Tuesday, December 9, 2025

Evaluating Trump’s Ukraine Actions

President Trump is touting his peacemaking efforts between Ukraine and Putin’s Russia.  Those efforts and the related actions bear a closer look,  and over a longer time interval.   They are NOT what they seem to be!  Here is why I say that:

First bear in mind that Russia became an enemy of the US and Europe again,  after Putin became its “president”,  in which position he was rapidly revealed to be a hostile dictator.  Ukraine became the de-facto proxy of the US and Europe (essentially NATO),  holding back part of Putin’s stated objective of re-conquering those parts of Europe that had been part of the Soviet Union,  and perhaps more.   Ukraine is one of those parts.  Some others are now NATO members,  risking open war if he tries.  This is therefore quite serious!

Ukraine’s role as NATO’s proxy began with Russia’s illegal annexation of the Crimea in 2014,  during the Obama administration.  The US and NATO did nothing militarily themselves to roll back the Russian takeover of the Crimea,  but did start supporting Ukraine’s efforts to prepare to defend itself against further Russian conquest.  That further conquest actually started with Russian troops,  illegally disguised as “not-Russian”,  operating as supposed Ukrainian separatists,  in the Donbas region.  This started shortly after the Crimea was annexed,  and continued until the more recent full-scale military invasion by Russia.

Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022,  during the Biden administration,  starting a war of conquest then only expected to last mere days.  The US and NATO did supply money and weapons by which Ukraine could resist,  but we did not actually intervene militarily.  Instead,  economic sanctions were applied to put pressure on Russia to stop,  which slowly damaged the Russian economy fairly-seriously. 

The Ukrainians have been resisting this invasion valiantly on their own ever since,  supported only by lots of money and weapons from the US and NATO.  That is the very definition of a NATO proxy against Putin’s ambitions in Europe!  And I remind you,  the US is part of NATO,  despite Trump’s evident and stated desires otherwise.

Then Donald Trump became the US President for his second term in January 2025,  and almost immediately reduced US monetary and weapons support for Ukraine to near-zero levels,  leaving only the much smaller amounts of support from the other NATO countries,  and not all of them.  At the same time,  he removed the US sanctions upon Russia,  thus greatly reducing the pressure on Russia to stop their war of aggression.  He thereby rewarded Putin’s efforts,  and punished Ukraine.  This even included publicly insulting Ukraine’s Zelenskyy in the White House,  to the total embarrassment of all who saw this. 

In the months since,  Ukraine has been running out of money and weapons with which to continue the fight,  forcing them to consider the possibility of having to surrender.  That means the end of their independence from much larger Russia. 

Trump got angry with Putin for a very brief interval,  but has since returned to his support for Putin’s Russia,  not our ally and proxy Ukraine.   The initial draft of his so-called “28-point peace plan” has since been revealed to be quite literally many of Putin’s demands,  just on White House letterhead!  THAT TRAVESTY is what the “peace negotiations” are trying to force upon Zelenskyy and Ukraine.  And Putin is greedy,  he wants even more.

Meanwhile Russia pounds Ukraine with near-daily lethal strikes,  deliberately targeting civilians (a war crime) and civilian infrastructure,  unimpeded in any way since the lifting of the sanctionsThe longer Trump can delay things while Putin pounds Ukraine,  the more likely Ukraine will run out of supplies and be forced to surrender.  Now you know the real plan behind Trump’s “peace proposal”!

What Trump is really trying to do is force Ukraine to surrender to end the war,  so that he can take political credit for “being a peacemaker”!  To do that,  Trump has betrayed our ally Ukraine!   And,  Trump has threatened in public to renege on the NATO treaty,  more than once,  which would weaken NATO enough for Putin to retake the countries he wants who are members of NATO.  Trump puts pressure on Ukraine,  and takes it off of Russia!  Yet Putin’s Russia is the so-very-evident enemy of NATO,  and the US!  Trump is literally and overtly providing aid and comfort to our enemy Putin’s Russia,  by trying to help them to win their war of aggression in our ally Ukraine!  There is no other reasonable interpretation of this!  

For Putin,  it is clear that retaining any (or all) of Ukraine’s territory is his “win”!  He has said so.  And Xi in China is just waiting to see Putin have some success against the US and NATO,  before invading Taiwan and annexing the South China Sea.  Which would likely start World War 3 in the Pacific!   And,  the longer the Ukraine debacle drags on,  the more aggressive Xi becomes!   We’ve all seen that happening,  in the news reports. 

Now you know the really-terrible threat to the entire world that Trump’s Ukraine “policy” actually poses,  beyond just the evil devastation heaped onto the people of Ukraine!

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I quote from the US Constitution (highlights are mine):

From Article III:

Section 3

Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court.

The Congress shall have Power to declare the Punishment of Treason, but no Attainder of Treason shall work Corruption of Blood, or Forfeiture except during the Life of the Person attainted.

From Article II:

Section 4

The President, Vice President and all Civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.

 

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“Adhering to their enemies,  giving them aid and comfort” from Article III is EXACLY what Trump’s efforts to aid Russia,  and deplete our ally and proxy Ukraine,  actually do!   So,  Trump’s efforts there are treason!  There is no other reasonable interpretation!

The quote from Article II says “shall be removed from office upon impeachment for,  and conviction of,  treason … ”.   The use of the wording “shall be” leaves no other option for Congress but to act,  once the crime is apparent.  There is no other option for them under the Constitution! 

For members of the House and Senate not to act once Trump’s crime of treason is publicly apparent,  likely makes them complicit in that treason themselves,  and certainly puts them in defiance of the Constitution’s requirement that they act (which would also thereby certainly qualify as “high crimes or misdemeanors” on their parts).  

You have always had the power to remove them from office by simply voting for somebody else,  at every election up to now!   However that power only continues,  if there are any more honest elections from this point forward,  but that is another issue for another article.

Trump’s crime of treason is blatantly (and now publicly with this posting) apparent,  and his tendency to commit it has been evident since his first term as President!  This initially became apparent almost 8 years ago,  when during his first term,  Trump went to a meeting at Helsinki in July 2018,  and met with Putin,  among other world leaders!

There at that meeting,  on live TV,  he publicly sided with Putin,   and publicly said he disbelieved his own intelligence agencies,  regarding Russian interference in the 2016 election.  Some,  including myself,  thought that was treason back then. 

That Russian election interference has since been proven to have occurred,  despite Trump’s claims otherwise to this very day!   And he still sides with Putin at every opportunity,  as the current situation in the Ukraine war demonstrates! 

You have an evident traitor as your president,  and you elected him twice!  THAT is the power of misinformation given to the public,  without any legal requirements for telling the truth! 

Trump and Putin at Helsinki, July 2018

Unfortunately,  the Supreme Court has granted Trump immunity from prosecution for crimes committed while in office as the President.  That mistake on their part needs to be rectified quickly and retroactively!   But even if Trump cannot be prosecuted in federal court and actually punished for his treason,  at least he can be removed from office by Congress with impeachment and conviction,  so that he cannot commit such treason again so easily

I have now with this posting,  viewable by anyone,   publicly pointed out the crime of treason apparently committed by President Trumpand I have justified this allegation with known facts and with relevant citations from the US Constitution in this very article

Millions witnessed these events live as they happened on TV,  so certainly there could be at least two who could testify before the House and Senate as to what they have witnessed.  That meets the Constitutional requirement of at least “two witnesses” in order to convict!

All you Senators and Representatives,  you are now obligated by the Constitution to act upon this publicly-apparent Trump treason,  lest you be in violation of the Constitution,  and also likely complicit in Trump’s crime of treason!  Why must you act?  Precisely because the allegation is public,  and well-supported,  too!

Final Remarks

All of this complicated treason issue is separate from the issue of Trump and his minions committing possible war crimes by destroying alleged drug-running boats,  and killing their occupants,  at sea ***.   And it is separate from the multi-faceted issue of a Trump dictatorship now already partly imposed upon the US.   And it is also separate from the issue of Trump and his minions illegally mistreating immigrants by detentions and attempted deportations,  all without due process,  and evidently racially motivated,  so far. 

Each of those is also an impeachable and convictable “high crime and misdemeanor”.  But those three issues are not covered here. 

The issue at hand here is only evident treason by President Donald Trump,  betraying our ally Ukraine,  by trying to force its surrender to our common enemy:  Putin’s Russia!

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*** See the article titled “About the Drug Boat Strikes”,  posted 7 December 2025,  search code 077122025,  search keyword “bad government”.  It covers the boat strike issue,  presenting strong cases for what is legal,  and what is illegal,  under the laws of war and the law of the sea. 

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Search code                  09122025

Search keywords         bad government,  treason

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