Before however, there was hope and good hope at that. The democratic countries of this ever-fighting world came to Ukraine's aid. Society as we knew it unashamedly bellowed their support for the Ukranian fight against an immoral Russian invasion. European countries provided aid of up to $19bn in weaponry and invaluable support to the humanitarian crises that arose from the war. But the big dog in this war was the U.S, a single country providing military intelligence and weaponry worth over $16bn. America stood strong in support for democracy but that is now the past.
We find ourselves in perhaps modern history’s darkest moment for the alliances of a once democratic world. A cloud of immorality and evil seems to linger across the landscape of global politics as we once knew it. Following an oval office shouting match like no other between Ukraine’s Zelenskyy, JD Vance and Donald Trump, I began to see a shift. Truth be told, I was horrified. I saw a man whose country’s future rested on the shoulders of, quite frankly, a bully. The president of the United States of America was verbally attacking the president of Ukraine and not once critiquing Putin’s inhumane crimes. Though many supporters of Trump may disagree, I believe it is quite evident that the government of America has become what it once sought to destroy. It once sought to eradicate propaganda, tyranny, totalitarianism and ignorance. Now its own president basks in the fatal flaws America once promised to change.
Now its own president basks in the fatal flaws America once promised to change.
Following Zelenskyy’s rightful reluctance to indulge in Trump’s misinformed narrative surrounding the war, Trump suspended all military aid and intelligence to Ukraine. Trump has given Putin no incentives to compromise. Instead he has praised Russia’s actions in the war. He now urges Ukraine to accept peace on Russian terms without any guarantees of security.
It’s a sad thought that America, the once leader of the ‘free world’, would allow a dictatorship to invade a democratic country, seize territory and thus create a dangerous precedent for the security of democracy.
Ukraine is now isolated, left stranded in the rubbles of buildings that once stood strong, its citizens disheartened, whilst each missile tragically illustrates each knock to the ideals it once held dear. For these ideals that were once indeed true have become seemingly forever eloped in lies.