Posted on 01/30/2022 11:08:33 AM PST by Mariner
The alarms are growing louder about the Ukraine crisis - and questions are becoming sharper as to how the issue will reverberate through American domestic politics.
A full-scale Russian invasion would pitch President Biden into new turmoil. The failure to prevent such a move would be regarded as a diplomatic failure by the White House. It would be another foreign policy misstep to add to the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan last year.
But Republicans are also divided on Ukraine, with some the most pro-Trump elements of the GOP voicing isolationist sentiments. Their views complicate the GOP's traditional hawkish image.
Biden has ruled out directly involving U.S. troops in a ground war in Ukraine, even in the event of a Russian invasion. And he has the challenge of keeping NATO allies on the same page if Russian President Vladimir Putin mounts some kind of aggressive operation that stops short of a traditional, full-on military assault.
In alluding to this conundrum at a recent press conference, Biden appeared to suggest that Putin could get away with a "minor incursion" - a statement that infuriated the Ukrainians, and which the White House tried to clean up, with limited success.
The messy domestic picture stands against a stark reality - expectations are rising that Putin will press ahead in some shape or form.
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What “russian crisis”?
In this case, the crimes against humanity they've committed.
Massive distinction between Trump and the swamp rats and assistant swamp rats.
Why isn't Bette Midler singing From A Distance ?
Secure America’s southern border first.
Keep the Taiwan chip factories in the supply chain.
Then go talk to the Rooskies if you want.
When the Russians start sending millions of illegal aliens over our border and ordering mandatory vaccinations of millions of Americans then I will be concerned about the Russians.
No one longer gives a s*** what D.C. thinks of.
In fact, we no longer thinks D.C. actually thinks.
Eff them until the end time
And double it.
Of course “we” are concerned, Ukraine is the most corrupt country in eastern europe, let it fall under Russian influence, and millions of future income is gone for good.
Can you say Hunter and his pals and don’t forget the big guy.
Wag the dog
“The alarms are growing louder about the Ukraine crisis”
Sooner or later all of the Biden administration will have to turn their hearing aids on.
The crisis is that Kiev keeps threatening to invade Donbass and Crimea. The slightest opposition to expanding the geographical zone controlled by the neocon coup is “a crisis”.
“expectations are rising that Putin will press ahead in some shape or form”
Tovarich Nemets will keep his political image if he can merely say that NATO will not be camping in his backyard.
Oh the conundrum about not having a nuclear war for a country that bought of Hunter fair and square.
The author is a idiot who clarifies nothing.
Brandon sure wants himself some war, doesn’t he?
I stay up nights worrying about Ukraine!!!
Oh wait, no, I don’t.
This cognitive dissonance is resolved by understanding that the most pro-Trump elements are only elements of the GOP in the sense that they represent enough of a block of Republican voters that they will bury the party if it pursues a course set by globalist chicken-hawk neo-con traitors.
Bette Midler is busy hurling insults at the governor of West Virginia.
Not my problem.
I have no faith in the current administration’s ability to wage a war effectively, even if it is against a small island nation like Grenada.
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