich coming from perennial fraud Sanders who allowed his own party to put the imperial thumb on the scale in 2016 and again in 2020 to deny him the nomination for president. Most who lived through these years witnessed the overwhelming popular support for Sanders, and believe he would have prevailed where lackluster candidates like Hillary Clinton and no-primary Kamala Harris failed. Put another way, Sanders colluded in handing those elections to the very candidate that Democrats love to hate and also fundraise off of.

Not to mention the Russiagate hoax which Sanders and his party enthusiastically pushed in order to -- gasp -- control the outcome of an election.

Then there's the so-called independent senator from Maine, Angus King, who caucuses and votes with Democrats but isn't one because ?? (My theory: he's wealthy enough in a small population state to own his own data and declines to pay the DNC vast sums to use theirs.)

the point that Zelensky was trying make is that, based on history, Russia cannot be trusted to honor its commitments and therefore any deal must include some form of security guarantee to insure the territorial integrity of Ukraine. Unfortunately, our president insisted on talking over this point and refused to acknowledge it.

I hope this unfortunate meeting will not detract from the pursuit of an agreement that ends the bloodshed, recognizes and protects the sovereignty of Ukraine without appeasing the territorial ambitions of a murderous dictator.

It would be hard to come up with a more fraudulent claim than "Russia cannot be trusted to honor its commitments" given that both Minsk I and II were negotiated in bad faith by King's team and the Europeans, some of whom have admitted those agreements were simply stalling for time by Ukraine's sponsors. 

As for protecting the "sovereignty of Ukraine," I suspect that King wants those rare earth minerals ever bit as much as 47 does and deliberately obfuscates the plain fact that Ukraine is one of the least sovereign nations on the planet at this point in time.

Zelensky visits Congress, 2022 -- good times

Lest my post leaves you with the mistaken impression that I am a fan of 47 and his administration, I am not. I don't watch much professional wrestling and I'm not confused about how political power is actually waged i.e. by force and blackmail, not by means of theatrics. All U.S. presidents are servants of empire in the role of hired talking heads, not "deciders." 

Meanwhile, the U.S. continues shipping weapons to Israel and giving Zionists the green light to break the Gaza ceasefire -- after failing to honor many of the commitments it made in that agreement. The primary reason for the war in Ukraine that the U.S. and other NATO countries started in 2014 is what Johnstone said: they believed it would weaken Russia and allow the Zios to move on Syria. Which indeed turned out to be the case. Syria not only has oil fields but its strategic location made it a conduit for the Palestinian resistance to receive arms and other logistical support.

But few are talking about that. Because Zelensky's attire and comportment are far more important, right?