Posted on 03/17/2022 5:49:46 AM PDT by Red Badger
President Joe Biden is frustrating members of both parties for leading from behind during the three-week long Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy bypassed Biden on Wednesday and delivered an address directly to Congress asking for the U.S. to do more to aid Ukraine that what Biden has approved.
"Remember Pearl Harbor, the terrible morning of Dec. 7, 1941, when your sky was black from the planes attacking you," Zelenskyy said. "Remember Sept. 11, a terrible day in 2001 when evil tried to turn your cities, independent territories, into battlefields when innocent people were attacked from the air."
Reacting to the address, House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy immediately called for the U.S. to provide Ukrainians with the "armament they need" to continue to "fight a war that they did not create" against the Russian army.
The California Republican questioned why the Biden administration hadn't transferred MiG-29 jets to Ukraine weeks ago as lawmakers had requested. He said the delay has put Ukraine at a "disadvantage."
Following Zelenskyy's speech, Biden delivered a speech outlining a new aid package focusing on providing weaponry to the Ukrainian army to combat the Russian invasion.
"We're going to continue to do more in the days and weeks ahead crippling Putin's economy with punishing sanctions that's only going to grow more painful over time," Biden said.
Democratic Rep. Seth Moulton, a Marine veteran and member of the House Armed Services Committee, said the Biden administration is not moving fast enough to combat Russia.
"You win wars by moving more quickly than your opponent," he said. "We can't be playing defense here. We can't always be responding to what Putin does. We need to take the initiative."
Moulton also said the Biden administration needs to conduct more of an "information war campaign."
"We shouldn't hesitate to tell the Russian people the truth about this war," he said.
Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., who has visited Ukraine on multiple occasions, told Just the News Wednesday night that Biden failed to move lethal equipment to Ukraine before the invasion as both a deterrence and early advantage to Zelenskyy's forces.
"It's pretty obvious that President Biden his administration, have not been leading on this issue," Johnson told the Just the News TV show. "The world has rallied behind the courage of the Ukrainian people, of the tremendous and courageous leadership of President Zelensky. Not anything that President Biden has done.
"President Biden has been kind of dragged into providing the type of lethal defensive weaponry that Ukraine needs to defend itself. So it's unfortunate. What the administration should have done is they should have loaded up lethal defensive weaponry, before Vladimir Putin invaded to try and deter him to change his calculus," he added.
Former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, a Hawaii Democrat who challenged Biden for the presidential nomination in 2020, has also criticized Biden's stewardship.
Gabbard, a U.S. Army veteran, has argued Biden and NATO countries should have "acknowledged Russia’s legitimate security concerns regarding Ukraine’s becoming a member of NATO" as a possible way to prevent the war.
“The fact that we’re seeing things play out as they are should not be of any surprise to anyone,” Gabbard said.“This could have been prevented, and it’s a failure of leadership.”
Republican Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida disagrees, saying that Ukraine not becoming a member of the NATO wasn't Putin's only demand.
"As recently as last week he once again demanded NATO leave every country that joined after 1997 including Bulgaria, Romania & 12 others," he wrote on Feb. 23.
Since late February, members of Biden's own party were calling on him to step up the sanctions against Russia.
“Congress and the Biden administration must not shy away from any options,” Senate Foreign Relations Chairman Sen. Bob Menendez, a New Jersey Democrat, said on Feb. 24.
Biden later stepped up the sanctions but they didn't impact the energy sector in Russia.
Earlier this month, Biden faced bipartisan pressure to cut off oil imports from Russia. A bipartisan group of 18 senators called for the oil import ban and an increase of domestic oil production.
The president eventually announced his support for the oil import ban and it passed Congress.
Over the last week, members of both parties have discussed suspending normal trade relations with Russia during the invasion of Ukraine. Biden said on Friday that he supports such a move but legislation has not been passed to make it happen yet.
Former Vice President Mike Pence, who visited the border of the Ukraine recently, argued Wednesday that the White House was slow to respond to the Russian invasion with economic sanction as well as cutting off Russian oil imports.
"The Biden administration was slow on the draw with sanctions. They were slow to sanction oil. They stepped that up but I think we need to bring the hammer down. I mean, Putin must stop or Putin must pay," Pence said during an interview reacting to Ukrainian President Zelenskyy's address to Congress. "I can tell you, having stood toe to toe with him and looked him right in the eye, Vladimir Putin only understands strength and we need to meet this moment with American strength all across the board."
Pence said the Obama administration provided "blankets and boxed meals" for Ukraine but "lethal support" was provided during the Trump administration. He said the Biden Administration must continue to provide Ukraine with more lethal aid.
"When the Biden administration took over, they once again, stopped providing lethal support. I'm glad that they re-initiated that. But we've got to double down," he said.
Pence also suggested the establishment of a 21st century Berlin airlift.
The Indiana Republican called for "additional sanctions" to economically isolate Russian leader Vladimir Putin. He also said the U.S. should transfer the MiG jets from Poland.
"The world has been inspired by President Zelenskyy," he said. "Putin must pay for the violence he is visiting upon the people of Ukraine."
Remember, Biden gave KGB Putin the green light to invade Ukraine since KGB Putin told him it would all be over in 3 days.
Now 3 weeks.......................
Bidens not leading anything - He’s using Ukrainians to fight his war with Russia.
It’s almost like obumma is still in office.......weird
Horse crap.
Deep State is calling the shots, not BiteMe.
And the pols know it.
As for the parties...
The letter after the name means jack anymore.
The only reason two parties still exist is to give voters the illusion of choice.
A pol is either loyal to our former republic or to Deep State.
The vast majority of out pols are loyal to Deep State.
dopey Joe can’t make a move until he can be assured that the paper trail of his corruption in Ukraine is not already in russian hands.
How can this be “frustrating”? Anything that can be totally expected shouldn’t be frustrating. Bidet has never exhibited leadership skills, reliability, honesty or integrity in his life. So now he steals an election because that’s all he knows and the ONLY way he could “win” and they’re “frustrated”?!
Quite frankly I don’t want China Joe put in charge of a war. I don’t want our young people going to war under this @$$hole of a CIC.
No I don’t want to get into a land war in Asia. Vizzini WAS right about that.
For Gawd’s Sake, don’t these people know that Dimjo has to lead from the rear since he is not physically or especially mentally able to lead from the front.
And in reality, never has been.
The Biden crime family pocketed more bribes from Russia than Ukraine. Russia was the highest bidder.
Hunter Biden received $3.5M wire transfer from Russian billionaire: Senate report
https://nypost.com/2020/09/23/hunter-biden-received-3-5m-from-russian-billionaire-report/
Part of Joe's "Wag the Dog" strategy to divert attention from his abysmal record.
We cannot believe anything the mainstream media says, and it’s not our fight anyway.
In other words, they’re both corrupt. This is mafia on mafia. Not our monkey cage.
First off, he doesn’t want be responsible if things get worse,
Next, he’s overtly a coward, and will send money for arms and munitions rather than be in the front.
Next YOU CAN BE SURE that he will take all the credit if and when this is over, even if Ukraine ends up giving up territory.
Biden leads nothing, Obozo is running the show.
Republicans are frustrated that Biden isn’t being as aggressive as they would be. Everyone in DC in on board for the great patriotic war. This is the same uniparty that flipped America the finger over the border and Covid lockdowns.
Now they are all in for freedom.... for nazis in Ukraine.
Folks, as Biden would say, he has DEMENTIA, he isn’t doing anything but reading what is written for him. It’s fairly easy to notice he is incapable of ANSWERING QUESTIONS. That is absolutely incredible - too demented to be allowed by his handlers to answer off the cuff questions.
Americans Last, is back!
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