Visions of Sugar Plums

While soldiers of Ukraine lie in the mud, in the blood and the ice-cold trenches of Ukraine, fighting for the freedoms that we take for granted, the Congressional far-right wing of the Republican Party goes home early for Christmas.

After holding Ukraine’s aid hostage to their wishes for southern border control, they decide that neither is important enough to stick around for a while longer instead of scampering to their cozy homes.

We already know what political cowards they are, those Congressmen who won’t stand up and tell the truth in the face of a con man who, with a snap of a finger, can end their political careers. But it is their political careers they care more about than either border control or Ukraine and its suffering people. They don’t fear a Ukrainian defeat, they fear a Ukrainian victory. A victory might give President Biden momentum in the next election. Better to sacrifice the life and blood of Ukrainians than allow that. — How utterly sickening.

They know their con-man leader doesn’t want Ukraine to win. So, they are willing to sacrifice those brave men and women of Ukraine, and by the way, border control also. Tis a sad, pathetic group that now rules the Republican Party. A Ukrainian soldier in the trenches has more courage in his little finger.

Never mind the total spent on Ukraine aid so far (roughly $100 billion) or about 15 percent of our annual defense budget is probably the best deal we have ever gotten for our money. Our enemy has lost about 25 percent of his military capacity and loses more each day. And without a single American serviceman’s death, that is a victory in itself. Every day, Ukraine holds the line, Russia’s military is depleted. Ukraine is a free, democratic nation today because of our help and that of others. They will continue to stand as long as we help.

Could it be that the Congressional far-right election deniers really don’t care about democracy anymore, in Ukraine or in America? I suspect it is, sadly so.

Sleep well tonight, knowing others fight for your freedom even though you may not know it. Sleep warm tonight, believing that Ukraine’s fight against a ruthless dictator will not affect you. Sleep snug tonight, thinking American freedoms are secure no matter what happens in the rest of the world. Sleep soundly tonight, ignoring the news that all free democratic nations are now in a war with the authoritarian leaders of Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea — a war that is now being fought in the bloody trenches of Ukraine.

Merry Christmas,

Stan Brooks
Crozet, Va.

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