Monday, August 18th, 2025
My Dear America:
First of all, I want to say that I am fully supportive of Donald Trump's Efforts to find an end to the war in Ukraine. He certainly seems to be on a more firm footing these days than he was a short while ago when he was basically accusing Ukraine of starting the war with Russia. Ukraine clearly did not start this war. Although the realities of history seem to be on shaky ground these days It must be recognized that Ukraine did not want a war with Russia although in the end they had no choice but to fight when Russia stormed across their border with Ukraine in a brazen attempt to destroy Democracy in Ukraine, something that Vladimir Putin had a hard time accepting.
Although Putin seemed to be under the impression that Ukraine was weak and would fold quickly as a result of Putin's Russian Blitzkrieg he was under the wrong impression. Although at first President Zelensky of Ukraine tried his best to pretend that the Russian Incursion into Ukraine was not going to happen when warned by Joe Biden and members of the Biden Administration who had cracked the Russian intelligence code.
Once Russia invaded their neighboring country, however, Zelensky, a novice politician who was a comedian and an actor in his previous life turned into a Genuine Superhero Politician who swung into action in order to turn his Relatively Peaceful Democratic Country into a Country that was at war with its neighbor. Far from being the Quickly Vanquished Victim of Vladimir Putin's Brutal Invasion Zelensky has shown over the past 3 years that Ukrainians have not and never will simply allow themselves to be taken over by Russia.
Unfortunately Russian President Putin has yet to recognize that he has tried to bite off more than he can chew in Ukraine and although he has worn down Ukraine to some extent The Ukrainian people with the inspiration of their leadership and their hastily put together Military Organization have shown the Russians the determination of the Ukrainian population.
On Friday of last week President Trump met with Russian President Putin in Alaska with the stated purpose of trying to broker a Peace deal for Ukraine with the Russian President. Expectations of success were low for many reasons but the chief reason was that Ukrainian President Zelensky had not been invited to the Alaskan meeting. President Trump greeted President Putin in Alaska with the enthusiasm of an Ally. After the Alaskan Presidential Conference at a hasty Press Conference both leaders tried to put a positive spin on the meeting which in the end did not seem to have shown much in the way of real positive results, with the exception of putting War Criminal Putin back on the World Stage.
Today President Trump met not only with President Zelensky but with several Leaders of European Countries who are all concerned not only with the future of Ukraine but are also concerned with their own countries futures. Once again Trump did his best To make it sound as though something important was happening.
But was it.
We can only hope that something worthwhile comes out of these meetings. What was obvious to anyone watching Trump meeting with Zelensky and his rather impressive backup crew today was that, far from the last time Zelensky met with Trump and was verbally ambushed by Trump and Vice President Vance and thrown out of the White House, Zelensky was the point man of a United Group of European Leaders who were not going to let Trump disparage and embarass Zelensky this time around. Certainly the impressive Group who met with Trump had learned their lessons about how to handle Trump. They praised Trump and almost sounded as embarassing as if they were at one of Trump's Fawning Cabinet meetings.
Trump talked about all of the war's that he had solved in the past few months and of course it would have been nice if someone would have demanded some truth rather than Trump's bullshit but he is who he is and it is a waste of time to be looking for him to change into someone different.
Clearly at this point it is anybody's guess as to where the Ukraine war goes from here. It would be great if these meetings are going to lead to an end to the war in Ukraine. It sounds as thought nobody except Vladimir Putin wants it to continue but as Donald Trump talks about "Land swaps" it is important to remember who started the war in the first place. Donald Trump seems to want to lay the blame on Zelensky I guess because he was not cooperative enough to simply hand over his country to the Russians. But the truth is that Putin invaded his neighboring country of Ukraine with no legitimate reason for doing so and has punished Ukraine for being brave enough to stand up to the Russians.
What I am sure that all of the Leaders of European countries know and are worried about is that if Vladimir Putin gets away with annexing any part of Ukraine that their countries may be and probably will be next. We found out in World War II that appeasement does not work.
What should be the case right now is that Genuine Democracies in Europe in NATO should meet immediately and declare that they are admitting Ukraine and are warning Putin to get his troops out of Ukraine.
Along with this the United Nations should meet immediately and declare that they are demanding that Russia should begin removing their troops from Ukraine and should be out of Ukraine in 30 days. It is way past time for Democracies to allow Vladimir Putin to take over neighboring countries because he wants to renew the Soviet Union.
Putin needs to be stopped and stopped now so that the majority of the world can live in peace with their neighbors knowing that they are not in danger of being taken over by their neighboring countries.
Sincerely Yours
Jerry Gallagher
