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Biden Wants the War in Ukraine. Convince Me Otherwise.
There’s an interesting piece on National Review today. I have repeatedly argued on Ricochet that Mr. Biden is responsible for, and set up, the Ukraine war.
- Mr. Putin invaded former Soviet Socialist Republics under Mssrs. Clinton, W., and Obama, but not during Mr. Trump’s term.
- Mr. Biden’s destruction of American energy production enriched Mr. Putin and improved his international leverage.
- Mr. Biden’s fecklessness in Afghanistan proved us a paper tiger.
- Mr. Biden said out loud to an international audience that we would not respond to “a limited incursion” in Ukraine. I heard it myself.
Mr. Zubrin takes my analysis further and shows how post-invasion US policy has benefited Russia while giving Mr. Biden cover.
So, I say it again. Mr. Biden wanted this war, likely to cover up his crimes in Ukraine, and he has taken every possible action to allow it to happen and to prevent a Ukrainian victory. Every drop of blood shed in Ukraine is on his hands.
Talk me out of it.
Published in General
Once Ukraine cut off the water supply to Crimea, the only paths were war or settlement. Nobody was working on a settlement.
Biden gets to be a war president. Which might help him at the polls. Look what happened to Bush’s popularity immediately after 9/11.
Joe Biden: basement-dwelling confused old pawn who gets lost on stage and fumbles through TelePrompter speeches
Also Joe Biden: Machiavellian statecraft architect
Through arrogance, indifference, and incompetence, the Administration created a set of conditions that emboldened Putin to do what he wanted to do. Also, the idea that Biden did this to keep his Cries from coming to light is hilarious.
Some righties’ view of MSM: We will protect all D politicians to preserve the progressive endeavor
Also some righties’ view of MSM: If there was Biden involvement in Uke corruption we would have no choice but to cover the stories coming out from OAN and Fox and some well-sourced blogs
Because he was unpredictabl, didn’t reflexively nod to the international order that excused Putin’s aggression in the name of “stability” (read: free flow of energy) and presided over an expansion of the American energy sector that would assist Europe in the long run but would symbolically forestall conversion to “green” options? I mean, it’s possible.
Eight years! Practically forever. When you consider how many Mexican Etnics live in Texas, and how long we’ve had that territory, you wonder if the pro-Russian voices would cheer a Mexican invasion.
All of the nuclear war rhetoric is coming from one side, and it isn’t the West.
He didn’t specify nuclear. There are plenty in the West cheering for war, including 99% of Congress, and plenty of people on this site.
They were drumming something up weekly………
Agree with the article and most of the comments. We have a good question above doubting the assertion; “So Joe Biden convinced Putin to destroy his military in a long slog of a war?” Putin may have overestimated Russia’s military capacity and underestimated the Ukraine’s, but he’s safe from Biden and obviously thought it served his interests and it probably still does. It focuses us on weak Russia rather than powerful and rapidly expanding China, a real, current, dangerous existential threat. As such it also serves’ Biden’s interests as the Chinese own him.
Who are the pro-Russian voices? Those not sufficiently Slava Bandwagon?
Obama and Biden were working on a settlement that would have sold Ukraine down the river. I’m not so sure they’re not still doing it.
Apparently. Unless you’re all gung ho for American involvement in another quagmire, you’re a Putin lover. Neocons are going to try to shame conservatives into World War III.
The sad thing is, it’ll work.
#Resist
I call fake. You need some really special glasses, and maybe recreational drugs, for that to be apparent.
I agree with Hahn. The post and some comments assume that Biden is so cunning and astute that he could orchestrate a Russian invasion of Ukraine all by himself. One commenter even suggested that Biden could have stopped the war all by himself. This reeks of the “he is playing ten-dimensional chess” theory. But the guy can’t find his own seat at press conferences so they give him notes to tell him where and when to sit down.
The fact that there are opinions on this post that vary by 180 degrees (Biden is on Russia’s side vs. Biden has been totally against Russia) shows that people are just throwing ideas up against the wall to see if they will stick. Biden is certainly an Alzheimer’s addled doddering old fool, and he was never much better than that before the onset of his Dementia. It is pretty obvious that world leaders know this and Russia took full advantage of it to attack Ukraine during his presidency.
Brandon tried desperately to cover for his being asleep at the wheel by giving Ukraine weapons and $40 Billion. If he was actually rooting for Russia, he never would have signed such a profligate foreign aid package and he never would have let slip the phrase “For God’s sake, this man cannot remain in power.” That was one of those few times that Biden went off script to angrily vent his true feelings.
Sorry, man. I’ve had that slander thrown at me multiple times here on Ricochet. Stick to your recreational drugs.
I assumed that was self-referential. In that sense, I agreed with him.
I know I’ve given you grief in the past about your opposition to helping Ukraine, but I do agree that the $40 Billion package that Congress and the Pres sent was done haphazardly with little regard for oversight and accountability. It was typical of the Democrat strategy to “just throw money.”
Russia is “routing Ukraine/NATO? ” This is big news that I must have missed.
More news that I must have missed. I thought I saw a gigantic siege of Kyiv with a forty-mile long convoy of tanks in which the Russians went retreating in disgrace. If he is gobbling up all the territory he wants, why is the vast majority of Ukraine still in Ukrainian hands?
Your admonition to not be deluded by mainstream media is quite ironic, since you believe Russian news sources touting Putin’s approval rating.
That’s your excuse for slandering others?
Sending money to Ukraine doesn’t qualify Biden as a “War President.” If that were true, then all presidents would be considered “War Presidents.”
Both of you have written your comments as if Biden is orchestrating these actions. Is that what you think?
First, Brandon isn’t in control of anything, not even his own bladder.
Second, everyone in power benefits from war and hardly any of them care about sides. War allows them to create more debt. War allows them to sell products. War allows them to redraw the map and decide up the resource allocation, both sides benefit.
Other than their dirty laundry, nobody in D.C. gives a rat’s ___ about Ukraine. They want a war because war is good for them and their friends. Kosovo, Afghanistan, Yemen, Ukraine…any country will do.
So which is it that Americans are supposed to care about: Ukraine or America’s national interest?
Didn’t you just suggest I was on drugs?
Whoever is on drugs should share. Just saying.
Oh,yes he did!
While speaking to graduates of Russia’s military academies,he told them:
“The Sarmat heavy intercontinental ballistic missile was successfully tested. It is planned that by the end of this year, the first such complex will be put on combat duty.”
Deputy Chairman of the Russian Parliament’s Defense Committee also said:
“If the United States threatens our state, it’s good: Here is the Sarmat [Satan-2 missile] for you, and there will be nuclear ashes from you if you think that Russia should not exist, and Finland says that it is at one with the USA. Well, get in line.”
https://nypost.com/2022/06/22/vladimir-putin-warns-satan-2-nuclear-missiles-could-be-deployed-in-months/
No, I suggested that you aren’t telling the truth about what is apparent. But I was trying to be gentle about it.
Dude, it’s just tea. It’s great, but it’s nothing special. You get your own.
If you want to try the really good stuff, try to buy yourself some Tanganda. Your local Zimbabs may be able to hook you up.
Oh, I understand calling someone a liar gets you put in the naughty seat on Ricochet.
Or maybe it’s just certain people who are protected.
It’s good to give people who are making false statements a chance to correct themselves rather than just come out with the “liar, liar” accusation.
I say it again. Mr Biden wants this war, benefits from it, and encouraged it to happen.
No one has made an argument that makes me believe the contrary.