Connexion
Editorial: The summit that peacewashed genocide
Disgusting.
That’s the word watching American soldiers drop to their knees, unrolling a red carpet for the man who killed Ukrainian children yesterday and will kill more tomorrow.
While Putin posed for photos in Alaska, Ukrainian parents were pulling their kids from rubble.
While he grinned in Trump’s limousine, Ukrainian mothers were digging graves.
While an Orthodox bishop exchanged gifts with a war criminal, 19,000 stolen Ukrainian children remained in Russian camps.
What really happened Friday: America told the world that genocide pays. War crimes get you red carpet treatment. Russia’s Foreign Minister showed up wearing a USSR sweatshirt. Russian state media served “chicken Kyiv” on Putin’s plane while actual Kyiv burns nightly from Russia’s drones.
The message was clear: We own you now.
The truth Trump abandoned
Putin didn’t just get legitimacy in Alaska; he got proof that the West has abandoned truth itself.
Genocide became “diplomacy.”
War crimes became “peace talks.”
Child killers become “partners.”
Here are the truths they’ve abandoned:
Truth 1: Peoples have the right to exist. They call this a “territorial dispute” when Russian officials openly admit genocidal intent.Putin isn’t after land—he’s after eliminating Ukraine itself. But reality doesn’t bend to political convenience. Our right to exist isn’t negotiable.
This is bigger than Ukraine. Russia is fighting against existence itself—the principle that different peoples should exist, should grow, should contribute their own gifts to the world. Every time a people is erased, the world becomes smaller, darker, less human.
While America rolled out the red carpet for our destroyer, Ukraine stood up for the right of all peoples to flourish in this world. Because when the powerful are allowed to erase the weak, you’ve destroyed the only thing standing between civilization and chaos.
Once might makes right, there’s always someone mightier.
Truth 2: Truth and justice make civilizations great, not strongmen. Trump thinks Putin is powerful. He said Russian troops “retreated” from Kyiv because they got stuck in the mud, not because Ukrainians stood and fought. He looks past Zelensky, thinking Ukraine doesn’t have the cards.But he has it backwards.
Ukraine’s strength doesn’t come from tanks. It comes from standing for truth and justice—tthe very foundations that once made the West great.
Trump promised to “Make America Great Again.” He could have done exactly that by supporting the nation fighting for the very things that make America great. Instead, he chose a perpetrator of genocide.
Your choice isn’t just about Ukraine. It’s about whether you remember what makes you great, or whether you’ll be degraded to the likes of Russia—a hollow empire built on lies, theft, and murder.
The lie is that giving Putin what he wants will make him stop. It won’t. Evil doesn’t get satisfied when fed. It gets hungrier.
Putin didn’t stop after Georgia or Crimea, and he won’t stop after Donetsk. If Ukraine falls, Putin’s tanks will roll into Warsaw tomorrow. You can sell us out now and watch your own children conscripted later.
The choice before us
This is the West’s war being fought with Ukrainian blood. Putin isn’t just trying to erase Ukraine—he’s testing whether democratic civilization will defend itself. Friday gave him his answer.
The West can abandon Ukraine today and face Putin’s tanks in Warsaw tomorrow. America can sell us out now and watch its own children conscripted later.
What must happen now
Friday was America’s test. America failed.
But Ukrainians are still fighting. Still dying for the principles democratic civilization claims to believe in. Still holding the line that Western leaders are too weak to defend.
The West has one chance left:
Send every weapon Ukraine needs. Now.
Freeze every Russian asset. Today.
Cut every pipeline, every bank, every trade deal that feeds Russian aggression.
Ukraine cannot do this alone. We shouldn’t have to. The soldiers who knelt for Putin should be loading planes with weapons for Ukraine instead.
The choice is simple: Act now, or explain later why comfort was chosen over courage when civilization hung in the balance.
Ukrainian children are still dying while Western leaders decide whether their lives matter more than political convenience.
And remember this: there can be no peace without justice. Not for us. Not for you. Not for anyone.
