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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.
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Similarly, nobody has made an argument that convinces me that I am not Napoleon Bonaparte.
I think people agree with you. Though I’d go further and say that any politician that gets donations from military hardware companies would benefit.
I will say that when you’re The World’s Policeman™ you don’t have to orchestrate a war, all you have to do is look the other way.
That’s a weird question.
People can care about whatever they want. America shouldn’t be secretly taxing its citizens by funding perpetual wars with fake money.
Oh, please.
Then why is it relevant whether anybody in D.C. gives at rat’s ___ about Ukraine?
That’s how it’s being sold (about Ukraine rather than about US dominance or the dollar as reserve currency).
What does it matter to me whether somebody sells something at some market somewhere in the world?
Sold to the domestic audience.
I suppose it is possible but ever since February 24 I have scrupulously avoided any U.S. mainstream media coverage of the war. There are other marketplaces where one can shop for ideas.
Where are you ‘shopping’?
Not much of anywhere in recent weeks. But I do catch some foreign sources here and there.
I don’t think you have made an argument that Biden wanted this war, benefits from it, and encouraged it any more than German Chancellor Olaf Scholz did. Particularly your assertion that Biden benefits from this war. I don’t recall you writing a single word of explanation for how he benefits. Come to think of it, you haven’t written any reason why Biden would have wanted this war, either.
I’m more concerned that America is secretly taxing its citizens by funding welfare programs and a thousand other things the Fedral Gubmint shouldn’t be spending money on with fake money. I think those things cost more than war funding by a factor of more than 100 to one.
No, war is far more expensive. And for them, far more lucrative.
He’s owned by the CCP. He does whatever they want and weak America with a crashed economy is what they want and benefit from. Brandon is insignificant.
Who is “them”? Does Biden own a defense contractor that I’m unaware of?
Cart, horse.
I’m afraid that entitlements and welfare spending outstrips military spending by several factors.
You are suggesting that China is controlling the war and Brandon is insignificant.. This totally contradicts the author’s post and is one of the reasons I think people are just throwing ideas against the wall to see if they will stick.
Which is not really an argument for continuing any of them. “Cut everything but that” where “that” is a moving target, and nothing will ever be cut.
I think some here are saying that Biden is so connected to the CCP for monetary payoffs and connected similarly to aid funds flowing into Ukraine that having this conflict serves his interests personally and not necessarily America’s national interests which is what he is elected to do.
I am arguing for cutting all of it, even military spending.
Me, too, but I am particularly chagrined about throwing billions of taxpayer money into the corrupt wilds of Ukraine. I suspect it’s being funneled directly to the world’s oligarchs — with 10 percent for the big guy, of course.
Given the uproar whenever someone mentions accounting and having an IG, we should assume corruption is rampant.
China controls just about every aspect of American government, academia, media, entertainment, and corporations. China and Russia are united in a common goal: To weaken America. Biden (and the uniparty) have been contributing to that and for as long as I can remember, motivated by crook (the Biden/Clinton crime families, for example), blackmail (the CCP has mastered this), or ideology (closet communists). Trump warned about this, so have just about all of the worlds experts on communism. Every dollar the U.S. prints to fund idiotic war spending (or domestic spending) weakens America, and strengthens the CCP and Russia. This is by design. The uniparty wants this to happen, or at least, doesn’t care if it does.
That is also known as the “the short list of people I still respect”. Need to look up Mearsheimer and Luttwak.
I don’t know Luttwak, but I think Mearsheimer’s deal is that Russia should have been brought into NATO when it asked and that would have bound that big strategic chunk of Eurasia to the American alliance rather than setting it up as a useful enemy (keep the Americans in, the Russians out and the Germans down) that was threatened by (unnecessary) NATO expansion (and where was Russia going to go after that, obviously).
I am not aware that Russia ever applied for NATO membership. Where did you get that idea from?