Dope1: And not a word of this refutes the simple fact that Zelensky doesn't have the dudes, the guns or the money to push the Russkies out of the Ukraine.

You, like that moron Vance, see war as a math problem in which big numbers always win -- which, as a historical matter, is mistaken. Did the numerically stronger side win the Revolutionary War? Since 1945, more often than not the smaller, colonized country has defeated the larger, colonizing power.

And while Zelensky has repeatedly thanked the United States for its support, the United States should be thanking Ukraine. Ukrainian resistance has sparked hope in people defending democracies around the world. Ukrainian soldiers are defending the basic principle of international law: that states are sovereign and that borders should not be changed by aggression. Ukraine in effect fulfilled the entire NATO mission, absorbing a full-scale Russian attack without asking other countries to provide boots on the ground.

At the same time, Ukrainian resistance has deterred Chinese aggression over Taiwan, by showing how difficult offensive operations can be. It has slowed the spread of nuclear weapons, by proving that a conventional power can resist a nuclear power in a conventional war... despite Russia's repeated threat to use nuclear weapons in Ukraine.

Yet despite all that Ukraine has done to defend itself from Russian aggression, Trump has never once berated Putin the way he berated Zelensky yesterday. In fact, despite the Russians having betrayed every truce and every ceasefire since their first invasion in 2014, Trump sees Putin as the victim: together, they "had gone through a lot together," both the victims of a "hoax".

There was, of course, no hoax. Putin supported Trump in all three of his presidential campaigns.

For Trump, the wounds he shares with Putin because they "had gone through a lot together" are more consequential than all the dead men, women, and children in Ukraine.

We all knew that Trump would abandon Ukraine.

And we all knew his cult would applaud his cowardice.