Russia is our enemy and invaded Ukraine four and a half years ago. Ukraine is our ally and is heroically defending itself. Russia’s stated and documented plan, as harsh winter approaches, is to destroy the electrical grids, water systems and sewage systems in various Ukrainian cities where millions of civilians live. It is conducting relentless daily drone and ballistic missile attacks on civilian targets including apartments, schools and hospitals far from the military “front.”
Russia is also helping Iran, which has closed the Strait of Hormuz and attacked U.S. bases in the Middle East, costing American service members their lives.
Yet President Trump has now exempted Russia from recently imposed sanctions, agreed to buy diesel from Russia, and, allegedly with the help of Elon Musk, slowed down or shut off the Starshield intelligence system Ukraine uses to warn civilians of incoming attacks. He praises Russian President Putin and berates Ukrainian President Zelensky.
Yet our Sens. Lee and Curtis did not even sign a bipartisan letter of twelve senators objecting to some of President Trump’s actions.
President Trump has asked his supporters to imagine he is on the ballot in the upcoming midterm elections. I hope voters indulge his request, and remember, among his many other failures, his inexplicable and inexcusable actions in switching sides in the Russia Ukraine war by aiding our enemy and abandoning our ally.
Ira Rubinfeld, Springdale