This is part of a speech by French politician Claude Malhuret, former head of Doctors Without Borders, regarding the situation in Ukraine, security in Europe and the unfolding djt/maga catastrophe in the US:
Europe is at a critical turning point in its history. The American shield is slipping, Ukraine risks being abandoned, and Russia is being strengthened.
Washington became the court of Nero, a firebrand emperor, subservient courtiers, and a ketamine-fueled jester in charge of purging the civil service.
This is a tragedy for the free world, but it is first and foremost a tragedy for the United States. Trump's message is that there is no point in being his ally since he will not defend you, he will impose more tariffs on you than on his enemies, and he will threaten to seize your territories while supporting the dictatorships that invade you.
The king of the deal is demonstrating the art of the deal. He thinks he'll intimidate China by bowing down to Putin, but Xi Jinping, faced with such a shipwreck, is undoubtedly accelerating preparations for the invasion of Taiwan.
Never in history has a US president capitulated to the enemy. Never has one supported an aggressor against an ally. Never has one trampled on the American Constitution, issued so many illegal decrees, dismissed judges who could have prevented them, suddenly dismissed the military leadership, weakened all checks and balances, and seized control of social media.
This is not an illiberal shift; it is the beginning of a confiscation of democracy. Let us remember that it took only one month, three weeks, and two days to bring down the Weimar Republic and its Constitution.I have faith in the strength of American democracy, and the country is already protesting. But in one month, Trump has done more harm to America than in four years of his last presidency. We were at war with a dictator; now we're fighting a dictator backed by a traitor.Eight days ago, at the very moment Trump was rubbing Macron's back in the White House, the United States voted at the UN with Russia and North Korea against the Europeans demanding the withdrawal of Russian troops.
Two days later, in the Oval Office, the military service shirker lectured war hero Zelensky on morality and strategy before dismissing him like a groom, ordering him to submit or resign.
Last night, he took another step toward infamy by stopping the promised arms delivery. What should be done in the face of this betrayal? The answer is simple: face it.
And first, make no mistake. Ukraine's defeat would be Europe's defeat. The Baltic States, Georgia, and Moldova are already on the list. Putin's goal is a return to Yalta, where half the continent was ceded to Stalin.
The countries of the South are waiting for the outcome of the conflict to decide whether they should continue to respect Europe or whether they are now free to trample on it.
What Putin wants is the end of the order established by the United States and its allies 80 years ago, with its first principle being the prohibition of acquiring territory by force.
This idea is at the very source of the UN, where today Americans vote in favor of the aggressor and against the attacked, because Trump's vision coincides with Putin's: a return to spheres of influence, with the great powers dictating the fate of small countries.
Mine is Greenland, Panama and Canada, you are Ukraine, the Baltic States and Eastern Europe, he is Taiwan and the China Sea.
At the parties of the oligarchs in the Gulf of Mar-a-Lago, this is called "diplomatic realism."
So we're alone. But the narrative that Putin is unstoppable is false. Contrary to Kremlin propaganda, Russia is in bad shape. In three years, the so-called second-largest army in the world has managed to scrape together only scraps from a country three times smaller in population.
They say they want peace. What neither they nor Trump say is that their peace is capitulation, the peace of defeat, the replacement of a de Gaullian Zelensky by a Ukrainian Pétain under Putin's thumb.The peace of collaborators who for three years, have refused to support the Ukrainians in any way.
Is this the end of the Atlantic alliance? The risk is great. But in recent days, Zelensky's public humiliation, and all the crazy decisions taken over the last month, have finally stirred Americans into action. Poll numbers are plummeting. Republican elected officials are greeted by hostile crowds in their constituencies. Even Fox News is becoming critical.
The Trumpists are no longer at the height of glory. They control the executive branch, Congress, the Supreme Court and social media. But in American history, the supporters of freedom have always won. They are starting to raise their heads.
The fate of Ukraine will be decided in the trenches, but it also depends on those who defend democracy in the United States, and here, on our ability to unite Europeans and find the means for our common defense, to make Europe the power it once was and hesitates to become again.
Our parents defeated fascism and communism at the cost of great sacrifice. The task of our generation is to defeat the totalitarianisms of the 21st century. Long live free Ukraine, long live democratic Europe. (emphasis added)
