Posted on 02/03/2022 6:12:27 AM PST by Kaslin
As a candidate for Congress who is also a U.S. Army Reservist, I pay particular attention to the President’s duty as our Commander-in-Chief…and I’m disturbed by what I’m seeing.
Millions of U.S. Forces at home and around the world are ready to deploy, serve, and risk their lives at a moment’s notice to defend the United States and her allies. Conflicts abroad can have major impacts on life at home, from endangering our physical security to affecting the price of gas and other critical resources. Having confidence in our Commander-in-Chief’s decision-making—whatever the decisions may be—matters.
Unfortunately, resident Biden’s decision-making when it comes to foreign affairs has left me, millions of Americans, and our allies dismayed. First with Afghanistan, and now with Russia and Ukraine, Biden’s poor leadership and blundering incompetency has left our country rudderless on the world stage and in a weak position only inviting more conflict.
Biden botched Afghanistan. He’s botching the Southern Border on a daily basis. He’s setting himself up to botch Ukraine as well. But while the debacle in Afghanistan was entirely of his own making, his actions in response to the crisis in Ukraine are making an already tense situation worse.
Biden’s poorly-thought comment during his press conference last week that a “minor incursion” from Russia into Ukraine might be tolerable by the U.S. and our allies set off alarms in capitals around the world. It elicited an (understandable) swift response from Ukraine’s president and left both our allies and enemies confused as to our position in the middle of high-stakes diplomatic talks. The press secretary immediately had to clean it up, and Biden was forced to walk it back the next day.
It’s clear Biden’s comment was not part of a strategic approach or shift in official U.S. policy. It was certainly not an attempt to talk tough. It was obviously a foolish mistake, all the more foolish considering Biden campaigned on bringing discipline, stability, and reassurance back to the world stage and to our allies.
The President’s words matter, but his actions matter more. Another colossal error was Biden’s decision in the early days of his Administration to waive the Trump Administration’s sanctions against Russia’s Nord Stream 2 pipeline, effectively green-lighting Russia to tighten its iron grip on Europe’s natural gas supply. Completion of the pipeline, which weakens Ukraine by circumventing the country altogether and makes our European allies more dependent on Russia for their energy, would be a massive geo-political policy failure. Biden’s inaction is allowing it to happen. Even a handful of Democrats in the Senate have criticized Biden’s move and voted with Republicans to restore sanctions, though the bill failed to pass.
Removing those sanctions was a regrettable mistake, all the more regrettable considering Biden bragged he will be tougher on Russia than his predecessor.
More tests are coming. China, sensing weakness, is upping its incursions into Taiwanese air space to test how far they can go. Iran, sensing the current president is perhaps not as threatening as the last one, is increasing its bombastic rhetoric.
I know I’m not alone in feeling this way. I’ve talked to so many Veterans who feel dismayed by the Biden Administration’s repeated weakness in global affairs and abandonment of our allies that I've lost count. Even more frustrating to voters I talk to is Biden’s prioritization of securing Ukraine’s border over our own, sternly warning the Russians against crossing Ukraine’s border while the crime, drugs, and trafficking crossing our Southern Border are given a free pass. This doesn’t have to be an either-or scenario: as President Trump proved, you can secure the Southern Border and uphold our agreements with our allies at the same time.
There is no easy answer to the crisis in Ukraine. Foreign policy is complicated, which is why Americans rely on their Commander-in-Chief to articulate a clear role and vision for America on the world stage and then act on it. Biden has done neither, which is why whatever approach Biden decides to take, I fear he doesn’t have the strength to execute it.
I have to say that Joe Biden must have been the best-known product of the corrupt Washington establishment. No one, not even the first-time voter, could feign ignorance of what sort of man he was. He even outright told us what he was going to do.
Joe is a thoroughly reprehensible man. The reason I remember him is I was watching the news sometime in the early ‘80’s. The reporter was doing a voiceover and Congressman Biden was in the background on a stage feeling up a small child who was clearly uncomfortable with the closeness. Shockingly, the reporter’s voiceover was about whatever political event was going on and not about the child abuse so clearly on screen. Biden has been seared into my mind ever since.
No one should have the slightest bit of surprise that he’s a bad president. He’s a bad human being.
Any reverberations of a 25th amendment drumbeat heard anywhere?
I didn’t think so, come on man?
what is? it ? a cascading effect/affect of devolution in the shoehorn.
Cranberries!
Beeden has $hit for brains....should have never been elected dog catcher. Also, a $orry A$$ draft doger.
Esther Joy King is stealing her paycheck.
Biden putting US troops in harms way hopes USSR will kill one. Then he can call for NATO to support an attacked member, USA, and have his war just in time for the elections. Ukraine is not a member of NATO but we are. Callous. JMHO!
The scary part is that his handlers/puppetmasters don't seem to be any more handicapable.
I do believe CLAUDIUS of Rome had more sense than Biden.
I am amazed at the actions of the military that are in the country’s best interest.
The Navy in alliance with several other navies is thwarting the China Navy in the South China Sea.
The Air Force dispatched fighters to the UAE that support what is the best air force in the region.
An Al Qaeda commander’s house in an obscure Syrian village was the target of a boots on the ground Spec Ops raid that was very bloody and is being whined about for killing women and children
Biden is not commanding, the work is far too good
He sent troops to the region around Ukraine. If Trump had done that, every newspaper would be condemning him for starting WW3. The “doomsday clock” would be at midnight - 1 second.
Total and complete disconnect from reality.
I think everyone is giving “him” too much credit. “He” is not doing anything but the bidding of others.
“fake it until you make it”
That’s Harrass’s Modis Operandi
Too young and inexperienced to be a Congressman. And she thinks Biden is botching things. She isn’t very bright if she can’t see that it’s a deliberate plan being followed by his junta.
Inept, brain damaged sock puppet of soros and 0bama.
Yep, absolutely. We need to move away from the false concept that Biden is doing anything at all on his own as an independent thinking individual. He exists purely as a remotely controlled empty shell and mouth piece.
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