{"id":2616,"date":"2025-02-26T10:10:14","date_gmt":"2025-02-26T10:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/?p=2616"},"modified":"2025-02-26T10:42:42","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T10:42:42","slug":"the-thinking-kat-the-company-you-keep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/?p=2616","title":{"rendered":"The Thinking \u2018Kat: The Company you Keep"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>There\u2019s an old saying, \u2018birds of a feather flock together\u2019. It certainly seems that Donald Trump is flocking with like-minded individuals, when you pause to reflect upon recent United Nations votes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/amp\/europeans-win-in-un-clash-with-us-over-rival-resolutions-on-ukraine-war-13316417\">https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/amp\/europeans-win-in-un-clash-with-us-over-rival-resolutions-on-ukraine-war-13316417<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In recent days, Trump\u2019s America has voted <strong>in line <\/strong>with Russia and North Korea, over resolutions about Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine. Whilst Trump calls Ukraine\u2019s leader, President Zelenskyy, a dictator, the wannabe tyrant is cosying up to a true dictator in every sense of the word. There is nothing redeemable about the policies and practices of Vladimir Putin, who has crushed virtually all dissenting voices in Russia, and moved to ruthlessly control the narrative of Russia\u2019s media. For Trump to call <strong>Zelenskyy <\/strong>a dictator whilst moving to defend Putin\u2019s interests, is hypocrisy of the highest order, and a demonstration of the sort of leadership Trump values most.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s not wrong to desire peace in Ukraine, but that peace should be on Ukraine\u2019s terms. Remember, Russia invaded, and it\u2019s Russia that has launched countless missiles at Ukrainian cities, devastating entire communities. It\u2019s hardly the act of a dictator to offer to step down, in exchange for security guarantees for his people, and this is what Zelenskyy has offered to do. Can you imagine Putin offering to give up his power for the good of Russia? Can you imagine <strong>Trump<\/strong> making such an offer? Of course not. Trump is acting in lockstep with Putin (and let\u2019s not forget his America has voted in line with another barbaric regime, Kim Jong Un\u2019s North Korea).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If it were up to Trump, Putin would get everything he wants out of Ukraine, and Trump would leave open the possibility of Russia invading again. It is painfully obvious that Trump is no friend of democracy, but instead, a buddy to dictators.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/?page_id=174\">Back to The Thinking &#8216;Kat<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s an old saying, \u2018birds of a feather flock together\u2019. It certainly seems that Donald Trump is flocking with like-minded individuals, when you pause to reflect upon recent United Nations votes. https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/amp\/europeans-win-in-un-clash-with-us-over-rival-resolutions-on-ukraine-war-13316417 In recent&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":113,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_pvb_checkbox_block_on_post":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13],"tags":[74,89],"class_list":["post-2616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics-and-society","tag-politics","tag-trump"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/MeerkatStressed.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2616"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2623,"href":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2616\/revisions\/2623"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}