To Comfort The Afflicted
And Afflict The Comfortable

To Comfort The Afflicted And Afflict The Comfortable

Saturday, March 15, 2025

Observercast

Trump’s Ukraine Betrayal Puts America Last

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When Donald Trump and J.D. Vance roughed up Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the White House, their back-alley bullying was … unpresidential, to put it politely. Tony Soprano would have displayed more diplomatic finesse than Trump, and the mobster’s henchmen always had more dignity than Vance. To vilify an American ally so publicly while spewing Russian propaganda points was a stunningly coarse betrayal. But make no mistake in understanding what lies behind that contemptible episode, which represents […]

Joe Conason
Joe Conason
Joe Conason is an American journalist, author and liberal political commentator. He writes a column for Salon.com and has written a number of books, including Big Lies, which addresses what he says are myths spread about liberals by conservatives.