Our own fight for the West does not begin on the battlefield - it begins with our minds, our wills, and our souls. Those heroes remind us that the West was saved with the blood of patriots that each generation must rise up and play their part in its defense and that every foot of ground, and every last inch of civilization, is worth defending with your life. “The times when we could completely rely on others are, to an extent, over,” said Chancellor Angela Merkel, and while she did not in that speech name Donald Trump as the reason, her meaning could have been rapidly completed for her by her hearers.ĭonald Trump devoted much of his speech to the heroic memory of the Warsaw Uprising of 1944. guarantee and decreasing confidence in U.S. But increases-small in scope, but symbolic in importance-were explicitly explained as reactions to decreasing trust in the U.S. Trump took credit in Warsaw for the increases in defense spending announced by Germany and Canada, among other NATO countries, since his inauguration. His actions reveal that his words about NATO cannot be trusted-and they will not be trusted. Trump’s actions reveal a seeming affinity for Putin-style authoritarianism. As President Trump rightly noted, “Words are easy, but actions are what matters.” Trump’s actions reveal a president disturbingly infatuated with Russia first as a businessman, then as a candidate for president. “To those who would criticize our tough stance, I would point out that the United States has demonstrated not merely with words but with its actions that we stand firmly behind Article 5, the mutual defense commitment.” But who now will be reassured by these glib words? The whole world has seen how long and how fiercely President Trump squir med to avoid pronouncing them-and the world, friendly and hostile, will draw conclusions accordingly. In Poland, President Trump at last delivered the pledge he omitted from his speech at Brussels’s NATO headquarters. A president who has made lewd remarks about assaulting women said, “We empower women as pillars of our society and of our success.” A president who won’t read his briefing books declared, "We seek to know everything so that we can better know ourselves.” A president who once seemed unsure whether the abolitionist Frederick Douglass is alive or dead congratulated himself: “We celebrate our ancient heroes, embrace our timeless traditions and customs.” A president whose brand is notorious worldwide for gaudy hideousness preened: “We strive for excellence, and cherish inspiring works of art.” Rule of law? Free speech? Shortly before boarding the plane to Europe, President Trump’s advisers were reportedly discussing a pending CNN merger with AT&T as leverage against the news network-a possibility that, if realized, would be a perversion of anti-trust law.Īnd so it went through the catalogue of effrontery. “We treasure the rule of law and protect the right to free speech and free expression.” This must be an example of what the grammarians should rename the “disjunctive we”: a we that does not include the speaker of the words. Nothing Says Midwest Like a Well-Dressed Porch Goose Julie Beck
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