Today the Presidents of Ukraine and the USA met in the Oval Office in front of the press. Apparently the first 30 minutes worth went fairly amiably, except for the Tangerine Fascist (thanks for the tag Omar) sledging his Ukrainian counterpart for wearing his fatigues instead of a suit.

Maybe that was what got under the skin of the Tangerine confederation because the last 10 minutes of their meeting turned into a mugging after the smoothly oiled machine that is JD Vanderbilt, err, Veandercross, no um, oh fuck, what was his name again, I dunno, let’s run with Shithead, decided that the only credible President in the room hadn’t got down on his knees and said “Thank You” since walking into the fucking room.

Now, I watch a fair bit of the news. I’m not totally addicted to it, but we generally time dinner to fit in with the general knowledge round of Mastermind (love your work Marc) and the first section of SBS’s one hour bulletin. Quite often it is enough to put you off your food but I do have a strong stomach so I go ok, mostly. And in those first sections of the SBS World News that I have seen, I must have seen the President of Ukraine thank the Americans for their aid almost every single night. He often does it as part of his nightly address to the Ukranian people. So for Shithead, possibly my best ever non-de-plume for someone whose name I really don’t want to soil my blog with, to expect him to beg forgiveness every 40 minutes is, well, the sign of a total sociopath. Congratulations America on your chosen VP, good luck with that.

And from that point on it pretty much degenerated into the Real President (look, I’ll own up, I’m not the best typist and there are too many Y’s in his surname for me to get my fingers around ok? You should see how many times I misspelt “environment” in first drafts while doing my degree. Ridiculous – and anyway, Real President is mostly easier to type, and very reflective of the credibility they exude while talking, plus their actions reflect it too). being the one to explain things to Shithead slowly and in small words, like a kindergarden teacher explaining the order of numbers to a particularly dumb student. Shithead obviously suffered PTSD from this type of explanation from his college days since he is basically just a dumb shit, so it all kicked off, with his Tangerine Boss getting in on the act and bullshitting on endlessly about cards. And then sheets. What the actual fuck is the “sheets” about. “Obama gave you sheets, we gave you Javelins.” Well, I went and looked it up and I’m obviously not the only one baffled by that as CNN helpfully provided an article about it. Obama provided military aid that included blankets – so a blanket is a sheet in the Tangerine Confederacy. Who knew?

So, no deal on minerals was signed and both Shithead and the TF would have hated that. “What? No deal? How do we make money out of this shit if he doesn’t sign a deal? I know, we kill off any aid we’ve already approved. That’ll learn ’em not to play cards! Oh wait, that’ll piss off our weapon manufacturing donors, err, industries. Send another $100M to Israel and bill the taxpayer” is probably how it went. I wasn’t there so that may not be strictly accurate but fact checking is optional anyway in this post-truth world so I’m just running with it.

Fuck. Me. Purple.

If I had a dollar invested for every time I heard that the USA was the “leader of the free world” in my 58.75 years on this planet I’d be calling Elon Musk a peasant and have had the $ to back it up. Now I’d say that little “title” is something of a stretch. No. Outright fucking lie would be a better way to put it. Leader of the American Mafia maybe closer to the mark, with all due respect to the Mafia who I have just really pissed on from a great height by linking them. I probably should apologise for that. Yeah, sorry lads. But the point is putting the word FREE anyhere near the current leadership of the USA should be a criminal offence. They do nothing for free, they do not even promote freedom any more, just ask Canada, Mexico, Panama and Greenland’s populations, and the only thing they are leading us in is one massive race to the bottom of standards for diplomacy, decency and common sense. Oh yeah, you could ask Ukraine too about the freedom bit eh?

I reported three years ago in this very blog what I thought of Putin invading Ukraine and what I thought would happen. As usual, I’m pretty much spot on, though Ukraine has fought way above their weight limit here and have been very bloody impressive. But it’s not enough. Putin will happily bankrupt his people to get his win – that’s what autocratic despots do. And he basically is doing exactly that. Defence spending was widely reported in 2024 to be raised to 6.3% of GDP for Russia. Now Russia is a very large country with a large population and large oil and gas reserves that are still being sold to China, India and North Korea, so the sanctions may be hurting them a bit, but nowhere near the financial strangulation required to stop their war machine. So unless someone puts boots on the ground and planes in the air to help Ukraine hold that Russian war machine back then I can’t see them holding.

And now their biggest donor has had a hissy fit about fuck all and is fairly likely to hold any further promised aid. So that America’s mortal and sworn enemy since the mid 1940’s can takeover a country they are ALLIED with. Go and ruminate on that one for a while.

Putin’s bromance with the TF must be hot enough to melt steel for this one to go down that smoothly. Stormy Daniels ain’t got nothing on Putin.

Oh, maybe that’s why the Tangerine Fascist is hung up on the sheets? He probably shit the bed.