“This is a disaster… We didn’t have to have this situation unfold,” @RichardGrenell says.#Russia's military has reached #Kyiv, the capital of #Ukraine, with fighting and heavy bombing in the city, and Putin urged Ukraine's army to overthrow their gov't. https://t.co/24GOPq9c5q— The Epoch Times (@EpochTimes) February 28, 2022
Up until this week, the @FT and @EdwardGLuce completely missed the slow & steady move of the EU leadership away from the West. They missed Brexit, and the current slide towards China.
They mock Eastern Europe - but Eastern Europe is the strongest voice for a pro-West alliance.— Richard Grenell (@RichardGrenell) February 28, 2022
To contemplate: History never repeats itself exactly, but it worth recalling the Italian invasion of Ethiopia, and the Soviet invasion of Finland. Like the Ukraine, neither Ethiopia nor Finland had truly responsible governments, and the world gave the invaders a pass. Could it be that the democracies have learned their lesson and the invasion of a less than democratic regime by an utterly totalitarian state demands we support the former.
“Mr. Grenell: I’ve moved into the pissed off phase, to be honest, because we’re called upon now to talk about, “Oh, what would you do next?” And first of all, I think if I were in charge and I could decide what’s next, I would kick Joe Biden out of the White House because this is a disaster that the choices is that we have left are terrible and really terrible choices, and it’s a decision between the two.”
Mr. Grenell: Did not have to be like this. This is a terrible situation that has unfolded because Joe Biden is so weak and has messaged multiple times that he would make decisions and not think about the consequences. Let me give you an example. The Biden administration took the Houthis off the terrorist watch list. And what did we see just a short time later, the Houthis started sending missiles attacking the UAE. I don’t even have words for that.
This is a failure of epic proportion. We didn’t have to have this situation unfold. The Biden administration took sanctions off the Nord Stream 2 Pipeline. The Nordstrom Two Pipeline is the most influential project that the Russians have. The Trump administration had it sanctioned. It is not up and running.
You don’t have to say we’re taking the sanctions away and we’re giving a pipeline to the Europeans just because Chancellor Merkel wanted it. The end of the day, Joe Biden maximizes consensus with the Europeans. What he wants is to be applauded by the Europeans. This is not an America first policy, this is a consensus with the Europeans policy. And what we’ve seen is when you say that you have to have consensus in unity with the Europeans, the Germans get to stand up and say, “We’re not really for SWIFT banking sanctions.” US policy is being vetoed by the Germans because they just don’t want something.”
Thanks for posting.