Today is Saturday, March 1, 2025. We are still reeling from the shameless debacle of a meeting held yesterday with the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, in the Oval Office between the two bullies in charge of this country. In the wake of this startling acrimonious exchange between the three leaders, Western allies are now rallying around Zelenskyy after Dump’s ignominious behavior yesterday in the White House. An online CNN article examines the scuttling of our allies toward the embattled Ukrainian leader in “Western allies rally around Zelensky after Trump spat deepens rift with Europe,” written by Edward Szekeres.

Thus Western leaders scrambled to back Ukraine after Friday’s contentious meeting in the Oval Office, as the fault lines between Washington and many of its key allies have deepened ever since this convicted felon retook the White House in January.

One of those leaders, U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer, who met Chump in the White House on Thursday, spoke with both the U.S. president and Zelenskyy following their shouting match, according to a Downing Street spokeswoman.

The spokeswoman said, Starmer “retains his unwavering support for Ukraine and is playing his past to find a path forward to a lasting peace, based on sovereignty and security for Ukraine.”

Now Britain is set to host a summit of European leaders on Sunday to discuss support for Kyiv. Zelenskyy is expected to attend what’s likely to be a much more welcoming setting for the Ukrainian leader, with Starmer having urged the buffoon in charge here against accepting any peace deal that would “reward” Russia or its allies.

Italian Prime Minister Giorgio Meloni, a key Dump ally in Europe, also called for a summit with the United States and European nations to discuss the war in Ukraine, saying that division makes the West weaker.

In the meantime, Zelenskyy has spoken to French President Emmanuel Macron and to European Council President Antonio Costa following his scathing exchange with Dump yesterday, according to a Ukrainian source with knowledge of the situation.

In a later statement, Macron said, “There is an aggressor, which is Russia, and an attacked people, which is Ukraine.”

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said, “Nobody wants peace more than the Ukrainians do.” He later added, “Therefore, we are working on a common path to a lasting and just peace. Ukraine can rely on Germany – and on Europe.”

Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda said, “Ukraine, you’ll never walk alone.” Estonian Foreign Minister Margus Tsahkna cautioned that if “Ukraine stops fighting, there will be no Ukraine.”

There was swift vocal support too from key U.S. allies outside Europe, including from all other members of the so-called Five Eyes intelligence sharing network that are among Washington’s most trusted partners.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said his country would “continue to stand with Ukraine.”

Writing on X, Trudeau said, “Russia illegally and unjustifiably invaded Ukraine. For three years now, Ukrainians have fought with courage and resilience. Their fight for democracy, freedom, and sovereignty is a fight that matters to us all.”

Australia’s prime minister reiterated his country’s support for Kyiv, saying it will “continue to stand with Ukraine for as long as it takes.”

“We stand unequivocally with Ukraine in their struggle, because we regard that as a struggle for the upholding of international law,” Anthony Albanese said.

Meanwhile New Zealand’s leader Christopher Luxon said his nation remained “steadfast in its support for Ukraine as it defends itself in a war that Russia started.”

Notably absent from this wave of solidarity for Ukraine was Hungarian dictator Prime Minister Viktor Orban, a far-right populist and Dump ally, who took to X to stand with the lonely president. This jerk wrote, “Strong men make peace, weak men make war.” Is this asshole suggesting that Ukraine started the war itself just like the U.S. jerk of a president? I think he has the calculus altogether wrong here, don’t you think?

Even in Ukraine itself, there was a chorus of voices praising Zelenskyy for standing up for their country instead of capitulating to the bully of a U.S. president. “We are proud of our president. We are proud that he has guts to stand up for Ukraine,” Oleksandr Merezhko, the head of the parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee, told CNN’s Jim Sciutto on Friday.

Merezhko said there’s “absolutely no doubt” that the Ukrainian parliament will back Zelenskyy. He said, “We are united behind our president but at the same time, we hope that wisdom and common sense will prevail.”

Ukraine’s military, who have spent more than three years holding back a far larger Russian force with the help of U.S. and European aid, also maintained a message of defiance, at least on public channels.

One military officer, who goes by the callsign Aleks, said on Telegram he doesn’t “give a damn” about the kind of peace Drumpf offers.

“It’s better to fight to death than to freeze the war and then be drained again in three years,” he said.

What these Western allies have proved in their steadfast support of Ukraine’s continuing war with Russia is that the United States has for the first time in a very long time become isolated and unloved since the inauguration of the convicted felon in January. Boy, what a path we’ve carved out with the misdirection of this immensely unpopular Supreme Leader! We have only four years to go, folks.

And so it went!

One of the beautiful lakes in Bariloche.

This could be the same lake, but I’ve had problems importing photos ever since we came home. I’m happy that I can do it again.

Here’s a sign from this lakeside town.

Here’s the storefront of the oldest bookstore in Buenos Aires, which was founded in 1785, as you can see. It’s called La Libreria de Avila.

This is the basement of that bookstore. Boy, too bad these weren’t English books. I could have spent hours down here.

This is the casino in Mar del Plata.