Biden told one absolute truth during his press conference

For the first time in 78 days, Joe Biden faced the media...sort of. For the most part, the conference was a miscellany of nonsense, weirdness, and lies. However, even the most determined, compulsive liars occasionally leak out the truth, and that’s what Biden gave himself the highest marks for: his job performance. If you understand what that performance actually was, rather than what he thinks it was, he did, sadly, exceed all exceptions.

Biden’s scariest answers concerned Russia and Ukraine. We’ve currently reached a situation that has no good outcomes: Putin has massed troops on the border and can’t pull out unless he gets concessions. The real concession he wants is a promise that Ukraine won’t join NATO. As Tucker Carlson said, for Putin, having NATO on his doorstep would be as if Mexico fell under China’s military control. Ironically, NATO doesn’t want Ukraine because Ukraine is famously corrupt. That means that the push for NATO is about national one-upmanship and ego.

Biden, after conceding that Russia probably would invade Ukraine and doing a bit of his “weak man talking tough” shtick, eventually offered his Solomonic, split-the-baby decision that the U.S. probably will not enter into full war with Russia (a nuclear power) if Russia just does a “minor incursion” into Ukraine:

The Ukrainians, who are ostensibly our allies (and were once Hunter Biden’s paymasters), were horrified. The fact that Biden was recognizing how these things often work out (Putin puts his toe over the border, there’s a diplomatic storm, and various egos are somehow assuaged) doesn’t mean it wasn’t a massive foreign policy gaffe of the type that shakes nations—and in a parliamentary world would bring down a Biden government.

Politico.com
By KENNETH P. VOGEL and DAVID STERN
01/11/2017

<>Ukrainian efforts to sabotage Trump backfire; foreign aid billions threatened
<>Kiev scrambles to make amends with president-elect Trump after working to boost Clinton.
<>President Petro Poroshenko’s administration, and the Ukrainian Embassy in Washington, insists that Ukraine stayed neutral in the presidential race.

Donald Trump wasn’t the only presidential candidate whose campaign was boosted by officials of a former Soviet bloc country.

A Politico investigation found
<><>Ukrainian govt officials helped Hillary and trashed Trump, questioning his fitness for office.
<><>They disseminated documents implicating a top Trump aide in corruption
<><>They suggested they were investigating the matter, only to back away after the election.
<><>They helped Clinton’s allies research damaging information on Trump and his advisers.

A Ukrainian-American operative who was consulting for the Democratic National Committee met with top officials in the Ukrainian Embassy in Washington in an effort to expose ties between Trump, top campaign aide Paul Manafort and Russia, according to people with direct knowledge of the situation.

The Ukrainian efforts had an impact in the race, helping to force Manafort’s resignation and advancing the narrative that Trump’s campaign was deeply connected to Ukraine’s foe to the east, Russia. But they were far less concerted or centrally directed than Russia’s alleged hacking and dissemination of Democratic emails.

Russia’s effort was personally directed by Russian President Vladimir Putin, involved the country’s military and foreign intelligence services, according to U.S. intelligence officials. They reportedly briefed Trump last week on the possibility that Russian operatives might have compromising information on the president-elect. And at a Senate hearing last week on the hacking, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said “I don’t think we’ve ever encountered a more aggressive or direct campaign to interfere in our election process than we’ve seen in this case.”

There’s little evidence of such a top-down effort by Ukraine. Longtime observers suggest that the rampant corruption, factionalism and economic struggles plaguing the country — not to mention its ongoing strife with Russia — would render it unable to pull off an ambitious covert interference campaign in another country’s election.

And President Petro Poroshenko’s administration, along with the Ukrainian Embassy in Washington, insists that Ukraine stayed neutral in the race.

Who predicted that in a single year Biden would destroy America’s energy independence, send inflation skyrocketing, come very close to breaking the American economy entirely, destroy America’s southern border, come within minutes of a land war with Russia, preside over the deaths of more American civilians than any president in history, castigate an entire political party as the living embodiment of Jim Crow and the KKK, utterly destroy America’s and the military’s prestige in Afghanistan, drastically increase America’s racial tension, politicize federal law, and turn the military into an increasingly dysfunctional woke institution?

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