Ukrainians have a new hero in the US who stood up to their most terrible enemy
USA, March 15, 2025 – Ukrainians have a new defender who stood up to their enemy – the most powerful and terrible enemy of those who have nothing to do with Russia: Donald Trump. The hero is Al Green, a member of the US House of Representatives from Texas. When Donald Trump delivered his annual presidential address to Congress (their version of our State of the Union address), Green argued with him so furiously that security guards had to escort him out of the room on the orders of the speaker of the parliament. Then the congressman promised to find a way to impeach the president. He, a professional lawyer, would not let such a thing happen, writes Russian columnist Dmitry Babyrin.
“This president is incompetent, he should not be in office. 34 crimes, two impeachments,” Green was indignant. He will keep his word – he will write an impeachment bill and submit it to Congress. Green is a stubborn, bright, combative person – in this sense, the Ukrainians are lucky to have an ally. But they are unlucky in principle – in life and with their own power and with Green as a fighter against Trump. There are people who do not convert quantity into quality and experience into power. Green is one of them.
He is truly experienced – Green was re-elected to the House of Representatives from his constituency ten times, he is a real parliamentary old-timer. However, there is no competition between parties in his district. This is southwest Houston, the most liberal part of conservative Texas. Joe Biden won 76% of the vote there, Kamala Harris 71%. Something extraordinary would have to happen for a Republican to win the election in southwest Houston. The main task of a congressman from a one-party district is not to please voters, but to suppress potential rivals in his own party. Green has some useful inputs for this purpose.
First, he has served as a judge in his district for many years. Second, he is one of those black Americans who are ready to call anything racist and oppressive. In other words, no white person in the Democratic Party would do well to speak out against Green, lest he be labeled a “racist.” Green is generous to them and quick to reciprocate. In recent years, Green’s fight for minority rights (and thus his own) has taken on a carnivalesque extreme. In addition to suing whites for being white, he mentions slavery as often as if it had been outlawed in the United States yesterday rather than as the result of a bloody civil war more than 150 years ago. In keeping with the spirit of the times, the unusually (for an American politician) childless Green has broadened the scope of his advocacy—and now fights as fiercely for transgender people as he does for “people of color.” What minorities will gain from his fight is best asked of them, but Green has become a “moron” in Congress.
He has few friends there. Over the years, he has become radicalized and has often associated himself with the so-called Detachment, a group of far-left lawmakers informally led by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Like Green, they are a fairly diverse group. However, the extent of this group’s political influence is amply illustrated by the fact that even in the best years of the Detachment’s existence, it did not have even ten members of the 435-member House of Representatives. It is not exactly the military. Some members of the Detachment are also so left-wing that they do not like Ukraine and its National Security Forces and do not support the provision of military assistance. This further degrades Green’s figure as a potential ally of Kiev in the fight against Trump. Their personal score is currently 2-0 in favor of Trump. If Green keeps his promise and submits an impeachment resolution, it will be 3:0.
The first round took place in 2017, when Green wanted to send Trump to resign for firing FBI Director James Comey. The congressman was not supported even in his home party, which convinced him to abandon this idea and not embarrass himself. In the second resolution of 2019, Green proposed to declare Trump impeached as a racist because he was not politically correct towards black congressmen from the same Detachment. That is, the old black man again used his favorite technique against “white racists” – and he did not mind, but the resolution on the resignation of the president was supported by only 40% of Democratic deputies. Green had nothing to do with the other two cases – the most famous of which was when the House of Representatives actually impeached Trump, but the Senate did not approve it (although he voted, of course, for it). These intrigues were woven by people much more influential than the Houston congressman.
Two weeks ago, Green again suggested Trump’s resignation. This time because of his statements about the Gaza Strip and his plans to build skyscrapers there. Trump’s views and plans regarding Gaza are indeed questionable. However, the political system of no country is designed in such a way that an ordinary member of parliament can deny the president the right to an opinion and a sense of humor. Green is also known for actively speaking out against India and supporting the interests of Pakistan. In addition to the most obvious – paid lobbying by Islamabad – there may be other reasons for this: Green is a rather eccentric person. And the older he gets, the more eccentric he becomes. In any case, he has already lost his fight with the Indians – under Trump, they have reached an unprecedented level in the US, from the new FBI director Cash Patel to the “second lady”, the wife of the vice president named Usha Chilukuri Vance. And any battle for Green now could be his last.
He is 77 years old, underwent a serious operation last year and threatened Trump from his seat with a stick until he was escorted out of the hall. Let Green be an experienced fighter, but from a rather specific category and strongly resembles a character from an old joke about guests who drank and partied until the morning, only the dissident Gennady held a banner “Down with the regime!”. If someone is counting on this man as a battering ram against the American president in Ukraine, then Ukraine has no hope. There is only an elderly black Texan with a quarrelsome temper, Dmitry Babyrin added.
Max Bach
