Diplomatic Agreements Between Ukraine and Russia

A Response to people who keep calling for diplomacy because they ignore the existing history of diplomacy which Putin has violated repeatedly:

Diplomatic Agreements Between Russia and Ukraine since 1990

Numerous people I used to have respect for keep calling for an immediate cease fire and diplomatic solutions to the Russian war on Ukraine. Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J S Davies are two of the top harmful writers with a reach. I used to just think Benjamin was naïve but now consider her dangerously, harmfully naïve. Noam Chomsky is another one I used to think well of. No more. Damn fools.

They seem to be very unaware of the long list of diplomatic agreements between Ukraine and Russia starting with the first separation from the old USSR/Russia in 1991 straight through to today, including Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s negotiations which started as he came into office.

Worse, they often wipe out any consideration of formal, signed on paper, with multiple nations, by bringing up an informal aside between Bill Clinton and a Russian diplomat in the early 1990s.

And they keep claiming that the United States and NATO are constitute a legitimate threat to Russia, ignoring that the numbers of nations joining the EU did so not because they were somehow pressured or bribed or induced by EU, NATO and the US, but because they wanted to get as far away from Russia as they could. They were overrun by the USSR in WWII which never let them be free, invading them with troops and tanks when they showed independence. With the breakup of the USSR into Russia and other former republics in the union, including themselves, they wanted out. They wanted the kind of economies they could see for themselves in Europe.

Back to the “you-must-negotiate” crowd.

1 – they clearly haven’t done their research. Even the list I have below doesn’t catch everything.

2 – they clearly don’t grasp that diplomacy is not a magic bullet. Diplomacy is only as good as the will of the leaders in charge, in this case Putin.

3 – they don’t begin to get that diplomacy to Putin is not an agreement to hold in place, diplomacy to Putin is an opportunity to lie in wait for the next invasion.

4 –diplomacy, when successful, is the last act, after everyone is ready for the agreement.

It is a pattern of kings, autocrats, dictators and any authoritarian, that diplomacy is mostly a way to hold off the potential opposition until they can find a new opening to attack. Similar to a boxer’s footwork before figuring out when and where to land the next punch, watching an opponent’s moves until the boxer is ready. This is how a street thug thinks. Putin is not a political leader. He is a street thug.

On the street a thug looks for an opening, then swoops in and strikes before their victim has a chance to process the attack and form a response. That is essential for a thug. They are not looking to fight rounds with a referee. They want to get away as soon as possible or they stand a good chance of being toast. Being any kind of predator, animal or human, is hazardous to the predator. If the victim is able to form a response the predator is liable to be injured. To understand Putin, you need to see him as a street thug, albeit one with an army, navy and air force to do the “work” and absorb any injury.

What the “Damn fools” don’t get is that their way of looking at the world is limited. They think of the world and diplomacy as if this were a play or screenplay in which the script and direction can be controlled to a predetermined ending. They tend to think of diplomacy as the enforcement mechanism. They have an investment in their theoretical constructs, rather than evaluating the personalities directing the action.

Repeating: Diplomacy, like a script, is only as good as the willingness of the actors (political and actual) to go along with what is written on the page. In the case of invasion, this is not some actor going a bit off script and adlibbing, this is a non-actor, picking up the script as camouflage to get on stage, then tearing up the script, shredding it, blowing up the stage and setting fire to the theater. In the meantime, the “Damn Fools” are still trying to perform the script as if nothing had changed.

Diplomacy, by itself, does not stop the killing. Worse, diplomacy as the magic solution, may well cause worse killing with the next resumption of attacks by the original attacker, especially because the attacker can build an extended list of what to destroy.

In this case diplomacy becomes just another tactic to form the next invasion.

You always must ask who benefits and in what way from diplomacy. Otherwise, realize that this is a fight for survival. Do not tell the people who are being attacked yet another time that they need to stop defending themselves. You are killing the people you claim to care about.

The “proxy war” is on the part of Russia, not the US and not NATO. Putin moved troops without insignia (called “little green men”) into Donbass and Crimea and claimed they were separatists. I don’t even want to hear the “proxy war” claim because that is a pure creation of Russian disinformation. I won’t go into it here, not enough time. The claim disgusts me because it is deployed as a way of smearing Ukraine and the Zelenskyys. Just a trigger word, unaccompanied by information.

I’ve included the full text of Putin’s 2021 July 12^th article (in-article link) building a case for the next invasion of Ukraine, seven months later. It’s down to the bottom (link in this line). I created a simple dot graph using 100 typed periods to show how little of the article is devoted to NATO (about 1.5%, 88% of the way down the 6,901-word page). There is also a link to the original on the Kremlin’s web site.

Numerous writers have noted that Putin considered the end of the Soviet Union a great tragedy. Putin wants to put it back together, by any means.

I’ve also included a couple of selected articles from Quora. It is a user-contributed site, so it is always good practice to double check anything from Quora. Still, I thought they had something worth passing along which contributed to this article.

That’s it for now,
Mike Strong
MikeStrongPhotoVid@gmail.com
www.KCDance.com and www.MikeStrongPhoto.com

26 June 2023

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singing_Revolution

1987-1991 – The Singing Revolution

was a series of events in 1987–1991 that led to the restoration of independence of the three then Soviet-occupied Baltic countries of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania at the end of the Cold War. The term was coined by an Estonian activist and artist, Heinz Valk, in an article published a week after the 10–11 June 1988 spontaneous mass evening singing demonstrations at the Tallinn Song Festival Grounds.

1990 – The Revolution on Granite

First major political protest in Ukraine against remaining part of the USSR.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukrainian_Soviet_Socialist_Republic

1985-1991 – Gorbachev and dissolution

Following the failed August Coup in Moscow on 19–21 August 1991, the Supreme Soviet of Ukraine declared independence on 24 August 1991, which renamed the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic to Ukraine. The result of the 1991 independence referendum held on 1 December 1991 proved to be a surprise. An overwhelming majority, 92.3%, voted for independence. The referendum carried in the majority of all oblasts. Notably, the Crimea, which had originally been a territory of the RSFSR until 1954, supported the referendum by a 54 percent majority. Over 80 percent of the population of Eastern Ukraine voted for independence. Ukraine’s independence was almost immediately recognized by the international community. Ukraine’s new-found independence was the first time in the 20th century that Ukrainian independence had been attempted without either foreign intervention or civil war. In the 1991 Ukrainian presidential election 62 percent of Ukrainians voted for Leonid Kravchuk, who had been vested with presidential powers since the Supreme Soviet’s declaration of independence.^[49] The secession of the second most powerful republic in the Soviet Union ended any realistic chance of the Soviet Union staying together even on a limited scale.

https://hls.harvard.edu/today/there-was-no-promise-not-to-enlarge-nato/ 
‘There was no promise not to enlarge NATO’ 
Robert Zoellick, the U.S. diplomat who helped negotiate the end of the Cold War, says Vladimir Putin’s claims about Ukraine are part of a disinformation campaign
Mar 16, 2022 By Jeff Neal

… former Under Secretary of State Robert Zoellick ’81 was in the room where it happened.
During the 1990 summit, Zoellick says President Gorbachev accepted the idea of German unification within the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, based on the principle that every country should freely choose its own alliances.

“I was in those meetings, and Gorbachev has [also] said there was no promise not to enlarge NATO,” Zoellick recalls. Soviet Foreign Minister, Eduard Shevardnadze, later president of Georgia, concurred, he says. Nor does the treaty on Germany’s unification include a limit on NATO enlargement. …

Zoellick vividly recalls the White House meeting he attended nearly three decades ago in which Bush asked Gorbachev if he agreed with the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe principle that nations are free to ally with others as they see fit. When Gorbachev said yes, he says, the Soviet leader’s “own colleagues at the table visibly separated themselves.”

Sensing the import of the possible breakthrough, he says a colleague at the meeting, Robert Blackwill, sent him a note checking what they had heard and asking if they should ask Bush to repeat the question. “Gorbachev agreed again,” Zoellick recalls, to the principle that Germany could choose to enter NATO.

“The reality was that, in 1989-90, most people, and certainly the Soviets, weren’t focusing on whether the Eastern European countries would become part of NATO,” Zoellick says. Knowing Soviet and Russian diplomacy, he believes Moscow would have demanded assurances in writing if it believed the U.S. had made such a promise. And even in 1996, when President Bill Clinton welcomed former Warsaw Pact nations to join NATO, he says that, “[o]ne of the German diplomats involved told me that as they discussed the enlargement with the Russians, no Russian raised the argument that there had been a promise not to enlarge.”

… “Given Putin’s behavior, can you imagine what the effect would be on Poland today if it weren’t in NATO? I think it’s wise to have Poland and Germany on the same side. The Baltic countries were a tougher choice for NATO, not because they don’t deserve the security, but they’re very hard to defend.”

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2014/11/06/did-nato-promise-not-to-enlarge-gorbachev-says-no/  
Did NATO Promise Not to Enlarge? Gorbachev Says “No”
Steven Pifer Thursday, November 6, 2014

… Western leaders never pledged not to enlarge NATO, a point that several analysts have demonstrated. Mark Kramer explored the question in detail in a 2009 article in The Washington Quarterly. He drew on declassified American, German and Soviet records to make his case and noted that, in discussions on German reunification in the two-plus-four format (the two Germanys plus the United States, Soviet Union, Britain and France), the Soviets never raised the question of NATO enlargement other than how it might apply in the former German Democratic Republic (GDR). …

https://www.csis.org/analysis/twq-myth-no-nato-enlargement-pledge-russia-spring-2009   – link Center for Strategic & International Studies
TWQ: The Myth of a No-NATO-Enlargement Pledge to Russia – Spring 2009 
Journal by Mark Kramer, Published April 1, 2009

In the latter half of the 1990s, as the North Atlantic Treaty Organization  (NATO) was preparing to expand its membership for the first time since the admission of Spain in 1982, Russian officials claimed that the entry  of former Warsaw Pact countries into NATO would violate a solemn ‘‘pledge’’ made by the governments of West Germany and the United States  in 1990 not to bring any former Communist states into the alliance.1 Anatolii Adamishin, who was Soviet deputy foreign minister in 1990, claimed in 1997 that ‘‘we were told during the German reunification process that NATO would not expand.’’ Other former Soviet officials, including Mikhail Gorbachev, made similar assertions in 1996—1997. Some Western analysts and former officials, including Jack F. Matlock, who was the U.S. ambassador to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) in 1990, endorsed this view, arguing that Gorbachev received a ‘‘clear commitment that if Germany united, and stayed in NATO, the borders of NATO would not move eastward.’’ Pointing to comments recorded by the journalists Michael Beschloss and Strobe Talbott, former U.S. defense secretary Robert McNamara averred that ‘‘the United States pledged never to expand NATO eastward if Moscow would agree to the unification of Germany.’’ According to this view, ‘‘the Clinton administration reneged on that commitment . . . when it decided to expand NATO to Eastern Europe.’’

These assertions were sharply challenged at the time by other observers, including former U.S. policymakers who played a direct role in the German reunification process. George H. W. Bush, Brent Scowcroft, and James A. Baker, who served as president, national security adviser, and secretary of state in 1990 respectively, all firmly denied that the topic of extending NATO membership to former Warsaw Pact countries (other than East Germany) even came up during the negotiations with Moscow on German reunification, much less that the United States made a ‘‘pledge’’ not to pursue it. In 1997, Philip Zelikow, who in 1990 was a senior official on the National Security Council (NSC) staff responsible for German reunification issues, maintained that the United States made no commitment at all about the future shape of NATO, apart from some specific points about eastern Germany that were codified in the Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to Germany signed in September 1990. ‘‘The option of adding new members to NATO,’’ Zelikow wrote, was ‘‘not foreclosed by the deal actually made in 1990.’’ …

… Much of the controversy about this issue stems from a few conversations held in the first half of February 1990, just after the collapse of Communist regimes in Eastern Europe.

…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991_Ukrainian_independence_referendum

1991 Dec 1 – Ukrainian independence referendum

A referendum on the Act of Declaration of Independence was held in Ukraine on 1 December 1991.[1] An overwhelming majority of 92.3% of voters approved the declaration of independence made by the Verkhovna Rada on 24 August 1991.

Voters were asked “Do you support the Act of Declaration of Independence of Ukraine?”[2] The text of the Declaration was included as a preamble to the question. The referendum was called by the Parliament of Ukraine to confirm the Act of Independence, which was adopted by the Parliament on 24 August 1991.[3] Citizens of Ukraine expressed overwhelming support for independence. In the referendum, 31,891,742 registered voters (or 84.18% of the electorate) took part, and among them 28,804,071 (or 92.3%) voted “Yes”.[2]

On the same day, a presidential election took place. In the month up to the presidential election, all six candidates campaigned across Ukraine in favour of independence from the Soviet Union, and a “Yes” vote in the referendum. Leonid Kravchuk, the parliament chairman and de facto head of state, was elected to serve as the first President of Ukraine.[4]

From 2 December 1991 onwards, Ukraine was globally recognized by other countries as an independent state.[5][6][7] Also on 2 December, the President of the Russian SFSR Boris Yeltsin recognized Ukraine as independent.[8][9][10][11] In a telegram of congratulations Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev sent to Kravchuk soon after the referendum, Gorbachev included his hopes for close Ukrainian cooperation and understanding in “the formation of a union of sovereign states”.

1990 November 19 Treaty between Ukrainian SSR and RSFSR

1991 Dec 8 – Belovezha Accords

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belovezha_Accords

Signed by:

• Belarusian Parliament Chairman Stanislav Shushkevich and Prime Minister of Belarus Vyacheslav Kebich
• Russian President Boris Yeltsin and First Deputy Prime Minister of the RSFSR/Russian Federation Gennady Burbulis
• Ukrainian President Leonid Kravchuk and Ukrainian Prime Minister Vitold Fokin
  
  

The main obligations of the parties to the Agreement, ratified by all former Soviet republics except Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, includes the following:

1. The end of the existence of the USSR, with the “setting up of lawfully constituted democratic… independent states… on the basis of mutual recognition of and respect for State sovereignty”.^[4]
2. Establishing on the territory the “right to self-determination” along with “norms relating to human and people’s rights”.^[4]
3. “Parties guarantee to their citizens, regardless of their nationality or other differences, equal rights and freedoms. Each of the Parties guarantees to the citizens of the other Parties, and also to stateless persons resident in their territory, regardless of national affiliation or other differences, civil, political, social, economic and cultural rights and freedoms in accordance with the universal recognized international norms relating to human rights” (Article 2).^[4]
4. “The Parties, desirous of facilitating the expression, preservation and development of the distinctive ethnic, cultural, linguistic and religious characteristics of the national minorities resident in their territories and of the unique ethno-cultural regions that have come into being, will extend protection to them” (Article 3).^[4]
5. “Equitable cooperation” (Article 4).^[4]
6. “Territorial integrity” along with “freedom of movement of citizens” (Article 5).

https://www.armscontrol.org/node/3289

1992 May 23 – The Lisbon Protocol At a Glance

A pervasive fear surrounding the collapse of the Soviet Union was the uncertain fate of its nuclear arsenal. In addition to Russia, the emerging states of Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Ukraine inherited a significant number of nuclear weapons, raising concerns that the Soviet Union would leave four nuclear weapon successor states instead of just one. Aside from increasing the number of governments with their finger on the proverbial nuclear button, the circumstances simultaneously raised concerns that those weapons might be more vulnerable to possible sale or theft. The Lisbon Protocol, concluded on May 23, 1992, sought to alleviate those fears by committing the three non-Russian former Soviet states to return their nuclear weapons to Russia. In spite of a series of political disputes that sparked some concerns about implementation of the protocol, all Soviet nuclear weapons were eventually transferred to Russia by the end of 1996.
https://2009-2017.state.gov/documents/organization/27389.pdf  – link to the PDF of the Lisbon Protocol
The United States and Russia reached a solution to this complex problem by engaging Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Ukraine in a series of talks that led to the Lisbon Protocol. That agreement made all five states party to the 1991 Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START), which required Washington and Moscow to each cut their deployed strategic nuclear forces from approximately 10,000 warheads apiece to down below 6,000 warheads on no more than 1,600 intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs), submarine-launched ballistic missiles (SLBMs), and long-range bombers. The protocol signaled the intentions of Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Ukraine to forswear nuclear arms and accede to the nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) as non-nuclear-weapon states, a commitment that all three fulfilled and continue to abide by today.

Estimated Warheads in Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Ukraine in 1991

	Strategic Warheads	Tactical Warheads
Belarus	100	725
Kazakhstan	1,410	Uncertain
Ukraine	1,900	2,275

1992 June 23 at Dagomys
Agreement between Ukraine and the Russian Federation on the Further development of inter-state relations

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budapest_Memorandum  –

https://treaties.un.org/doc/Publication/UNTS/Volume%203007/Part/volume-3007-I-52241.pdf   Text of the Budapest Memorandum

1994 December 5 (effective) Budapest Memorandum

Memorandum on security assurances in connection with Ukraine’s accession to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons.

Budapest, 5 December 1994
Entry into force: 5 December 1994 by signature
Authentic texts: English, Russian and Ukrainian
Registration with the Secretariat of the United Nations: Ukraine, 2 October 2014

The Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances comprises three substantially identical political agreements signed at the OSCE conference in Budapest, Hungary, on 5 December 1994, to provide security assurances by its signatories relating to the accession of Belarus, Kazakhstan and Ukraine to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT). The three memoranda were originally signed by three nuclear powers: the Russian Federation, the United Kingdom and the United States. China and France gave somewhat weaker individual assurances in separate documents.

The memoranda, signed in Patria Hall at the Budapest Convention Center with US Ambassador Donald M. Blinken amongst others in attendance, prohibited the Russian Federation, the United Kingdom and the United States from threatening or using military force or economic coercion against Ukraine, Belarus, and Kazakhstan, “except in self-defence or otherwise in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations.” As a result of other agreements and the memorandum, between 1993 and 1996, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Ukraine gave up their nuclear weapons

According to the three memoranda, Russia, the US and the UK confirmed their recognition of Belarus, Kazakhstan and Ukraine becoming parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons and effectively abandoning their nuclear arsenal to Russia, and that they agreed to the following:

1. Respect the signatory’s independence and sovereignty in the existing borders.
2. Refrain from the threat or the use of force against the signatory.
3. Refrain from economic coercion designed to subordinate to their own interest the exercise by the signatory of the rights inherent in its sovereignty and thus to secure advantages of any kind.
4. Seek immediate Security Council action to provide assistance to the signatory if they “should become a victim of an act of aggression or an object of a threat of aggression in which nuclear weapons are used”.
5. Refrain from the use of nuclear arms against the signatory.
6. Consult with one another if questions arise regarding those commitments.

History

Until Ukraine gave up the Soviet nuclear weapons stationed on its soil, it had the world’s third-largest nuclear weapons stockpile, of which Ukraine had physical but no operational control. Russia controlled the codes needed to operate the nuclear weapons through electronic Permissive Action Links and the Russian command and control system, although this could not be sufficient guarantee against Ukrainian access.

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ukraine._Memorandum_on_Security_Assurances – HTML text of the Budapest Memorandum

Ukraine. Memorandum on Security Assurances

Memorandum on Security Assurances in connection with Ukraine’s accession to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons

Budapest, 5 December 1994

Ukraine, the Russian Federation, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and the United States of America,

Welcoming the Accession of Ukraine to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons as a non-nuclear-weapon state,

Taking into account the commitment of Ukraine to eliminate all nuclear weapons from its territory within a specified period of time,

Noting the changes in the world-wide security situation, including the end of the Cold War, which have brought about conditions for deep reductions in nuclear forces,

Confirm the following:

1. The Russian Federation, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and The United States of America reaffirm their commitment to Ukraine, in accordance with the principles of the CSCE Final Act, to respect the independence and sovereignty and the existing borders of Ukraine.
2. The Russian Federation, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and The United States of America reaffirm their obligation to refrain from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of Ukraine, and that none of their weapons will ever be used against Ukraine except in self-defense or otherwise in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations.
3. The Russian Federation, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and The United States of America reaffirm their commitment to Ukraine, in accordance with the Principles of the CSCE Final Act, to refrain from economic coercion designed to subordinate to their own interest the exercise by Ukraine of the rights inherent in its sovereignty and thus to secure advantages of any kind.
4. The Russian Federation, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and The United States of America reaffirm their commitment to seek immediate United Nations Security Council action to provide assistance to Ukraine, as a non-nuclear-weapon state party to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, if Ukraine should become a victim of an act of aggression or an object of a threat of aggression in which nuclear weapons are used.
5. The Russian Federation, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and The United States of America reaffirm, in the case of Ukraine, their commitment not to use nuclear weapons against any non-nuclear-weapon state party to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, except in the case of an attack on themselves, their territories or dependent territories, their armed forces, or their allies, by such a state in association or alliance with a nuclear weapon state.
6. Ukraine, The Russian Federation, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and The United States of America will consult in the event a situation arises which raises a question concerning these commitments.

This Memorandum will become applicable upon signature.

Signed in four copies having equal validity in the Ukrainian, English, and Russian languages.

FOR UKRAINE:
(signature Leonid Kuchma)

FOR THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION:
(signature Boris Yeltsin)

FOR THE UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND:
(signature John Major)

FOR THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA:
(signature Bill Clinton)

Budapest, 5 December 1994.

1996 – Ukraine enacts their Constitution and creates their currency (hryvnia)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian%E2%80%93Ukrainian_Friendship_Treaty

1997 May 31 (signed) 2000 April 1 (effective) 2019 March 31 (expired)

Treaty on Friendship, Cooperation, and Partnership between Ukraine and the Russian Federation 
was an agreement between Ukraine and Russia, signed in 1997, which fixed the principle of strategic partnership, the recognition of the inviolability of existing borders, and respect for territorial integrity and mutual commitment not to use its territory to harm the security of each other. The treaty prevents Ukraine and Russia from invading one another’s country respectively, and declaring war.^[2] Due to the beginning of the Russo-Ukrainian War in 2014, Ukraine announced its intention not to renew the treaty in September 2018.^[3] The treaty consequently expired on 31 March 2019.^[4][3] The treaty was also known as the “Big Treaty”.^[5][6]

Until 2019, the treaty was automatically renewed on each 10th anniversary of its signing, unless one party advised the other of its intention to end the treaty six months prior to the date of the renewal.^[1][7]

Russia–Ukraine relations have deteriorated since the 2014 Russian annexation of Crimea and Russian support for separatist forces in the war in Ukraine’s Donbas region.^[8] In response, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko signed a decree not to extend the treaty.

Signing and ratification[edit]

The treaty was signed in Kyiv on 31 May 1997 by the President of UkraineLeonid Kuchma and Russian PresidentBoris Yeltsin.^[1]

In Ukraine, the treaty was ratified by the Law of Ukraine No. 13/98-VR on 14 January 1998 (On ratification of the Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Partnership between Ukraine and the Russian Federation).^[9]

In Russia, on 25 December 1998, the State Duma of the Federal Assembly adopted a resolution on the adoption of the federal law “On ratification of the Agreement of Friendship, Collaboration and Partnership between the Russian Federation and Ukraine” and directed it to the Federation Council. The Federation Council approved this federal law by the Resolution on 17 February 1999. The treaty was ratified.^[10]

The document superseded the previous treaty between the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic and the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic of 19 November 1990 (before dissolution of the Soviet Union).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_Between_the_Russian_Federation_and_Ukraine_on_Cooperation_in_the_Use_of_the_Sea_of_Azov_and_the_Kerch_Strait

2003 December 24 (signed) 2004 April 23 (effective)

Treaty Between the Russian Federation and Ukraine on Cooperation in the Use of the Sea of Azov and the Kerch Strait

is an agreement on sea and fisheries between Russia and Ukraine entered into force on 23 April 2004.^[1][2] It was signed on 24 December 2003 by President of UkraineLeonid Kuchma and President of RussiaVladimir Putin^[2] and ratified by both parliaments in April 2004.

 2004 – 2005 : Orange Revolution

Huge protests by Ukrainians against corruption and election fraud

2013 – 2014 : Revolution of Dignity

Ukrainians protest corruption demanding that Ukraine join the EU. Viktor Yanukovych refuses, is deposed and self-exiles to Russia

2014 February-March – Crimea Annexed by Russia

2014 April – Donbas invaded by Russia

“Astro-turf” separatists – troops with identifiers

2014 & 2015 Minsk Agreements

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/2/9/what-is-the-minsk-agreement-and-why-is-it-relevant-now

What are the Minsk agreements?

Minsk I – 2014 September

Ukraine and the Russia-backed separatists agreed on a 12-point ceasefire deal in September 2014.

Its provisions included prisoner exchanges, deliveries of humanitarian aid and the withdrawal of heavy weapons. However, the agreement quickly broke down, with violations by both sides.

Minsk II – 2015 February

Representatives of Russia, Ukraine, the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) and the leaders of separatist-held regions Donetsk and Luhansk signed a 13-point agreement in February 2015.

The leaders of France, Germany, Russia and Ukraine gathered in Minsk to mark the occasion and issued a declaration of support.

The deal’s 13 points were:

• Immediate, comprehensive ceasefire.
• Withdrawal of heavy weapons by both sides.
• OSCE monitoring.
• Dialogue on interim self-government for Donetsk and Luhansk, in accordance with Ukrainian law, and acknowledgement of special status by parliament.
• Pardon, amnesty for fighters.
• Exchange of hostages, prisoners.
• Humanitarian assistance.
• Resumption of socioeconomic ties, including pensions.
• Ukraine to restore control of state border.
• Withdrawal of foreign armed formations, military equipment, mercenaries.
• Constitutional reform in Ukraine including decentralisation, with specific mention of Donetsk and Luhansk.
• Elections in Donetsk and Luhansk.
• Intensify Trilateral Contact Group’s work including representatives of Russia, Ukraine and OSCE.

Why has the 2015 agreement failed to end fighting in eastern Ukraine?

The Minsk II deal set out military and political steps that remain unimplemented.

A major blockage has been Russia’s insistence that it is not a party to the conflict and therefore is not bound by its terms.

In general, Moscow and Kyiv interpret the pact very differently, leading to what has been dubbed by some observers as the “Minsk conundrum”.

What is the ‘Minsk conundrum’?

Ukraine sees the 2015 agreement as an instrument to re-establish control over the rebel territories.

It wants a ceasefire, control of the Russia-Ukraine border, elections in the Donbas, and a limited devolution of power to the separatists – in that order.

Russia views the deal as obliging Ukraine to grant rebel authorities in Donbas comprehensive autonomy and representation in the central government, effectively giving Moscow the power to veto Kyiv’s foreign policy choices.

Normandy Format Meetings

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normandy_Format

The Normandy Format, also known as the Normandy contact group, is a grouping of states who met in an effort to resolve the war in Donbas and the wider Russo-Ukrainian War. The four countries who make up the group—Germany, Russia, Ukraine, and France—first met informally in 2014 during the 70th anniversary of D-Day celebrations in Normandy, France.

Creation and composition

The group was created on 6 June 2014, when leaders from France, Germany, Russia, and Ukraine met on the margins of the 70th anniversary of the D-Day allied landings in Normandy. It operates mainly through telephone calls between the leaders and their respective ministers of foreign affairs. The Normandy Format has at times been expanded to include Belarus, Italy, and the United Kingdom.

2014

Early talks in 2014 led to the establishment of the Trilateral Contact Group in order to facilitate further talks between Russia and Ukraine. This, along with mediation through the Normandy Format, directly led to the establishment of Minsk Protocol. This agreement, signed in September 2014, outlined several provisions for peace in the Donbas Region and Crimea.

2015

Following a continued break-down of relations in early 2015, the Normandy Format met during talks in Belarus from 11 to 12 February 2015. This was precipitated by a joint French-Germany diplomatic plan, which was negotiated overnight for over sixteen hours while the group met in Minsk. The emerging package, Minsk II, negotiated ceasefires as well as planned domestic reforms in Ukraine.

Negotiations and talks were stalled from 2016 until autumn 2019.

2019 – Zelensky is elected

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, in his May 2019 inaugural address made peace talks with Russia his top priority. He reaffirmed that priority in July that year when he invited via YouTube the other nations to a dialogue. He said: “Let’s discuss who Crimea belongs to and who isn’t in the Donbas region.”

On 18 July 2019, a “comprehensive” cease-fire was agreed with arbitration by the Trilateral Contact Group on Ukraine.

In early September 2019, French President Emmanuel Macron and Russian President Vladimir Putin stated their intention to hold a Normandy format meeting. On 21 September, “continuing bickering” was cited as causing “a political tug-of-war” over the preliminaries to negotiations, as they had been since the Normandy Format meeting in 2016 in Berlin. Also in late September, a phone call between US President Donald Trump and Zelenskyy in which the latter described the support of France and Germany as lukewarm damaged Zelenskyy’s image in Europe. On 10 October, Zelenskyy repeated his statement in a public news conference. On 16 October, French and German leaders decided in favor of another Normandy Format meeting.

December 2019

Zelenskyy, after becoming president, tried to settle the war and “negotiate like a human being“, but Putin wanted to impose “Minsk“, which would be a great victory for the Russian Federation.

At the meeting in 2019, Putin counted on the “capitulation of Ukraine” and the unpreparedness of the Zelenskyy team. However, the President of Ukraine, during Putin’s speech “on special status“, almost laughed and covered his mouth with his hand.

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/12/10/russia-and-ukraine-agree-to-ceasefire-by-the-end-of-2019.html

CNBC, EUROPE POLITICS
Russia and Ukraine make small steps toward peace, but no big leap
PUBLISHED TUE, DEC 10 2019, 5:19 AM ESTUPDATED TUE, DEC 10 20196:53 AM EST, Holly Ellyatt

KEY POINTS

• Russia and Ukraine have agreed to a “full and comprehensive implementation” of a cease-fire before the end of 2019, after peace talks in Paris on Monday.
• Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky met in person for the first time on Monday.
• The meeting was a bid to resolve a more than five-year conflict in eastern Ukraine between pro-Russian separatists and Ukrainian forces in which over 13,000 people have died.

Russia and Ukraine have agreed to a “full and comprehensive implementation” of a cease-fire in the Donbass region of Ukraine before the end of 2019, after peace talks in Paris on Monday, but how promises translate into action remains to be seen.

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky met in person for the first time on Monday in a bid to resolve a long-running conflict in eastern Ukraine between pro-Russian separatists and Ukrainian forces.

Both leaders cautiously welcomed their meeting and Putin said that the process was “going in the right direction” but differences remain, including over the control of the Ukrainian-Russian border.

The conflict is one of the worst seen in modern Europe yet it is also largely seen as a “forgotten” war, having rumbled on for more than five years. In that time over 13,000 people have died, according to the United Nations, and hostilities have affected 3.9 million civilians living in the region.

Putin and Zelensky held a bilateral meeting as well as joint meetings with French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who have previously tried to broker a peace deal between the divided neighbors.

The group has become known as the “Normandy Four” and Monday was the first time it had met since October 2016.

2020 July 22 – Ceasefire

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-ukraine-crisis-ceasefire-idUSKCN24N2SX 
JULY 22, 2020, 3:11 PM
Deal reached for east Ukraine ceasefire from July 27
By Reuters Staff

KYIV (Reuters) – Ukrainian, Russian and OSCE negotiators reached an agreement on Wednesday for a full ceasefire between government forces and pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine from Monday, Ukraine’s president’s office said.

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Zelenskiy has sought to resolve the conflict since his election last year, arranging a number of prisoner swaps. Ukraine and Russia have been foes since 2014, when Moscow seized Ukraine’s Crimea peninsula and backed the rebellion in the east.

2021 – April

Russia mobilizes troops along Ukraine’s borders, 150,000 to 200,000 troops East, South and North of Ukraine (including Belarus)

2021 July 12th
Putin’s article in which he builds a case to invade Ukraine 7 months before he does so, even while “negotiating” with Zelensky

FULL TEXT is below under “Related Topics” – Here I am just posting the link to the Kremlin’s own site (in English) and my own dot graph showing the relative position and size (%) of any mention about NATO.

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Source URL:     http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/66181

Length (headline and text): 6,901 words – 42,899 characters
Length of paragraph with “NATO” statement: 94 words – 635 characters
Distance down the document: starts after 6,047 words – 37,744 characters

94/6,901 = 0.01362 == 1.37%
635/42899 = 0.01480 == 1.5%  call it 1.435%
6047/6901 = 0.8762 == starts 87.6% of the way down the page
37744/42899 = 0.8798 == starts 88% of the way down the page
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Article starts here – >      100 dots, the 88^th (.) mentions NATO twice.                              

Clearly the importance of NATO in Putin’s stated concerns is very small. He waits until near the end of a long article and only then does he say anything about NATO, twice in one short paragraph (about 1.4% of the total size: 6,901 words / 42,899 characters).

2021 December 22

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/osce-says-ceasefire-agreement-reached-eastern-ukraine-2021-12-22/  
OSCE says ceasefire agreement reached for eastern Ukraine
Reuters, December 22, 2021, 3:04 PM CST

KYIV, Dec 22 (Reuters) – Negotiators from Ukraine, Russia and the Organization of Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) agreed to restore a full ceasefire between the Ukrainian government forces and Russia-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine, the OSCE said on Wednesday.

“I was delighted that participants expressed their strong determination to fully adhere to the Measures to Strengthen the Ceasefire agreement of 22 July 2020,” the Special Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office in Ukraine and in the Trilateral Contact Group (TCG), Ambassador Mikko Kinnunen said in a statement.

Kyiv and Moscow have blamed each other in recent months for violation of a previous ceasefire, which had been agreed in July 2020 and helped significantly reduce the number of casualties last year.

“This (new agreement) is of utmost significance for the people living on both sides of the contact line,” Kinnunen said.

He said that according to the special monitoring mission reports the security situation along the contact line remained volatile, with about five times more ceasefire violations on average per day recorded in December 2021 compared with December 2020.

Major combat between Ukrainian troops and Russian-backed forces ended with an agreement reached in the Belarus capital Minsk in 2015 with the mediation of Germany and France, but sporadic clashes still regularly kill civilians and soldiers in a military conflict which has lasted since 2014.

2022 January 26^th, Paris – Negotiating as a setup for invasion one month later

A Normandy Format meeting between the four countries’ representatives was held in Paris on 26 January 2022 in the context of the lead-up to the 2022 invasion of Ukraine by Russia, to be followed by a telephone conversation between the French and Russian presidents on 28 January. The representatives of the four governments confirmed their support for Minsk II and committed themselves to resolving existing disagreements. They supported an unconditional ceasefire, and supported strengthening of the 22 July 2020 ceasefire, independent of their disagreements about implementing other components of Minsk II. A follow up meeting was planned to take place in Berlin a fortnight later. No joint declaration was agreed upon at the conclusion of the nine-hour-long Normandy Format meeting held on 10 February, but the representatives planned to meet again in March. This meeting never occurred following the Russian invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022. Zelenskyy later announced that the Normandy Format was “destroyed” due to Russia’s actions. France and Germany continue to be involved in peace-talks between the two countries, while also providing support to Ukraine while denouncing Russia.

2023 June 24 – Denmark

https://www.kyivpost.com/post/18648

Denmark on Saturday hosts a meeting organized by Ukraine bringing together several nations — including those who have remained neutral on the Russian invasion — to discuss a path towards peace.

Few details have leaked about the meeting. However, a Western official speaking on condition of anonymity said that White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan would attend.

The meeting in Copenhagen aims to discuss ways of achieving a “just and lasting peace” in Ukraine, the source said.

The invitees include top security officials from the United States, the European Union and other countries that have backed Ukraine since Russia invaded last year, as well as those that have not condemned the invasion, the source added.

They did not specify which countries.

“We have worked very hard inside (the) G7 on a peace formula,” said a European diplomatic source, also speaking on condition of anonymity.

“So the idea is to go beyond that and involve key actors like Brazil and India. We frankly expect and wish that China will be there.”

The meeting was first reported by the UK’s Financial Times.

It cited sources familiar with the plans as saying the meeting could include officials from Brazil, India and South Africa, although the list of attendees had not been finalized.

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But they are seen as a milestone on the path to a peace summit organized by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

A date has not yet been set for this summit, which could be held in Copenhagen or Paris in the coming months, but the EU has said “substantial” preparation was necessary.

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Related Topics

https://www.reuters.com/article/nato-ukraine/ukraines-new-president-seeks-pro-western-course-peace-with-russia-idINKCN1T522R 
Reuters WORLD NEWS, JUNE 4, 2019, 10:30 AM
Ukraine’s new president seeks pro-Western course, peace with Russia
By Robin Emmott

BRUSSELS (Reuters) – New Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Tuesday he was ready to negotiate with Russia to end the war in eastern Ukraine while sticking to Ukraine’s goal of one day joining the European Union and the NATO alliance.

Speaking at NATO headquarters, Zelenskiy, a former comic actor with no prior political experience who took over as president on May 20, said he would keep Ukraine “on the path of European and Euro Atlantic integration”.

“The strategic course of Ukraine to achieve fully-fledged membership in the EU and NATO … remains unchanged,” Zelenskiy told reporters alongside NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg. “This is the priority of our foreign policy.”

Zelenskiy met European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker earlier on Tuesday in Brussels.

Zelenskiy has taken over a country on the frontline of the West’s standoff with Russia following Moscow’s 2014 annexation of Ukraine’s Crimea peninsula and a Kremlin-backed separatist conflict that has killed 13,000 people in eastern Ukraine.

NATO has provided training to Ukraine’s military and pledged to continue that support. Zelenskiy described Russian military power as a “major challenge” but said he was eager to revive a peace agreement reached in Minsk, Belarus.

https://www.kyivpost.com/post/18662 
Garry Kasparov -The Fall of Putin is Inevitable
The initial reaction to the military revolt in Russia from a leading Russian democratic figure.
by Jason Jay Smart | June 24, 2023, 4:24 pm

Garry Kasparov, one of the foremost leaders of the Russian democratic opposition and human rights defenders, in an exclusive interview with Kyiv Post, analyzes what Prigozhin’s war against Putin means, how it will play-out, and what we should expect next.

Kasparov tells Kyiv Post: 

“Putin was right by invoking 1917 [in his TV address on June 24]. This is clearly a 1917 situation. The war is not over but it did not go well. You have had hundreds of thousands of [Russian men] recruited, without a clear understanding of what they are doing – why are they are paying such a high price – why they have been taken away from their families.”

This coupled with the fact that, “Russia is a country with a huge social disparity. The ratio of poor to wealthy is worse than many African countries…These people have always lived under oppression,” something that is not even “about democracy,” rather “it is about them being subordinated even to the local police chief. Anyone with some power can push them around.”

Unfortunately for Putin, “Now – these people – have guns,” and “they have a charismatic leader. Ironically, Putin empowered him to bring criminals into the Army. And [Prigozhin] created a powerful army.”

This army of Wagnerites, today, says Kasparov “are seasoned warriors. Those who fought in Bakhmut have different ideas about life and death.”

“Prigozhin showed that the entire Putin Regime is just a Hollywood decoration: Where is [Chairman of the Russian Senate] Matvienko? Where is [Prime Minister] Mustian? Where are all the Ministers? Prigozhin has demonstrated that the whole system is rotten. It is a vacuum of power. You just need one push to demonstrate that.”

But will Putin fall?

“Most likely Putin is finished. The issue is that Prigozhin cannot create a government. It is a raw rebellion, and he does not have a political wing. That is the difference with 1917: Lenin had a political organization. Prigozhin does not,” which contributes to why “Russia is moving into chaos territory.”

Putin erred by “having an imperialist war without a clear message to the Russian public as to why they had to do it. Putin himself changed the reason so many times.” Now we see “the transformation – like Lenin: Transformation from imperialist war into civil war: As if he followed Lenin’s formula!”

The difference today, however, is that “unlike in 1917, [people in Russia] know about the decadence of the Russian elite. Russian peasants in 1917, in Tomsk or Penza, had very vague ideas about luxury. They knew it was different. But today they know. They watch Navalny’s movies, and right now they can do something about it. They can restore justice – or end injustice that they have suffered.”

But is it really possible to overthrow Putin?

“Now you have hundreds of thousands of armed people. Who must make a choice: Stay with Putin or join the rebellion. But why stay with the regime?”

Kasparov recalls that, “Yesterday, when the [Russian Army] generals showed up to condemn Prigozhin – I spoke to my friends, ‘Look it is not about generals. Of course, generals will condemn Prigozhin as they are beneficiaries of Putin’s mafia system.’ Rather, it is what the [normal guys] will do. And we got an answer this morning: They are changing sides.”

However, if the average Russian looks out his window and sees tanks and explosions – is it not warranted that they are afraid?

The average Russian “should be afraid. But there is nothing they can do. If you’re an average Russian citizen, you are stuck with a regime that is collapsing. It is like a dinosaur, this regime; it is a huge mass with little brains. When a dinosaur dies, it falls over and anything standing next to it will be crushed.”

Is Prigozhin a “good guy?”

“Prigozhin is a charismatic criminal. Is he worse than Putin? No, they are the same. But the Putin regime brought us to this disastrous state. The only way to the future is to see what will happen when this regime collapses.”

So, what should Prigozhin do?

“Prigozhin’s rebellion was forced by Shoigu. Shoigu wanted to beat Prigozhin by bureaucratic means. [Shoigu insisted] that all private military groups had to be brought under subordination [under Shoigu] by July 1. Which means Prigozhin would be at Shoigu’s mercy, and he would end up in Bakhmut, or elsewhere on the front line, by July 2. Rather than accept this fate, Prigozhin decided to fight back.”

Insisting that, “It is not about the opinion of generals. During a time of uncertainty. orders from the top are not being executed by subordinates.” Which is why today, “the Russian military is divided into two categories: Those who fought in Ukraine and those who did not.”

Rather, the question is, will “those who fought in Ukraine shoot at Prigozhin’s men? It would seem many do not want to as they fought shoulder-to-shoulder together” and that is why “those who did not fight in Ukraine are irrelevant.”

In the case of Wagner specifically, “I think of these criminals: they are seasoned warriors who are ready to die, unlike the Rosgvardia [Russian National Guard] that has never faced such a task. One fighter from Bakhmut worth 50 [untested Russian National Guard] from Omsk.”

There are reports that Putin has left Moscow: Does Putin realize that the situation is out-of-control?

“I think so, clearly: Putin took a night and half a day to respond. He spent hours without being able to find words.”

“Putin was supreme authority – but now we see he is no one. It took him ten hours, even more – just to make his statement. But it seems too little too late,” moreover, “it is unclear if he has resources to fight back.”

What we are seeing in the Kremlin is not shocking to Kasparov as “This is how dictatorship functions: Where you have absolute authority. Like a supreme judge. If Goring is quarrelling with Himmler, then the Fuehrer is the absolute authority. You can’t imagine them fighting and Hitler hiding in his bunker.” And now, “Prigozhin’s Telegram has said that Putin chose the wrong side and soon [Russia] will have a new president.”

Will the Russian democratic opposition support Prigozhin?

“We are not planning to support Prigozhin – he is a criminal…Dictatorship that stays around too long works out poorly. It is the illusion of stability. This is what happened with Khadafi. If you let him turn his country into a political desert…What animals live in a desert? Scorpions, rats, snakes…

So, what’s next?

Kasparov is clear on this:  “The fall of Putin is inevitable. He has lost his aura of invincibility and as a supreme leader.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transnistria_War

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Further: July 12, 2021
Putin’s article in which he builds a case to invade Ukraine 7 months before he does so, even while “negotiating” with Zelensky

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Article by Vladimir Putin “On the Historical Unity of Russians and Ukrainians”

July 12, 2021

17:00

During the recent Direct Line, when I was asked about Russian-Ukrainian relations, I said that Russians and Ukrainians were one people – a single whole. These words were not driven by some short-term considerations or prompted by the current political context. It is what I have said on numerous occasions and what I firmly believe. I therefore feel it necessary to explain my position in detail and share my assessments of today’s situation.

First of all, I would like to emphasize that the wall that has emerged in recent years between Russia and Ukraine, between the parts of what is essentially the same historical and spiritual space, to my mind is our great common misfortune and tragedy. These are, first and foremost, the consequences of our own mistakes made at different periods of time. But these are also the result of deliberate efforts by those forces that have always sought to undermine our unity. The formula they apply has been known from time immemorial – divide and rule. There is nothing new here. Hence the attempts to play on the ”national question“ and sow discord among people, the overarching goal being to divide and then to pit the parts of a single people against one another.

To have a better understanding of the present and look into the future, we need to turn to history. Certainly, it is impossible to cover in this article all the developments that have taken place over more than a thousand years. But I will focus on the key, pivotal moments that are important for us to remember, both in Russia and Ukraine.

Russians, Ukrainians, and Belarusians are all descendants of Ancient Rus, which was the largest state in Europe. Slavic and other tribes across the vast territory – from Ladoga, Novgorod, and Pskov to Kiev and Chernigov – were bound together by one language (which we now refer to as Old Russian), economic ties, the rule of the princes of the Rurik dynasty, and – after the baptism of Rus – the Orthodox faith. The spiritual choice made by St. Vladimir, who was both Prince of Novgorod and Grand Prince of Kiev, still largely determines our affinity today.

The throne of Kiev held a dominant position in Ancient Rus. This had been the custom since the late 9th century. The Tale of Bygone Years captured for posterity the words of Oleg the Prophet about Kiev, ”Let it be the mother of all Russian cities.“

Later, like other European states of that time, Ancient Rus faced a decline of central rule and fragmentation. At the same time, both the nobility and the common people perceived Rus as a common territory, as their homeland.

The fragmentation intensified after Batu Khan’s devastating invasion, which ravaged many cities, including Kiev. The northeastern part of Rus fell under the control of the Golden Horde but retained limited sovereignty. The southern and western Russian lands largely became part of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, which – most significantly – was referred to in historical records as the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and Russia.

Members of the princely and “boyar” clans would change service from one prince to another, feuding with each other but also making friendships and alliances. Voivode Bobrok of Volyn and the sons of Grand Duke of Lithuania Algirdas – Andrey of Polotsk and Dmitry of Bryansk – fought next to Grand Duke Dmitry Ivanovich of Moscow on the Kulikovo field. At the same time, Grand Duke of Lithuania Jogaila – son of the Princess of Tver – led his troops to join with Mamai. These are all pages of our shared history, reflecting its complex and multi-dimensional nature.

Most importantly, people both in the western and eastern Russian lands spoke the same language. Their faith was Orthodox. Up to the middle of the 15th century, the unified church government remained in place.

At a new stage of historical development, both Lithuanian Rus and Moscow Rus could have become the points of attraction and consolidation of the territories of Ancient Rus. It so happened that Moscow became the center of reunification, continuing the tradition of ancient Russian statehood. Moscow princes – the descendants of Prince Alexander Nevsky – cast off the foreign yoke and began gathering the Russian lands.

In the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, other processes were unfolding. In the 14th century, Lithuania’s ruling elite converted to Catholicism. In the 16th century, it signed the Union of Lublin with the Kingdom of Poland to form the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. The Polish Catholic nobility received considerable land holdings and privileges in the territory of Rus. In accordance with the 1596 Union of Brest, part of the western Russian Orthodox clergy submitted to the authority of the Pope. The process of Polonization and Latinization began, ousting Orthodoxy.

As a consequence, in the 16–17th centuries, the liberation movement of the Orthodox population was gaining strength in the Dnieper region. The events during the times of Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky became a turning point. His supporters struggled for autonomy from the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.

In its 1649 appeal to the king of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, the Zaporizhian Host demanded that the rights of the Russian Orthodox population be respected, that the voivode of Kiev be Russian and of Greek faith, and that the persecution of the churches of God be stopped. But the Cossacks were not heard.

Bohdan Khmelnytsky then made appeals to Moscow, which were considered by the Zemsky Sobor. On 1 October 1653, members of the supreme representative body of the Russian state decided to support their brothers in faith and take them under patronage. In January 1654, the Pereyaslav Council confirmed that decision. Subsequently, the ambassadors of Bohdan Khmelnytsky and Moscow visited dozens of cities, including Kiev, whose populations swore allegiance to the Russian tsar. Incidentally, nothing of the kind happened at the conclusion of the Union of Lublin.

In a letter to Moscow in 1654, Bohdan Khmelnytsky thanked Tsar Aleksey Mikhaylovich for taking ”the whole Zaporizhian Host and the whole Russian Orthodox world under the strong and high hand of the Tsar“. It means that, in their appeals to both the Polish king and the Russian tsar, the Cossacks referred to and defined themselves as Russian Orthodox people.

Over the course of the protracted war between the Russian state and the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, some of the hetmans, successors of Bohdan Khmelnytsky, would ”detach themselves“ from Moscow or seek support from Sweden, Poland, or Turkey. But, again, for the people, that was a war of liberation. It ended with the Truce of Andrusovo in 1667. The final outcome was sealed by the Treaty of Perpetual Peace in 1686. The Russian state incorporated the city of Kiev and the lands on the left bank of the Dnieper River, including Poltava region, Chernigov region, and Zaporozhye. Their inhabitants were reunited with the main part of the Russian Orthodox people. These territories were referred to as ”Malorossia“ (Little Russia).

The name ”Ukraine“ was used more often in the meaning of the Old Russian word ”okraina“ (periphery), which is found in written sources from the 12th century, referring to various border territories. And the word ”Ukrainian“, judging by archival documents, originally referred to frontier guards who protected the external borders.

On the right bank, which remained under the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, the old orders were restored, and social and religious oppression intensified. On the contrary, the lands on the left bank, taken under the protection of the unified state, saw rapid development. People from the other bank of the Dnieper moved here en masse. They sought support from people who spoke the same language and had the same faith.

During the Great Northern War with Sweden, the people in Malorossia were not faced with a choice of whom to side with. Only a small portion of the Cossacks supported Mazepa’s rebellion. People of all orders and degrees considered themselves Russian and Orthodox.

Cossack senior officers belonging to the nobility would reach the heights of political, diplomatic, and military careers in Russia. Graduates of Kiev-Mohyla Academy played a leading role in church life. This was also the case during the Hetmanate – an essentially autonomous state formation with a special internal structure – and later in the Russian Empire. Malorussians in many ways helped build a big common country – its statehood, culture, and science. They participated in the exploration and development of the Urals, Siberia, the Caucasus, and the Far East. Incidentally, during the Soviet period, natives of Ukraine held major, including the highest, posts in the leadership of the unified state. Suffice it to say that Nikita Khrushchev and Leonid Brezhnev, whose party biography was most closely associated with Ukraine, led the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) for almost 30 years.

In the second half of the 18th century, following the wars with the Ottoman Empire, Russia incorporated Crimea and the lands of the Black Sea region, which became known as Novorossiya. They were populated by people from all of the Russian provinces. After the partitions of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, the Russian Empire regained the western Old Russian lands, with the exception of Galicia and Transcarpathia, which became part of the Austrian – and later Austro-Hungarian – Empire.

The incorporation of the western Russian lands into the single state was not merely the result of political and diplomatic decisions. It was underlain by the common faith, shared cultural traditions, and – I would like to emphasize it once again – language similarity. Thus, as early as the beginning of the 17th century, one of the hierarchs of the Uniate Church, Joseph Rutsky, communicated to Rome that people in Moscovia called Russians from the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth their brothers, that their written language was absolutely identical, and differences in the vernacular were insignificant. He drew an analogy with the residents of Rome and Bergamo. These are, as we know, the center and the north of modern Italy.

Many centuries of fragmentation and living within different states naturally brought about regional language peculiarities, resulting in the emergence of dialects. The vernacular enriched the literary language. Ivan Kotlyarevsky, Grigory Skovoroda, and Taras Shevchenko played a huge role here. Their works are our common literary and cultural heritage. Taras Shevchenko wrote poetry in the Ukrainian language, and prose mainly in Russian. The books of Nikolay Gogol, a Russian patriot and native of Poltavshchyna, are written in Russian, bristling with Malorussian folk sayings and motifs. How can this heritage be divided between Russia and Ukraine? And why do it?

The south-western lands of the Russian Empire, Malorussia and Novorossiya, and the Crimea developed as ethnically and religiously diverse entities. Crimean Tatars, Armenians, Greeks, Jews, Karaites, Krymchaks, Bulgarians, Poles, Serbs, Germans, and other peoples lived here. They all preserved their faith, traditions, and customs.

I am not going to idealise anything. We do know there were the Valuev Circular of 1863 an then the Ems Ukaz of 1876, which restricted the publication and importation of religious and socio-political literature in the Ukrainian language. But it is important to be mindful of the historical context. These decisions were taken against the backdrop of dramatic events in Poland and the desire of the leaders of the Polish national movement to exploit the ”Ukrainian issue“ to their own advantage. I should add that works of fiction, books of Ukrainian poetry and folk songs continued to be published. There is objective evidence that the Russian Empire was witnessing an active process of development of the Malorussian cultural identity within the greater Russian nation, which united the Velikorussians, the Malorussians and the Belorussians.

At the same time, the idea of Ukrainian people as a nation separate from the Russians started to form and gain ground among the Polish elite and a part of the Malorussian intelligentsia. Since there was no historical basis – and could not have been any, conclusions were substantiated by all sorts of concoctions, which went as far as to claim that the Ukrainians are the true Slavs and the Russians, the Muscovites, are not. Such ”hypotheses“ became increasingly used for political purposes as a tool of rivalry between European states.

Since the late 19th century, the Austro-Hungarian authorities had latched onto this narrative, using it as a counterbalance to the Polish national movement and pro-Muscovite sentiments in Galicia. During World War I, Vienna played a role in the formation of the so-called Legion of Ukrainian Sich Riflemen. Galicians suspected of sympathies with Orthodox Christianity and Russia were subjected to brutal repression and thrown into the concentration camps of Thalerhof and Terezin.

Further developments had to do with the collapse of European empires, the fierce civil war that broke out across the vast territory of the former Russian Empire, and foreign intervention.

After the February Revolution, in March 1917, the Central Rada was established in Kiev, intended to become the organ of supreme power. In November 1917, in its Third Universal, it declared the creation of the Ukrainian People’s Republic (UPR) as part of Russia.

In December 1917, UPR representatives arrived in Brest-Litovsk, where Soviet Russia was negotiating with Germany and its allies. At a meeting on 10 January 1918, the head of the Ukrainian delegation read out a note proclaiming the independence of Ukraine. Subsequently, the Central Rada proclaimed Ukraine independent in its Fourth Universal.

The declared sovereignty did not last long. Just a few weeks later, Rada delegates signed a separate treaty with the German bloc countries. Germany and Austria-Hungary were at the time in a dire situation and needed Ukrainian bread and raw materials. In order to secure large-scale supplies, they obtained consent for sending their troops and technical staff to the UPR. In fact, this was used as a pretext for occupation.

For those who have today given up the full control of Ukraine to external forces, it would be instructive to remember that, back in 1918, such a decision proved fatal for the ruling regime in Kiev. With the direct involvement of the occupying forces, the Central Rada was overthrown and Hetman Pavlo Skoropadskyi was brought to power, proclaiming instead of the UPR the Ukrainian State, which was essentially under German protectorate.

In November 1918 – following the revolutionary events in Germany and Austria-Hungary – Pavlo Skoropadskyi, who had lost the support of German bayonets, took a different course, declaring that ”Ukraine is to take the lead in the formation of an All-Russian Federation“. However, the regime was soon changed again. It was now the time of the so-called Directorate.

In autumn 1918, Ukrainian nationalists proclaimed the West Ukrainian People’s Republic (WUPR) and, in January 1919, announced its unification with the Ukrainian People’s Republic. In July 1919, Ukrainian forces were crushed by Polish troops, and the territory of the former WUPR came under the Polish rule.

In April 1920, Symon Petliura (portrayed as one of the ”heroes“ in today’s Ukraine) concluded secret conventions on behalf of the UPR Directorate, giving up – in exchange for military support – Galicia and Western Volhynia lands to Poland. In May 1920, Petliurites entered Kiev in a convoy of Polish military units. But not for long. As early as November 1920, following a truce between Poland and Soviet Russia, the remnants of Petliura’s forces surrendered to those same Poles.

The example of the UPR shows that different kinds of quasi-state formations that emerged across the former Russian Empire at the time of the Civil War and turbulence were inherently unstable. Nationalists sought to create their own independent states, while leaders of the White movement advocated indivisible Russia. Many of the republics established by the Bolsheviks’ supporters did not see themselves outside Russia either. Nevertheless, Bolshevik Party leaders sometimes basically drove them out of Soviet Russia for various reasons.

Thus, in early 1918, the Donetsk-Krivoy Rog Soviet Republic was proclaimed and asked Moscow to incorporate it into Soviet Russia. This was met with a refusal. During a meeting with the republic’s leaders, Vladimir Lenin insisted that they act as part of Soviet Ukraine. On 15 March 1918, the Central Committee of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) directly ordered that delegates be sent to the Ukrainian Congress of Soviets, including from the Donetsk Basin, and that ”one government for all of Ukraine“ be created at the congress. The territories of the Donetsk-Krivoy Rog Soviet Republic later formed most of the regions of south-eastern Ukraine.

Under the 1921 Treaty of Riga, concluded between the Russian SFSR, the Ukrainian SSR and Poland, the western lands of the former Russian Empire were ceded to Poland. In the interwar period, the Polish government pursued an active resettlement policy, seeking to change the ethnic composition of the Eastern Borderlands – the Polish name for what is now Western Ukraine, Western Belarus and parts of Lithuania. The areas were subjected to harsh Polonisation, local culture and traditions suppressed. Later, during World War II, radical groups of Ukrainian nationalists used this as a pretext for terror not only against Polish, but also against Jewish and Russian populations.

In 1922, when the USSR was created, with the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic becoming one of its founders, a rather fierce debate among the Bolshevik leaders resulted in the implementation of Lenin’s plan to form a union state as a federation of equal republics. The right for the republics to freely secede from the Union was included in the text of the Declaration on the Creation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and, subsequently, in the 1924 USSR Constitution. By doing so, the authors planted in the foundation of our statehood the most dangerous time bomb, which exploded the moment the safety mechanism provided by the leading role of the CPSU was gone, the party itself collapsing from within. A ”parade of sovereignties“ followed. On 8 December 1991, the so-called Belovezh Agreement on the Creation of the Commonwealth of Independent States was signed, stating that ”the USSR as a subject of international law and a geopolitical reality no longer existed.“ By the way, Ukraine never signed or ratified the CIS Charter adopted back in 1993.

In the 1920’s-1930’s, the Bolsheviks actively promoted the ”localization policy“, which took the form of Ukrainization in the Ukrainian SSR. Symbolically, as part of this policy and with consent of the Soviet authorities, Mikhail Grushevskiy, former chairman of Central Rada, one of the ideologists of Ukrainian nationalism, who at a certain period of time had been supported by Austria-Hungary, was returned to the USSR and was elected member of the Academy of Sciences.

The localization policy undoubtedly played a major role in the development and consolidation of the Ukrainian culture, language and identity. At the same time, under the guise of combating the so-called Russian great-power chauvinism, Ukrainization was often imposed on those who did not see themselves as Ukrainians. This Soviet national policy secured at the state level the provision on three separate Slavic peoples: Russian, Ukrainian and Belorussian, instead of the large Russian nation, a triune people comprising Velikorussians, Malorussians and Belorussians.

In 1939, the USSR regained the lands earlier seized by Poland. A major portion of these became part of the Soviet Ukraine. In 1940, the Ukrainian SSR incorporated part of Bessarabia, which had been occupied by Romania since 1918, as well as Northern Bukovina. In 1948, Zmeyiniy Island (Snake Island) in the Black Sea became part of Ukraine. In 1954, the Crimean Region of the RSFSR was given to the Ukrainian SSR, in gross violation of legal norms that were in force at the time.

I would like to dwell on the destiny of Carpathian Ruthenia, which became part of Czechoslovakia following the breakup of Austria-Hungary. Rusins made up a considerable share of local population. While this is hardly mentioned any longer, after the liberation of Transcarpathia by Soviet troops the congress of the Orthodox population of the region voted for the inclusion of Carpathian Ruthenia in the RSFSR or, as a separate Carpathian republic, in the USSR proper. Yet the choice of people was ignored. In summer 1945, the historical act of the reunification of Carpathian Ukraine ”with its ancient motherland, Ukraine“ – as The Pravda newspaper put it – was announced.

Therefore, modern Ukraine is entirely the product of the Soviet era. We know and remember well that it was shaped – for a significant part – on the lands of historical Russia. To make sure of that, it is enough to look at the boundaries of the lands reunited with the Russian state in the 17th century and the territory of the Ukrainian SSR when it left the Soviet Union.

The Bolsheviks treated the Russian people as inexhaustible material for their social experiments. They dreamt of a world revolution that would wipe out national states. That is why they were so generous in drawing borders and bestowing territorial gifts. It is no longer important what exactly the idea of the Bolshevik leaders who were chopping the country into pieces was. We can disagree about minor details, background and logics behind certain decisions. One fact is crystal clear: Russia was robbed, indeed.

When working on this article, I relied on open-source documents that contain well-known facts rather than on some secret records. The leaders of modern Ukraine and their external ”patrons“ prefer to overlook these facts. They do not miss a chance, however, both inside the country and abroad, to condemn ”the crimes of the Soviet regime,“ listing among them events with which neither the CPSU, nor the USSR, let alone modern Russia, have anything to do. At the same time, the Bolsheviks’ efforts to detach from Russia its historical territories are not considered a crime. And we know why: if they brought about the weakening of Russia, our ill-wishes are happy with that.

Of course, inside the USSR, borders between republics were never seen as state borders; they were nominal within a single country, which, while featuring all the attributes of a federation, was highly centralized – this, again, was secured by the CPSU’s leading role. But in 1991, all those territories, and, which is more important, people, found themselves abroad overnight, taken away, this time indeed, from their historical motherland.

What can be said to this? Things change: countries and communities are no exception. Of course, some part of a people in the process of its development, influenced by a number of reasons and historical circumstances, can become aware of itself as a separate nation at a certain moment. How should we treat that? There is only one answer: with respect!

You want to establish a state of your own: you are welcome! But what are the terms? I will recall the assessment given by one of the most prominent political figures of new Russia, first mayor of Saint Petersburg Anatoly Sobchak. As a legal expert who believed that every decision must be legitimate, in 1992, he shared the following opinion: the republics that were founders of the Union, having denounced the 1922 Union Treaty, must return to the boundaries they had had before joining the Soviet Union. All other territorial acquisitions are subject to discussion, negotiations, given that the ground has been revoked.

In other words, when you leave, take what you brought with you. This logic is hard to refute. I will just say that the Bolsheviks had embarked on reshaping boundaries even before the Soviet Union, manipulating with territories to their liking, in disregard of people’s views.

The Russian Federation recognized the new geopolitical realities: and not only recognized, but, indeed, did a lot for Ukraine to establish itself as an independent country. Throughout the difficult 1990’s and in the new millennium, we have provided considerable support to Ukraine. Whatever ”political arithmetic“ of its own Kiev may wish to apply, in 1991–2013, Ukraine’s budget savings amounted to more than USD 82 billion, while today, it holds on to the mere USD 1.5 billion of Russian payments for gas transit to Europe. If economic ties between our countries had been retained, Ukraine would enjoy the benefit of tens of billions of dollars.

Ukraine and Russia have developed as a single economic system over decades and centuries. The profound cooperation we had 30 years ago is an example for the European Union to look up to. We are natural complementary economic partners. Such a close relationship can strengthen competitive advantages, increasing the potential of both countries.

Ukraine used to possess great potential, which included powerful infrastructure, gas transportation system, advanced shipbuilding, aviation, rocket and instrument engineering industries, as well as world-class scientific, design and engineering schools. Taking over this legacy and declaring independence, Ukrainian leaders promised that the Ukrainian economy would be one of the leading ones and the standard of living would be among the best in Europe.

Today, high-tech industrial giants that were once the pride of Ukraine and the entire Union, are sinking. Engineering output has dropped by 42 per cent over ten years. The scale of deindustrialization and overall economic degradation is visible in Ukraine’s electricity production, which has seen a nearly two-time decrease in 30 years. Finally, according to IMF reports, in 2019, before the coronavirus pandemic broke out, Ukraine’s GDP per capita had been below USD 4 thousand. This is less than in the Republic of Albania, the Republic of Moldova, or unrecognized Kosovo. Nowadays, Ukraine is Europe’s poorest country.

Who is to blame for this? Is it the people of Ukraine’s fault? Certainly not. It was the Ukrainian authorities who waisted and frittered away the achievements of many generations. We know how hardworking and talented the people of Ukraine are. They can achieve success and outstanding results with perseverance and determination. And these qualities, as well as their openness, innate optimism and hospitality have not gone. The feelings of millions of people who treat Russia not just well but with great affection, just as we feel about Ukraine, remain the same.

Until 2014, hundreds of agreements and joint projects were aimed at developing our economies, business and cultural ties, strengthening security, and solving common social and environmental problems. They brought tangible benefits to people – both in Russia and Ukraine. This is what we believed to be most important. And that is why we had a fruitful interaction with all, I emphasize, with all the leaders of Ukraine.

Even after the events in Kiev of 2014, I charged the Russian government to elaborate options for preserving and maintaining our economic ties within relevant ministries and agencies. However, there was and is still no mutual will to do the same. Nevertheless, Russia is still one of Ukraine’s top three trading partners, and hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians are coming to us to work, and they find a welcome reception and support. So that what the ”aggressor state“ is.

When the USSR collapsed, many people in Russia and Ukraine sincerely believed and assumed that our close cultural, spiritual and economic ties would certainly last, as would the commonality of our people, who had always had a sense of unity at their core. However, events – at first gradually, and then more rapidly – started to move in a different direction.

In essence, Ukraine’s ruling circles decided to justify their country’s independence through the denial of its past, however, except for border issues. They began to mythologize and rewrite history, edit out everything that united us, and refer to the period when Ukraine was part of the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union as an occupation. The common tragedy of collectivization and famine of the early 1930s was portrayed as the genocide of the Ukrainian people.

Radicals and neo-Nazis were open and more and more insolent about their ambitions. They were indulged by both the official authorities and local oligarchs, who robbed the people of Ukraine and kept their stolen money in Western banks, ready to sell their motherland for the sake of preserving their capital. To this should be added the persistent weakness of state institutions and the position of a willing hostage to someone else’s geopolitical will.

I recall that long ago, well before 2014, the U.S. and EU countries systematically and consistently pushed Ukraine to curtail and limit economic cooperation with Russia. We, as the largest trade and economic partner of Ukraine, suggested discussing the emerging problems in the Ukraine-Russia-EU format. But every time we were told that Russia had nothing to do with it and that the issue concerned only the EU and Ukraine. De facto Western countries rejected Russia’s repeated calls for dialogue.

Step by step, Ukraine was dragged into a dangerous geopolitical game aimed at turning Ukraine into a barrier between Europe and Russia, a springboard against Russia. Inevitably, there came a time when the concept of ”Ukraine is not Russia“ was no longer an option. There was a need for the ”anti-Russia“ concept which we will never accept.

The owners of this project took as a basis the old groundwork of the Polish-Austrian ideologists to create an ”anti-Moscow Russia“. And there is no need to deceive anyone that this is being done in the interests of the people of Ukraine. The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth never needed Ukrainian culture, much less Cossack autonomy. In Austria-Hungary, historical Russian lands were mercilessly exploited and remained the poorest. The Nazis, abetted by collaborators from the OUN-UPA, did not need Ukraine, but a living space and slaves for Aryan overlords.

Nor were the interests of the Ukrainian people thought of in February 2014. The legitimate public discontent, caused by acute socio-economic problems, mistakes, and inconsistent actions of the authorities of the time, was simply cynically exploited. Western countries directly interfered in Ukraine’s internal affairs and supported the coup. Radical nationalist groups served as its battering ram. Their slogans, ideology, and blatant aggressive Russophobia have to a large extent become defining elements of state policy in Ukraine.

All the things that united us and bring us together so far came under attack. First and foremost, the Russian language. Let me remind you that the new ”Maidan“ authorities first tried to repeal the law on state language policy. Then there was the law on the ”purification of power“, the law on education that virtually cut the Russian language out of the educational process.

Lastly, as early as May of this year, the current president introduced a bill on ”indigenous peoples“ to the Rada. Only those who constitute an ethnic minority and do not have their own state entity outside Ukraine are recognized as indigenous. The law has been passed. New seeds of discord have been sown. And this is happening in a country, as I have already noted, that is very complex in terms of its territorial, national and linguistic composition, and its history of formation.

There may be an argument: if you are talking about a single large nation, a triune nation, then what difference does it make who people consider themselves to be – Russians, Ukrainians, or Belarusians. I completely agree with this. Especially since the determination of nationality, particularly in mixed families, is the right of every individual, free to make his or her own choice.

But the fact is that the situation in Ukraine today is completely different because it involves a forced change of identity. And the most despicable thing is that the Russians in Ukraine are being forced not only to deny their roots, generations of their ancestors but also to believe that Russia is their enemy. It would not be an exaggeration to say that the path of forced assimilation, the formation of an ethnically pure Ukrainian state, aggressive towards Russia, is comparable in its consequences to the use of weapons of mass destruction against us. As a result of such a harsh and artificial division of Russians and Ukrainians, the Russian people in all may decrease by hundreds of thousands or even millions.

Our spiritual unity has also been attacked. As in the days of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, a new ecclesiastical has been initiated. The secular authorities, making no secret of their political aims, have blatantly interfered in church life and brought things to a split, to the seizure of churches, the beating of priests and monks. Even extensive autonomy of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church while maintaining spiritual unity with the Moscow Patriarchate strongly displeases them. They have to destroy this prominent and centuries-old symbol of our kinship at all costs.

I think it is also natural that the representatives of Ukraine over and over again vote against the UN General Assembly resolution condemning the glorification of Nazism. Marches and torchlit processions in honor of remaining war criminals from the SS units take place under the protection of the official authorities. Mazepa, who betrayed everyone, Petliura, who paid for Polish patronage with Ukrainian lands, and Bandera, who collaborated with the Nazis, are ranked as national heroes. Everything is being done to erase from the memory of young generations the names of genuine patriots and victors, who have always been the pride of Ukraine.

For the Ukrainians who fought in the Red Army, in partisan units, the Great Patriotic War was indeed a patriotic war because they were defending their home, their great common Motherland. Over two thousand soldiers became Heroes of the Soviet Union. Among them are legendary pilot Ivan Kozhedub, fearless sniper, defender of Odessa and Sevastopol Lyudmila Pavlichenko, valiant guerrilla commander Sidor Kovpak. This indomitable generation fought, those people gave their lives for our future, for us. To forget their feat is to betray our grandfathers, mothers and fathers.

The anti-Russia project has been rejected by millions of Ukrainians. The people of Crimea and residents of Sevastopol made their historic choice. And people in the southeast peacefully tried to defend their stance. Yet, all of them, including children, were labeled as separatists and terrorists. They were threatened with ethnic cleansing and the use of military force. And the residents of Donetsk and Lugansk took up arms to defend their home, their language and their lives. Were they left any other choice after the riots that swept through the cities of Ukraine, after the horror and tragedy of 2 May 2014 in Odessa where Ukrainian neo-Nazis burned people alive making a new Khatyn out of it? The same massacre was ready to be carried out by the followers of Bandera in Crimea, Sevastopol, Donetsk and Lugansk. Even now they do not abandon such plans. They are biding their time. But their time will not come.

The coup d’état and the subsequent actions of the Kiev authorities inevitably provoked confrontation and civil war. The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights estimates that the total number of victims in the conflict in Donbas has exceeded 13,000. Among them are the elderly and children. These are terrible, irreparable losses.

Russia has done everything to stop fratricide. The Minsk agreements aimed at a peaceful settlement of the conflict in Donbas have been concluded. I am convinced that they still have no alternative. In any case, no one has withdrawn their signatures from the Minsk Package of Measures or from the relevant statements by the leaders of the Normandy format countries. No one has initiated a review of the United Nations Security Council resolution of 17 February 2015.

During official negotiations, especially after being reined in by Western partners, Ukraine’s representatives regularly declare their ”full adherence“ to the Minsk agreements, but are in fact guided by a position of ”unacceptability“. They do not intend to seriously discuss either the special status of Donbas or safeguards for the people living there. They prefer to exploit the image of the ”victim of external aggression“ and peddle Russophobia. They arrange bloody provocations in Donbas. In short, they attract the attention of external patrons and masters by all means.

Apparently, and I am becoming more and more convinced of this: Kiev simply does not need Donbas. Why? Because, firstly, the inhabitants of these regions will never accept the order that they have tried and are trying to impose by force, blockade and threats. And secondly, the outcome of both Minsk‑1 and Minsk‑2 which give a real chance to peacefully restore the territorial integrity of Ukraine by coming to an agreement directly with the DPR and LPR with Russia, Germany and France as mediators, contradicts the entire logic of the anti-Russia project. And it can only be sustained by the constant cultivation of the image of an internal and external enemy. And I would add – under the protection and control of the Western powers.

This is what is actually happening. First of all, we are facing the creation of a climate of fear in Ukrainian society, aggressive rhetoric, indulging neo-Nazis and militarising the country. Along with that we are witnessing not just complete dependence but direct external control, including the supervision of the Ukrainian authorities, security services and armed forces by foreign advisers, military ”development“ of the territory of Ukraine and deployment of NATO infrastructure. It is no coincidence that the aforementioned flagrant law on ”indigenous peoples“ was adopted under the cover of large-scale NATO exercises in Ukraine.

This is also a disguise for the takeover of the rest of the Ukrainian economy and the exploitation of its natural resources. The sale of agricultural land is not far off, and it is obvious who will buy it up. From time to time, Ukraine is indeed given financial resources and loans, but under their own conditions and pursuing their own interests, with preferences and benefits for Western companies. By the way, who will pay these debts back? Apparently, it is assumed that this will have to be done not only by today’s generation of Ukrainians but also by their children, grandchildren and probably great-grandchildren.

The Western authors of the anti-Russia project set up the Ukrainian political system in such a way that presidents, members of parliament and ministers would change but the attitude of separation from and enmity with Russia would remain. Reaching peace was the main election slogan of the incumbent president. He came to power with this. The promises turned out to be lies. Nothing has changed. And in some ways the situation in Ukraine and around Donbas has even degenerated.

In the anti-Russia project, there is no place either for a sovereign Ukraine or for the political forces that are trying to defend its real independence. Those who talk about reconciliation in Ukrainian society, about dialogue, about finding a way out of the current impasse are labelled as ”pro-Russian“ agents.

Again, for many people in Ukraine, the anti-Russia project is simply unacceptable. And there are millions of such people. But they are not allowed to raise their heads. They have had their legal opportunity to defend their point of view in fact taken away from them. They are intimidated, driven underground. Not only are they persecuted for their convictions, for the spoken word, for the open expression of their position, but they are also killed. Murderers, as a rule, go unpunished.

Today, the ”right“ patriot of Ukraine is only the one who hates Russia. Moreover, the entire Ukrainian statehood, as we understand it, is proposed to be further built exclusively on this idea. Hate and anger, as world history has repeatedly proved this, are a very shaky foundation for sovereignty, fraught with many serious risks and dire consequences.

All the subterfuges associated with the anti-Russia project are clear to us. And we will never allow our historical territories and people close to us living there to be used against Russia. And to those who will undertake such an attempt, I would like to say that this way they will destroy their own country.

The incumbent authorities in Ukraine like to refer to Western experience, seeing it as a model to follow. Just have a look at how Austria and Germany, the USA and Canada live next to each other. Close in ethnic composition, culture, in fact sharing one language, they remain sovereign states with their own interests, with their own foreign policy. But this does not prevent them from the closest integration or allied relations. They have very conditional, transparent borders. And when crossing them the citizens feel at home. They create families, study, work, do business. Incidentally, so do millions of those born in Ukraine who now live in Russia. We see them as our own close people.

Russia is open to dialogue with Ukraine and ready to discuss the most complex issues. But it is important for us to understand that our partner is defending its national interests but not serving someone else’s, and is not a tool in someone else’s hands to fight against us.

We respect the Ukrainian language and traditions. We respect Ukrainians’ desire to see their country free, safe and prosperous.

I am confident that true sovereignty of Ukraine is possible only in partnership with Russia. Our spiritual, human and civilizational ties formed for centuries and have their origins in the same sources, they have been hardened by common trials, achievements and victories. Our kinship has been transmitted from generation to generation. It is in the hearts and the memory of people living in modern Russia and Ukraine, in the blood ties that unite millions of our families. Together we have always been and will be many times stronger and more successful. For we are one people.

Today, these words may be perceived by some people with hostility. They can be interpreted in many possible ways. Yet, many people will hear me. And I will say one thing – Russia has never been and will never be “anti-Ukraine“. And what Ukraine will be – it is up to its citizens to decide.

Publication status

Published in sections: News, Transcripts

Publication date: July 12, 2021, 17:00

Direct link: en.kremlin.ru/d/66181

Presidential Executive Office
2023

End of Copied Text from Kremlin Web Page (Their English translation)

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My Notes as a dot graph to show NATO versus Other “concerns”

Length (headline and text): 6,901 words – 42,899 characters
Length of paragraph with “NATO” statement: 94 words – 635 characters
Distance down the document: starts after 6,047 words – 37,744 characters

94/6,901 = 0.01362 == 1.37%
635/42899 = 0.01480 == 1.5%  call it 1.435%
6047/6901 = 0.8762 == starts 87.6% of the way down the page
37744/42899 = 0.8798 == starts 88% of the way down the page
……….……….……….……….……….……….……….……(.).……….
Article starts here – >      above, 100 dots                                                        —  > < —                              

The larger, red dot at the 88^th position represents the paragraph with “NATO” twice in that paragraph. Putin waits until almost the end of his speech to bring up NATO and when he does bring up NATO it is a tiny 1.4% of the whole. The other 98.6% is denying Ukraine’s right to exist as an independent nation or that it has a language. This is a clear indication of Putin’s real stated reasons in July 2021 for his invasion of 7 months later. And, in the language of the paragraph, the 1.4% of the whole, his “concern” is for Ukraine being dominated by Nazis and controlled by NATO. So, he is rescuing “the Ukraine” area. Not once, does he state this as a threat to Russia or of NATO pushing or crowding Russia.

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Note: This next part comes from someone I had a retreat with way back in 1980 and was surprised to see that he now lives in Latvia.

The Baltic and Other States Who Moved away from Russia

Jon Shore – Psychotherapist since 1978 Psyops experience Worked in USSR Mon 19 June 2023
( http://www.jbsgroupllc.com/  ) Lives in Riga, Latvia – Speaks English, German, Spanish

Why did the Baltic states want to leave the Soviet Union so much?

I worked in the USSR in the 1980s. I was there and tell you all of this from personal experience.

The Soviet Union was like a vampire sucking the life out of everywhere it was. It was corrupt from top to bottom. It was inefficient. Most of the high level party members were sociopaths. There were KGB and informants everywhere. You never knew who was listening and who would turn you in to the authorities. Most of the buildings were built like shit. Roads were shit. Trains were shit. Only the metro systems in large cities were nice. Technology was substandard. Cars were shit if you could even get one after years of being on a list. Almost everything made in the USSR was crap. Traveling outside the USSR was difficult. Food products and most other products were difficult to get quite often.

Everything was depressing. Depressing architecture. Depressing colors. Depressing movies. Depressing salaries. Depressing lifestyles. Depressing poor quality foods.

Only high-level party members and celebrities lived well.

I could go on and on and on.

It was not only the Baltic States where life was like this. Actually, life in most of the Soviet states was better than in Russia.

Everything that the USSR touched turned to shit. Now it is the same with Russia. Most former Soviet states are still struggling to repair the physical and psychological damage done by the USSR.

I hope that answers your question.

This is included because of the handy map showing the European states who just wanted to get away from Russia and took the opportunity when they could, especially because the Soviet Union had invaded them before, not just during WWII but later when several had independence movements.

  Vojta Rod  – Studied Media Studies at Metropolitan University Prague (Graduated 2018)  (from Quora)

Why are Czechs so afraid of Russians?

We are not afraid of them, we just openly say that they are dangerous, aggressive and backward. Unlike many other Western countries, we unfortunately had a direct experience with the Soviets/Russians.

Czechia is located in the middle of Central Europe, integral member (except other organisations) of the EU and NATO for decades. Surounded by allies from all sides. So there isn’t any worry from any direct hit. Something different are Russian info-war and terrorism.

One of the fundamental mistakes many people make when think about Russia and Russians is that we assume they think like most European societies. This is simply nonsense and has never been the case.

Russia is a totalitarian state not only politically but also socially. And with all due respect to the minority of those “normal-minded” Russians, it’s really not just “Putin and the poor Russians under him”, but Putin is the image of Russian society…

And this elementary misunderstanding of the whole state and society was not only held by politicians, but also by millions of Europeans. I personally thought that the society had moved on in the last three decades, not that it is still the same scared and aggressive society, which is completely unaware that the outside world is different and that the way they live and the society they live in is really not normal – at least in most European/developed countries.

The fact that they have a criminal’s corpse on display in the main square tells you a lot about a society.

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I have found the Elena Gold articles to be well founded and reasoned. So, here is her direct answer. She is a Russian who moved to Australia some years ago and operates model (dating) agency.

  – Elena Gold    Writing a book about Russo-Ukrainian war. 

If it were proven beyond a doubt that the US government aided and abetted Ukraine’s 2014 coup d’etat, would you feel differently about the US keeping Ukraine afloat by funding their government and military operations?

Aaah, the old Vlad Putin’s story – both Vlad Putin and his stories are old – about “2014 coup in Ukraine”.

As if this somehow justifies Russia destroying thriving Ukrainian cities into ruins, Russian soldiers raping Ukrainian kids in front of their mothers — after they have killed fathers of these kids and raped the mothers, Putin ordering to abduct thousands of Ukrainian kids – after killing their parents.

No. Even if it were a “coup”, it would make no difference – Putin would be still an international war criminal and a mass murderer, Russia would still be a terrorist state, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and attempts to annex its territory would still be illegal, and 1991 borders of Ukraine are still the only ones that are legitimate and internationally recognized.

Ukraine held 2 elections since 2014, and in the last election the opposition won — and the ruling party peacefully handed in the reins.

In the meantime, Russia had no change of leadership since 2000 when Vladimir Putin became the president.

And you know, this is what can be said about Russia:

• It started with a coup in 1917, when a German spy Lenin was illegally taken across the border of Russia by German diplomats, who wanted Russia to withdraw from the war. Thus, we can say that the USSR was created by Germany.
• There was another coup in 1991 and then in 1993. In 1993, Russians were shooting into people by tanks and even shot at their own parliament in Moscow.
• Everything that Russia has, they got from the USSR. People from all 15 republics contributed to that, as well as German POWs.
• Russians build monuments and put on pedestal Stalin, who killed millions of people in Holodomor and purges. They also still erect monuments to Lenin, who was self-professed terrorist and led to deaths of millions of people in “Red terror”. Lenin’s body is kept in a Mausoleum on the Red Square in Moscow – not buried for nearly 100 years!
• Russians again are using the USSR red “bloody” flag with hammer and sickle. That’s the symbolic linked to Stalin’s purges and invasion of Afghanistan, suppression of Prague and Czech uprisings, 50-year occupation of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia.
• Russia was constantly saved by Americans. Lend-Lease in WWII is just one of many known facts how Americans were saving Russians and Russia.
• Boris Yeltsin decided to go for capitalist Russia after a visit to America. And it was Yeltsin who appointed Putin as a successor. So, it’s Americans fault that Putin came to power in Russia – if they didn’t impress Yeltsin with their wealth, he wouldn’t destroy communism in Russia.

You see how easy it is to start blaming circumstances?

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Some of this is copied above in the negotiations section.

Neil Hawker – Retired and living in Ukraine: 

Invasion of Ukraine – Putin began planning early as February 2021

Putin hated Ukraine. How did the Russian president come up with the idea of war in Ukraine – personal resentment and a desire for revenge.

3 months before, the Kremlin had already discussed how Ukraine will be divided among large corporations.

Main points:

• Russian officials made a bet on Yanukovych: “That was our son of a bitch. There was a president in the country who was actually on our payroll“. Moscow, with his help, had a plan to get closer to Ukraine, as with Belarus, and dissuade Europe from “flirting“.

• In January 2014, Putin was not yet planning to seize Crimea. It was a spontaneous decision, after the protesters in Kyiv began to defeat the power of Yanukovych, and the idea of dividing Ukraine with a centre in Kharkiv didn’t work (due to the refusal of the city authorities and its residents). The decision was made on the night of Yanukovych’s flight out.
• The separation of Donbas from Ukraine was not Putin’s personal initiative – “They were FSB agents”.
• Putin personally took part in writing the “Minsk” agreements. “If ‘Minsk’ had been completed, then Donbas would have been used to rebuild the whole of Ukraine along its lines. That was the plan”.
• Zelenskyy, after becoming president, tried to settle the war and “negotiate like a human being“, but Putin wanted to impose “Minsk“, which would be a great victory for the Russian Federation.

• At the meeting in 2019, Putin counted on the “capitulation of Ukraine” and the unpreparedness of the Zelenskyy team. However, the President of Ukraine, during Putin’s speech “on special status“, almost laughed and covered his mouth with his hand.
• The “last straw” for Putin was the closure of ‘godfather’ Medvedchuk’s TV channels, which conducted pro-Russian activities in Ukraine. The decision to prepare for full scale war was made in late February-early March 2021, a year before the war.
• Shoigu supported Putin on the full-scale invasion, simply because he didn’t understand the state of the Russian army. The rest of the ‘elite’ found out about the “special operation” the day it began.

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https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09X61CYYF/  – Kindle Link
https://www.amazon.com/Fight-Our-Lives-Zelenskyy-Democracy/dp/1668012715  – Hardcover
The Fight of Our Lives: My Time with Zelenskyy, Ukraine’s Battle for Democracy, and What It Means for the World
by Iuliia Mendel

At the trial of God, we will ask: why did you allow all this?
And the answer will be an echo: why did you allow all this?
ILYA KAMINSKY, DEAF REPUBLIC

Mendel, Iuliia. The Fight of Our Lives: My Time with Zelenskyy, Ukraine’s Battle for Democracy, and What It Means for the World (p. V). Atria/One Signal Publishers. Kindle Edition.

The first groups of negotiators from Ukraine and Russia met in Belarus and then in Turkey. Moscow initially demanded the complete capitulation of Ukraine, an early indication of Putin’s lack of serious interest in ending the war. The Russians wanted Ukraine to disarm, acknowledge Russian sovereignty over Crimea, and surrender the entire territory of Donbas. They also wanted the Ukrainian government to abdicate in favor of a Russian-controlled puppet government. And finally, they called for Ukraine to “denazify.” This was absurd: Zelenskyy’s government included a number of Jewish politicians, and he himself had Jewish roots and Jewish family members who died at the hands of real Nazis. The demands were so extreme, no representative of the government could ever agree to them, and while plain acceptance was never on the table, Putin refused to meet Zelenskyy face-to-face to even discuss compromises.

Mendel, Iuliia. The Fight of Our Lives: My Time with Zelenskyy, Ukraine’s Battle for Democracy, and What It Means for the World (p. 124). Atria/One Signal Publishers. Kindle Edition.

By inventing the myth of Nazi groups in Ukraine, Putin was trying to justify a military invasion of the country. For years, his propaganda fed people lies about Ukrainian Nazis raping, robbing, and murdering people in Donbas and about the threat they posed to Crimea. The propaganda spread stories about the drugs these supposed Nazis relied on in combat, about secret biolabs financed by the NATO countries and specifically by the United States to create dangerous viruses, and even about birds trained by Ukrainians to spread these viruses over Russia. Russian media made up countless absurd stories to prove to ordinary Russians who could not easily access information about Ukraine’s democratically elected government that Nazis were in fact in control in that country. This was, of course, an implausible fiction. Ukraine had democratically elected a Russian-speaking president who had Jewish roots and Jewish family members who died at the hands of real Nazis. There was nothing even close to Nazism among the Ukrainian authorities. Yet Russian negotiators even absurdly demanded “denazification” of Ukraine during the peace talks, in perfect agreement with the bots and trolls. They, too, it seemed, had come to believe their own lies.

Mendel, Iuliia. The Fight of Our Lives: My Time with Zelenskyy, Ukraine’s Battle for Democracy, and What It Means for the World (p. 191). Atria/One Signal Publishers. Kindle Edition.

Suddenly no one remembered that in 1994 we had given up our nuclear arsenal—the third largest in the world—in exchange for security guarantees from the United States, the U.K., and Russia, which included the promise to respect our territorial integrity. Each country had signed the Budapest Memorandum agreement, which our government thought would protect us. But when Russia invaded Crimea and Donbas, there was collective amnesia. Overnight, our territorial integrity was in shreds, and so were the security guarantees.

Mendel, Iuliia. The Fight of Our Lives: My Time with Zelenskyy, Ukraine’s Battle for Democracy, and What It Means for the World (pp. 198-199). Atria/One Signal Publishers. Kindle Edition.

Suddenly no one remembered that in 1994 we had given up our nuclear arsenal—the third largest in the world—in exchange for security guarantees from the United States, the U.K., and Russia, which included the promise to respect our territorial integrity. Each country had signed the Budapest Memorandum agreement, which our government thought would protect us. But when Russia invaded Crimea and Donbas, there was collective amnesia. Overnight, our territorial integrity was in shreds, and so were the security guarantees.

Mendel, Iuliia. The Fight of Our Lives: My Time with Zelenskyy, Ukraine’s Battle for Democracy, and What It Means for the World (pp. 198-199). Atria/One Signal Publishers. Kindle Edition.

Strangelove Stories and Strange Loves

Doing levels (elevation above sea level measurements) in the Salton Sea area of Southern California, and area known as the Little Sahara because it resembles the Sahara in Africa and was used for the Bogart WWII movie, “Sahara.”

I wrote this originally as a response to an article by William Astore about what war brings home, titled “Telling War Stories” on his “Bracing Views” blog.
https://bracingviews.com/2021/01/11/telling-war-stories/

His sub head is: “Combat myths matter to more than just military members. So do their ramifications.”

He starts: “I don’t have any personal war stories to tell. In my twenty years in the U.S. Air Force, I never saw combat.” And then on to relate what he was connected to.

My response (breaking it into more paragraphs, adding pictures and checking a few names and URLs I didn’t have when writing it as a comment):

Something similar here. I was in a TDY outfit. We went all over the world in small teams for weeks or months returning to F.E. Warren in Cheyenne for a few weeks and and then out again in other teams (whoever was available for assignment). I was in the 1st geodetic survey squadron and was trained at the Army’s engineer school in Fr. Belvoir.

Out of the 18 Air Force guys in my class all but 2 went from Ft. Belvoir to Keesler for further training and then deployment to SEA for Combat Skyspot (radar guided bombing). I went from Ft. Belvoir to F.E. Warren and immediately worked on computations for Skyspot surveys setting the positions (elevation, latitude, longitude, azimuths, etc) of the radars which guided the bombs.

So, I never saw the enemy directly or fired any weapon directly (except to qualify on the range) and yet had my hand in who knows how many deaths in North Vietnam and elsewhere, including Laos and Cambodia because of numbers which were the basis for where weapons were dropped.

North Dakota pylon on a Minuteman Missile site. Sam is resting his head on the instrument case (for the T3) after taking measurements with the T3 Wild Theodolite (on the pylon) and our other team member is using recording forms to calculate the results before deciding whether to take another set of observations or go to the next pylon and/or the missile site’s “A-point.” I’m using my Leica M2 rangefinder with a Leitz-Canada 35mm wide angle lens, which I took everywhere and loved dearly.

Then there were the annual missile site surveys where we hit every site and made sure the positions (lat/long/ele/azimuths) were still valid from the A-point on a site so that the targeting teams could target the missles. (side note: they were originally called Targeting and Analysis so we called them T&A until at some point they became Combat Targeting Teams with blue dickies and bloused pants which meant we REALLY called them T&A)

Mike Strong (me) riding in a deuce and a half in the California desert holding the camera on the edge of the door window. El Centro, CA area, Jan/Feb 1970. Photo, Copyright Mike Strong – (MikeStrongCA1970AirForce_F9319)

In August 1972 I was on a team sent to Whiteman (Missouri) to certify the first geosensors which were a gyroscopic unit, about the size and shape of a hat box which sensed directional north from the earth’s rotation, eliminating above ground annual surveys of Minuteman sites. Recently I checked the web to see whether I remember the name “geosensor” correctly (I did, though it was part of a larger computer system for targeting).

It was incredibly disconcerting this time. Very, very Dr. Strangelovian and, truthfully, sickening. The very thought of the “logic” of ever using these weapons. What did we ever imagine we were doing? Clearly, what I was reading had no deeper thought of the consequences than win or lose, and only in limited terms.

Something similar to a new piece (Jan 3, 2021) I read yesterday about a new form of nuclear power (small, local reactors). Being a science kid I was once a huge advocate of the benefits of such “clean” and seemingly boundless, seemingly cheap electricity from nuclear. The article, written by a (young?) woman, Caroline Delbert (her teensy thumbnail picture looked young), was much the same as if it had been written in the 1950’s. She is just as enthusiastic.

But like all of us, no thought to handling the waste products. That, I note as an aside, is not unusual. That also happens in software where data cleanup or garbage cleanup in memory is often an afterthought.

The January 3, 2021 article is in Popular Mechanics titled “Tiny Nuclear Reactors Can Save American Energy” and the sub-heading: “They pack10 percent of the power of a full-size nuclear plant in just 1 percent of the space.”

This time I could do a text search and looked in vain for any words which might tell me about waste disposal. Nada. Not one word or even side reference.

There is the catch. We have never come up with a good disposal for nuclear waste. Never. As a journalist I might normally qualify a statement like that with “so far as I could tell” and so forth.

But had we such a solution, this solution would have long been used for Three Mile Island, Chernobyl or Fukushima or Hanford or Windscale on the NW coast of England and so many others we don’t usually hear about.

This waste will last well beyond any imaginable human civilization, and, who knows (journalistic qualifier here), maybe until Homo Sapiens morphs into the next Homo species, assuming Homo Anythingess lasts that long.

We do have far better options already coming into being. True renewables. Wind, Solar, Hydro including wave motion. As we argue about them they are coming online and without the subsidies fossil fuels and nuclear get.

I’ll stop now. I got running on and don’t really know how to end this. Something our “leaders” also don’t seem to know how to do.

Color-Blind Corrections

An article by former Air Force Colonel William J. Astore titled “The Races of Man” inspired this piece.
https://bracingviews.com/2018/07/13/the-races-of-man/
He used a picture from the 1890’s of a picture depicting human “races” in various colors which showed the racial attitudes of the time, with white “races” as the most advanced.

Astore was showing both how far we’ve come since then in knowledge and how little we’ve advanced in attitudes. As color seemed to be a major delimiter, separating people from each other, I wrote a comment (mostly what I have below) about my experiences in learning to adjust color balances in pictures by understanding flesh color as the same pattern in red, Green, Blue color sliders, regardless of how light or dark the skin tones.

I added that if I could find example pictures from my work which would illustrate this, I would add the link back from their comment section. So here is my reply.

Colors Don’t Work Right for Me

I’ve been shooting since the summer of 1967 when I took a photo course, the only one I’ve had. The next year when I enlisted in the Air Force I hoped for a photographer position. Turns out I am color blind (red/green partial deficiency, as it is termed). So I couldn’t take a photo job.

Nonetheless, I shot picture, both color and B&W developing and printing my own B&W.  I was never able to get a good color pack for color prints just by looking. When I did work in commercial photo labs, I was the B&W section. But I did do a lot of color-to-B&W conversions, usually from transparencies for a color catalog shoot.

For that I had managed, using densitomer readings, to calibrate a set of color packs for various transparency emulsions, Kodachrome, Ektachrome, Fujichrome, AgfaChrome and so forth, so that they would look right on panchromatic B&W film. Otherwise the colors produce odd looking densities.

In 1992, when Photoshop was available on Windows machines I realized that I could do my own color corrections on photos using the RGB numbers. I figured I would also calibrate the RGB settings I needed for skin tones, just as I had previously calibrated color packs for different transparency films.

I got out daylight slides of all my friends from whiter than me and super pale to honey brown, medium brown, charcoal brown and near black, blue black. I just assumed I would need a separate calibration for each, just the way I needed a separate calibration for the various transparency films.

It turned out to be much easier (a relief for me) and also a moment of “Well, du-uh.”

Everyone, no matter how pale or how dark corrected to the same pattern: more red, less blue and the green slider on a straight line between the red and blue.

The slider values need to line up in a straight line
like this fictitious example below.
…………………….RED  90
.………..GREEN  80
….BLUE   70
NOTE: These are only example values. They vary greatly, but as long as you work to line them up, you will get the right skin color.

Although I am color blind and can’t determine the right color change just by looking, it turns out I am very sensitive to the aliveness of the color and the deadness of the color. So I could work the color sliders to the overall generic pattern so that the picture popped up as alive as possible (without letting the shadows go blue).

In other words, a matter of the concentration of colorant, not which colorant. (A colorant is a color used as an ingredient creating another color. i.e. red and blue, colors in themselves, are colorants when combined to make the color purple.)

I use Lightroom now more than Photoshop and Lightroom has a different color correction mechanism. They don’t have convenient RGB sliders for me to use. Instead, I have to put the cursor over an area of skin and use the numerical readings, imagining how they would line up (as in the example above). But the method still works, with a little more effort.

I’ve used that over the years to darken or lighten colors when sometimes correcting a picture when I’ve cut off a limb and need to borrow a limb from another picture.

UMKC Fall 2007 early Dress 31 Oct 2007 – Photo, Copyright 2007 Mike Strong, http://www.kcdance.com

Some years ago I did an example (above) photo showing the blending of two dancers (white/black) into one image corrected where I had cut off the forearm of one dancer and borrowed a forearm from the other. Below is the result shown larger.

Skylar Taylor and Miyesha McGriff – “Dance Symphony No 7” by Paula Weber – UMKC Fall 2007 early Dress 31 Oct 2007 – Photo, Copyright 2007 Mike Strong, http://www.kcdance.com – umkcF07b_045xac

That is Skylar’s forearm extended out from Miyesha. You can’t tell the difference. We humans are just us. All of us. And we are so much closer to each other than we realize.

Mango Mussolini at 800+

Count: 2,227 – 1:47 PM 1/8/2021

This is a list I started to compile in early 2017. I figured it would be a short page of maybe a few dozen names at most. It grew. And grew.

For a while it was funny and mocking. Then a bit dismaying and finally its own comment on the adjectives generated by a fully disfunctional president. Both amazing and appaling.

At first I collected names only. Then I needed to go with longer descriptors, in a few cases, entire sentences. Sometimes a name or descriptor would produce a lot of similar ones in a message thread. Sometimes I wasn’t sure whether the spellings were typos or genuine different versions. I kept both.

I was tempted to skip over the worst names but decided to leave them in, the cringey ones. Not because I am comfortable with them but because, after time, it seemed required in order to be complete.

There were long periods when I just backed off and other times where the names were coming in hot and heavy. Still, the list grew well beyond any size I ever anticipated.

Here they are, as it stands.

NAMES LIST in alpha order here – Related associate names, descriptions and phrases below the names list

#BenedictDonald
#BoneSpurs45
#BunkerBaby
#BunkerBabyBoneSpurs45
#BunkerBitch
#BunkerDownDonnie
#CarolynGombell
#DERANGEDIDIOT
#donniedouchebagtrump
#GOLDSPHINCTER
#impeachedpresidentbunkerboy
#LONEWANKER
#MOAN WARRIOR
#PORN WARRIOR
#POTUSVector
#presidentbunkerboy
#PresidentKaren
#PresidentSuperSpreader
#SoCalledPresident
#traitor45
#WhinyLittleB1tch
#whinylittleBword
$trumpet
*resident
*resident Rump
*rump
@StankyDaddy
10th Generation Orangutang (response to Warren’s DNA test result)
400 lb guy in the basement
“A very minor form of president (after calling it “”a very minor form of teargas”” used at border)”
Ab Comedian
Abuser in Chief
Actor-in-Chief
Adderall Donny
Adolf Hitler Rump
Adolf Trump
Adolph Von Trumpenstein
adulterer
Agent Orange
Agolf
Agolf Shitler
Agolf Twittler
AHOTUS
Air-Hole President (wearing his maskie)
Al Capone Clone
Al Crumpone and His 40 Thieves
Alberto Fujimoron (I think the commenter mis-applied this one)
Alfa Ponce of the Alt-Right
Almighty Tweetmeister
alt+president* Dunning-Kruger Judas Fartwhistle
Alternative CIC
Alternative Fact
Alternative President
Alternative Trump (newspaper mistake using picture of Alec Baldwin’s impersonation of Trump, instead of showing Trump)
American Unhung Hero
America’s First Retarded President
Amoral Wart
An Asshole’s Asshole
Anarchist 101
and best friend of bin Salman
Angry Creamsicle
Anti-American fat-sack-of-pus Donald J. Chump
Anti-Claus (opposed to Santa Claus)
Anti-Human
Aristobrat
Arrogant Old Il Douche 2
Arse of the Deal
Art of the Trumpaclysm
Assaulter in Chief
Assaulter N Thief
Assclown
AssPestos (comment from story of Trump’s image on pallets of asbestos from Russian mining company)
Atilla the Trump
Authoritarian Dictator Pig
Authoritarian in Chief
Awful One
Ayn Rump
Baby Blimp
Baby Bone Spur
Baby Boy Coward Dotard
Baby Don in Chief
Baby Dumpster
Baby in Chief
Baby Manh
Baby Snookums
Baby Trump
Bad Boy Donny
Bad Donnie
Bad Grandpa
Bag O’Cheesefarts
Bag of Pus
Banana King Donnie
Bango Mango
bankruptcy king
Bankruptcy Queen Donnee
Baron of Bankruptcies
Baron von Bonespur
Basturd
Bayou Bogeyman
Bedminster Beezlebub (Ref: New Jersey, Trump golf club)
Benedict Donald
Benito the Cheeto
Big Blonde Bimbo
Big Boy President
Big Bratty Baby
Big Dump
Big Orange Baby
Big Orange Daddy
Big Orange Fat Man
Big Orange Head
Big Orange Jobby
Big Orange Monster
Big Orange Stooge
Big Orange Twat
Big Orange Twatwaddle
Big Yellow Kidney Stone
Bigly Bone Spurs
Bigly Dear Leader
Bigot Boy
Bigot in Chief
Bilbo Bigot
Bitter Old Twat
Blabbering Puppet
Blabbermouth Blowhard
Bleach Ball Cobesity
Bleach Boi
Bleach Boy Cobesity
Bleach Bum
Bleach Bum Pretendident
Bleach Face
Bleach Gawd
Bleach House Bum
Bleach House Donnie Cakes
Bleach House Occupier
Bleached Orange Panda Brain
Bleached Whale
Bleach-House Bum
Blight House Incumbent
Blimpy
Blithering Idiot
Bloated Ball of Gracelessness and Cry-Baby Petulance
BLOATUS
Blond Bomber
Blonde Don
Blondie the Pig
BLOTUS
Bloviating Flesh Bag
Bloviating Horse’s Pituti
Blubber Boy
Blubbering Trump
Blusters
Bobble Head!!!
BOGUS POTUS
Bolting-Hutch of Beastliness
Bone Spur Baby
Bone Spur Boomer
Bone Spur Coward
Bone Spur Draft Dodger
Bone Spur in the Craw
Bone Spur Kid
Bone Spur Man
Bone Spur-in-Chief
Bone Spurs-N-Chief
Bonespur
BoneSpurious
Bonespurs
Bonespurs McBunky
Bongo Donny
Bonkers Bunker Boy
Bonnie Prince Donnie
Booty Bandit
Boring Orange Reality Denier
Boss Tweet
Boss Virus
Branch Covidion
Brazen Pukey Brat
Brer Trumpo
“Bucaroo Bunker Boi
RepubliKKKlan-in-Chief”
Buffoon Extraordinaire!
Buffoonish Balloon
Bull Sheiser in Chief
Bully Boy
Bully Puppet
Bully-in-Chief
Bumble Pee
Bumbler in Chief
Bumbling Don (in contrast to Stuttering John in prank call-back phone call to Trump on Air Force One)
Bumbling Doofus
Bummer Don
Bunker Baby
Bunker Bitch
Bunker Boi
Bunker Bone Spurs Baby
Bunker Boy
Bunker Down Donnie
Bunker McBonespurs
Bunker Trumper
Bunkerbitch
Bunkernator
Bunkertator
Buttfoon
Buttplug Face
Cadet Bad Spur
Cadet Bone Spurs
Cadet Brainspurs
Cadet Bullspurs
Cadet Covid
Cadet Heel Spurs
Cadet Lardass Bonespurs
Cadet Spanky
Cadet ‘Spanky’ Bone Spurs
Caesar Trumpestuous
Caesar Trumpous
CaliguDump
CaliguTrumpa
Cancerous Orange Metastasis
Candy Corn Skidmark
Captain Blight
Captain Bonespurs
Captain Chaos
Captain Combover
Captain Crazycakes
Captain Piss-gums and his flying monkeys
Captain Underpants
Captain Wrongway Peachfuzz
Carny Barfer
Cartoon President
Casino Mussolini
Chaos Producer in Chief
Cheater in Chief
Cheatolini
Cheeto
Cheeto Benito
Cheeto Fuhrer
Cheeto in Chief
Cheeto Jesus
Cheeto King
Cheeto Mussolini
Cheeto Vienna Sausage
CheetObeso
CheetoHead
Cheetolini
Cheetolino
Chicken Hawk Down
Chicken Spurs
ChickenShitLiddle
Chief Creep
Chief Fascist Pig
Chief Gaslighter
Chief Graben Haunt Us – comment in resonse to Pocahontas dig at Senator Warren
Chief Kumquat Pindiq
Chief Shitting Bull
Child-in-Chief
Childish Shallow Little Shit
Chiseler-in-Chief
Chooch (East Coast term, from the Italian ciuccio – means dummy, idiot, or moron)
Choo-Choo Engineer-in-Chief
Chosen One
Chosen One Dictator
Chrump
Chuck NorPrez
Chump
Chump Dumps
Chump Trump
Chump45
ChumPeeGo
Chumpster
Chunker Bunker Spelunker
Church of Bleach
Cinnamon Nazi
Clockwork Orange
Clockwork Orangutan
Clorox President
Clown Car Driver
Clown King
Clown President
Clown Prince
Clownface McFuckstick
Clownface von Fuckstick
Clown-in-Chief
ClownPervert
Comb-Over Child
Comb-Over-In-Chief
Commandeer Quack
Commander Bonespurs
Commander Brainspur
Commander Chaos
Commander in Briefs
Commander in Cheat
Commander in Cheese (spoken in interview by KellyAnne Conway, Counselor to the President [Trump])
Commander in Cheeto
Commander in Peach
Commander in Straitjacket
Commander in Thief
Comrade Bonespurski
Comrade Cheetolino
Comrade Don
Comrade Orange Clown BABY IQ-4.5
Comrade Spanky
Comrade Trump
Comrade Trumpski
Con Man Don
Con Man Donnie Dumpster
CONald
Conald Chump
Con-man in chief
Conman Orange Liar
Con-old Trump
Contaminator-in-Chief
Cookie Pootz
Cootie in Charge
Corona Don
Coronadon
Corporal Spanky Bonespurs
corrupt and power-mad malignant
COVID Kidder
COVID-45
Covidfefe In Chief
COVIDIOT-45
Covidiot45 Orange
Covidiot-in-Chief
Covidiot-in-Failure
COVITA!
Coward In Chief == CIC
Craven Little Git
Cream-faced Loon
Creepy Don
Crime Boss
Criminal money grubbing narcissist
Crispy Orange Dildo
Crook in Chief
Crooked Donald
Crowdspur Done-ee (canceled convention)
Cruella de Trompon
Crump
Crumpus
Crybaby Dictator
Crybaby Trump
Cult45
Current Occupant
Current Resident
Cut and Run Donnie
Czar Donaldovich
Daddy Dump
Daddy Whorefucks
Daffy Donald
Daft Twerp
Dancing Donnie
Dandy Don
Danger Clown Donald
Darth Cheeto
Darth Deportem
Darth Dumsterfire
Darth Evader
Darth Trump
Dastardly Donnie
Dasturd
David Dennison III – (his own alias in NDA with Stormy Daniels that he didn’t sign)
Day Glo Dingus
Deadbeat
Deadbeat Don
Dear Leader
Dear Leader Kim Jong-Drumpf
Dearest DonDon
Debaucher-In -Chief
Debil
Decadent Donald
Deferral-In-Chief
DeForest Trump
Defucktive Fiction
Degenerate Donald
Deliquent Donnie
Delirium Thrumper
Deluded
Deluded Dishonest Xenophobic Narcissistic
Demagogue
Demagogue Demigorgon
demented
Demented Donny
Demented Orange
Demented Rump and His Tyrannical Enablers
Dementia Don
Dementia Donnie
Demon Donnie
Demon Dump
Demon Spurn
Demonically eviscerated orange hide husk of a human
Denier In Chief
Deplorable Donnie
Der BadlyAppliedMakeupFuhrer
Der Furor
Der Gropinfuhror
Der Marmalade
Der Rumpenfuhrer
Deranged Donnie
Deranged Ignoramus
Desperate Cheeto
Devil Trump
Diaper Don (play on Dapper Dan)
Diaper Donnie
Diaper Donny
Diarrhea of a Madman
Diarrhea Thumbs
DIC == Dictator In Chief
Dick Tater
Dickhead
DickTaterTrump
Dickus Minimus
Dictator Trump
Dildo Brains
Dim Don
Dim Leader
Dimwit Donnie
Dirty Don
Dirty Donald
Dirty Donnie
Disaster-a-Day Donnie
Disease Vector
Diseased Fat Rat
Diseased Monster
Disgraced President
Disgraceful Donald
Dishonest Don
Dishonest Donald
Dishonorable Donald
Disinfectant Donny
Dithering Don
Djt-Bag
Doctor General Donald Kevorkian Trump
Dodger in Chief
Doetard in Chief
Dognald
Dog-Whistle Don
Dolt 45
Dolt45
Doltard
“Don “”Vito”” Trump”
Don Cornholeone
Don Dada
Don Don
Don Don the Moron
Don Donald
Don Fabulist
Don J Dimwit
Don Of The Dead
Don SemiCorleone
Don the Baby Blimp
Don The Con
Don the Dope
Don the Dork
Don the Oink
Don Trump
Don Trumpoté de la Torre
Don Veto Trumpleone
Donalcito
“Donald “”White Power”” Trump”
Donald Chump
Donald Corleone Trump
Donald Do-Little
Donald Dotard Dump (was duped)
Donald Duck
Donald Duck Out
Donald Duct Taper
Donald Dumbass
Donald Dump
Donald f$&@ing Trump
Donald First
Donald Gotti by Crotch
Donald Jesus Trump
Donald Jong Un
Donald Judas Drumpf
Donald of Trumptania
Donald Punk
Donald Putin
Donald Ragin’
Donald the Demon (DTD)
Donald the Dupe
Donald the Menace
Donald the Ranter
“Donald the Savior (ref: “”And then, playing John the Baptist to Jesus, (Stephen) Miller says … fabulous news””)”
Donald the Unready
Donald Trash Trump
Donald Trump International Career Criminal and Transphobic Douche
Donald Tumor
Donaldo
Donarhea
DonCon
Dondon
Don-Don
Donel Bobble Head
Donfather
Donicons
Donito Assolini
“Donnie “”Doll Hands”” Trump”
“Donnie “”The Chimp”” Chumps”
Donnie 2 Chainz
Donnie Ali Bawaaw Waaaaw
Donnie Barker
Donnie Barko
Donnie Blurto
Donnie Bone Spurs
Donnie Bonkers
Donnie Boy
Donnie Bunker
Donnie Chumps
Donnie Confabulous
Donnie Darko
Donnie Dastard
Donnie Dearest
Donnie Deplorable
Donnie Dimwit
Donnie Dipshit
Donnie Disaster
Donnie Dodger
Donnie Dooshbag
Donnie Dotard
Donnie Douchebags
Donnie Draino
Donnie Dunning-Kreuger
Donnie Golem
Donnie Gotti
Donnie Humper
Donnie J. Rope Dope
Donnie John
Donnie Little Fingers
Donnie Little Hand
Donnie Murdo
Donnie Orange-ade
Donnie Orange-is-the-new-Black
Donnie Pox
Donnie Q. Dump
Donnie Quixote Trump
Donnie Rotten
Donnie Rotten Trump
Donnie Tangents
Donnie the Dick
Donnie the Dude
Donnie the Goombah
Donnie the Mouth
Donnie the Scum Bag
Donnie the Stiff
Donnie There’s a Hard Rain Comin’ (after Paris, not going out in the rain to visit WWI memorial)
Donnie Toxic Dump
Donnie Two Bits
DonnieDon’tnosh!t
Donniedumbazz
Donnochio
Donny Blimpo
Donny Bloat
Donny Dettol
Donny Disser
Donny Doofus
Donny Draino
Donny Drama Dump
Donny Dumbshit
Donny Dummy
Donny Grump
Donny Tosser (tosser is a Brit expression == jerk off == masturbator)
Donny Tweetenstein
Donny Whiz Bang
Donnycon
Donnytinyhands schadenfreude
Donocchio
Donthecon
Doofus Donald Trump
Doonie
Dope on a Rope
Dorito Hitler
Dotard 45
Dotard Bone Spurs
Dotard Donald
Dotard Rump
Dotard von GolfTwit
Dotard-in-Chief
Doturd
DOTUS
Double EE (effing evil) Donnie
Doughy Don
Doutch
Dr. Bonespurs
Dr. Donnie Death
Dr. Evil
Dr. ‘Let Them Eat Clorox’ Trump
Dr. Orange Dent
Dr. Orange Merde
Dr. Orangeman
Dr. Trump
Draft Dodger Don
Draft Dodgin’ Donnie Trump
Draft Dodging Don
Draft-Dodger-in-Chief
Draft-dodging Donald
Drama Donnie
Drooling Orange Dung Pile
Druggie Orange One
Drumpenheffer
Drumperboy
Drumpf
Drumpfelthinskin
Drumpfenputz
Drumpfenputzen
Drumpfie Coward
Drumpfy
Drumph
Drumpsterfire
DT
DTs
DuckinDonald (Tweet, tweet)
Dud Fuher
Dud Furor
Dugout Donnie
Dugout Dumps
Duh Furor
Dumald Trump
Dumb and Dangerouser
Dumb Donny
Dumbald Tchump
Dumbfuck Donnie
Dumbnold Rump
Dumbo the Elephant
Dumbster
Dumbster Donnie
Dumbster Fire
Dumbug
Dumbya
Dummy McDumbface
Dump Truck
Dump-a-Whumpa
Dumpduterte
Dumpkin Head
Dumpmentia
Dumpo
Dumpo the Orange Blimpo
Dumps
Dumps the Merciful
Dumpster Donnie
Dumpster Fire
Dumpty Humpty
Dumpy
Dumpy Dipschitte
Dumpy Dolittle
Dumpy Doofus
Dumpy Doofus White Supremacist
“Dunnald and his 5″” stiletto concubine”
Duterte
Dynamo Don
Dystopian Don
Easy-D
Egregious fuck-ton of dyspeptic-raccoon shit
Eh-Whole
Ein Hair Furor
El Caudillo del Mar-a-Lago
El Commandante
El Donito
El Douche
El Duce
El Ole Orange Piggo
El Presidenti Paper Tiger
El Primo Mango
El Primo Mango Mussolini
El Supreme POS45
El Trumpo
El Turdo
El Twittler
Embarrassing Orange Stain
Embarrassment-in-Chief
Empathy Amputee
Emperor Donald
Emperor Pussius Grabbious
Emperor Tiny Mushroom Head
Emperor Trump
Emperor Trumpapotomus
Endless Insane Trump Clown Show
Enemy of the People
ERROR CODE 1D 10 T
Evil Fraud Prez Rump
Evil Orange Idiot
Evil Orange Moron
Extra Large Orange Blob
Face Borg
Failure Trump
Fake Don the Con
Fake Fat Dictator
Fake President
Fake Prez Whack a Doodle
Fanny Baws
Fare Prince (refering to tarifs)
Fart of the Deal
Fartface
Fascist Adolescent
Fascist Dickhead
Fascist Tangerine
Fat A s s
Fat Annoying Orange
Fat Boy
Fat Caligula
Fat Donnie
Fat Fascist Pig
Fat Festering Orange Boil
Fat Mobster
Fat Nixon
Fat Orange Clown
Fat Orange Draft Dodger
Fat Orange God
Fat Orange Moron
Fat Orange Tub of Putrid Goo
Fat Wuss!
Fatazzed Orange Dictator-want-to-be Drumpf
Fatboi
Father Ruffian
Faux-kkka-Potus
FauxTUS
FcDonald
Ferret Top
Ferret-Headed Orange Sh!+gibbon
Field Marshal Bone Spurs
Fifteen Flushes Donnie
Filthy Loser Don the Con
First Lord of Drumpfenstan
Fisher Price Hitler!
Fish-Lipped Fraud
Five-Deferment Draft Dodger
Flagellum Dei
Flaming Orange Satan
Flaming Orange Seitan
Flaming Shitmobile
Flash Don (from medieval English where Flash [town name] means Swamp)
FLOATUS (as Trump Baby Blimp floats over London)
Flounder
Fluke of Orange
FoolsGoldsphincter
Forever 10-Year-Old President
Forrest (evil) Dump
Forrest Jessica Trump
Forrest Trump
Fossil Fool (#700)
Fox News Grandpa
Foxhole Donnie
Freaky Flubber Flounder
Fredo-in-Chief
Fresh Prince of Bad Hair
Fritterhead
Frosty the Slowman
Frothing Shite-Gibbon
fsnmango
Fuck Up 45
Fuckapotamus
Fuckface-In-Chief
Fucking Moron
Fucktarded Dingleberry
Fuckwit
Fuhrer Bump
Fuhrer Drumpf
Fuhrer Dumpler
Fuhrer Gump
Fungus Don
Fussy Wussy ImPOTUS
Fuzznut Dotard
Fxxkface
Gangster in Chief
Gangsterized Wrecking Ball
Gaslighter in Chief
Gelatinous Orange Pustule
General Bone Spurs
General Bonespur
General Bunker
General Trump
Generalissimo Trump
GesTrumpo
Giant Oom-pa-loom-pa
Giant Orange Anus
Giant Orange Grifter
Giant Puckering Butthole
Gibbering Old Fat Oaf
Giggles sNot
Ginger Mussolini
GNP (gross narcissist producer)
God Emperor Trump
Godfather Orange
Godzilla Trump
Golden Dump
Golden Golem of Greatness
Golden-Throned Shit-Hole Grabber
Golem the Trump
Golf Boy
Goose Look
GOPfather
Gormless Sack of Fruit Bat Scrotums
Gotti Donnie
Graft-O-Largo
Grandpa Ranty
Great Disrupter
Great Liar
Great Orange Booby
Great Orange Dictator
Great Orange Leader
Great Orange Obscenity
Great Orange Pretender
Great Orange Shitgibbet
Great Orange Shitgibbon
Great Orange Space Commander
Great Orange Twatler
Great Wise Trump
Grey Iniquity
Grifter in Charge
Grifter no Gifter
Grifter-In-Chief
Grinning Orange Beast
Gropenfuhrer
Groper In Chief
Grump Trump
Grumpy Trumpy
Gutter Prez
Hair Flap
Hair Furher
Hair Furor
Hair Hitler
Hair Twittler
Hair-Weather Pwesident
HalfWhit
Halfwit
Hamster Heedit Bampot
Handy Don
Hatriot in Chief
He Who Should Not Be President
Head Cheese
Head Cockroach
Head Dotard in Charge of Dumbassery, Whataboutery, Mendacity and Cupidity
Herr Donald
Herr Fucktard
Herr Gropenfuhrer
Herr Shitler
Herr Trump
Hideaway Don
His Divine Pissyness
His Emptiness
His Imperial Majesty.. the Malignancy
His Majesty
His Majesty King Trumpturd
His Orangeness
His Pestilency
His Rotundity
His Supreme Execrableness Trump
His Weirdness
Hoisted Donnie
Holy Jar of Sewer Pickles
Homo WreckedUS
Horseface Dumpy
Hourly Promise-breaker
House Boy-in-Chief
Huckleberry Spinmeister
Hucksterberry
Huge blubbering pile of excrement
Huge Bombard of Sack
Human Ipecac
Human Skid Mark
Humpty Drumpfty
Humpty Plumpty
Humpty Trumpty
Humpty Trumpy
Hunker Down Don
Hurricane Trump
I Alone
Idiot Boy
Idiot Clown
Idiot In Chief – IIC
Idiot King
Idiot of Orange
Idiot Orange Dimwit
IdiotTrump
iDJiT
Idot Clown
Ignorant Buffoon
Ignorant Orange Savage
il Doofus
Il Dookie
Il Douche
Il Douché
Il Duce No2 (II)
Il Dunce
Imbecile-In-Chief
Immoral and Amoral Orange Cockroach
Impeached Fat Man
Impeached Moron
Impeached Trump
Impeached Trump The RepubliCON
Imperial Wizard
Imposter In Chief
IMPOTUS
IMPOTUS REX
IMPOTUSPOS
Incoherent in Chief
Income Bent
Incompetent Jizztrumpet
Incompetent Orange Disaster
Incompetent President
Incompetent Tawdry Mafiaso-Wannabe-Charlatan
Incompetent Usurper Donald J. Drumpf
Incomprehensible Jizztrumpet
Indecent Orange Beast
Individual-1
InDumbent
Infant-in-Chief
Infinite and Endless Liar
Inflamed Gland – IG
Insane King
International Mother of all JokeButts
IQ 0.45
IQ 4.5
IQ 45
Iron Man Leader
Irregular Donnybrook
It Don Fit
Jabba the Frown
Jabba the Gut
Jabba the Trump
Jack O’Lantern
Jercules
Jesus Christ Stupid Star
Jethro P. Trumpkin
Jobbie Jabber
John Barron Denison
John Pisani Donny Two Scoops (mafia style name from comment)
John-in-Chief
Julius Cheeser
Jumbo Dumbo
Junior
Kaiser Drumpf
Kaiser Schitza
Kentucky Fried Nero
Khmer Orange
Killer
Killer Clown
KillVID
Kim Jong Trump
Kim Jong Un and other miscreants
Kim Jong-Drumpf
Kim Jumbo Rump
King Bigly Ruler
King Birther
King Cheeto
King Con
King COVID
King Ding Dong
King Don
King Donald
“King Donald I ([1st] ref: “”fundamentalist Christian Dominionist theocratic dictatorship””)”
King Donald the Insane
King Donnie
King Ignoramus
King Jobby (Brit expression for t_rd)
King Marmalade
King Midas in Reverse
King of Cases per Capita
King of Chaos
King of Combover Conspicuous Consumption
King of Distraction
King of the Swamp
King of Ventilators
King PeePee
King Salmon Head
King Shytes
King Toad
King Toot
King Toot-Toot Tootsie
King Trump
King Twit ‘n Tweet
Klepto Don
Klown in Chief
Klown King
Knuckle-Dragger-in-Chief
Kung Flu
Kung Flu COVID
Lamentable Purported President
Large BM
launderer of Russian mob money
Le Tromper
Leader of The Grand
leghumping dullard
Lemon-Yellow
L’Enfant Terrible
Liar-in-Chief
Lickspittle LollyDump
L’il Donnie
Lil’ Donnie John
Limp Duck President
LINCOTUS (Liar in chief of the US)
Little
Little Dickie Don
Little Donnie
Little Donnie Boo-Hoo
Little Donnie Dumba$$
Little Donnie Johnnie PutinFluffer
Little Donnie Johnnie T?ump
Little Donnie Sh*tstain
Little Donny Wetpants
Little Lord Tauntleroy
Little Lord Trumperoy
Little Lord Trumpleroy
Little Orange Fuhrer
Little Orange Man
Little Orange Toddler
Little Orphan Donnie
Little Petulant Cheeto Colored, Comb-Over Child
Little Pseudo-Man
Little Putin
Little Small Man
Little Spanky
Little Whiney Donnie
Little, Little Pseudo-Man
Loan Warrior
Loathsome Donnie
Loathsome Shit-Stain
Lone Mule Muffin Head
Lone Warrior of the Porcelain Throne
Loon of the Day/Hour
LOOTUS
Lord Commander Marmilade
Lord Dampnut
Lord Farquaad
Lord Littlefingers
Lord Moldyshorts
Lord Of The Tweets
Lord Scrotumneck
Loser President
Loser-in-Chief
Ludicrous Tangerine Ballbag
Lump
Ly’in Don and His Deplorables
Lyin’ King
Lying Donald
Lying Troglodyte
Lying Trump
Lysol Loonie
Lysol-in-Chief
LΓÇÖil Donnie
Mad King
Mad King Don
Mad King Donald
Madman in Chief
Mafia Don
Mafia Donnie
MAGAss
MAGAt
MAGAt-in-Chief
MAGAvirus
Magic Don
Malicious Fascist Ogre
Malignancy in the White House
Malignant Cancer
Malignant Idiot
Malignant Narcissist
Malignant Orange Hate Machine (MOHM)
Malignant Shit Funnel
Man Baby
Man in the Orange Mask
Manchild
Manchurian Cantaloupe
Manchurian Idiot
Manchurian President
Manchurian Trump
Mandarin Candidate
Mangled Apricot Hellbeast
Mangled Mussolini
Mango Manager
Mango Menace
Mango Messiah
Mango Moron
Mango Mussolini
Mangolian Cantaloupe
Mango-Man-Baby
Manure Mouth
Mar a Cupcake
Mar-a-Corupto
Mar-A-Lardass
Marmalade Mephistopheles
Marmalade Mussolini
Marmalade Shitgibbon
Mask-Cow Putter
Master Distractor
Masterbuting Orange Cheese Puff
Masturbating Bar Stool
Max Tani
Mayhem President
Mayhem-in-Chief
McTrumpthy
Me Me Trump
Me the People!
Mein Golpf
Mendacity and Cupidity
Mensa Moron
Mental Defucktive
Merciful Dumps
Merde Mouth
Messiah Trump
Messiah Trumpm Spankie
Meth-Head Nixon
MIC – Mocker in Chief
MIC – Moron in Chief
Micro Mitts
Middle BLOATUS
Midtown Mussolini
Mimi Trump
Mini-Clapper
Mini-Me Boo-Hoo-Baby Trump
Mini-Me Putin
Minority President Trump
Mister I Alone
Mob Boss Trump
Mobster in Chief
Mogron in Chief (Dr. Who ref)
Monday Morning Quarter Pounder!
Monster Donnie
Monumental Blockhead
morally bankrupt fascist with a bad spray tan
MorAn
Morbidly Orange Putter
Moron
Moron in Chief
Moronald
MORONavirus
moronavirus tRump
Moronoutang
Moscow Don
Moscow Donnie
Moscow Mueller Bait
Most Disposable POTUS
Most Notable Coward
Mr. Adolescent
Mr. Big Deal Maker
Mr. BOGUS POTUS
Mr. Bone Spurious
Mr. Bone Spurs
Mr. Cheese
Mr. Combover Supreme
Mr. Crankypants
Mr. Fart 45
Mr. Hubris
Mr. Impeached
Mr. Marie Antoinette
Mr. MeMe and his Suckup Circus
Mr. Orange Face
Mr. Pigface Lord of the Flies
Mr. President Perjury Trap
Mr. Pussypants
Mr. Smoldering National Tragedy
Mr. StableGenius
mr. t
Mr. Toddler
Mr. Top Creep in Charge
Mr. Trash
Mr. Treason
Mr. Tweeterpeter
Mr. Yuk
“Mt Flushmore

Mt Rumpmore
President Sikko”
Mt Rumpmore
Munster Dump
Murderer-in-Chief
Mushroom Cap
Mushroom Crotch
Mushroom Dick
Mysoginist In Chief
Naked Emperor
Nancy’s Bitch
Napoleon Bonaspurs
Narcissism 666
Narcissistic Steroid Baby
National Embarrassment
Nauseating Orange Filth
Nickelback President
Non-Organic Git
NonStandard Deviant
November’s Hemorrhoid
Noxious Excrescence
Numbskull-in-chief
Numpty
Numpty Bawbag
Nut in Chief
Nut-hook Liar
Nuthouse Napoleon
O.J. Treason
Oaf in Office
Oaf of Office
Obese 300lb Orange Clown
OBESE Forever Impeached Liar-in-Chief
Obese Offensive Obstructionist Puppet
Obese Orange Fuhrer
Obese Orange One
Obese Orangutan
Oblivious One
Obscene Bilious Inheritor Billionaire
Occupant Trump
Ocher Abomination
Ocher Asshat
Odious Orange Gargoyle
Odious Troll (as a Star Wars character name)
OIC – Outrager-in-Chief
OL SHIT FACE
Old Orange Head
Old Scratch
Old Yellowstain
Ole Orange Butt
One Man Death Panel
ONIT — for: Our National Ingrown Toenail
OOO [Oval Office Obscenity]
Orange $hit Ozzz!
Orange @$$h*!e
Orange @@@@gibbon
Orange @@@@Shoveler
ORANGE A-AGENT MA-AN!
Orange Addolph
ORANGE AGENT MA-AN
Orange Angus Beef-on-the-Hoof
Orange Antichrist
Orange Anus
Orange Ape
Orange Apparition
Orange Assclown
Orange Baby
Orange Bag of Bile
Orange Bag of Putrid Gas
Orange Banana
Orange Beast
Orange Blimp
Orange Blimp Fuhrer
Orange Blob
Orange Blobbo
Orange Bloviated Gasbag
Orange Bloviator
Orange Blower
Orange Blowfish
Orange Blowhard
Orange Bobblehead
Orange Boil
Orange Bone Spur
Orange Booty Bandit (OBB)
Orange Boy
Orange Buffoon
Orange Bunker Baby
Orange Butt
Orange Butt Buddy
Orange Butthead
Orange Calf / Anti-Christ
Orange Caligula
Orange Cardio Event
Orange Chancre
Orange Charlatan
Orange Cheato
Orange Chimp
Orange Clown
Orange Clown Fish
Orange Clown Mobster
Orange Clown President
Orange Clown Virus-45
Orange Cockroach
Orange Colostomy Bag
Orange Covid
Orange Covidiot
Orange Cracker
Orange Crapper
Orange Creepoid
Orange Cretin
Orange Cretin Nutter
Orange Criminal
Orange Crush Marmalade Metamucil Man
Orange Cry Baby
“Orange Dawn (ironic reference to “”Red Dawn”” movie)”
Orange Despot
Orange Devil
Orange Diarrhea
Orange Dicktater
Orange Dictator
Orange Dildo
Orange Dimwit
Orange doG
Orange Don
Orange Donnie
Orange Donny
Orange Doofus
Orange Dope
Orange Douche Bag
Orange Droolius
Orange Drumpfman
Orange Dude
Orange Dufus
Orange Dump
Orange Elephant (in the room)
Orange Emperor
Orange Face
Orange Failure in Chief
Orange Fascist
Orange Fat Baby
Orange FatBaby
Orange Ferret Comb Over
Orange Finger
Orange Flap
Orange Fool
Orange Foolius
Orange Fraud
Orange Freak
Orange Front Man
Orange Fuckhead
Orange Fucknut
Orange Fucktard
Orange Fuhrer
Orange Fungus
Orange Fuzz Man
Orange Garbage Can
Orange Gawd
Orange Genius
Orange Gloaming
Orange Goblin
Orange Golem
Orange Grifter
Orange Grim Reaper
Orange Hair Helmet
Orange Hair Monster
Orange Haired Shit gibbon
Orange Head
Orange Headed Clown
Orange Headed Fool
Orange Hemorrhoid
Orange Hero
Orange Hideous
Orange Hitler
Orange Hog
Orange Hole
Orange Hulk
Orange Hulk Child
Orange Idiot
Orange Idol
Orange Ignoramus
Orange Il Duce
Orange Imbecile
Orange Imposter
Orange Insane Clown
Orange Jackass
Orange Jesus
Orange Julius
Orange Julius Caesar
orange jumpsuit filler
Orange Keeper
Orange King
Orange King COVID
Orange King Trump
Orange KKKracker
Orange Knuckle Dragger
Orange Koolade
Orange Lardass
Orange Loon
Orange Lufa Face
Orange Lufa-Faced Shit Gibbon
Orange lunatic
Orange Lying Oaf
Orange Maggot
Orange Malignancy
Orange Man
Orange Man Baby
Orange Man Bad!!
Orange Mangy Mutt MAGAt
Orange Maniac
Orange Manure Fountain
Orange Manure Monkey
Orange Manure Smear
Orange Marionette
Orange Marmalade Head
Orange Maroon
Orange Menace
Orange Messiah
Orange Minion
Orange Monkey
Orange Monstrosity
Orange Moron
Orange Mother of All Assholes
Orange Mountebank
Orange Muskrat Top
Orange Mussolini
Orange Mutt
Orange Narcissist
Orange Nazi
Orange Oaf
Orange Ogre
Orange Oligarch
Orange Oompaloompa
Orange Oppressor
Orange Orifice
Orange Outrage
Orange Oz
Orange Painted Clown
Orange Painted Death Clown
Orange Painted One
Orange Panda Brain
Orange Pansy
Orange Peckerless President
Orange Pervert
Orange Petulant Child
Orange Pig
Orange Pillock
Orange Plague
Orange Play Doctor
Orange Porky
Orange POTUS
Orange Pretender
Orange Puke
Orange Pumpkin
Orange Punk
Orange Pustule
Orange Puteh
Orange Rabbit
Orange Rasputin
Orange Ruff-ee
Orange Satan
Orange Savage
Orange Savior
Orange Schnitt
Orange Scrooge
Orange Sewer
Orange Sewer Mouth
Orange Sex Pest
Orange Sh!tstain
Orange Shitgibbon
Orange Shitler
Orange Slimeball
Orange Slimer
Orange Snake
Orange Snowflake
Orange Sphincter
Orange Stain
Orange Step-n-Fetch-It
Orange Swamp Monster
Orange Taint
Orange Tapeworm
Orange Tard
Orange Toddler
Orange Too Sad
Orange Top
Orange Trashcan Man
Orange Treason Clown
Orange Troll
Orange Truth Crush
Orange Tumor
Orange Turd
Orange Twitter
Orange Twittler
“Orange U.A. Warrior
Orange U.A. Warrior”
Orange Virus
Orange Voldemort
Orange Wasteman
Orange Weasel
Orange Yam
Orange Zero
Orange Zit
Orange, Lufa-Faced, Shit Gibbon
Orange@@@@gibbon
Orange-19 Virus
Orangeade Hobgoblin-in-Chief
Orange-Coated Imbecile
ORANGEEE!
OrangeFace
Orange-faced Loon
Orangeina
Orangeman
OrangeRug45
Orange-Stained Gelatinous Bag of Malicious Mendacity
Orange-Tinted Beast
Orange-Tinted Insult to Common Human Decency
Orange-Topped White Supremacist
Orangeutan in Chief
Orangey
Orangie
Orangina Clown Crook
Orangubrat
Our Big Boy President
Our Caligula
Our Dear Friend (/s)
Our Mad King
Outrageous Orange Loud Mouth Bass
Outrager in Chief (OIC)
P?esiDunce Donnie Diaper Dump
P?esidunce Putinfluffer
Painted Orange Fool
Painted Potentate
Pantrumpic
Parasite in Chief
Parasitent Dummp
Paris Raindrop
Park Avenue Anointed One
Pathetic Coward
Pathetic Empty Vessel
Pathetic Schmuck
pathological liar
Peaches Trump
Peachface
Peacock-in-Chief
Pecker Fungus
Pee Brain (New York Daily News headline)
PeeResident
Peppermint Petty
Perdition Prez
Pere Malfait
Perry-dent MuckerItUpbaby
Petty Boy
Petty Cockroach
Petulant Donnie
Petulant ill mannered hateful lying bullying corrupt grifting traitorous mean-spirited selfish third world dictator wannabee
Petulant Petunia
Phewtin’s Agent Orange
Philandering Felon
Pig in the Wig
Pig-in-Chief
Pillsbury Doughboy Trump
PINO 45 (president in name only)
PINO the Donald
Pissy Galore
Pitiful Orange Dufus
Plaintiff in Chief
Political Alzheimer’s Patient Zero
PoopFace
PoopFace Trump
Pornsident
Porrous Dump
POSident Trump
POTheTUS
POTURD
POTUS = Piece Of Totally Useless Shit
POTUS = Piece of Totally Useless Slime
POTUS = POke-and-Taunt-US (after Pocahantas crack in front of Andrew Jackson portrait while honoring code talkers)
POTUS DJT
POTUS Patheticus
POTUSPOS
PP pathetic president
PPOF President Pants On Fire
Precedent of Uhmerica
Predator President
Prejudent Orange
Pres. ‘Jim Jones’ Trump (re: hydroxychloroquine)
Present Dent
Presidemic
“President “”Snowflake”””
President (LITERAL) Clown(face)
President Alternate Reality
President Asshole
President B.S. (see above)
President Baby
President Blunder and Bluff
President Bone Spur in the Craw
President Bone Spurs
President Bonespur J. Snatchgrabber
President Bunker Baby
President Caligula
President Carrot Top
President Chaos
President Chia Pet Head
President Chunk
President Clown Car
President Clown Face
President ConcentrationCamp
President Death
President Deceit
President Dennison (named used for him on non-disclosure he didn’t sign with Stormy Daniels)
President Deplorable
President Diarrhea Thumbs
President Dumpferments
President Dumpster
President Dunce
President Dunce Cap
President Extra cheese and Mayo
President Fake Bone Spurs
President Fatface
President FATulence
President Feckless
President Frosty the Slowman
President Garbage Fire
President God (tweet from Rep. Matt Gaetz R/Florida)
President Golfin’ von Fatfuck
President Gravity Well
President Grump
President Hair Flap
President Heel Spurs
President Jackel and Hide Away
President Karen
President Kingy Jesus
President Knuckle Dragger
President LARDASS
President Laughing Stock
President Liesall
President Little Fingers
President Lurch and Leap
President Marmalade
President Mayhem
President McGuffin
President Mitty
President Motherf**ker
President Of The Deplorables
President Orange Fool
President Orange Fucktard
President Pandemic
President Pee-pee
President Perdition
President Petty
President Pig Face
President Pinocchio
President Plump
President Predator
President Pucherbutt
President Pumpkinhead
President Putrid
President Putz
President Queeg (And who stole my strawberries?)
President Rapey
President Shithead
President Shithole
President Shutdown
President Sikko
President Simpleton
President Single-Cell Organism
President Skidmark
President Snowflake
President Spanky
President Spitballer
President Superspreader
President Swampmouth
President Tater-head
“President Teenage Girl (“”I don’t wanna go! Your gonna make me? Well i’ll just show up late and make a big stink while I pout in my corner. I’m gonna leave early and show them.””)”
President Thalidomide (ref:== hydroxychloroquine)
President Trash
President Trumphole
President TweeterPeter
President Wide Load
PresidentButtHurt
PresiDUMB
Presidumpy
Presidunce Crooked Trump
Presidunce Odious
Presiturd Trump
Press-it-Dunce
Presumident
Presumidunce
Pretence-ident Dumper
Pretendident
Pretendiente Trump
Prevaricator in Chief
Prez Wackjob
Prictator
Prictator Drumpf
Prima Donnie
Prima Wanker
Prime Coward
Prime Coward Mister Orange
Prince of Fraud
Private BoanSpurts
Private Bone Spurs
Producer in Chief
Projection President
Provider in Chief
Provider in Chief (of names)
Prump Tutin
Pseudo-Presidential P#ssy-Grabber
Psycho Donnie
Psychopath Pumpkin
PT Barnum of the White House
Puffy Orange Head
Pukified Moron
Pumpkin Fuhrer
Pumpkinfuhrer
Pumpkinhead
Pussy Boss
Pussy Grabber
Pussy Grabbing Guy
Pussy Grabbing Nerfed
PussyAssBitch PINO
Putin
Putin’s Meat Puppet
Putin’s Caddy
Putin’s Celebrity Apprentice
Putin’s Orange Agent
Putin’s Patsy
Putin’s Poodle
Putin’s Punk
PutinTrump
Putrescent Piped Piper
Putrid Orange Ball
Putrump
Pwesident
Pwesident Alzheimer’s I-don’t-know-Prince-Andrew Trump
Pwesident Twump
Pwesi-dented
Pxxxy Grabber
Pyschoperv Prez
Qcumber Whine
quasi-vaudevillian spectacle of a president
Queeg Dump
Racist-in-Chief
Racketeer in Chief
Rageaholic-In-Chief
Ragtop 45
Ram Don
RamBo-neSpurs
Rampant Malignant Narcissist
Ranter-In-Chief
Rat-a-large-oh
Reakin’ Jobby
Reality Show Buffoon
Refugee From the Planet Orange
Reptile-In-Chief
RepubliKKKlan-in-Chief
Resident Dump
Resident Idiot
Resident Orange Oaf
Resident Trump
Resistant President
ReThugLieCON Cabal HedMan
Reverend Vice
Reverse Messiah
Right Wing Bass Turd
Roasted Manningtree Ox with the pudding in his belly
Rogue POTUS
Rotting-Fish-Head Leader
Rubber Yam Man
Ruffle Trump
Rump and Co.
Rump Goy
Rump Rash
Rump Roast
Rumple Trumple
Rumpster
Rumpy
Rumpy Dump
Russian Agent Orange
Russian Asset
Russian Bot
Russian Bought
Russian Bought Bot
S.S. Trump Dump
Sad Little Dipshit
Saddumb Hussein
Salamander-in-Chief
Satan, the Great Deceiver
Scam Man Donnie
Schoolmarm Donnie
Schroedinger’s Douchebag
Schroom-Headed Chickenhawk
SCROTUS == So-Called Ruler of the United States
Seedy, quasi-vaudevillian spectacle of a president
Serfboy
Sh*t 4 Brains
Sh*thole prez*dent
Shallow Jerk
Sham Prezzident
shambly mambly Russian doll Do-nal’id Trump (writing in a Scottish accent)
Shitforbrains
Shitler
Shlump
Short-Fingered Vulgarian
Shrimp Dick
Sickener-in-Chief
Sideshow Blob
Sideshow Don
Sir Brilliance of the Incoherent
Sir Donald
Six-time-bankrupt draft-dodging tax-dodging fake-tanned liar narcissist
Skidmark
Sleazy perverted corrupt flim-flam con man
Sleepy Demon-entia
Slimy Orange Hero
Slouching Tiger
Slum Lord Million Error
Slump
Smeeeeeeg-hheeeaaadd!!!
Smeghead
Snorting Porcine Pustule of Bloviating Bigot Hinged to Grasping Little Griplets
Snow Ball Wizard
Social Twit Path
Son of Scam
Space Cadet Bone Spurs
Spank Me
Spankie
Spankster
Spanky
Spanky and His Gang
Spanky D
Spanky McBonespurs
Spanky Tee
Spanky the Dumpster
Spankydon
Spelunker-in -Chief
Spill of Human Mayonnaise
Spur of the Moment
Squirrel-Haired Furor (sic)
Sstrumptanic
Stable Genius (self reference)
Stompy Foot
Stormy Donald
Stuffed Cloak-bag of Guts
Stumbling Don
Stump
Stupid in Chief
Super Chief Liar
Super Dump! (as in: Look up in the sky! It’s a cheeseburger, no it’s a drumstick, no it’s a Golden tumbleweed. No it’s Super Dump!)
Super Spaffer
Super Trump!
Supreme ManBaby
Supremely Dangerous Asshole (SDA)
Swamp Don
Swampy Don
Sweet Potato Hitler
Swillo Largo
“Swine-in-Chief (from “”Pearls before Swine-in-Chief.””)”
Swollen Orange Carbuncle
Swollen Parcel of Dropsies
t*
T?aitor T?ump
T?umptanic
Tactless Jackhole
Talking Yam
Tangerine Antichrist
Tangerine Caligula
Tangerine Dimwit
Tangerine Freak Show
Tangerine Nightmare
Tangerine Puppy
Tangerine Reptile
Tangerine Sicko
Tangerine Tantrum
Tangerine Terror
Tangerine Testicle
Tangerine Traitor
Tangerine Troglodyte
Tangerine Tumor
Tangerine Turd
Tangerine Turdmaggot
Tangerine Twatwaffle
Tangerine Twit
Tangerine Tyrant
Tangerine-Tinted Chosen One
Tangerine-tinted Twitter-tantruming tyrant
TanTrump
“Tariff Man (from Trump “”I am a Tariff Man””)”
Tawdry Tweeter
TBone
T-Dump
Teenythumbs
Teflon Don
Teflon Don Trump
TeleTrumpie Tubbie
Temper Tantrum Trump
Temper Tantrump
Tent Pole Grifter
Terrible Tiny-Fingered Tangerine-Tinted Twitter-Tantruming Tyrant Trump
Terrorist Donnie
The Orange Crush Overseer
The American Gobshite
The Apprentisident
The Big Dump
The Big Mango Face
The Big O.D. (TB Orange Donald)
The Blonde Don
The Boy Who Cried Caravan
The Case of The Barking Barstool
The Chaos President
The Cheeto Prophet
The Chosen One
The COVID Kid
The Daffy One
The Dalek Trump
The Dastard
The Definitive Slime Ball
The Donald
The Duck
The Dumpster Divin’ Diva of Destruction
The Flatulent One
The GOPfather
The Great Collaborator
The Great Dislusionist
The Great Disrupter
The Great Donald Debacle
The Great ImBleachable
The Great Narcissist
The Great Orange Grifter
The Great Orange One
The Great Orange Provider
The Great Orange Pumpkin
The Great Polluter
The Great Traitor
The Great White Dope
The Impeached One
The Invincible Mr. Trump
The invisible individual #1
the lifelong grifter
THE LONE RACIST, INCOMPETENT, TRAITOROUS WARRIOR!
The Lone Tweeter
The Lone Warrior
The Lyin’ King
The Malignancy in the White House
The Man With the Golden Swirly
The ManGo
The Moron
The Muscovian Candidate
The National Embarrassment
The National TROLL
the old man ranting and speaking alone in the food court of an old shopping mall at 10am
The Orange Dead Beat
The Orange Douche
The Orange Fascist Death Machine
The Orange Finger
The Orange Genius
The Orange Glow
The Orange Horror
The Orange Illiterate
The Orange King
The Orange Man
The Orange Mountebank
The Orange Mushroom
The Orange One
The Orange Outbreak
The Orange PimpleNel
The Orange Spew
The Orange Stain
The Orange Tramp
The Orange Weirdo Called POTUS
The Orangutan
The Prima Wanker
The Prime Wanker
The Puke of Orange
The Putin Apprentice
The Rat
The Resident
The Siberian Candidate
The So-Called President
The Spy Who Loved Pee
The Stain
The T Robot/Hologram
The Tangerian Candidate
The Tangerine Fascist Death Machine
“The Tangerine Hate “”Genius”””
The Tangerine Hellbeast
The Trump
The Trump Creature
The Walking Nose (Pinocchio)
The Welchman (as in to welch on an agreement)
The YUUUge Orange One
TheRoadToStupidity
Thief-in-Chief
Third-Rate Racist Carnival Barker
Thrumpet
Thump
Thumper Trumper Wumper
Tinkles Trump
Tinpot Tyrant
Tiny Hands
Tiny-Hands-No-Plans
TMURP
Toad Trump
Toadface
Toadstool
Toddler Trump
Toddler-In-Chief
Toilet Tweeter
Top Grifter
Top Jobby
Tosser
Total Tantrum Trumpy
Touped Fucktrumpet
Toupéed Fucktrumpet
Toxic Trump
TP Mega Rolls (Trump & Pence)
TpRump
Traitor
Traitor 45
Traitor Don
Traitor in Chief
Traitor Trump
Traitor-in-Theif
Traitorous Orange Fake
Tramp
Trample
Tre45on
TRE45SON
Treason Weasel
Treasonous Dotard
Treasonous Monster
TreasonTrump
TrogloDon
TrogloDontic
Tronald Dump
Trooper Trump
Trumbug
Trumo
T-Rump
Trump = Treason
tRUMP and his littlings!
Trump Baby
Trump Chump
Trump Dumpty
Trump El Flusho
Trump Hole
Trump Rex
Trump Roast
Trump Stump
Trump the Chump
Trump the Egotistical
Trump the Fantisizer
Trump the Imbleached
Trump The Incompetent
Trump the Lump
Trump the Strawman
Trump the Stump
Trump the Terrible
Trump the Traitor
Trump the Unfit
Trump the Wrecker
Trump Thumper
Trump Toad
Trump Trash
Trump VonClown
Trumpa The Hutt
Trumpacabra
Trumpademic
Trumpandroid
Trumpansy
Trumpanzee
Trumparrhea
Trumpasseroid (as in asteroid)
Trumpatsy
TrumpBaby
Trumpcuck
TrumPeeTin
TrumpenFuhrer
Trumpenheimer
Trumpenstein
Trumpenthinskin
Trumpenturd
Trumper
Trumper Tantrum
Trumperboy
TrumPerp
Trumpervert
Trumpeschenko
Trumpesk
TrumPest
TrumPestuous
Trumpestuous President
Trumpet
Trumpet Mouth
Trumpeteer
Trumpfinger
Trumphoid Mary
Trumphole
Trumpicana
Trumpid
Trumpidemic
Trumpie
Trumpie Bear
Trumpiediapers
Trumpiedumpie
TrumpieDumpkin
Trumpiepoopiepants
Trumpig
Trumpigula
TrumPinochet
Trumpinsky
Trump-ito
Trumpledoor
Trumpleforeskin
Trumpler
Trumplestiltskin
TrumpleThinSkin
Trumplorable
Trumplump
Trumplump
Trumply Whiplash
Trumpmanic
tRumpMonkey
Trumpnado
Trumpo the Klown
Trumpo the Malignant Narcissist
Trumpo the Traitor
Trumpocalypse
Trumpolini
Trumpollution
Trumpon
Trumpov
Trumpovirus
Trump-Owned Bruisenesses
Trumproach
Trumpshit
Trumpski
TrumpTainment
Trumptanic
TrumpTard
Trumptin
Trumptitanic
Trumptrash
TrumpTurdnado
Trumpty
Trumpty Dumpty
TrumPuerRico Island Resorts
Trumpukely Con
Trumpukin
Trumpunhinged
Trumpus Dickus Minimus
Trumpus Oranginus – ancient Roman Trump ancestor (sarcasm))
Trumpus Rumpus
Trumpushka
TrumPutin
Trumputrid
Trumpvirus
TrumpVirus-45
Trumpwad
Trumpwash
Trumpy
Trumpy Bear
Trumpy Trash
Trumpypoo
Trunk
Trunk of Humors
TRunt
Trupicana
Trupicana,Trumpicana
TRUssiaMP
Tsar Thrump
Tsarina Donalda
Tumescent Muskmelon Head
Tumpler
Turd Emperor
Turnip
Tutin
Tweedle Dumb
Tweet Sturm Fuhrer
Tweeter in Chief – TIC
Tweetle Dumb
Tweetle Dumb (#1,000)
Tweetledee
Tweetledum
Tweetolini
Tweety McPorn Humper
Tweety Turd
Twitler
Twitter Addict-in-Chief
Twitter Baby
Twitter Fingers
Twitter Tantrump
Twitterer in Chief
Twittiot
Twittler
Twitty Bird
Twitty Fingers
Twitwaffle
Two Scoops
Twump
Twumpy
Typhoid BLOATUS
Typhoid Don
Typhoid Donald
Typhoid Donny
Typhoid Trump
U Bum (tweet from LeBron James)
Ubu Prez
Ugly Orange Front Man
Ultramaroon
Ultramoron
Uncle Don
Unfit Orange Menace
unparDONable
Unquenchable Fount of Untruth
Unsinkable Trumptanic
Urine Top McBonespurs
Urine-Top
US President Putin
Useless Lump of Human Waste
USS Me Me Me
USS Trump
Utter idiotTrump
Vain-ee Veedee Tweetee
ValeDICTATOR
Vandal in the White House
Vanity in Years
Vapid Orange Mess
Vatso
Vector in Chief
Vicious Barking Clown
Vile Pig Bladder
Vindictive Little Mushroom
Vladie’s Baby Mahn
Vladie’s Middle Finger
Vladimir_Bone Spur_tRump (an anti-Trump commenter handle)
Vlad’s Fat Puppet
Vlad’s Orange Puppet
Von Trump Mafia
Vulgar Talking Yam
WAA!
Wack-o-Lantern
Wailing Anal Aneurysm (the) Or Waa
Waistman Trump
Wanker One
Wankmaggot Tamper
Wankmaggot Trump
Wannabe King of America
Wasteman Trump
Weapons-Grade Plum
Weaselheaded Fucknugget
Wee Donny
Whataboutery
Whine and Don
Whiney Little Byatch
Whiney Pants
Whiniest President Ever
Whiny Little Bitch
White House Fool
Whittle Donnie
Whizdome
WhoHash
Whopper Don
Widdle Donnie
Widdle Trumpy
Wiggy Slice
Wilted Caesar (regarding a wilted Caesar Salad on China trip which Dumps ordered Rex Tillerson to eat)
Witch Doctor Trump
Witless Fucking Cocksplat
Wonsit W*nker
worthless lying scum-sucking bastard
Wrecking Ball Donnie
Wrong Don Jung
Yabaa Dabaa Donnie
Yellow-Possum Top
Your savior, the lifelong grifter, adulterer, bankruptcy king, launderer of Russian mob money, pathological liar, and best friend of bin Salman, Duterte, Putin, Kim Jong Un and other miscreants
Zippo The Trump

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Other names and concepts connected with Trump’s associates. etcetera
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Words I hate

empowerment
disruptive
revolutionary
solutions
multimedia
multitracking

On Trump COVID positive test result:
I’m ashamed of you, Tamara, for your Shade-n-Fraud. As for me I am sending my best wishes to the great man in The Bleach House super soaker, with Hope for his staff, and a team cheer:” “Herman Cain!!! Herman Cain!!! Herman Cain!!!”
Lysolate.

Kayleigh Mendacity

From me: I voted early, in-person absentee. In and done. You know, so I don’t change my mind, just in case Trump’s next performance “art” piece convinces me that (Raymond Shaw) Donald J Bumpem “is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I’ve ever known in my life.”
Or that I might “recommend urgently that (Raymond Shaw) Donald J. BumpOff be posted to the Medal of Honor. He saved our lives and took out a complete company of Chinese infantry.”
“And yet, somewhere in the back of my mind, something tells me it’s not true. It’s just not true. It isn’t as if (Raymond’s) Donnie’s hard to like. He’s impossible to like. In fact, he’s probably one of the most repulsive human beings I’ve ever known in my whole – all of my life.”

Me, about the Goya “ads” from Ivanka and Trump
Four crates and 20 cans ago our jefe brought forth upon the grocery shelves of many nations ………. the proposition that all farts are equal.

My dog just made a statue of tRump in my backyard.
Barbie Riefenstahl (Kellyanne Conway)
MAIA – Make America Infectious Again
MADA – Make Americans Dead Again

KLANdemic
BYEDON 2020 – campaign bumper sticker
Coronafest
Coronapalooza (June 20, 2020 rally in Tulsa, OK)
Trump’s favorite movie is “Trump of the Will” (reference: “Triumph of the Will”)

Comment thread HuffPo
Todd Selby:
Conversation between Stephen Miller and Trump:
Miller: “Why did you abbreviate it SS??”
Trump: “Because it’s less letters”
Miller: “Fewer”
Trump: “I told you not to call me that in public!”
–
Joel Morris:
Was this a very intentional mistake?
Fraudian Slip

The US has become Donald Quack Dynasty … an (un)reality TV show.
#CarolynGombell
Dumpster Fire Barbie (press secretary Kayleigh McEnany)
Mac-A-Ninny
Bleach Top (Pence)
——–
PLUMPeo (Pompeo)
Trump has demonstrated that a human body can survive without a brain. Trump the Strawman.
Boy Blunder (Jared Kushner)
Trumpenvolk militias
Fox Innuendo
Darwin’s chosen
Trump Deification Syndrome
IMPOTUS and his impotent band of deplorable followers
Government by toddler tantrum
Trumpertantrum
Trumpista vitriolitus, an inexplicable form of personal animosity emanating from the White House
======= Mike Pence =====
Dooshus Baggus Maximus
Kupee Doll Mike
Mike Dense
Mikey Pence
Q-Tip (Pence)
TupPence
WimpUS

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Loserpalooza Rally – Tulsa and Arizona
The Bleach House
Daffy Donald’s Parlous Snake Oil Show
Terrorist thinks PPE is a fancy pee_tape
Trumpukelicans

Shakespeare comparisons:
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/04/20/why-are-americans-so-servile-clown-president
by Heather Mallick
Shakespeare knew his Trumps, devising insults that would be wildly suitable 440 years later.
“He’s a most notable coward, an infinite and endless liar, an hourly promise-breaker.” “Thou cream-faced loon! Where got’st thou that goose look?” “Nut-hook, nut-hook, you lie.” “Would thou wert clean enough to spit upon”
“That trunk of humors, that bolting-hutch of beastliness, that swollen parcel of dropsies, that huge bombard of sack, that stuffed cloak-bag of guts, that roasted Manningtree ox with the pudding in his belly, that reverend Vice, that grey Iniquity, that father Ruffian, that Vanity in years?”

MAGA-pocalypse
MAGA Wave (Florida beaches opening too soon with lots of young)
pandemocide

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Peter James (comment at HuffPost)
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Your daily Public Service Reminder/Alert:
By this time tomorrow, in all likelihood more Americans will have died from Coronavirus, than died on 9/11.
And we’ve not even reached the apex of that curve.
Stop me if you sense a pattern here:
-Republican gets elected president.
-Republican president gets warned of impending crisis ahead of time.
-Republican president not only dismisses warning (ostensibly to go,….’clear brush’,….or play golf), but also dismantles the set-up put in place by /fires officials from,… previous (Democratic President’s) administration to warn of, or to prevent such a disaster.
-Disaster/Crisis happens……on schedule and as warned
-2,900+ Americans needlessy die.
-Republicans spin,…..”Nobody could have seen this coming” (….except those who did and warned you).
Wash.
Rinse.
Repeat.
America, maybe you should take the clothes out of the spin cycle this November.
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IQ45 Yesterday – “Only I can fix it”
IQ45 Today – “It’s everyone else’s fault”

Response to Fauci story amid Coronavirus
HollyValeraMishima – These days, sheer competence is a threat and must therefore be invalidated. Dear God, it’s like living an Ayn Rand fable.
UsOnABus -to- HollyValera – Ein volk, ein reich, ayn rand!
jim304 -to- UsOnABus – Ein Rand ist ein too many.

Trump Morontourage

Merdalego
“Trump has the attention span of a squirrel on meth”
“Here, hold my Corona.”
Trumpademic
mar a plague-o
mar a large plagueo

Order of the Orange Booty Bandit (OOBB)
Sean Insanity! (Sean Hannity)
Lord Haw Haw Hammity Schammity

Ohhhhhhhhhhh THAT Prince Andrew…
political Alzheimer’s Patient Zero
#NotMyMAGA

Veni, Vidi, Tweeti

Nueterin’ Nancy
Ann Coltergist
Q-Tip (Pence)

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“Government stagnation has hindered our ability to properly function. I promised the American people I would produce results, and apply my ‘ahead of schedule, under budget’ mentality to the government.” : Donald Trump
“You can’t con people, at least not for long. If you don’t deliver the goods, people will eventually catch on.” : Donald Trump

She kicked him in that most sensitive area of masculinity – the ego. (“She” is Nancy Pelosi)
This is something new for Trump.. Mommy said no and she means NO. (Pelosi cuts off Trump on SOTU speech)
If the cameras are off you know Trump won’t waste the breathe to sound stupid.
shooting from the lip (what Trump does)

Presidents Coulter, Limbaugh and Hannity (named because of their role in the gov shutdown)

Yup, Giuliani is ” … not good at his job.” – as in :: the acorn doesn’t fall far from the tree (the Trump Stump).
/s-> “AOC will be so green with envy,” said Thumper Trumper Wumper, to the camera while producing his own dance video, the Trumper Stamper Reality Dance Show). <-/s

Four comments in comment thread
Trump. Now we have a five letter swear word.
Kind of like, ‘I need to go take a trump’.
Or, I got trumped over because I’m a Fed worker.
Mine is worse, I have had Trumparrhea for the past two years! Explains why I am dehydrated and dizzy! And I just thought it was a reaction to hearing his voice!

25 45
The one thing that did not shut down is Trumps big mouth. (comment on government shutdown)
MORE-A-LARDO
dead raccoon on his head
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Ibanka
Iwanka
Uday and Qusay Trump

Traitor Tot == Don Jr.
GOP = Greedy Old Pigs
GOP = Gang Of Pricks

Trump Crime Family

BeelzeBarbie (Laura Ingraham)

The KKKracker Lagoon

From Semper Fi to Simper Trump….he traded-in the red, white, and blue for the Kremlin’s stage. – about John Kelley after his remarks about Liz Warren came out
Two malignant narcissists walk into an oval office . . . (comment on Kanye West visit to Trump in oval office)

Rapepublicans

PTSD = post tweet spin disorder
Lindsay Graham Cracker

Even Donald Trump knows that only idiots would vote for Donald Trump

Kellyanne Conjob
He never met a lie he could not embrace.

orange koolaid for brains
The Orangubrat Enclosure
The Blight House
“Yeah, Trump is a problem solver the same way Godzilla is a city planner,” Trevor Noah snarked. “The only way Donald Trump can consider himself a problem solver is if he stops creating problems.”
Linda Shill: Trump, you are the ENEMY!
Christal Keel: LOL… I love the smell of desperation in the morning!
Jim McBride: He forgot one of his enemies, the majority of the people!

Fux News
Pox News
Trumpaloons
TRUMP == Truly Russian Made Product
Twilight Zone intro to “He’s Alive” with Dennis Hopper as a US Nazi working for Hitler (dead but present) – is very current
“Portrait of a bush-league Führer named Peter Vollmer, a sparse little man who feeds off his self-delusions and finds himself perpetually hungry for want of greatness in his diet. And like some goose-stepping predecessors he searches for something to explain his hunger, and to rationalize why a world passes him by without saluting. That something he looks for and finds is in a sewer. In his own twisted and distorted lexicon he calls it faith, strength, truth. But in just a moment Peter Vollmer will ply his trade on another kind of corner, a strange intersection in a shadowland called the Twilight Zone.”
And the end comment:
“Where will he go next, this phantom from another time, this resurrected ghost of a previous nightmare – Chicago? Los Angeles? Miami, Florida? Vincennes, Indiana? Syracuse, New York? Anyplace, everyplace, where there’s hate, where there’s prejudice, where there’s bigotry. He’s alive. He’s alive so long as these evils exist. Remember that when he comes to your town. Remember it when you hear his voice speaking out through others. Remember it when you hear a name called, a minority attacked, any blind, unreasoning assault on a people or any human being. He’s alive because through these things we keep him alive.”

Trump’s already energized his “sturmtruppen” for armed violence against the state should he be removed from power.
Randyrocker :: Trump’s dumber than his own brain.
tRumpstersfromthedumpsters
“Accuse the other side of that which you are guilty.” Joseph Goebbels
LeBron puts children through school. – Trump puts children in cages.
Rudy Drooliani
Colludy Giuliani
Based on looks “Nosferatu” fits him (Giuliani)
“Weekend at Trump’s” ala shades of “Weekend at Bernie’s”
Just another “Dump Dynasty” episode
She is a pothole (said of daughter, Ivanka Trump)
Fux Noise
GOPR = Grand old Party of Russia
GOPussies in Congress
Seventeen Angry Democrats = SAD, as in this president
“Collude? I thought you said Quaalude.”
Mister Vee Pee-Pee (vice pres Pence)
GOP = Gutless Oppressive Person
GOP = Groveling Over Putin
Tick Tock, Motherfucker
The “Kremlin Annex” formerly known as the White House
Trump is full bore incompetent.
Trump’s new book “The Art of the Deflection”
the Kingdom of Trump
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Mar-a-Dumpo
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From CounterPunch on visit to UK – describing numerous signs held up:

“Bastard has ruined orange forever”,
“Piss off you orange bastard”,
“I could shit a better president”,
“Free Melania”,
“Even Melania thinks you’re a dick”,
“Too many tweets make a twat”,
“Big orange twat”,
“Trump as welcome as a World Cup 3rd place playoff”,
“Tyrant racist umpa-lumpa misogynist psychopath”,
“You’re even worse than Morrissey”,
“In England Trump means fart”,
“All in all you’re just another prick with no wall”,
“Sorry but you’re just not our cup of tea”,
“Take Boris with you”, (Boris Johnson, brexit guy who can’t keep an elected/appointed job)
“Don’t let Trump grab us by the country” (sign held by a woman),
“Go home Trump we have enough racists as it is”,
“If the US government was an orchestra Trump would be its air guitarist”,
“Fake-off Donald!”,
“Can’t comb over sexism”,
“We shall overcomb”,
“No to torture no to Trump”,
“Keep your tiny hands off our queen”,
“Feed him to the corgis”,
“Golden towers & golden showers”,
“This crowd is bigger than your inauguration crowd”
“Yer Maw Was an Immigrant, Ye Nugget.”

He’s a Russian-backed NY mobster posing as Potus!

… there are 2 things that have always disappeared quickly around Donald Trump. Reputations and Cash.
… … (reply) and humanity.

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Dump Tower
the grab-’em-by-the-pussy president
Incompetocracy
Adhocracy
The Reality TV White House Freakshow
Trump Takedown
The White Hose
Swamp-a-Largo
Donnieland == USA
Lugenpresse, Mein Fuhrer?
F Trump and F all rePutincans!
… a huge f***ing tumor. Orange and metastasized.
Ruh-roh! Looks like Dr. Mueller is going to perform a “Cohenoscopy” in Trump
Mueller Mondays!!!
Cohen, just a low level covfefe boy
kakistocracy (/?kæk?s’t?kr?si, -‘st?k-/) a system of government which is run by the worst, least qualified, or most unscrupulous citizens
Next up.. the noted scuffed-shoe law firm of Slipp, Skipp & Tripp.
As Curly used to say: I’m trying to think, but nothing happens!
New movie sequel coming out….Saving Private Bone Spurs.
Trump would pass the guy a note saying, “I’ve got a gub!”.
“Only I can fix it”
(me) The McGuffin who owns the company
(me) “A military parade is when your uniform becomes a costume.”
The hyppocritipotomus lives in denial river
“Trump’s Razor” = “ascertain the stupidest possible scenario that can be reconciled with the available facts”
… a careening set of brainless balls like Donald Trump …
Rename ACA from “Obama Care” to “I-vaaan-Kare”
Our Nation is at Steak, Trump Steaks
I wonder if the GREAT WALL OF TRUMP will be visible from outer space?
Trump has changed the meaning of the phrase, “Putting a 45 to our heads.”
Sean (I’m really the president) Spicer
Huckleberry-Slanders (Sarah Huckabee Sanders, press secretary)
Sarah Hucksterbee
Propaganda Barbie (Kelly Anne Conway)
ICKvana
Malaria
Kellyannetrumpbabe
ScaryAnne
Rudy Crudy Fooliani
Rucy Boo-liani, Amirite
Rudislav Giulianski
Camp Runamuck
Trumpanzees
Trumpettes
Trumpflakes
Trumpkins
Stuponics
Trumplandistan (an exclusive realm ruled by and for the billionaire class)
Trumplodytes
Trumpateers
Trumpfpocalypse
Traitor Tot (Don Jr)
Half-Pence
½p
Mike Dence
Steve “Barbarian” Bannon
Republicrooks
teabillies
StormTrumpers
— still others
Debbie does Payday Lenders – Comment about Debbie Wasserman Schulz
Orange is the new Conway
The Orange House (instead of White House)
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Forever Trumpers (staff)
Rinse Repeat (Reince Piebus)
Ku Klux Keebler Elf (Jeff Sessions)
Tony Scarface Scarmuchly (Anthony Scaramucci)
Morons making millions
American Tea-laban
NRA (the Nazi’s Right Arm)
General Buttercup Gen Kelley after taking a dressing down from Trump
Fecal Minions for Trample’s staffers
Trumpeteers in Congress
Parasite Enablement and Protection Act (more briefly known as Trumpcare)
Fright House’ (f/k/a White House)
The Sinking USS Trumpster
He hath not the stones…
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regularly scheduled panicking
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“The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.” Albert Einstein
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He was paying her not to tell people how small Trump’s “credentials” are… (on Stormy Daniels’ case about Dumps’ lawyer, Michael Cohen)
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Side note on DACA person who is a math student, being deported without a hearing by ICE:
she’s a member of Al Gerbra a radical group that often goes off on tangents …
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comment on hiring of Anthony Scaramucci as White House communications director July 21, 2017
John Pisani Donny Two Scoops just hired Big Tony to get the job done right this time.
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Also – a side note from an article in AEon at https://aeon.co/essays/the-macho-violent-culture-of-italian-fascism-was-prophetic
But more: seeking freedom in all things, loathing restraint, the fact of lying becomes an ambition for breaking free of the tethers of honesty, of being ‘bound’ to tell the truth. Libertarians are masters of post-truth misinformation, and their technique is simple. Take a truth (climate change, Rwandan genocide, Serbian concentration camps) and simply declare it is a lie. (A ‘myth’, a ‘hoax’, a ‘scam’, a ‘swindle’.) Sit back and wait a minute, and a very gullible press with little editorial responsibility will happily help you tell the public that they have been conned. No one wants to feel they’ve been duped so, hey presto! You have a ‘war of ideas’. Without evidence, argument or proof. Without expertise or knowledge.
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The alt-Right uses ‘cuckservatives’ as its hypermasculine insult to Republicans
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He flipped on a light switch and the cockroaches all scrambled into the White House.
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time for a whole new category called “Alternative Humans” I’ll start with Kellyanne Conway and Stephen Miller.
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Maybe Ivanka could show daddy a nice straightjacket with matching butterfly net from her asylum collection
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The American Banana Republic at Mar-a-Lago
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Shitforbrains with a side order of imbecile. Sterling qualifications for the job.
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Night-Mar-A-Lago
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Typo: “If he was a muslin, …”
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Russ Baker: “Pwesident Twump, Stop tweeting people like garbage.”
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we don’t need editors, we have Spill Chucker
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Sky Pete, I carry a covfefe every morning (reply to comment)
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MACA! – MAKING CHINA GREAT AGAIN!
MAGA – Make American Graves Accumulate
MAGA – Many Are Getting Attorneys!
MAGA – Make America Gullible Again!
MAGA – Make America Grate Again
MAGA – Make America Gutted Again
MAGA – Making America Gag Again
MAGA – Moore’s America Grates Again
MAGA – Morons Are Governing America
MAGA – Mueller Ain’t Going Away
MAGA – Make Asbestos Great Again
MAGA – Make Adipose Go Away
MAGA – Mexicans always get across
MAGA – Murdering And Gassing Americans
MAGAts
MAGBA – Make America Great Britain Again
MARA – Make America Racist Again
MMRA – Make Myself Rich Again
MRGA – Make Russia Great Again
MASA – Make America Shamed Again. And again…and again…
MAWA: make America white again
MTGAAA – (Make Trump Great Again and Again and Again)
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Huckelberry Spin – for press secretary Sarah Sanders
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Trump, the ultimate defucktive
Defucktive Fiction
Mental defucktive
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Help us Obi Wan KeMeuller, you’re our only hope!
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The head rats, our “leaders” (if it is even possible to lead anybody anywhere inside a cage), have proven to be as mediocre and clueless as anyone else. Which is sort of proof we are a democracy, if we want to look at it that way. While it is a myth that virtually anybody can grow up to be president, we have demonstrated that nitwits have more than a fighting chance. During my 40 years writing media ass-wipe for the public, I have interviewed many of “the best of my generation,” and, believe me, most of them were not much.

Naturally, they believe they are far superior by virtue of having made it to an elevated point in the gilded cage, closer to the feed, water and sex. Because they believe it, and the media–sycophants waiting for quotes–echoes their belief, discussing their every brain fart, we tend to believe it, too. Nothing shakes our belief, not even staring directly into the face of a congenital liar and nitwit like Sarah Palin, or a careening set of brainless balls like Donald Trump or a retarded jackal like George W. Bush.
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Trumpers have gone from “drain the swamp” to “the swamp is good, get over it ”
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It’s not “felony leaks” that are the problem..it’s the felons in the White House!
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Kelly is now encrusted with thick layers of toxic Trump cooties
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Trump tweet: We’ve got a great deal for our supporters this Black Friday! Use the code GIVING for 30% off OFFICIAL Trump Merchandise -> http://bit.ly/2i2Xxro
Comments:
The @GOP has turned into the Trump Home Shopping Network. SAD!
I’m getting facepalm acne.
Kristine Parkhill Lovell: A trump dog collar and leash? Seriously? He doesn’t even like dogs. He doesn’t like anyone that’s smarter than he is.
Bryan Moe: Who said the collar was for a dog? This is a Trump product after all.
Andrew Carlson: It’s one of his props from his business trip to Russia…
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Could be a halfwit if he applied himself
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Veto The Cheetoh!
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Comments about the 18-karat gold toilet at the Guggenheim.
Alison Zapata · The University of the Arts
We’re number two! We’re number two! Hahaha
Sharyn Brown
Well, so much for the donation he was just about to send you!
Douglas Housel Sr. · Works at Retired Postal Workers
future home of many cheeseburgers
Motheba Alina Nthabiseng Rakuoane · Senior Crown Counsel at Turks & Caicos Islands Government Press Office
To complement his golden showers I guess??
Emma Noonan · Works at Bum Rogers Crabhouse & Tavern
He just told him where he “Can Gogh”
Jay Scott · Malibu, California
1st Amendment toilet paper in the white house?
Chris Comacho · Stockton, California
More like a Van “Go”. Do the “showers” match the seat? ????
Hilary Marion · New York, New York
Finally! “the king” gets a suitable throne ????????
Evelyn Roberts ·Owner/ President at Yummy Fat
They should have also offered a Golden Shower. He’d totally accept that.
Faye Grubb · University of Evansville
They probably thought he had to Gogh!
Julie B. Trivedi · Medical Director of Infection Prevention for University Hospitals at UT Southwestern Medical Center
A Sh..hole for him to use.
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On the military parade he wants
It’s actually really funny that top pentagon officials are being ordered to throw a parade for a reality tv dipshit.
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(me) If it quacks like a duck, walks like a duck, paddles like a duck, flies like a duck it should be obvious, it’s an elephant.
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Trump: “We’re gonna’ build a wall.”
China: “That won’t work, trust us.”
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Phil Newton · Wordsmith at Self-Employed :: Good God. Still waiting for the South to writhe again.
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“Ben Carson … tossed out the Hippocratic Oath and replaced it with the Hippocritic Oath …” (HUD secretary)
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From comment on Rudy Giuliani exposing payoffs to Cohen to cover payoffs to Stormy Daniels::
old Giulie is like a puppy carpet bombing the WH, they need to follow him around with newspapers
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Carl Echevarria · Works at Retired::
Did Trump actually hire Giulliani or is he, R.G., doing it for sport, a la pro bono?
They do make a nice looking couple!
Rudy looks like he swallowed the White House.
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And the fact it was bad for women was just a bonus for them.
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TDS (Trump Derangement Syndrome)
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Trump lives in a land of make believe ME.
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Dumps wanted to own his own football team, the Brooklyn (Bone) Spurs.
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Wanda Watts-Williams
“2 reality stars walk into the oval(bar) office …” On Kim Kardshian meet with Trump on prison reform
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Trumptime
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After the successes of the left in the 60’s and 70’s, the state turned to counter-insurgency lawfare.
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Miracle E Brown: Trump? Think? Quit with the comedy.
Richard Roeder to Miracle E Brown: Sorry, what was I thinking?
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Bob Jase: You can summon the devil and sell him your soul or work for Trump – either has the same effect.
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Who knew rock bottom had a basement?
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On asbestos story with Trump’s face on Russian pallets of the stuff:::
* Given how toxic Tr*mp is, putting his face on asbestos makes perfect sense.
* Asbestos and trump are bad for your health. Truth in advertising!
* more proof that anything attached to tRump is dangerous to humankind….
* It fits. His image should also be on cans of rat poison etc.
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Scott :: Trump is our Nero.
ErnestineBass to Scott :: Having never mastered the fiddle, Drumpf plays a dog whistle instead.
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on the golf course Dump pees off
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on the Trump Baby Blimp over London:::
Wayne George : The resemblance is remarkable. Thin skin and gas.
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Was it Adolf Giulliani or Sara Sucker-be Sanders or maybe that Compulsive lying lapdog Wannabe a SCOTUS Justice Kavanaugh that declared that the President should not have to be bothered by the Russian Probe or any indictments against him , he has lots of more difficult things to worry about, like : Playing other 18 holes of golf , crashing weddings with the hope of grabbing some pussy , Or maybe laying around the swimming pool working on his Orange tan and scarfing down a couple of buckets of KFC while he uses those greasy fingers to tweet insults at everyone in the world .
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New bumper sticker for trumpers. PUTIN / TRUMP 2020 When you just cannot admit you were WRONG.
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Jared owns a building in NYC with address of 666. It is a sign! LOL
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“You’ve got to treat the White House and the office of the presidency with respect.”
However, the president himself gets only the respect he deserves and has earned.
There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it. – Lord Acton
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T-Rump has turned the presidency into the new version of “The Price is Right”.
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Trump: “I hire the best unqualified people for the job. Just like me”.
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MBS – Mohammed Bone Saw (Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia)
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(comments on advice to furloughed federal workers with letters, offers of work in exchange for rent and use of their own private attorneys)
And read our latest OPM publications: “Hooking For Fun And Profit” and “That Meth Doesn’t Sell Itself.” (Paul Bibbee)
Good one. Laughing. (Gail Cerridwen)
OMG, LOL. (La Belle Epoque)
(Do not let the president see that. He may quote it as a legitimate memo.)
Don’t worry – he can’t read anyway, remember? (Robert Massey)

It scares me that not only is our President this stupid, but everyone else around is just even dumber.
There was survey that found that 1 in 3 trump supporters was just as stupid as the other two.
And 5 out of 3 are bad at math.

Good roundup of McTurtle’s connections / puppet strings. I’ve never thought McConnell was strong in any way except for this position. Look at any picture of him and in particular any picture of him and the other GOP sycophants, usually surrounding Trump or huddled together with McConnell in the lead. See their faces and their body language. They look terrified, not strong. Take any picture of the corrupt terrified sycophants around any tyrant and you can swap any of them. If you didn’t know the names for the faces you’d never notice any difference. And you can see their craven eagerness to swat at someone defenseless (preferably defenseless) to get off on their cruel.
Doesn’t matter whether you are seeing Kim Il Jung pictures or Hitler or Mussolini or Saddam Hussein or, or, or. These are the same slimy, low-end terrified cowards and the same small, ugly, frightened vicious contorted monsters. Terrified and vicious are full partners.
Our “leaders.”

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=============== Marvelous Melania (Malaria, Moronia, etc) ===================

Hell at this point, I miss Eleanor Roosevelt!
I always miss Eleanor Roosevelt. She was the bomb!
I’ll even take Laura Bush at this point.
Todd Leddy: Eleanor would have shredded Melania in less than a minute. Mrs. Trump should be glad that no similar strong person is in the circle surrounding her egomaniac husband.
Whimper.
Here Jonathan, let me finish your sentence…”know if I can pick up my sheet from the dry cleaner without the receipt”.
Why would you?? She’s in America.
I miss Imelda Marcos although no one can ever fit in her shoes.
No, not one but maybe a few thousand. HA HA
Melania is by far, the classiest and best looking First Lady ever. It is a pleasure seeing her.
Would you be so kind as to provide us with your definition of ‘classiest’?
Oh, that for ‘classy’ will do…
Folks, any bet that the response, should there be one, will be unorthodox…?
Wow Charlie, OW!
I swear this Administration thinks it’s above the law. We have a damn dictatorship in the White House.
No one ever seemed to suspect that it really was Melania in cahoots with Russia and calling the shots around the WH? Think about it. Trump is too dumb to do anything really.
She’s a Russian plant feeding Putin intel that her immigration sponsor neglects to pass along.
If Donnie did send reports they would be half a page long, full of lies and smeared with fry grease.
Melania should call on her husband to resign. Apparently she gets results,.
WINNER!
The two of them are a complete joke. Ms Robot is a more fitting name.
She should call for Trump trolls to be banned from the Internet.
For a long time I classified Melania as a noncombatant like her son Barron and step daughter Tiffany. No more. She’s fair game from here on out.
Yep, let them eat cake mentality.
That’s right, I don’t care, do you?
She is swamp slime.
I wonder what the real reason was??
“proper use” of national Security Council resources. Mel wanted to have a fashion show at taxpayer expense and it was rejected.
Did you make this up! Nope, I am not a fan of the Trumps. We should tell the truth even if the Trumps’ can’t. We’re you being sarcastic? HaHa!
J.O.K.E.
Nobody is asking what Moronia was trying to do with national security resources?
Ex soft porn model, who worked in the USA illegaly, runs the White House.
America is truly Great Again.
America you’ve awaken to a new President in the White House. Oops, she’s an immigrant. Isn’t this against the Constitution. Oh, I forgot. We burned it almost 2 years ago. Run citizens Run!
By her husband’s rules Melania is a filthy “chain migrator.” Oh, the humanity!!
Which means Baron is an anchor baby.
This administration seems to be telling people do exactly what I say or I will distroy your life.
What a privileged witch Melania is. Disgusting
Can we fire Melania for impersonating a US citizen?
Yeah, like we didn’t know this was coming. Queen Melania always gets whatever she wants. While acting so pure and innocent, she’s secretly as devious as the dictator she’s married to. Gee, I wonder who’s really in charge?
when disgusting slob trump comes calling for some “action”, melania has alot of time to stare at the ceiling and plot of her own successes…I mean she was an Einstein immigrant, so she really only needs about 30 seconds to plot her path to the top of the manure pile, eh?
“Eeny, meeny, miny, moe… Who will be the next to go?”
Catch a Bigot by the toe, Trump I hope.
Pretty good.
You know Mueller must have some BIG SHICK coming with all of these distractions brewing. Buckle your seatbelts!
The Slovenian chiseler is at it again-
Melania Marcos wins this one.
but you have to admit she has learned from trump that all bs must be wrapped in patriotic reasons….”she does not deserve HONOR to work in WH”….(said like Natasha of Boris and Natasha fame)
Transferred is not fired. Methinks she still gets a fat check. Depending on where she is transferred to, she may be in the process of being pushed out.
This is one of the highest ranking women in the administration, and certified Republican nasty. Mishandle this, and she becomes a one woman Trump administration arsonist.
Think white Omarosa without media glare. Okay. Republican woman.
It’s not the people involved that concerns me in this age of WH turmoil and malice in the palace. Most of them are despicable to begin with and merit no sympathy for their various predicaments. It’s the principle of how the Trumps misuse and abuse power so cavalierly – without the kind of ethics, basic decency and morals that most of the rest of us live by. I’m certain that they are the kind of people who would just as easily summarily order the execution of those who displease them as fire them. It’s comforting to know that this national nightmare is in its final throes and will be over in the foreseeable future.
Kings & Queens have supreme power over their subjects unfortunately.
Never in my wildest dream would I have thought that a immigrant who stayed in this country illegally for years would be calling the shots in the White House.
loads more to come SOON
The Trump-Clown-College continues…
Its probably because Melania was trying to get her hand in the till like the rest of the Trump family.
Scoundrels
So Mel wanted someone fired about seating issues on the plane to Africa and the aide said no. Where’d FLOTUS want to sit? On the pilot’s lap?
Mid flight lap dance?
She got transferred to a better job with a big raise. She’ll be sending Melanoma a thank-you note.
What do they call young pretty women who marry for money….???
Stuuuupid.
Bought and paid for.
Wow, Donnie boy is hen pecked!
Another reality tv gimmick used to distract real thinking Americans from the truth.
It will take decades to get the stink out of this White House.
The nouveau riche somewhat frumpy looking Melania believes Federal employees are “the help”…
Surprise Surprise. She was as good as fired as yesterday.
So America has come to this…. when an IMMIGRANT has the power to have an AMERICAN-BORN person fired. USA as we know it no longer exists!
That’s a white immigrant. Trumpers like those.
My guess is, she didn’t want to eat cake.
Details I want details. Show me the dirt!!
So classy. She has someone fired for not getting the seat she wanted.
Can you eliteist?
I guess we know who wears the pants in the White House.
A Deputy National Security adviser is terminated because she offended the “president’s” wench.
bet trump trades in Melania for a new model once he’s out of the white house
A geezer with shaved legs and a wig. In the pen.
She probably pleasured IQ45 in the oval office.
How dare Mira question me said the Queen! Bring me her head on a platter! And so it was done.
“National Security Aide Fired 1 Day After Melania Trump Called For Her Dismissal”
well, i guess Melanoma wears the pants in the tRUMP household and is now running [ruining] the country
If Melania asked for a seat you give it to her. If she asked for government resources that she is not entitled to as it is alleged, then that is plain old corruption.
You mean like the 95 thousand spent by mel in Egypt. I think Mira probably leaked this and mel is angry. But mel owes the people that money.
I don’t believe it was leaked. So much of the travel costs are reported. Just like we knew how much the Scotland trip cost. It is public record after all and any reporter can ask for it under the freedom of information act.
Where the heck is Giuliani??? Did they send him over to the Saudi Embassy to pick up some falafels?
Although Vice President Melania had zero authority to push for Ricardel’s firing, I would say that her departure today is a case of good riddance to bad rubbish! She should have been removed from Govt altogether!
I wonder which particular lever Vice President Melania pulled to force drumphe to fire Ricardel? Wouldn’t it be nice to know?
One wonders what Asst. Vice President Penny feels about all this?
Anyone who tries to alert the Trump family to their bad behavior gets the boot. There is no honor among Trumps. Barron has not a snowball’s chance in hell of developing a moral compass.
Living with such people I wonder if the tyke knows right from wrong! Or rather, wrong from the very wrong, because right doesn’t ever enter the family portrait! Look who he has to look up to! Drumphe soon to be felon, Junior ditto, Ivanka the fluff, Jared the deputy Saudi Crown Prince (also headed for the slammer), Eric the ghost (more likely headed for the loony bin), and finally, his slitty eyed pouty mouth Einstein Visa winning genius model mother!
The show “Married with Children” seems like a saintly biblical story, in comparison! Really!
Bullying doesn’t fall far from the trump tree. Melania was called out on her overspending of taxpayer dollars and she quickly gets the monitor dismissed. They might as well install a revolving door at the WH with the way trump quickly dispatches people.
Melania has to make decisions and govern this country because don is more and more lost.
The Reagan story again.
You know Melania could turn out to be a Russian plant. She looks and fits the part.
Don’t cry for me Argentina…
This administration just keeps the turmoil on lock.
That will teach you to go to work for the Trumps, you won’t get paid or be around long. Will you put this on your resume. I guess if you are applying for a job offered by Republicans. Then again where else would you be looking for a job.
I miss Hannah Van Buren
To be a part of a Trump Administration in any capacity, I would assume one has to be a belligerent bully. Not surprised there’s constant angst, turmoil, and drama amongst these self-important swamp-monsters.
Alright hear me out on this one. Mel is supposed to be really smart and speaks like five languages I am guessing English is not one of them (zing!). But there she is in a whole pack of multilinguals and is not saying a word. Also our knowledge of her “genius” all comes through little Donny. Just saying, I got questions.
She is fully versed in biotechnology related to immunology, quantum mechanics, Ayurvedic medicine, & cosmetic implant surgery! Why would she want to make a life with this philandering felon in the making?
remember under clinton,he fired the white house travel agency and the right made a big thing,saying hillary was behind it.starr investigated it.now we have silence from the right,when they know a gvt employee was fired cause the first lady.she cannot use gvt resources,she is not a gvt employee.
So now Botox is considered an NSA resource?
Why would anyone want to work in this White House!
it’d be nice if tRUMP didn’t and just went away
In May 1993 Hillary fired not one but seven employees of the White House Travel Office. She then hired friends to run it….Melania sugested that This women leave her White House post so she was reassigned. MAJOR DIFFERENCE…! Liberal hypocrisy is deafening….
Wow, the First Stripper is getting uppity!
So, she wasn’t fired but reassigned? Will that appease Melania or anger her more? Will she get her panties out of a wad? Tune in next week folks for another exciting chapter of As the Stomach Churns. More casting changes coming.
It’s comforting to know that national security Staffing is determined by a gold digging former fashion model. Sounds like just another cat fight
they don’t understand the adage of keeping your friends close and your enemies closer…I look forward to all the juicy gossip.
Any staffer who clashes with the first family should go whether Democrat or Republican Party.
She’s of the same ilk as Bolton the stupidest person on the face of the earth.Good riddance.
So… our immigrant First Lady’s new role is going to be:
“YOU’RE FIRED!!!”
Melania has to live/sleep with a mushroom cap…need to take your stresses and anger out somewhere.
If you are hired by the Trump White House to assist with the administration in whatever capacity, you realistically have two choices:
Quit
Kiss ass like you loved it.
Anyone who goes to work in that administration shouldn’t expect more. Their risk.
Can we please have a real President and first lady in 2020, not this disgusting duo?
Shes used up the allotment of money for the first lady so she wanted NCS to pay for her wasteful spending habits. What else can you expect from a European nude model.
” I’m a Trump, how dare you criticize me for being a thief! It’s our privilege!”
Wonder who Melania actually works for?
Well daddy was a member of the communist party under the USSR. He’s now a constant WH visitor.
Vaginal governance
So Melanie is running things, huh? Good to know.
Vogue Cover Girl…. runs the Out House…
I guess she got suspicious of Melania’s true role as a Russian agent.
Here’s some advice, that non-disclosure agreement that you signed is not enforceable because you were a government employee. Take the bookings from the cable news networks, go on them and talk about the shitstorm that’s going on inside the White House, then write a book and make some money off of it. Strike while the iron is hot.
Her firing is just a way for John Bolton to exit. John Bolton will probably resign now when he gets back from his trip or DDD will fire John Bolton while he is on his trip.
They both deserve each other. Dog eat dog.
One down and at least one to go Melania. If you can get rid of Bolton or Kelly you win the Nancy Reagan First Lady of the Year Award.
Am kind of glad this cock-up between Melania and Mira Ricardel happened this early in the Trump administration. Definitely shows and proves that the ego problems of Donald are not the only egomaniac problems in the White House. No hope of looking to anyone in the Trump family for any help for the American people. It can only go from bad to worse and beyond now.
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