Posted on 03/01/2022 4:19:03 AM PST by Kaslin
As Russia invades Ukraine, amasses troops on the Polish border and threatens to use nuclear weapons, some reflections on President Joe Biden's rejection of the Army's findings on the bug out in Afghanistan are in order. One of the most important characteristics of effective leaders, whether in government, business or the military, is a firm grasp of reality. The best decision makers look at the facts whether they like them or not and act on them. Leaders who think they can alter reality by simply ignoring it or, worse yet, rejecting it have started down a one-way street to disaster. Such is the case with Biden.
Reality is clear. At home, Biden's socialist policies have resulted in an unprecedented level of inflation, empty grocery store shelves, a tyrannical response to the COVID pandemic, supply-chain tie-ups and thirty members of his own party giving up their seats in Congress rather than run on his record. Yet, with his leftist house of cards collapsing all around him, Biden continues to ignore reality and claim things are going great. Americans are standing outside in the rain getting soaked while Biden sits in the Oval Office claiming it's a bright, sunshiny day.
As bad as Biden's rejection of domestic realities is, it pales in comparison to his rejection of the Army's findings on the Afghanistan debacle. Why? Because his rejection of the Army's report may have even worse consequences in the long run than his failed socialist agenda. While Biden may have learned nothing from the Army's findings, Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping certainly did. The most important fact they learned is Biden is a weak, feckless president who lacks the foresight, vision and courage to stand up to their expansionist plans.
Putin and Xi have been emboldened by Biden's rejection of reality. The president has unified our enemies rather than our allies. The hostile actions of Russia and China have already begun with Ukraine and Taiwan, but they won't stop there. Russia hopes to eventually dominate all of Europe, and China plans to dominate the rest of the world, including the United States. Thanks to Biden, both are making progress.
A hard reality Biden refuses to accept is you cannot stop Russian or Chinese aggression with empty words or symbolic sanctions. Sanctions that hurt the Russian people don't trouble Putin. Sanctions must be hard felt. Biden must lead in removing ALL of Russia's banks from the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunications and placing strong sanctions on Russia's oligarchs, including Putin. Anything less is like beating Putin with a pool noodle. Further, Xi must be shown conclusively the cost he will pay for invading Taiwan.
Another reality Biden cannot grasp -- or refuses to -- is Putin and Xi do not think like rational leaders of democratic nations. Putin couldn't care less about his people suffering. Suffering is a fact of life for the citizens of Russia. Biden gives the world words while Putin makes brutal war on the Ukrainian people. In the irony of ironies, the strongest response to Russia's aggression came from the president of France who, when Putin threatened the use of nuclear weapons, reminded the Russian tyrant NATO is nuclear armed, too.
Beyond sanctions, Biden needs to embrace reality and do what is necessary to nullify Russia's gas and oil stranglehold on Europe. He should complete the Keystone XL pipeline from Canada, lift his disastrous "green" sanctions on America's energy independence and export American liquified natural gas, crude oil and coal to our European friends. Until he is willing to take these important steps, his administration is helping finance Russia's invasion and occupation of Ukraine.
“Sanctions that hurt the Russian people don’t trouble Putin.”
Sanctions on Russia that hurt the American people don’t trouble Biden either.
You know, 5-dollar gasoline, 10.00 per pound hamburger, empty store shelves, runaway inflation.
At this stage in the game of life for Joseph Robinette Cadaver, rejecting reality is a way of life.
Dementia is sad.
In case of nuclear attack, government advises face masks and social distancing in shelters
Hamburger meat? You got hamburger meat?
Brandon looks like a Ukrainian puppet much more than Trump looked like a a Russian puppet. Do they have the goods on him?
“Suffering is a fact of life for the Russian people’’.
Damn right it is. Boris Pasternak spoke of this in his novel “Dr. Zhivago’’ when he wrote as to why the Russian people seemed to endure so much privation, hardship and despair.
“We endure it’’, he wrote, ‘’because of our cursed capacity to endure’’.
So Ivan does without vodka and smokes for a while.
No big deal.
Radiation can’t survive COVID-especially the variant the CDC will discover just before the November election.
It isn’t so much that Biden rejects reality as much as he is a corrupt, bought turnip. Biden has always been stupid. The difference now is that he is also in a state of mental decline.
LOL
Saw a map last night on how much area Russian forces have taken control over in the Ukraine.
Quite a bit.
Doesnt look good for the Ukrainians.
No it doesn't.
To build back better, you must destroy first. Never let a crisis go to waste.
He's even underwriting them.
Excuse me for being another easy seat general.
The mistake the Russians did was trying to invade Kiev. I always thought the smart thing would be to take all the eastern provinces up to the Dnieper and gain control over that river. It is a river much like our Mississippi with barge traffic.
Or take control of the 5 or 6 eastern provinces up to Dinpro and they would still control to lower Dnieper river.
My surprise was that they took as much of that lower river as of now so quickly. They control that whole area now.
Whether they can hold it is another question.
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