Askold Lozynskyj
I woke up on XMAS morning at 9AM. It was late for me as I had attended 10PM Mass the night before. I was looking forward to being with my family all day, my wife, our children with their partners and our two dogs, Hryts and Basyk.
As the rest of the family was still asleep I put on my favorite television stations while I exercised on my stationary skier. One of the stations carried a report on the war in Ukraine. Russia had bombed overnight. Ukraine’s president Zelensky had made two major concessions to the peace deal. Ukraine would agree to defer NATO membership and agree to a demilitarized zone in the area of the Donbas currently under Ukrainian control. I understood this as aiming to put Russia and Putin in a position where Russia would be finally recognized by the Trump “peacemakers” as the party not willing to make peace since Russia would not agree even with these concessions. And Russia did not disappoint. They rejected the new ceasefire proposal.
I know that this will not change the paradigm in the White House as Trump and his cohort are fully with Russia. Trump will blow off some steam but then revert to his Russian asset position.
By chance as I surfed the network I came upon Vice President J.D. Vance’s speech at Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point USA conference last Sunday in Phoenix, Arizona. Initially, Vance made two major points sounding very much like an American Hitler which he once called Donald Trump. He insisted that white people should not apologize for being white and he demanded patriotism. I did not fully understand what he was saying since I had never heard a white person in America apologize for being white. I did hear American white supremacists vilify people of other races, particularly the black race. To me Vance’s words sounded like an excuse for the denigration over centuries of those who were not white.I used to think that Vance was not a white supremecist since he had chosen a non-white spouse. Perhaps that was simply good for his political career. Vance is notorious for being an unprincipled panderer. I suppose that is why he is the Vice President. His position on Trump evolved 180 degrees.
As to demanding patriotism I am not sure that in a democracy one should demand patriotism from others. Patriotism is a personal choice of devotion to one’s country because of what it stands for. All of history’s thugs demanded patriotism aka fealty to the fatherland in the person of the great leader. Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini, Mao, Putin, and yes now Trump all demanded fealty and patriotism. Demanding patriotism is a strictly authoritarian or fascist rule. Vance went on to denigrate “antifa” as if it’s a terrorist structure in America today. I could not understand what he was trying to say.”Antifa” has no structure, cells or members. Ideologically I consider myself an “antifa” because I am antifascist. I consider Trump and Vance fascist. Their policies and behavior are fascist.
Certainly the most egregious statement by Vance was:
“We help older Americans in retirement, including by ending taxes on Social Security, because we believe in honoring your father and mother rather than shipping all of their money off to Ukraine,”
It was a complete non sequitur and entirely gratuitous coming out of the blue. Vance had not spoken about Ukraine. True after the recent Miami peace talks he had sided with Russia. If I had not been convinced previously that the Trump administration was replete with Russian assets, this nailed it. This hillbilly J.D. Vance is certainly a Russian asset and, perhaps, an agent. He should be investigated beginning with his impoverished hillbilly background as well as his post high school military service and ultimate GI admission to Yale law school. Smells an awful lot like DEI for an impoverished white man. Russians feed on these types and work assiduously in making them influential. and thus helpful.
Vance has been in the Russian camp throughout his term. In fact he was one of the major instigators during the shameless behavior by the Trump administration in February this year hosting Ukraine’s President Zelensky in the Oval Office.
And so my conclusion at this time is that Ukraine with the help of its European allies and its 25 million diaspora must fight on without American assistance. America has not betrayed Ukraine. Trump, Vance and the like have betrayed America and Ukraine. So our fight is with the Russians and those who serve them. There is no question anymore that this White House is an enemy of Ukraine.
December 25, 2025
