🚌 A Minivan. A Family. And a War America Pretends Not to See.
A minivan full of civilians — a mother, a father, their daughter, and six others — was torn apart by a Russian drone this weekend in Ukraine. A quiet Saturday morning drive turned into shrapnel and screams. A Lancet drone found them and called it a “military staging area,” according to Russian propaganda.
We used to call that murder. The Kremlin calls it diplomacy.
Donald Trump told us he’d “fix this war on Day One.”
Apparently, that meant stripping Ukraine for its mineral rights, hugging Putin like an old golf buddy, and calling it peace.
Peace — as in: blood for lithium.
President Zelensky showed up for ceasefire talks in Turkey last week with open hands. Guess who didn’t show up? Putin. And why would he? He has no reason to stop.
Not when America’s “leadership” is falling over itself to pressure the victim, not the aggressor.
Not when Trump walked away from Russian war crimes investigations.
Not when the State Department deleted the database of 20,000 plus kidnapped Ukrainian children by Russia.
Not when the price of future U.S. military aid is barrels of cobalt and nickel.
How inspiring: the country fighting for its survival is now expected to match American bullets with mineral wealth.
We used to say “Give me liberty or give me death.”
Trump’s version? “Give me royalties — or we’ll let you die.”
Let’s be clear: this is not foreign policy.
This is a hostage negotiation — with the hostages footing the bill.
How many more point-blank executions of surrendering Ukrainian soldiers will we ignore?
How many more civilians in vans must be obliterated?
How many more live-streamed atrocities by Russia against Ukrainian soldiers will it take before we stop saying “both sides”?
Because right now, the message from Washington isn’t “we stand with democracy.”
It’s “we stand with whoever cuts us in on the mining rights.”
To those telling us to “trust Trump” to broker peace:
He’s not ending a war — he’s auctioning it off.
Trump hasn’t ended the war in Ukraine.
He just repackaged it as a business deal.
Meanwhile, Russia launched one of its largest drone attacks of the war on Sunday —
273 drones and decoys swarmed across Ukrainian skies.
That’s not peace. That’s not a ceasefire.
That’s a butcher testing whether America still gives a damn.
We cannot let our foreign policy become a slush fund for oligarchs and a death sentence for democracies.
We cannot let the language of compromise be used to cover up cowardice.
And we damn sure cannot look the other way while a dictator slaughters civilians and calls it “de-escalation.”
We either stand with Ukraine — or we stand for sale.
🔗 If this matters to you, share it. Talk about it. Demand clarity.
Because leadership starts with moral clarity, not just mineral contracts.
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