As Zelensky flies to Mar-a-Lago, MAGA and Britain’s far left simultaneously designate Europe the aggressor. What’s going on?}
The background music to the Trump-Zelensky meeting at Mar-a-Lago was ominous: two nights ago Russia carried out a mega-strike, hitting civilian homes and energy plants, leaving one third of Kyiv without power.
And Russia has hit civilian ships in the port of Odesa and tried to cut off road access to south-west Ukraine from Romania through strikes on transport infrastructure.
It feels like a non-nuclear version of “escalate to de-escalate”: attacking Ukraine throughout the depths of its infrastructure to signal to the West what comes if it does not force Kyiv into semi-surrender. [1]
But the worst thing is the cognitive warfare being practised within the Trump administration targeted at weakening NATO’s resolve to back Ukraine to the point of victory:
- Trump’s National Security Strategy peddled the myth that Europe is the aggressor in the Ukraine conflict.
- Just before Christmas, the USA sanctioned five European citizens, two of them Brits, for their work exposing far right disinformation and enforcing European counter-hate speech law.
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