Posted on 02/21/2023 5:38:16 AM PST by george76
Joe Biden made a “surprise” visit to Ukraine to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Kyiv, and of course, give him a lot more of our money — $500 million this time.
It also turns out that he informed Russia he was going before he informed us, which says something. We tend to be last when it comes to transparency from the Biden team, even after Russia. He wants to appear tough to us in the wake of his weakness in letting a Chinese spy balloon float over the U.S. for a week. But he told Russia ahead of time so they would back off of anything near where he was going to be.
“We did notify the Russians that President Biden would be traveling to Kyiv,” National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan told reporters on Monday. “We did so some hours before his departure for de-confliction purposes.” But he wouldn’t tell the media how they notified Russia or what Russia’s reaction was.
Unfortunately, if Biden thought that was going to make him appear tough, that’s not going to do the trick, especially not when so many Americans wonder when he’s going to focus more on American issues, and less on Ukraine while handing over our money to them.
Biden antagonized more Americans with this tweet that went viral, with most of the responses chastising him for his lack of care for Americans and the issues at home.
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Many noted that he’d been to Ukraine more than he’d been to East Palestine or the border. He’s yet to even comment on the derailment disaster in East Palestine and his administration has been largely a failure in their response. Meanwhile, the ongoing crisis at the border is not only harmful to all the people and cities who have to deal with the influx of illegal aliens, but it’s also largely of Biden’s own making because of his poor policies. Biden also tweeted this as he refuses to talk about raising the debt limit to spend even more of our money. So he’ll spend like a drunken sailor (on his political agenda) and give our money to Ukraine, but meanwhile forget safeguarding American interests, like our Social Security. He acts like his duty is to Ukraine, rather than to the United States.
Many also wondered just how much of his “heart” Ukraine holds onto, because of his family’s relationship to business interests there and his prior interactions. Part of that concern is because there seems to be no end in sight to our money that he is willing to pour into a place known for its corruption with no real accountability (to us) for where everything is going.
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Matthew 6:21 states, “For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.” Telling as to Joe Biden.
Meanwhile, former President Donald Trump is going to East Palestine on Wednesday. Priorities.
Biden and his Admin are living in a Dream World
I do not support this war.
Keep him!
Tell the Russians that he is the President of Poland.
Plays well to a lot of republicans too. Hewitt today compared Zelensky to Winston Churchill and Biden to FDR’s emissary Harry Hopkins pledging brotherhood with the Brits.
Any Ukrainian prosecutors fired while Joe was there?
“Infuriates Americans”
Well, 81 million of you are idiots.
And here is going to be a big problem in 2024, a lot of “Republican” voters are going to make Ukraine the one issue they care about more than anything, and will vote for Biden, simply because of Ukraine.
Did Hunter go along?
The young people ought to be constantly reminded that they will be paying interest on this folly for the rest of their lives.
“The young people ought to be constantly reminded that they will be paying interest on this folly for the rest of their lives.”
If inflation is say 8% and the interest rate is 5%, the debt shrinks by 3% a year.
You can see Team Biden and Wall Street types winning (and people like us losing) almost every time you go shopping.
If Russia should win ... and I hope they don’t ... they must not ... then there will be many more wars like that in the future.
If they throw out their nuclear blackmail and the world yields then there is no other way than to yield every time. The alternative is to tell them to go stuff it every time, because once you yield to nuclear blackmail then keeping the same you’ll yield every time.
“Our grandchildren will be paying interest on this “gift” 50 years from now.”
Foreign nations might insist on bonds based on a percentage of federal, state and local governmental revenue.
A billion dollars might be repayable at say 1/8000th of such revenue (assuming an annual revenue total of $8 trillion) and bear an annual interest charge of say 1/400000th of such revenue (about a 2% real interest rate[8000 is 2% of 400000).
The Russians are almost certainly in the process of upgrading their weapons.
Expect them to get weapons as good as the US has, but as many as their weapons factories can make.
“Did Hunter go along?”
Hunter already got his Ukrainian payments.
I don’t see them ever getting good weapons. There is a reason all their generals have villas in French Riviera and everything else in that country is shit except for piss.
They sadly have large quantities of inferior weapons though.
I’m really liking the Biden presidential nutcracker “leg cross” he picked up from Obama. You’ve NEVER seen Trump do a ball crusher like that, and you never will.
“At first, French support was covert: French agents sent the Patriots military aid (predominantly gunpowder) through a company called Rodrigue Hortalez et Compagnie, beginning in the spring of 1776. Estimates place the percentage of French-supplied arms to the Americans in the Saratoga campaign at up to 90%.”
“France formally recognized the United States on February 6, 1778, with the signing of the Treaty of Alliance. Hostilities soon followed after Britain declared war on France on March 17, 1778.”
“France’s help was a major and decisive contribution towards the United States’ eventual victory and independence in the war. However, as a cost of participation in the war, France accumulated over 1 billion livres in debt, which significantly strained the nation’s finances. The French government’s failure to control spending (in combination with other factors) led to unrest in the nation, which eventually culminated in a revolution a few years after the conflict between the US and Great Britain concluded.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France_in_the_American_Revolutionary_War
“The Treaty of Alliance (French: traité d’alliance (1778)), also known as the Franco-American Treaty, was a defensive alliance between the Kingdom of France and the United States formed amid the American Revolutionary War with Great Britain. It was signed by delegates of King Louis XVI and the Second Continental Congress in Paris on February 6, 1778, along with the Treaty of Amity and Commerce and a secret clause providing for the entry of other European allies; together these instruments are sometimes known as the Franco-American Alliance or the Treaties of Alliance. The agreements marked the official entry of the United States on the world stage, and formalized French recognition and support of U.S. independence that was to be decisive in America’s victory.”
“On March 13, 1778, France informed Britain of its signing of the treaties and subsequent recognition of the United States as an independent nation; four days later, Britain declared war on France, thereby bringing the French into the American Revolutionary War. Their entry led to a significant escalation, as what would otherwise have been a ‘lopsided colonial rebellion’ became a much larger and more complex geopolitical conflict with one of the world’s premier superpowers.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Alliance_(1778)
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