Posted on 02/20/2023 3:16:09 PM PST by conservative98
Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA), who is currently on a bipartisan congressional trip in Europe, issued a scathing rebuke of President Joe Biden’s visit to Ukraine on Monday, describing the visit as a “strategic failure.”
Issa, a senior member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee who has served in Congress for two decades, made the statement while in neighboring Poland.
“President Biden was right to make his trip to Ukraine. And we recognize the hundreds of American officials who worked long and hard to make this a secure visit,” Issa said. “But while today was a logistical success, it was a strategic failure. Rather than an inspiring mission from a commander in chief, this resembled a VIP drop-by from a global celebrity.”
The president’s secret visit to Ukraine, which, as laid out in a CNN report, took months of planning, became public Monday morning when Biden appeared in social media posts in Kiev next to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
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Biden announced while he was there that the U.S. would give nearly half a billion dollars in additional military aid to Ukraine, telling Zelensky the U.S. would support his country “for as long as it takes.”
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He was picking up a check Darrell, you dumbass.
Kyiv has captured a part of my heart.
I knew I would be back. pic.twitter.com/5HYcoEL47Y— President Biden (@POTUS) February 20, 2023
They could always just wire the money.
He was there to win The Nobel Peace Prize, just in time for election year.
He was emptying the change boxes in his launder mat
Biden Promises Zelenskyy a “Stake in the United States”
https://realrawnews.com/2023/02/biden-promises-zelenskky-a-stake-in-the-united-states/
It’s clear that Biden wants to ride Ukraine to reelection. He doesn’t give a damn about the impact.
Darrell ISSA, lol
Joe heard they had great ice-cream
Air raid sirens go off for theatrical purposes…
What happened to his document scandal?
why Joey go there?
a- looking for a town with no balloons
b- Z is late on that 10%
c- Ohio Water don’t taste good
d- the crossdresser at HHS wasn’t available
e- ensuring that Z won’t misgender
f- checking if that last ukrainian is dead
g- delivering Buttguy’s equity road advice
h- further planning for a new proxy war on russia
PR exercise. Works in several directions BTW.
The domestic purpose was doubtless paramount, this sort of thing helps Biden’s popularity.
Abroad it serves the US image (US domestic politics, believe it or not, is neither obsessed over nor much understood in foreign countries) it helps the US image.
It helps Ukraine, collectively, and Zelensky personally, in obtaining continuing aid and buy-in from other countries.
This sort of thing works on several levels. It helps to have some experience in seeing the US from the outside.
“Air raid sirens go off for theatrical purposes…”
Yep. And they would have been very dumb not to take the opportunity to please the US powers that be with this simple PR gesture. This is all theater, that’s the point, and theater is important.
This looks so fake to me.
Can our photographic experts chime in on this?
Aren’t the shadows going the wrong way??
Biden needed Putin’s permission to visit Kiev
Without it, would the secret service have allowed the trip into a war zone?
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