Now everyone knows the truth: Trump and Vance are Russian puppets
Impeach and remove Trump AND Vance
Trump stands with Putin.
We stand with Ukraine, Europe, and the United Nations Charter.
BACKGROUND
1)David Frum, “At Least Now We Know the Truth; It’s ugly, but necessary to face,” The Atlantic, February 28, 2028.
2)Tom Nichols, “It Was an Ambush; Today marked one of the grimmest days in the history of American diplomacy,” The Atlantic, February 28, 2025 (5:02 .m. ET).
3)Thomas L. Friedman, “This Never Happened With an American President Before,” New York Times,Februaty 28, 2025.
3)James Rowles, "“Russia's Man in Washington’ Prepares Pro-Putin and Pro-Russian U.S. Administration,” Trenchant Observations, November 14, 2024.
4)”U.S. votes against U.N. resolution condemning Russia for Ukraine war; Washington’s shift on the conflict marks a major break with Europe and coincides with the Trump administration’s bid to repair relations with Moscow.,” Washington Post, February 24, 2024, ( 2:46 p.m. EST)
pWonderful Satire: J.D. Vance and Donald Trump in the Oval Office accused Wolodymyr Zelensky of being “disrespectful”.
David From argues persuasively that it is better to face the hard realities and the truth than to labor under illusions.
Today, February 28, 2025, was a very good day for bursting illusions and seeing the truth and the hard realities that confront Americans and citizens of the freedom-loving countries of Europe and other democracies around the world.
Actually, the break between the United States and Ukraine and their leaders could be a very positive development.
It has shattered the illusions that are widespread that the United States and Donald Trump and J.D. Vance might be trustworthy partners.
Other members of the “Five Eyes” intelligence club need to stop sharing sensitive intelligence with the United States immediately. With Trump acting asMoscow’s “man in Washington”, they must assume that any such intelligence will be shared by the pro-Russian U.S. regime with Russia.
Uch sharing doesn’t even require a decision by Trump or Tulsi Gabbard, the Director of National Intelligence, who is widely believed to be a Russian “asset” if not a Russian agent,
On his first day in office, Trump issued an executive order which opened the country’s most secretive compartmentalized classified information to anyone Trump named or whom the White House Counsel added to the list—without any vetting whatsoever.
Of course, Gabbard can still be useful by directing Russian agents to the most relevant classified intelligence.
One may assume that Russian and Chinese (possibly some working for Elon Musk) intelligence assets have already rummaged through the files and divulged their contents to Russian and Chinese intelligence officials.
Another hard reality is that no fair and just ceasefire or peace agreement between Russia and Ukraine can be reached, as it would biolate peremptory norms of international law and the U.N. Charter.
Even if ignoring international law such an agreement were reached, it would not be worth the paper it was written on.
NATO and other Western countries should stop negotiating with themselves over future so-called “security guarantees” to uphold a ceasefire or peace settlement in Ukraine.
There is not going to be any ceasefire or peace settlement in Ukraine. So they can stop spinning their wheels in the air.
Finally, the illusion that the impeachment and removal of Trump could end the madness of the Trump administration because Vice-President J.D. Vance is at least rational has been burst once and for all. He may be rational, but he does not appear to be loyal to the U.S. or the Constitution.
Today we saw Vance goading Trump to attack Wolodymyr Zelenski according to what appeared to be a well-planned and well-rehearsed ambush of the Ukrainian president.
For normal government to be restored, Democrats and patriotic Republicans will need to impeach and remove both Trump and Vance, which would leave Michael Johnson, the Speaker of the House, in the presidency. Without Trump telling him what to do, Johnson would be a vast improvement over either Trump or Vance.
These are hard realities. They must be faced and acted upon. Soon.
Only such patriotic action can stop Trump and Vance from further destroying American democratic institutions, and the international legal order built on the United Nations Charter and its cornerstone principle prohibiting the illegal use of force across international frontiers.
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James Rowles is a former Lecturer on Law at Harv Law School and professor of international law at other universities.
He studied the history of Nazi Germany at Stanford, and has studied and worked on human rights, judicial reform, and access to justice projects in many countries in Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, and in Afghanistan and Russia. At Harvard Law School, he taught a course on “Law, Human Rights, and the Struggle for Democracy in Latin America”.
At the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) of the OAS, he worked on human rights cases involving forced disappearances, executions, and torture in a number of authoritarian countries in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Recent Books by the Author
James P. Rowles, The Rape of American Democracy: Republican Actions and Democratic Failures, 2016-2021 (2024). Available on Amazon, and from IngramSpark by clicking on a link here.
James P. Rowles, Don’t Be Stupid. Pay Attention, Damn It! Advice for Undecided Voters and Voters Leaning Toward Trump (2024). Available on Amazon,and from IngramSpark by clicking on a link here.
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