Posted on 03/01/2022 7:16:57 PM PST by Ennis85
I’m not a praying man, but if I were, I would be on my hands and knees thanking the Almighty that during the worst crisis in Europe since 1945, the United States is led by Joe Biden, not Donald Trump.
Biden has been as masterful in his handling of the Ukraine war as he was ham-handed in his handling of the Afghanistan withdrawal. For months he has been warning that Russia would invade and predicting that this would trigger a “swift and severe” response. He even laid out details of Russian plans to stage false flag operations and to install a puppet regime in Kyiv.
There was much skepticism on all counts, with Russia and its apologists denying until the last moment that the invasion would occur. But Biden was dead right. This is the opposite of the Iraq War, when U.S. intelligence and leadership was discredited. American credibility has been enhanced by Biden’s deft handling of this crisis. Today it is Moscow, not Washington, that is acting based on bad intelligence: Russian dictator Vladimir Putin massively underestimated Ukrainian resistance.
While publicly calling out Putin, Biden and his aides were working furiously behind the scenes to unite the West behind an agenda meant to support Ukraine, punish the Kremlin — and, implicitly, to deter China from an attack on Taiwan. Their efforts were more successful than anyone could have imagined a few weeks ago, with Western countries uniting to evict some Russian banks from the SWIFT system of inter-bank transfers, to impose sanctions on the Russian central bank and to rush arms to Ukraine.
Admittedly, part of this mobilization is due to factors beyond Biden’s control: Putin’s reckless aggression has shocked the world, while Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s stout resistance has inspired it. But there would not have been this
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BWAHAHAHA!
Did Max Boot miss the fact that under Trump there was no European crisis, but under Biden everything moved inexorably towards one?
Of course if the DC mafia had not stolen the election Trump would be presiding over a world at peace. It is Biden’s criminal mind, his moral flatulance, and his utter disregard for people he is destroying that has allowed other tyrants to bee emboldened. They know his measures will be all appearance and no substance because that is his singular character trait.
What the F are WaPo taking other than Chinese/Gates/Bezos cash?
It’s bc of Biden that putin invaded
The ONLY good thing that can be said about Biden’s approach to the Russian invasion is he hasn’t done anything. Zalensky has rallied the world around Ukraine, not Biden. Keep Joe in his basement before he mumbles his way in to a nuclear war.
Yea because he caused it.
I don’t think this crises would have happened in the first place if Trump was president
...didn’t Hillary Clinton hit the reset button with Russia?
Whatever happened to that?
As far as I can tell what Boot wants is any excuse for the U.S. to use military force to attain direct political control of a region. Anyone who opposes this is Boot's enemy. By enemy I mean how soap opera villains go all out to destroy the protagonists when they have no idea what they did.
When reality does not fit his predictions and events turn wrong several years later, it was never his fault and he was never wrong. He also conveniently leaves out facts, like Trump leadership prevented the invasion and Biden's ineptness and policies enabled it. Undesirable facts tend to bring out a mean spiritedness to his writing.
Trump used force as a last resort and had no interest in a militaristic Pax Americana. Boot hates that.
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We dont have normal crazy here but 5 alarm flaming dumpster fire crazy happening.
The leftist, democrat taliban party media is the enemy, folks.
So the so-called anti war party sure is giddy over this war. Strange
Horse pucky. Biden (his handlers) goaded Russia into invading. They were desperate to get a war crisis going BEFORE Biden’s SOTU address.
I read this entire piece as satire.
There is scant hope of proving this, but perhaps Putin held off on acting against Ukraine in the hope that Trump would somehow accommodate Russia’s security concerns and curb NATO expansion. Democrats, working with Ukrainian nationalists, developed the “Russian Collusion hoax”, followed by an impeachment based on a Ukrainian’s whistleblower scheme, conveniently denied Trump any room to engage with Russia during his first term. Perhaps Putin held out in hopes that Trump would have a stronger hand during a second term. Once Biden usurped the Presidency using election fraud, Putin saw no option but to seize the initiative while the US had a senescent, illegitimate president and weak foreign policy team.
I hate to give Biden partial credit for strategic thinking, but once oil & gas reserves were discovered in the Black Sea near Crimea and Ukraine, and recoverable deposits in the “breakaway” provinces, pulling Ukraine into the Western orbit became the linchpin for containing Russia’s economy, military power, and hold on Europe. Using oil and gas to influence Europe has been Putin’s 30 years-long project, and the Nord Stream pipelines were going to cement his success. Along comes potential for Ukraine to produce and supply gas to Europe, as well as filling its own needs. Instead of a poor dependent, Ukraine would have a workable economy, money for military spending, etc., and the ability to join the EU. Worse, Ukrainian gas would compete with Russia, bring down prices, and kill Russian energy leverage over Europe. Taking over Ukraine became a security imperative not because of its location on the Eurasian plain, but because it threatens Russia’s main source of wealth (oil and gas tariffs providing 50% of the Russian budget) and influence. The Crimean annexation and the current attempted subjugation of Ukraine (likely stripping it of its Black Sea coastline) is in part a strongarm robbery. Talk of Putin being crazy is hogwash.
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