What is at stake after Zelenskyy walks out on Trump…

Volodymir Zelenskyy has finally done what no American politician has dared. Trump, who has a traitorous heart, turns men against themselves for fear they should cross him. The Ukrainian president refused to betray his cause for the pleasure of “the king.” Time will dictate the consequences, but we can be assured that in telling Trump to go to hell, the repercussions will include no half-measures. His Majesty will vengefully consider the unthinkable. No doubt, Zelenskyy was aware of the danger attached to meeting with Trump. Trump, no doubt, would never think a man so laden down with his nation’s future at stake would dare to stir his ire. Now, Zelenskyy’s rebuff has taken Ukraine and the rest of the world to the precipice. It is a place the world has avoided since the time we first crossed that line. Our modern history that began with a madman threatening humanity reprises the dread. The era began and ended in madness, and then the world took stock and stepped back.

It has taken another madman, this time an American president, to show the world what it had wrought — and what is at stake:

“Since Auschwitz, we know what man is capable of. And since Hiroshima, we know what is at stake.”

- Viktor E. Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning