Aleksander Solzhenitsyn (December 11, 1918 – August 3, 2008) was a Russian author and dissident who raised global awareness of political oppression in the Soviet Union.
While serving as a captain in the Red Army during World War II, he was arrested by SMERSH and sentenced to eight years in the Gulag then internal exile for calling for the overthrow of the Soviet regime in private correspondence with another officer.
He was awarded the 1970 Nobel Prize in Literature for his non-fiction work The Gulag Archipelago that “amounted to a head-on challenge to the Soviet state” and sold tens of millions of copies.
Frustrated at Trump’s political fellatio of Putin, Solzhenitsyn tore back through the veil to read Trump the riot act for enabling Putin to continue occupying a democratic state and murder tens of thousands of innocent men, women and children with impunity:
Solzhenitsyn: “Trumph! What the hell do you think you’re doing?”
Trumph: “Who are you?”
Solzhenitsyn: “I’m the Ghost of every Ukrainian who has died as a result of your bombastic incompetence – or Putin collusion .
Trumph: “Hey! That’s not my war! That started under Biden!”
Solzhenitsyn: “It became your war the moment in your campaign you bragged about “ending the war in Ukraine in 24 hours; on your ‘first day in office’ with half a brain.”
As president of the most powerful democratic country in the Free World, it became your war – your moral and ethical responsibility – to lead the Free World against naked communist aggression like all the great presidents of America have done for the last hundred years.
So far you are failing miserably I don’t care how many inane excuses your sycophants spew on MAGA media.
What the F!@k is holding you up? For a guy who says “the killing has to stop” you are sure taking your sweet ass time to make it stop! I realize you being raised in New York City doesn’t give you much of a moral upbringing – to include keeping your word – but in the real world a man’s character is judged by whether or not he keeps his word.
Your word apparently doesn’t mean jack shit – to you or to the rest of the Free World.
To “stop the killing” you have to stop the spread of communism, you idiot! What part of ‘World Communism‘ do you not understand?
Telling a KGB president of a communist country he has “50 days” – multiple times – to come up with a plan for stopping a war he started in blatant violation of international law is like blood in the water to a shark.”
To Putin, you’re no different than Obama by continuing to pull the “red line” back – and back – and back!
Trumph: “Hey! Ease off, man! The Art of the Deal just takes a little longer to work in some situations than in others – like my tariffs! I know what I’m doing!”
Solzhenitsyn: “Well, from the evidence on the ground in Ukraine, from Putin defecating on you at every turn, and from the over 180,000 (and counting) innocent men, women and children – including a new mother and new born baby yesterday – it’s too late to wait for your ‘Art of the Deal‘ to kick in. I hope the consumers in America can suffer through your time schedule for tariffs to kick in without having to decide whether to eat or pay utility bills.
Besides, your myopic approach to diplomacy as “business dealing” is so wrong-headed as to question your sanity.
Don’t you know anything about your country’s political / military history? Paying off your enemies with cash or economic incentives only encourages them to bullshit you into a false sense of victory and peace. Jefferson knew that and stopped it by sending the Marines to wipe out the Barbary Pirates. Your faux-counterinsurgency “expert” Petraeus* tried buying off the Islamist radicals in his AO in Iraq as regimental commander and it worked – right up to the time he quit paying them.
Offering your dedicated enemies economic incentives to stop killing only provides the financial means to carry on their wars of aggression. Besides, communists – unlike Americans and the West – aren’t capitalists. They’re communists!”
Trumph: “Well, communists are just like every other human being – driven by their own economic self-interests….aren’t they?”
Solzhenitsyn: “You can’t be more wrong. Is that what they taught at Wharton? If that’s all you know about the world and how it works then you should have been Secretary of Commerce (at best) – certainly not the President of the United States!”
Trumph: “Well, then, how is communism different than capitalism? Why can’t my “Art of the Deal” work with Putin like it has with every other country in the world?”
Solzhenitsyn: “Every American administration for the last hundred years – with the exception of Truman and Reagan – has been hopelessly blinded by their and the State Department’s Disney Diplomacy illusions about communism that brought on the Cold War and the circumstances Putin has created that brings the Free World to the brink of a Hot War.
I could point to numerous, specific causes over the last hundred years that has brought the Free World to this mortal crisis. But the ultimate cause clearly lies in a hundred years of obstinate blindness to the true nature of communism.
You are apparently not aware that communism is an evil and oppressive menace to the world. You fail to grasp the implacable nature of communism.
[Implacable: opposed to someone or someone in a very angry or determined way that cannot be changed; unyielding].
Your implacable obsession to use capitalism to convince a communist to declaw is doomed to failure. You and your policy advisors [like Vance] continue committing fresh blunders that have already had massive, lethal repercussions on the free Ukrainian people.
You are apparently the only leader in the Free World who fails to understand the radical hostility of communism to mankind as a whole – to realize that communism is irredeemable; that there exists no ‘better’ variant of communism; that it is incapable of growing ‘kinder;’ that it cannot survive as an ideology without using terror, and that, consequently, to coexist with communism on the same planet is impossible.
Either it will spread, cancer-like, to destroy mankind, or else mankind will have to rid itself of communism.”1
Trumph: “Well, In all my dealings with Putin I have not found that to be the case. Putin and I are “great friends.” He’s a “genius!” I’ve done “business with him for thirty years!” Putin and I have a contract to build Trump Tower: Moscow as soon as I leave office in 2028 (if I don’t run again!).” It will be the tallest building in Europe, all gold-plated with my name in huge letters on each side (like it is on banners hanging on government buildings in D.C.).
Solzehnitsyn: “Then, President Trumph, you are an idiot. You are worse than an idiot. You are Lenin’s golden boy of Useful Idiots! You are intentionally blinded by your own economic self-interest. As the president of the United States that puts you on a “par” with Obama, Joe Biden and Hillary (and Bill) Clinton.
That being the case, here’s your key. Dante’ asked me to give it to you. It’s the key to C.D.”
Trumph: “You mean the key to D.C. – District of Columbia? Thanks, I already own one of those. I asked them to gold plate it.”
Solzehnitsyn: “No. C.D. – the City of Dis. This one’s made of lead.”
*Petraeus and Mattis plagiarized their War College thesis Counterinsurgency from legitimate counterinsurgency experts like Sir Robert K. Thompson, Frank Kitson, David Galula, et al.
I was tasked to review the draft FM 3-24 Counterinsurgency Manual as an instructor at the U.S. Army’s Intelligence School, Ft. Huachuca, AZ. The initial draft contained a small attribution to the real experts on the inside of the cover.
Those – and other references – were deleted in the final copy. There was no original thought by either Petraeus or Mattis in the entire Field Manual.
There were also pertinent publications by the hundreds available for decades at the John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center & School, Ft. Bragg, N.C.
Mattis’ boast he read “10,000 books” within the time frame given also seems statistically impossible – unless half were newspaper articles, pamphlets or monograms from the Strategic Studies Institute, Carlisle Barracks, Pa. and other Open Sources.
“In war, the first casualty is Truth” – Aeschylus (5 B.C.)
1. The Mortal Danger: How Misconceptions About Russia Imperil America by Aleksandr Solzhenistyn; Foreign Affairs, Vol. 58, No. 4 (Spring 1980); The Courage to See by Solzhenistyn; The Council on Foreign Affairs, 1980
