Posted on 03/27/2023 1:58:03 AM PDT by ganeemead
Joe Biden was instrumental in abandoning South Vietnam and Cambodia which is amazing given how junior of a Senator he was at the time.
Now we add Afghanistan and Ukraine to his record of failure.
I’ll believe it when I see it.
It is quite amazing how Post Turtle Biden has manage to fail upward all these years.
The term “useful idiot” comes to mind.
“Idiots” definately fit but I’m thinking more “Peter Principle” for Plugs and Kneepads. Both benefitted from it a long time ago and have just kept going.
Europe has given about $75 Billion.
This is a pretty stunning number given that the entire Ukrainian GDP for 2021 was $200 billion. Below are the Ukraine ROM GDP since 2018.
Ukraine gdp for 2021 was $200.09B, a 27.75% increase from 2020.
Ukraine gdp for 2020 was $156.62B, a 1.78% increase from 2019.
Ukraine gdp for 2019 was $153.88B, a 17.57% increase from 2018.
Ukraine gdp for 2018 was $130.89B, a 16.77% increase from 2017
Biden and the US intelligence community provoked Russia with intel that Ukraine admission to NATO was imminent,
Biden's handling of the Afghanistan disaster gave Putin confidence that the US was too weak and demoralized to prevent any Russian military action in the region.
Biden and NATO politicians have blocked any diplomatic solution to the conflict and bribed Ukraine to spurn negotiations and keep fighting with massive infusions of cash and military arms. This has been confirmed by Biden spokesman Admiral Kirby and statements by EU politicians
Biden blew up two of the Russian Nordstream pipelines to prevent Germany and Europe from being pressured to stay neutral on Ukraine by Russia threats to shut off gas deliveries .
Biden and NATO politicians seem to have wanted to instigate and prolong this conflict rather than put a quick negotiated end to it just after Putin went in. .
And now the Biden regime and the EU are realizing that they cannot keep up the level of support to Ukraine that amounts to the entire pre war Ukraine GDP for much longer. Ukraine is running low on munitions and once Western supplies of high tech smart weapons and financial aid ends, there is a huge risk that the depleted Ukrainian military's ability to wage war and resist Russian advances will collapse. As a result, instead of losing full control over a tiny slice of Russian speaking Eastern Ukraine via negotiated settlement in May 2022, Biden and the EU may have caused the loss all of Ukraine to Russia
So what does America and Europe get for their by now 300 billion
- getting the much of the Ukraine destroyed,
- half a million people killed
- 8+ million Ukrainians fleeing the country as refugees
- the EU economy in shambles due to the loss of Russian gas supplies caused by Biden's ill advised destruction of the Nordstream pipeline
- about 1/3 of US and EU stockpiles of anti tank weapons, MANPADS anti air missiles and artillery rounds and who knows what else have been burned through. Many of these smart weapons have been stolen and sold on the black market to terrorist organizations and hostile countries or they have been captured by Russian forces for reverse engineering.
All so Biden can wag the dog to distract America from his destruction of our economy and to allow him to blame inflation on Putin's price hike?
Biden depleting our military so we can be taken over by our Chinese overlords. Who cannot see this happening real time?
Joe Biden’s virtually unbroken record streak of being on the very wrong side of virtually every major American policy debate for the last 50 years continues to be unbroken.
Yes, but what was the military industrial complex’s profits from this war? That’s what really counts.
Ironic you should chose a picture of good old Golda to make your point. She was the Jewish Joe Biden of the 1973 Yom Kippur war. Her feckless and incompetent leadership allowed the State of Israel to be invaded and almost be destroyed by combined Arab forces. If not for Richard Nixon, Israel would have been over run and destroyed. Even more ironically,Golda met with a newly elected Joe Biden just before the War and he urged her to unilaterally withdraw from the Suez Canal region and the Golan. If she had taken Biden’s advice, Israel would have been defeated and over run because the territories Biden advised her to withdraw from were the critical strategic stronghold areas where valiant Israeli troops fought,often to to the last man, and held the line to allow the IDF the critical time to mobilize and counter attack. So Biden has been disastrously on the wrong side of every major policy issue since 1973.
Can I drive the bus?
ditto
this folly has been very lucrative for deep state
10% for the big guy
two days ago they were going to support the war until the last Ukrainian is dead
Do they pay you in rubles or dollars for this shameless propaganda?
CC
I just wanted to say calling bidin a post turtle is perfect. First time I’ve heard the reference.
Best summary I read on Ukraine.
+1
I love the Joe Tzu memes.
Maybe someone will publish a book.
BTW, add Syria to the bush fire policy of the united right wing neocon/ left wing liberal chickenhawks
Europe wants out of this debacle. NATO is fractured. The run up to the 2024 election is beginning. Public support for the war is declining. And we are entering a recession. Biden is desperate to find an exit strategy for this proxy war that has depleted our war reserves.
As the world’s biggest debtor nation, we can’t afford to borrow hundreds of billions of dollars to continue this endless war. And the Rep controlled House is balking at giving Biden a blank check despite the RINO neocons. A bipartisan anti-war coalition is forming.
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