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Donald Trump was an opportunist who took advantagee of America, the land of opportunity. In line with that frame of mind, he cozied with the world’s dictators while shunning democratic leaders, all in the name of America. Then afterr four years of Trump and a pandemic he politicezd, America said no more of this fake president.

History will prove the veracity of the seeming fact that Russia had a heavy hand in getting Trump elected to the US presidency in 2016. Enough evidence existed, however, that the 2020 election was the most secure ever. Trump’s own Cyber security expert made that statement before being fired. Nevertheless, voting security was beefed up for 2020. Trump lost.

Unable to admit defeat, Trump worked his base well into 2022 as the Covic pandemic was tamed even as Russia’s Putin launched an assault on Ukraine for no other reason than he wanted to own it. Ukraine’s defiance against being oppressed invigorated democracy throughout the world and brought into relief the difference between democracy and tyranny. Never oppressed but founded by forebears who fled from oppressors, today’s Americans have little experience with the rage engedered by being rendered powerless. Refugees now forced from homes in Ukraine will live with that knowledge for all their lives.

Hungarian-American writer Fogarassy has lived all her life with that early esperience of having to flee with her family from Soviet communism. She carried memories of that time through relocations and 20 years of independant work with the United Nations. That life experience is reflected in her published works.

America Votes Obama to Biden Past Trump is a collection of articles on the Trump presidency from the Hungarian-American perspective. She is a savvy New Yorker who worked for the Trump Organization during its infancy.

The Light of a Destiny Dark is a novel based on a memoir about Hungary during WWII and under Soviet Communism.

The Midas Maze is a novel about the vast international network that promotes development all across the world. Bureaucracy is an occupational hazard in that work.

Mission Improbable: The world community on a UN compound in Somalia is an account of internationals from, around the world interacting together.

d the unavoidable bureaucracy needed to carry out that work.

Mission Improbable: The World Community on a UN Compound in Somalia is a record of interactions between people of all cultures interacting on an enclosed compound. Human natured down to basics.

Democreacy is rule by the people but who in the global digical world knows who the people are or what they want? Russia’s unwarranted and unlawful aggressin against Ukraine has taken a big step toward defining democracy in a global world.

Societies around the world have galloped toward development since the Second World War introduced the alternative of annihilation with the nuclear bomb. The United Nations and its multitude of bodies and agencies has played a major role in bettering life in now near-200 countries. This vast network takes on a human face in the novel entitled The Midas Maze. The plot centers on the pitfalls inherent in the juncture of people, governments and bureaucracies.

Bureaucracy had its heyday in the Soviet period behind the Iron Curtain that shrouded Eastern and Centrall Europe from all contact with democracy. In that system, red tape and its use for terror were the ways to elevate the ego by oppressing those pushed lower down in the henhouse pecking order. The Light of a Destiny Dark is a novel based on a memoir that brings to life the grim bleakness of life under that system.

The mayhem of global red tape is captured in Mission Improbable: the world community on a UN compound in Somalia. The memoir is a tribute to communicating across cultures where success or failure depends on any person’a indivual personality. The book shows that Integrity and good will tanscend cultural differences.

Russia’s current leader Vladimiir Putin was a beneficiary of the Soviet red tape form of government. Since the 1989 collapse of the Iron Curtain and the ensuing collapse of the Soviet economy, he has schemed to bring back the order expected to spring him into even greater heights An opening came with Donald Trump, an opportunist of the world leading US democracy. A writer’s view of this union is presented in America Votes Obama to Biden Past Trump. The premis is that America was not itself under the double assault of an American huckster and a former Soviet intelligence agent. Yet when America survived & was coming out of its coma, Putin turned to his second choice, the former satellite that had turned decidedly democratic since shedding its Soviet yoke.

The world’s people have rallied to Ukraine’s support as it has fought off the brutal assault. On behalf of Ukraine’s resolve to preserve its fledgling democracy, world leaders put heads together and even pulled the United Natins out of mothblls to help figure out how to cut through red tape without sparking a third world war. What’s missing from the effort is a full-throated cheer for efforts by the people of the United States.

The land of freedom, opportunity and free speech is mired in a complexity that has left them exhausted. After layers of information ranging from facts to alternative facts, after Trump, Covid and now the threrat of a third world, the people of America need clarity in the ruckus.

The Ukraine crisis makes one contrast very clear. Evil and good are opposites. Good gains momentum by spreading word of its works. Evil exhausts itself & allies by the work need to erect and maintain walls to keep out the good.

Please spread the word about helenfogarassy.com, a website dedicated to promoting good through the written word, especially through cmmunication between America and the rest of the world. The task is daunting. We are in development. An army of tech support advisors are needed to be hired. Contribute comments and donations, preferably both. Your interest will be acknowlrdged here.

We thank you. We and democracy thank the people of Ukraaine. Their valor is far from in vain.

Winter Olympics start February 4 in Beijing. World at odds, on edge over #Russia @ #Ukdraine border. US diplos boycotting Olympics because of human rights violations by China. UN, meanwhile, calls for Olympic Truce during period of games to promote peace through sport. Indeed, UN has whole department dedicated to promoting peace and development through sport. During Somalia intervention in mid 1990’s, warring clan fighters put down guns to watch World Cup on communal TVs donated by Cisco.

Plenty of excitement in world without resort to destructive wars. Fight it out on skating rink, bring honor to your country, all near-200 countries of the world. Not in the Games this year? Get inspired, look up your country’s Olympic Committee & sharpen up skate blades. We can all help each other. Olympic flame lights the way.

Read about Somalia and sport in Mission Improbable: the world community on a UN compound in Somalia. Read about the vast UN global network in the novel entitled The Midas Maze. Read about fate we are avoiding now in Light of a Destiny Dark, a true-life novel about Hungary through World War II followed by near-40 years of Soviet domination. And finally, read about the joys of global democracy in America Votes Obama to Biden Past Trump: a kaleidoscopic view of the Trump phenomenon, out just now on major on-line book sites.

The world is resplendent with plenty of diversity to keep all enthralled. Differences inevitable. Fight them out in sport, not bloody conflict. Bon chance, y’all. Meet you in Beijing.

Democracy Summit, Thurs/Fri 12.9/10.21

Quote: Democracy is the worst form of government except for all the others that have been tried (Winston Churchill (11.11.47)

In the news: China and Russia attack Biden’s “so-called”Summit of Democracy (Sean Lyngaas, CNN, 12.08.21)

In context:

US President Joe Biden is hosting a Summit on Democracy to be held on Thursday and
Friday, December 9 and 10, 2021. The event has gathered much global derision after the attempted coup on the US Capitol in January of that year.

By definition, democracy is rule by the people, destined to be as flawed as people themselves. But the point of human existence to get ever better, regardless of hindreances that impede. On the global scale required by modern challenges, democracy presents a choice between freedom and subserviance, between law and order versus sophisticated global lawlessness.

The Summit has received little US press coverage and it was panned by global presses before it began. Key among the criticisms was the invite list. Semi, shaky and fragile democracies were included while obvious adversaries were not. For Covid weary folks around the world, a discussion about personsl freedom and common good just might be the right Rx for feeling better.

Tune in to the Summit on Democracy wherever and whenever you can. Vent views on personal freedom versus social responsibility at helenfogarassy.com. But for heaven’s sake, if feeling venomous, call 911. It’s just one of the many safety valves our flawed American democracy has devised for our safety,.