Let there be no illusions about the shocking tragedy unfurling before our eyes. Donald Trump, elected leader of the planet’s superpower, is effectively fighting in the cause of a fascistic dictator guilty of the most sickening war crimes seen on our continent for eight decades.

This patsy fool of a United States president, being played with such ease by the Kremlin, is doing Russia’s dirty work by offering Vladimir Putin the best possible path out of a self-inflicted disaster that has left Moscow’s weakness exposed to the world.

The simple word for his stance is betrayal. Trump is not even paying lip service to a rules-based global order that deems it unacceptable to march into other countries to grab their land, bomb their cities, crush their culture, torture their men, rape their women and steal their children. Instead of imposing tougher sanctions on Russia in response to continuing atrocities in Ukraine – as was being suggested barely one week ago – the White House just rolled out the red carpet for Putin and rolled over to promote the demands of Russia’s bloodstained despot.

Such was Russia’s confidence over the woefully-misjudged Alaska summit that its appalling foreign minister Sergei Lavrov arrived in a sweatshirt emblazoned with “CCCP”. This was a clear reminder of the regime’s ambition to rebuild the Soviet empire –........

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