Posted on 12/22/2024 7:03:15 AM PST by Starman417
Scorched earth is one of the most brutal strategies in war. It can be an offensive or a defensive strategy and usually leaves a wasteland of destruction and starvation in its wake. One of the most famous examples of offensive use of scorched earth is Sherman’s “March to the Sea” from Atlanta to Savannah in November to December 1864. He not only burned Atlanta to the ground, but for a wide swath of the ocean, he left a trail of destruction, from military targets to infrastructure to crops. The goal of course was to damage the military, but more than that to destroy everything and impede logistics and commerce. The larger goal was to break the morale of the South and any hope that they could not only never win but show them that their lives would be destroyed if they continued to fight. He succeeded in spades and his campaign proved critical to the Confederacy’s surrender five months later.
The most famous defensive use of the policy was probably that of Emperor Alexander I when facing an advancing Napoleon during the French invasion of Russia in 1812. As the French advanced further, the Russian troops embarked on a campaign of taking whatever supplies they could carry then setting fire to or destroying virtually anything that could be of use to the enemy. While in Moscow many buildings were spared, they were largely empty husks by the time Napoleon arrived. Having far outdistanced his supply trains and unable to live off the land, Napoleon began his slow retreat from a campaign that would leave 350,000 dead French on the fields of Russia.
Another use of scorched earth is retribution. This was possibly most famously utilized by the Romans in Carthage after the Third Punic War in 146 BC. Wanting to inflict revenge against the city that had loosed Hannibal on them half a century before and ensure their greatest rival never threatened them again, the legions leveled the city down to bricks, burned farms forced citizens to relocate 10 miles inland, and barred them from rebuilding. Carthage would remain a desert for a century until Ceasar recognized its strategic value and began rebuilding it.
Joe Biden, who, unlike Sherman or Napoleon or Hannibal or Ceasar, will be forgotten the moment he exits the stage, is nonetheless looking at the scorched earth policy with a keen eye.
Biden, the politician who’s never had a job that didn’t come from the government, has contempt for the Republic. For him, America, and in particular the government is just a vehicle for accumulating power and money.
The man is an inveterate liar. He lies about important things and trivial. He lied about riding the train, the death of his grandfather and about being shot at in Iraq. He lied about the truck driver who killed his wife and daughter in 1972, claiming that the man had been drunk despite police records of the time showing no such thing. He cheated in college, lied about his standing at graduation in law school and, fatally for his 1988 presidential run, plagiarized Neil Kinnock, a British politician.
If there is a legacy to Joe Biden pre-Barack Obama, it is his destruction of the confirmation process for the Supreme Court. For most of our history up until that point in 1987 Supreme Court nominations were largely collegial processes that focused mainly on the candidate’s knowledge of the law and their qualifications for sitting on the bench. Joe Biden and fellow liberal urchin Teddy Kenedy savaged Bork for his conservative views and, as the New York Times suggested, the Bork nomination “… in some ways, was the beginning of the end of civil discourse in politics.” From that point forward, politics was no longer an arena where ideas were debated as a sidebar to American life. From that point going forward, Democrats shifted hard left and in less than two decades the cancer of the left would infect virtually every element of American life.
Joe Biden did that.
Not satisfied with ruining our economy, adding trillions to the national debt, and allowing 10 million illegal aliens to invade the country, on his way out the door Joe Biden may be getting ready to eviscerate what’s left of our justice system and the rule of law.
Presidents have used their pardon power for years, with the most famous being that of Richard Nixon by Gerald Ford. Last week Joe Biden, despite saying he would not do so, pardoned his son for every federal crime he may have committed over the last 11 years, both those for which he had been convicted and those he had not. That ensures that the Trump administration cannot charge the younger Biden once they take over the White House.
Biden’s pardon was unprecedented.
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What country do the democrats think they live in ?
Theirs...
So he is not going to change anything on his way out?
I do not have any problem if diaper brain, meaning Dr. Jill, goes scorched earth on the likes of Pelosi and the others who pushed him aside, but leave the country and the rest of us out of it.
Scorched earth on his way out?
How is that different from the entire 4 years he just spent
How about an investigation into Joe and his Admin when he leaves ,LOL
He’s been basically scorching the earth since Kamala and Barky grabbed his candidacy away from him.
Thankfully he’s been doing most of it without Congress, so it can be reversed.
Not "considering" it. It's already going on.
“So he is not going to change anything on his way out?”
He has done nothing for any benefit to the constitutional US for four years, probably the decades he’s occupied a political seat. Except by accident and I can’t think of anything
It was his bill that imposed taxes on social security income. That’s Biden
Whoever is signing his name at the moment is very busy pardoning people for nothing else but cash and devising a plan to stop Trump from taking the oath on Jan 20
That’s it
“What country do the democrats think they live in?”
I’ll tell you what country they want to live in......a Godless one.
Can you name me one democrat politician in Washington DC that claims to be a Christian?.....’cause I sure can’t.
They worship at the alter of multiple false gods like power and money.
They have something despicable up their sleeve before 1/20/2025.....I’m sure of it.
I wouldn’t put it past them to set the White House on fire, just to keep Trump out. Burn the whole thing to the ground along with any evidence of corruption. Trump will be forced to use Mir-a-lago as his residence while the rebuilding takes place.
Joe Biden isn’t considering anything. He can’t consider. It’s Obama who’s running this shit show. He has been defeated and will try to cause as much damage as he can before he leaves.
I suspect it would be so filled with surveillance equipment that no president would ever believe that anything even whispered inside its walls would go unnoticed.
Joe is well past ‘considering’
I only the damage ( we know about ) is not irreversible
Plenty of Democrats like Pelosi and Biden are very theatrical Christians and even meet the Pope.
Here is a photo of the Ted Kennedy funeral mass.
Joe Biden with a “keen eye”? He couldn’t find his ass with both hands and a flashlight. No way should he be compared to those mentioned. Bird brain Biden couldn’t lead an army of Goliaths.
Joe Biden does not have the mental capacity to do anything but sign papers that lackeys put in front of him as he goes out the door.
Sleepy joe considers NOTHING! He leaves it up to his handlers
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