I feel off center due to the second day of a real life television show called “Russia Invades Ukraine.” Ukraine is a country separate from the dissolved Soviet Union since 1992 that has a history dating back to 32,000 BC. My empathetic nature forces me to worry to the point of sleeplessness.

Compounding my worry is pro-Putin/Russia aggression sentiment that centers around former President Trump’s praise for Putin’s aggression as smart and clever. How can entering another country to kill its citizens and destroy its infrastructure be termed clever?

Republicans leaders are silent or supportive in regard to Trump’s cavalier statement about killing humans. Senator McConnell of Kentucky, number 2 to Trump at 1, is limiting comment and criticizing the Biden administration’s efforts in imposing sanctions on Russia in concert with our NATO allies. Live, in real time, as Ukrainians die Republican leadership stands apart from NATO, our armed forces, and Biden.

Unthinkable until this point in my lifetime. The commander in chief should be be given a benefit of a doubt in regard to imposing sanctions and setting up a policy to thwart Putin–at least initially. That Republican partisans want to wound our leader at this critical time seems to be important to them than Putin’s invasion.

What worries me most is that QAnon, Republicans who purport to actually believe that Democrats kidnap children to eat them, and Fox news personalities such as Tucker Carlson continue to support the January 6, 2021, Trump-led insurrection that attacked the Capitol, terrorized lawmakers, and caused multiple deaths of police officers. Pair that support with indifference to a war of aggression in Ukraine and what does a person logically conclude? Against every instinct, my brain tells me that Republican supporters are capable of supporting a leader like Trump who could do to the United States what Putin is now doing to the Ukrainians.

President Biden is facing Putin’s invasion and the potential beginning of WW III by following treaty commitments, partnering with the 27 NATO countries, and consulting US diplomatic and military experts. He is an experienced old guy political leader who will work methodically and logically to prevent the doomsday that conservative Republican leaders are at best seemingly indifferent to. I hope Biden is successful and I hope that Trumpists do not decide to take over our country. Maybe, just maybe, Trumpists will fade and Republicans will step away from the world of cable news/internet craziness.