Unprecedented times, An unprecedented call to action.
Russia is not Our Friend
An opinionated essay by Woody Fender
When looking at recent video footage of depopulated giant cities in Syria, my mind flashed to similar scenes of Columbia, SC where my grandfather’s grandfather evacuated to save our state capital from destruction. The effort failed and Columbia was burned to ash in the worst destruction any American city has ever seen. Right now as I write, Russia is committing the largest war crime since the last World War, using a modern air force against a defenseless city crushing women and children and everything else in a campaign of violent depopulation.
Left - Allepo today. Right, our state capital not so long ago - Columbia, SC in 1865.
What does violent depopulation mean? A city reduced to a skeleton of rotting dead and scavenging dogs, idiots and broken grandmothers and orphaned shattered children living in rubble heaps waiting for the mercy of death; starving persons too weak to flee. And above always is the sound of Russian planes dropping Russian bombs, always, ceaselessly, flying and bombing and killing. On Putin’s orders.
Societal destruction is old hat for President Elect Trump’s accomplice. Putin butchered his own in Chechnya – heavy weapons targeting a civilian population. The Russians butchered Afghanistan – and left such a broken country that the chaos hatched the murder of thousands of Americans on September 11. Through deception married to brute force the Russians invaded Ukraine not once but twice, stealing and annexing Crimea and occupying other areas of this nation that wanted to be free and part of Europe. Russia invaded and occupied areas in Georgia. Now they threaten the Baltic States with invasion –which would require us as a NATO ally to defend them. Russian planes and bombs and guns are aimed at the forehead of our sworn allies, those countries that have bled for democracy and that have bled for America.
Left, America burning the last time we were led astray by traitors. Columbia, 1865
Trump’s Russian friend is a brutal cold killer. The Russians are not and never have been friends of the United State or friends of our European and Asian allies. They do not have our well being in mind – they are killing our allies in Syria while cynically claiming to be hunting ISIS. They are killing our allies in Ukraine; right now they are killing and threatening to kill our allies in Europe. And they have just attacked our nation in a deep and profound way as detailed by the report released Friday. Yet, Donald Trump chooses to praise Vladimir Putin, who personally ordered the attack on America. He does this while denigrating and insulting our entire national security apparatus.
Siding with the enemy against one’s own country in a time of war is a crime. Conspiring to steal electronic communication is a crime. Using stolen communication to commit fraud is a crime. These crimes are publicly documented now and this nation will awaken to the con job that has made our entire country a victim to Russian aggression and when the balance tilts, there will be hell to pay as the traitors in America that collude with our enemy are brought to justice. Won’t happen? Maybe, but if there is one national characteristic of Americans, it is a xenophobic revulsion at foreign interference. There will be a convulsion against those who side with the enemy to harm America. Inside each citizen is a patriot. Trump sides with a hostile foreign power against our own country. Those who choose Russia and Trump over their own country will be judged harshly as traitors also.
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These are days of peace. This is the time for those that have supported Mr. Trump to reconsider and to refute this criminal con man. This is the time – now! Please wake up and get on the right side of history. I am advocating for peace, forgiveness, understanding and reconciliation; History isn't generally so forgiving and this is simply the way nature works. After the War of Independence those that chose the foreign enemy over our country were cleansed from the United States; the traitors (my people, in this instance) who rebelled against the United States were made to suffer badly for many decades when they chose war with the Stars and Stripes – my people – our Southern people – were made to suffer in a broken land for many decades as a result of choosing others over our own flag.
Cold Harbor, 1864 - my g-g great grandfather Sgt Wm H Dowling of Butler’s Brigade (5th SC Cav) fought in this battle and that could easily have been his rotted skull. When Americans turn against America, unspeakable consequences become likely. Trump chose Russia; what’s your choice?
This sounds very harsh and I guess it is. But harshness is a fact of war and make no mistake – we are at war. The attack by Russia is more successful than the one on Pearl Harbor. Imagine if Pearl Harbor resulted in a man with deep financial entanglements to Japan walking into leadership? Imagine if Roosevelt chose the Japanese version instead of his own intelligence and military leaders. Imagine if Roosevelt attacked his generals and intelligence and diplomatic professionals publicly. This is the success of Putin’s war on America – a man beholden to Russia colludes with Russia to pervert American democracy and then that man changes decades of US policy in multiple ways to aid and comfort our enemy while dismissing our long standing friends and allies. This is this situation. It is treachery. And it will never be tolerated by American patriots.
Note; four patriots, the heads of CIA, FBI, NSA and DNI visited Mr. Trump January 6, 2017 to allow him to ‘do right.’ The results of this meeting are not yet known as events unfold by the day and hour. 3:40est January 8, 2017