Late Tuesday night, President Trump appeared to have had enough. While acknowledging China’s Victory Day — the country’s 80th marking the end of World War II in the Indo-Pacific – he pointedly accused Beijing, Moscow and North Korea of conspiring against the U.S.

In so doing, Trump quickly connected the dots that Elbridge Colby, his Undersecretary of Defense for Policy, has failed to or refuses to connect at the Pentagon. China, Russia, and North Korea are actively colluding to globally weaken U.S. interests.

Inexplicably, Colby also cannot comprehend that Ukraine is and always has been the Ground Zero of their war against the U.S. and its transatlantic allies.

Providentially, Ukraine has long had Trump’s back. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and his generals always understood that the fight in eastern and southern Ukraine was bigger than national survival or territorial integrity. They get it that defeating Russian President Vladimir Putin in the Donbas is Europe’s best defense and, by extension, Washington’s own best defense in the Western hemisphere and Taiwan.

Despite occasional clashes, Trump and Zelensky are made of similar mettle. Both embody the same spirit of Trump’s immediate reaction to his attempted assassination when he defiantly stood up and roared, “Fight! Fight! Fight!”

Zelensky, likewise, when faced with a similar flight or fight moment in the opening days of the war, chose to stay and fight. He refused former President Joe Biden’s offer to evacuate him and, as reported by Jim LaPorta, made it clear in a Winston Churchill-like moment that he needed “ammunition, not a ride.”

Ukraine has never lost sight that Kyiv’s initial survival in February 2022 was due in part to Trump’s decisions in 2017 and 2018 to equip the Armed........

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