Posted on 04/25/2022 11:47:57 AM PDT by lowbridge
President Biden is not very good at his job, and yet, I thank God every day that Biden is president. In the Ukraine crisis, he has redeemed the hopes of those who voted for competence. The administration’s warnings to Moscow were unambiguous without being hysterical. Our revelations of intelligence unmasking Russian disinformation and false flag narratives were on the nose. Biden’s coordination with European allies was a skillful presentation of unity (special kudos to Secretary of State Antony Blinken).
There were some missed opportunities. The president should have placed the invasion of Ukraine in a broader historical context and outlined how the struggle between democracy and authoritarianism is the defining issue of our time, whether abroad or at home. And he ought not to suggest or pretend that Americans can be spared any hardship, even higher gas prices, during this fight.
But Biden sees clearly what sort of menace Russian President Vladimir Putin is. Only the most obtuse or twisted soul could fail to see it … which brings us to the president’s predecessor.
A quick refresher on former President Donald Trump’s relations with Putin and Ukraine leaves little doubt that far from deterring Putin, he was Putin’s most reliable “useful idiot.”
Trump wasn’t the first president to go soft on Putin, of course. Barack “Tell Vladimir I’ll have more flexibility after the election” Obama plowed that ground very well. But at least Obama knew what he was doing. He chose diffidence and called it wisdom. Trump was a dupe and a dope, a walking refutation of the adage “you can’t kid a kidder.”
At Trump’s first meeting with Putin, he accepted the Russian’s denials of election interference
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Mona’s not getting enough clicks on her crappy columns, so she inserts the “T” word. Pathetic.
Mona Mona Mona.
Nevermind, anything I post will go right over your head.
5.56mm
Oh... THAT’S what happened to Mona Charen.
Never-Trumpism - better than a Thanos finger-snap for disappearing pseudo-conservatives.
What does her religion have to do with it. ?
There are alternatives:
1. She is deliberately lying to promote evil.
2. She is being blackmailed or extorted to do evil.
3. She bought and paid for by our enemies.
Remember we have MTG and Lorena B
That would leave the liberal males just as enfranchised as during the Wilson era. And fake ballots can have any “gender” on them, as in Bleeding Kansas.
We would not be in this mess if the fix didn’t happen.
She’s a fake conservative who used to write syndicated columns in the papers. She’s in the same league as George Will.
Did she want to be grabbed but Trump wouldn’t ?
How ironic: Mona Charon once wrote a book called “Useful Idiots” about how liberals got it wrong. 20 years later she has become one herself.
This is over a month old. After the continuation of the disaster here and abroad, has Charen woken up any?
Mona Charen displays the final stage of TDS - the explosive release of verbal diarrhea.
Unreal - Mona Charen and Ann Coulter need to get a room.
Her opus that basically says I’m having an affair with Blinken or their grand children play on the same little league team.
Wait, this isn’t satire? Whiskey tango foxtrot?
“Remember we have MTG and Lorena B.”
As good as they are I’ll make that trade in a red hot heartbeat.
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Stop posting these Trump haters. Mona was a fake conservative.
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