1/ Should we pity the Republicans, obliged to be facing their collective mortality? A literal "end of the world as we know it" b/c the world has been changing so much whilst they did little to adapt?
No. Don't waste your pity.
2/ The Republican Party has decided better to tear down the entire American economy AND wreck democracy AND abandon millions to starvation-homelessness-illness rather than lose too much more power.
3/ Theirs is an opposition to any significant change because at this point all changes in demographics-technology-culture-economics weaken them.
Especially technology.
4/ Rumor has it the majority of Republican leadership are unable to effectively google their own research due to poor typing skills and unwillingness to click thru nested links.
Texting reluctantly, until they got addicted to sexually-explicit-texting of underage interns.
5/ They've become a political party so narrowly fixated on its own perceived losses in status-power-respect their leadership is staggering in recognition nobody loves them, and decreasingly are they feared.
6/ The GOP made a devilish deal with #BSGC (batshit Gonzo crazies) OF #MAGA & #QANON thus becoming "GQP"
foolishly they planned to seduce 'em, use 'em, exploit 'em & then abandon 'em much as Newt Gingrich tossed away 2 wives and 3 mistresses and a dozen-plus congressional pages
7/ Surprise, surprise, surprise.
The #BSGC amongst their ranks refusing to go away.
McConnell cannot cut loose from MTGreene, never mind Trump.
Yes, they are doomed.
8/ Problem? They will wreck the government and then the economy b/c they cannot propose policies which actually operate government effectively.
9/ Now what? CHOOSE:
(A) Stock up on canned food. Map out a route to Canada. Learn to shoot a sniper scoped rifle.
OR
(B) get 99.9% of 214,781,097 American adults registered by OCT. Mobilize 99.9% of registered voters to go to the polls in NOV.
apparently there is indeed at least one chatty turncoat who ratted out some of T(he)rump's amoral schemes 'n illicit dreams with sufficiency of damning evidence to convince a federal judge to sign off on warrants
maybe, given his family's long string of investigations; trading in Clan Trump to protect Clan Kushner from extended Club Fed vacations
as well, positioning himself within the GQP as (uhm) whatever he is good for
3/ Ivanka Trump?
very likely as payback for all those creepy callouts due to her father's borderline pervert hands 'n nausea inducing witticisms suggesting she was not just a 'daddy girl' but his '4th wife'
1/ For the politicians of EU/NATO there are certain strategic concerns. Not least of which being seen picking the losing side. So they slow walk military aid to Ukraine hoping for 'diplomatic resolution'. Avoid humiliation at home, nothing their political opponents can point to.
2/ Prevent loses in their next election cycle.
Avoid embarrassing wastage of resources upon the losing side. Not antagonize resurgent Russian Imperialists. Wait. Study. Consider. Discuss. Delay.
Then delay some more.
3/ Surprise. Ukraine did not fall in a day.
No victory parades through Kyiv.
Russia is getting kicked in the knees. Occasional broken noses. Confirmed 'elephant graveyards' as APC-trucks-tanks are abandoned due to lack of spare parts. Rotting tires due to clueless handling.