Humiliating the People You Betrayed

I really, really hope this is one of WashPo’s habitual lies. The Biden administration couldn’t have possibly insulted the wife of the Ukrainian president this way.

Russians murdered 5 Ukrainian children in Odessa a couple of days ago. The youngest was 9 months old. We are all mourning. And Biden chooses this moment to humiliate Ukraine’s First Lady by seating her next to some piece of trash neo-Nazi widow. Which will strengthen Russia’s propaganda narrative that Ukrainians are all Nazis and even Biden knows it.

Even if Yulia Navalnaya were a decent person (which she’s not, and I’ve been explaining this for years), this would be a horrible idea. You don’t sit Jews next to Germans, even nice Germans, while the Holocaust is ongoing. Ukrainians are burying children every day. Hearing Russian speech is painful. Hearing Russian accents is very unpleasant. Looking at the happy, smug Russian faces while they prattle on how it’s not their fault because Putin made them is torture.

Navalnaya is a grifter, like her late husband. She already created a foundation in his name and is collecting money. For what? “To fight Putin”, of course. How will she fight Putin with money? That’s never explained. But it’s convenient for Biden to pretend that these crooks will defeat Putin because this allows him to continue to do next to nothing to honor the US obligations and help Ukraine.

It’s not enough to betray people, you also need to humiliate them into the bargain.