Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court.
-Constitution for the United States of America, Article III; Section 3.
I lived through 9/11. I always thought that would be the blackest day in my country's history, or at least the blackest day I'd live to see of my country's history.
I was wrong.
Today, I have witnessed my country's death, at the hands of its own president.
Within the past 72 hours, US Felon-in-Chief, Donald J. Trump, a president once known for his fight against "The Swamp" of corruption in Washington (until he became mired in 47 felony convictions of his own) put forth what he euphemistically referred to as a "peace plan" to end Russia's illegal, unprovoked and genocidal war against a US treaty-ally(1), Ukraine. And oh, let me tell you, the terms of this "peace plan" are something to behold.
- It calls for Ukraine to cede territory siezed and illegally occupied by the Russian Federation.
- It calls for Ukraine to abandon any hope of securing alliances to prevent another invasion.
- It calls for Ukraine to reduce its armed forces, rendering them helpless if Russia wishes to attack again.
- It calls for complete Russian immunity from any war crimes prosecutions for actions taken in connection with the war.
- It imposes no penalties upon Russia at all.
- It imposes no limitations on Russian military activities around Ukraine, thus leaving the reduced Ukrainian military vulnerable to a later return by Russian troops (which, Medvedev has openly stated is Russia's goal).
- It provides NO guarantees to Ukraine in return for these concessions other than some vague "trade deals," which are as unabashedly one-sided as the disgraceful minerals deal imposed upon Ukraine earlier this year by Viceroy Rostov on-Donald Trump of the Russian-controlled Vichy Government ruling what used to be the United States.
In short, Donald Trump's proposal is a barely-even-paraphrased echo of Vladimir Putin's demands.
In other words, it's a surrender accord.
And this is being pushed onto a US ally, who has outperformed the US militarily, for the benefit of a nation who openly refers to the United States as an enemy. And if Ukraine does not concede to this, the US has threatened to withhold even what paltry, limited aid we are still giving to Ukraine (basically limited to intelligence sharing. This is how we repay Ukraine for sending troops they could not spare to aid us in a war that was not theirs when we got hit back in 2001.
...There is no way to spin this that makes it anything other than what it is. This is a US president, telling a US ally, "surrender to a government that wants to kill your people and ours, or we'll help them kill your people." This is, in the most literal and undisguised sense, a US president acting on behalf of a US enemy (Russia) against a US ally, by providing tangible aid and comfort to said enemy.
Article III Section 3 of the United States Constitution has a word for that: treason.
And it's a death penalty offense.
Not that I truly believe he'll ever face charges for it. I mean, let's be honest. This is a man who already thumbed his nose at 47 felony convictions (we've typically sent everyone with more than 10 to Death Row) and had the nation's highest court openly state "we don't want to sentence him now that he's been elected." This is a man who has openly called himself "king," a violation of the entire riason d'etre of the US itself (as well as Article I, Section 9, Clause 8 and Article IV Section 4 of the US Constitution). This is a man who has openly taken it upon himself to redefine what does and does not constitute US citizenship, a power EXPLICITLY reserved for Congress (due to the fact that it requires amending the Constitution, something not even close to falling within the scope of POTUS's power). So no, I do not think the United Slaves of Ameristan will have the guts to actually rise up and DO anything about it this flagrantly criminal act of betrayal by "this tired old man who they elected king," as Don Henley would put it.
The good news is that Europe has taken note of it and they are as disgusted as I am. And it is possible, possible, that this outrage, coupled with Poland having finally been pushed to the thin ice by Russia's latest act of terrorism against one of their rail depots, will galvanize the European Union (or at least some of its individual member states) into action against Russia. But this may not be enough for Ukraine.
The world, however, needs to take note.
- As of this day, no nation should ever allow itself the delusion that the US is a reliable ally. It was, once upon a time. But Donald Trump has single-handedly destroyed that.
- No nation should accept one-sided trade deals with the US any longer on the premise of getting US "security guarantees" in return, as the US just proved we will not honor them.
- No nation should forget that the Donald Trump just proved the US will betray an ally into the hands of an enemy on a whim.
In short, even after Ukraine bounces back and wrecks Russia, Putin has achieved his primary objective. He will not have Ukraine, but he set out, at the orders of his Chinese Master, to fracture the West and prove the United States is a splintered reed of a staff that wounds the hands of our allies when they lean upon it for support.
Thanks to the devoted and slavish service of his puppet, Donald Trump, he succeeded.
I, Robert Arthur Harris II, a natural-born US citizen of sound mind and body, do hereby and by this statement, of my own free will and with full knowledge of my actions, under no duress, demand the immediate arrest of Donald John Trump on charges of treason, namely, of adhering to the enemies of the United States (in this case the Russian Federation) by providing them aid and comfort.
I do hereby declare publicly under the same conditions that any sitting member of the United States House of Representatives not echoing this call has committed malfeasance in office by failing to do so.
I make this declaration at 21:37 Kyiv Standard Time on the 21st of November in the Year of Our Lord two-thousand-twenty-five,
And may God have mercy on what is left of the United States of America. I hope He will, since I doubt that any of the allies we have betrayed ever will.
Nor should they.
(1) Yes, I am counting the 1994 Budapest Memorandum as a Treaty; I'm aware it does not meet the full legal criteria but when coupled with the fact that the US frankly owes Ukraine 4,000 lives after Ukraine's response to 9/11, I feel no qualms about calling them a "treaty ally" in terms of America's obligations to them.