Neither protecting nor serving

We look to President Trump to defend the United States from all enemies, foreign and domestic.

Surely all Americans are aware of the threats to our country posed by. Russia, China, North Korea, Iran, and of the immense challenge of defending our country from this new axis of evil.

Russia has turned to North Korea to provide the troops it desperately needs in its genocidal war on Ukraine and obtains weapons and ammunition from that country and Iran.

And yet President Trump threatens to cease aiding that beleaguered nation, attacks our longest-term and most faithful allies in NATO and declares the defense of Europe from Russian aggression not a priority or perhaps even a commitment. He threatens to invade Greenland and Panama, states that Canada must become a 51st state and demeans and belittles that nation. And now he has levied huge, commerce-killing tariffs on our most important trading partners.

Our NATO allies have been forced to conclude that they can no longer rely on us, even as a source of vital weapons and ammunition.

How is all of this making America safer? The obvious answer: it is not. Indeed, these incredibly irresponsible and dangerous actions have placed our nation at immense risk and lmade us more vulnerable than we have been in the past 80 years.

We must stop these destructive and groundless attacks on our friends and allies, actions which are a gift to our enemies and threaten the safety and

security of our nation.

Bob Covi

Athens