It’s like the Credentialed Media lives in an alternate reality, when we can all see what Joe has done
Budowsky: President Biden leads NATO against Russian aggression
President Biden is acting as leader of the free world, combatting Russian aggression against Ukraine. Working closely with political and military leaders of the NATO alliance, and mobilizing economic and military deterrents to avoid another European war, Biden has hit his stride seeking to construct a multifaceted and multinational policy that, to his credit, has a reasonable chance of success.
Every president grows on the job. President Kennedy screwed up on the Bay of Pigs, took responsibility, and became the leader who saved the world during the Cuban missile crisis and began his great work for nuclear arms control. It is high praise, not criticism, that I see signs that Biden is growing on the job.
Joe has been in the federal government since 1973, first as a Senator, then as Vice President. He didn’t learn anything? He’s also the guy who enticed Russia to get frisky, because he is weak. He blew it with Afghanistan, and even the far left UK Guardian had to be honest
The president’s suggestion that a “minor incursion” by Russia might split Nato over how to respond sent the White House into frantic damage limitation mode.
The weak response to Russia’s annexation of Crimea has emboldened Putin. He has massed almost 130,000 heavily armed troops on the border of Ukraine, instituted covert action, amassed an arsenal of propaganda and psychological warfare against Ukraine (and NATO), and is testing the limits of how aggressively he can attack Ukraine without provoking a powerful and effective response from NATO.
Wasn’t Joe VP during that time?
Biden is right to organize major sanctions, and take preparatory steps to protect European economies on energy and related matters if and when sanctions are imposed. Biden is right to put thousands of American troops on alert and work with NATO nations to provide limited but critically important super-trained troops to help Ukraine defend Ukraine. Biden and NATO are right to mobilize substantial military aid to Ukraine and to use air and naval power to provide intelligence and offshore protection to Ukraine.
You mean like all those sanctions President Trump put on Russia? How he wanted to sanction NORD, the pipeline to Europe from Russia, and Joe doesn’t?
My hope in the coming days is that Biden host a Zoom meeting with living former presidents including Clinton, George W. Bush, Obama and Carter to brief them and seek their ideas based on their experience. This would send a powerful message to Putin and America of bipartisan unity.
Oh, good, let’s involve one of the squishiest presidents, Carter, and Joe’s former boss, who showed weakness and watched Russia go into Crimea (among other bad errors by Obama) and did nothing. But, no Trump, under whom Russia was not frisky.
I would suggest Biden organize a presentation to the United Nations Security Council and present evidence similar to what Kennedy did during the Cuban missile crisis — and explore a vote in the General Assembly to mobilize not just European but worldwide support for Ukraine for Ukrainians — opposing a new Russian colonialism today.
It’s a little too late, especially since Russia has a veto on the Security Council. The time to be tough was from the start of Joe’s term, not pretending to be now. It’s like calling an alarm company when you watch a criminal breaking into your business.
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