There is always a tweet, so says the online aphorism, developed during the chaotic Trump years, that now seems to hold true across administrations and perhaps even with increased significance after a Russian strongman decided to invade an eastern European neighbor over the holiday weekend. The Russian in question is Vladimir Putin. The country invaded, Ukraine, or more specifically the so-called Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics that Russia recently recognized diplomatically. And the tweet, well, that came from Joe Biden.
It was sent February 21, 2020, and Biden, or someone on the Biden campaign, wrote: “Vladimir Putin doesn’t want me to be President. He doesn’t want me to be our nominee. If you’re wondering why — it’s because I’m the only person in this field who’s ever gone toe-to-toe with him.”
I think with a guy like Vladimir Putin words don't matter much. You can talk a tough game, you can posture and showboat to the media all you would like, but at the end of the day there are people who only respect action. I believe Putin is one of those guys.
So far what we have had is an Administration who seemed to be quite wise to the moves that Putin has made and quite predictive of the moves they believe are still to come. What they seem to be lacking is a plan to respond other than sanctions, sanctions and more sanctions that even their own press secretary admits will not have an immediate impact. To be clear here, once this territory is in Russian control, the chances of it being given back are slim to none.
Maybe it is just me, but it seems to me that throughout this situation that Biden has been reacting more to the politics and seems more concerned with the optics than he is about actually solving the issue. The problem isn't that we don't seem to know what Biden is up to, but that we are at a loss in how to stop him. Telling the country that you know what is going to happen only looks smart if that inside knowledge allows you to come up with a plan. If you know something is going to happen and you let it happen anyways, then it makes you look all the more stupid.
Imagine a defensive coordinator in the NFL telling everyone he knows exactly what the opposition is planning for the upcoming game. Then, that opposing teams implements the exact strategy that the defensive coordinator had suggested, and they walked up and down the field scoring touchdown after touchdown. Does the defensive coordinator get credit for knowing how his defense was going to get beat? Nah. He looks stupid that he couldn't stop what he knew was coming. That is how the United States looks right now.
It's time for Biden to put up or shut up. You notice that Putin is not giving daily updates to the press about what he is going to do and what he believes others are up to. He is simply pushing out the plan that he obviously has in place without much fanfare or peacocking. He is not playing to an audience, he is just executing his plan.
Biden should stop playing to the DC elites and media cronies and start executing a real plan.
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Ch thinks he is wiser than our allies who seem pretty much agreed that Biden is giving the world exactly the kind of leadership that is called for here.
And like fucking clockwork, the usual nitwits around here shrieked - "Trump loves Putin! Trump is siding with Putin! Trump is a traitor for Putin!"
Sigh.
Such small thinkers, plagiarizing the only criticism the MSM can ever come up with.
Did Trump side with Putin when he said "This is genius.... How smart is that?... Here’s a guy who’s very savvy... You gotta say that’s pretty savvy"?
On yesterday's Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Show — audio and transcript, here — here's the part where Trump credits Putin with genius (which his antagonists predictably take to mean that he's siding with Putin!):
I went in yesterday and there was a television screen, and I said, “This is genius.” Putin declares a big portion of the Ukraine — of Ukraine. Putin declares it as independent. Oh, that’s wonderful. So, Putin is now saying, “It’s independent,” a large section of Ukraine. I said, “How smart is that?” And he’s gonna go in and be a peacekeeper. That’s strongest peace force… They’re gonna keep peace all right.
That's criticizing Putin, but you've got to understand that it's sarcasm when he says, "They’re gonna keep peace all right."
It's not siding with the enemy to say the enemy is very smart. And it's so obvious that Trump's enemies would fault him for recognizing Putin's brilliance that I'm tempted to credit Trump with intending to trigger that faultfinding.
https://althouse.blogspot.com/2022/02/did-trump-side-with-putin-when-he-said.html#more
“It may be worth asking yourself, since it is getting pretty serious, what is this really about? Why do I hate Putin so much? Has Putin ever called me a racist? Has he threatened to get me fired for disagreeing with him?”
— Tucker Carlson, on his Fox News show.
I guess Tucker can join hands with Ch in defending dictator and former KGB murderer Putin who wants to rebuild the Soviet Socialist Union, no matter how viciously he must murder millions to achieve his goal or trample on the rights of states to determine their own future and their own alliances.
Well Putin didn't get Carlson fired. He doesn't care all that much. He is ready however to kill Ukraines. A lot of them.
Oh and by the way, George Washington was once heard to acknowledge the military acumen of General Cornwallis.
This made Washington a traitor according to the pederast and the alky.
Blogger Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...
Ch thinks he is wiser than our allies who seem pretty much agreed that Biden is giving the world exactly the kind of leadership that is called for here.
Yeah, leadership of a senile old person.
Business Insider
Russia threatens to target 'sensitive' US assets as part of 'strong' and 'painful' response to sanctions
Sergei Karpukhin\TASS via Getty Images
The Russian government warned of a "painful" response to the United States over its sanctions against Russia, multiple reports said.
Russia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said Wednesday that the US sanctions are part of "ongoing attempts to change Russia's course," CNN reported.
"There should be no doubt that sanctions will receive a strong response," the ministry said.
The Russian government warned on Wednesday of a "strong" and "painful" response to the United States over the Biden administration's sanctions against the country over its invasion of Ukraine, according to multiple reports.
Russia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said Russia will target "sensitive" US assets as retaliation.
The ministry said in a statement that the US sanctions against it are part of America's "ongoing attempts to change Russia's course," CNN reported.
"Russia has proved that, despite all the sanctions costs, it is able to minimize the damage," the ministry said in the statement. "And even more so, sanctions pressure is not able to affect our determination to firmly defend our interests."
The ministry claimed that it was open to diplomacy with the US, but that the sanctions will be met with a fierce response.
It added, "There should be no doubt that sanctions will receive a strong response, not necessarily symmetrical, but finely tuned and painful to the American side."
The ministry's statement detailed no specifics, but explained that Russia will take "measured" steps out to retaliation by targeting "sensitive" US interests, The Moscow Times reported.
US President Joe Biden on Tuesday announced the "first tranche" of sanctions against Russia as a result of what Biden called "the beginning of a Russian invasion of Ukraine."
The US sanctions against Russia target the country's sovereign debt, two large Russian financial institutions, and Russian elites.
"We'll continue to escalate sanctions if Russia escalates," Biden warned.
Earlier this week, Russian President Vladimir Putin recognized the independence of two Moscow-backed separatist regions in eastern Ukraine and ordered troops there.
Meanwhile, Ukraine is moving to declare a state of emergency in response to Russia's aggression.
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Maybe Tucker Carlson and Ch UnTruth and Commonsenses and rrb would like to tell Ukraine they have no real reason to "hate" Putin.
Even the EU is joining with President Biden
The European Union is planning to sanction Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and the country’s Internet Research Agency, diplomats said, part of the first wave of measures that governments in Washington, Brussels and London say will be a coordinated package of fuller sanctions should Russia escalate military tensions in Ukraine.
The EU sanctions listings, which are set to take force later Wednesday, and separate measures announced by the U.S. and the U.K. on Tuesday came in response to Russia’s recognition this week of two separatist regions in eastern Ukraine and the deployment of Russian forces into the area.
The sanctions rolled out so far in the three capitals are being described by officials as a first installment of measures aimed at both punishing Russia and curtailing President Vladimir Putin’s further ambitions in Ukraine. They are significantly narrower than what European and American officials have spent weeks crafting to punish Mr. Putin should he invade Ukraine. Those broader measures have at times included options such as cutting Russia off from the global banking system and restricting the export of certain technology.
Ch thinks he is wiser than our allies who seem pretty much agreed that Biden is giving the world exactly the kind of leadership that is called for here.
Hmmm...
I don't know Reverend. I read the BBC this morning as well as other international media sites. Everyone seems less than happy with the response from NATO and the international community. There are even protests taking place in Berlin and other areas due to the concern and lack of response.
Ukraine media doesn't appear very happy!
But that is just what other countries are "actually saying" and "actually doing".
Not what your liberal media hacks are opining.
Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm demanding she complies with a law requiring her agency to disclose the number of jobs lost when President Joe Biden canceled the Keystone XL pipeline.
"At the time of its closure, the Keystone XL pipeline project was already under construction and employed more than 1,500 workers," the letter read. "By the end of 2021, the Keystone XL pipeline was projected to provide approximately 11,000 jobs."
"The closure erased thousands of real, high-paying jobs and approximately $800 million in wages," it continued. "Significant prospective spending for rural communities and small businesses, as well as tax revenue for local schools and public safety, disappeared with the stroke of a pen."
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Biden is getting beaten up.
Americans don't want his WAR.
" Politico/MorningConsult poll revealed.
Just 40 percent of voters approved of Biden’s management of the conflict, while 45 disapproved, including 35 percent who said they strongly disapproved."
When Biden Begged Putin for Oil.
Putin knew Joe could be had on the cheap.
Biden said Americans must feel pain of his policies.
No thanks.
Change your Energy Policies, retract your Executive Orders.
I told ya so, he knows less about economics as the Three Socialist Stooges of CHT.
I guess Ch didn't get the message.
Biden kept correctly predicting that Russia was going to invade and warning emphatically that if they did, they would find themselves on the receiving end of sanctions the likes of which they and the world had never experienced before.
That is still Biden's threat, and it is being implementing so far only in part, probably because Biden is responding to the fact that Putin has not yet implemented the full scale, full ranging invasion he is capable of and has threatened.
Why not? Everybody knows the USA and Europe and Japan and others have not yet hit Russia with all the devastation we can bring against them by employing the severest sanctions imaginable.
Is Putin now hoping he can grasp onto a possibility that he can still negotiate himself out of his threatened full invasion and reclamation of Ukraine?
He is still claiming he has not invaded Ukraine, only parts of it that are not really Ukraine, lol.
It's not right vs left anymore.
Trump and his loyalists are setting up the idea that any attempt to hold Trump and his allies accountable for illegal activities – including the attempt to overturn the 2020 election and thereby destroy our democracy – is a partisan attack. While that argument will undermine the rule of law, there is a twist to it: if Republicans can convince their voters that Democrats have engaged in partisan prosecutions of Trump and his allies, the Republicans can justify partisan prosecutions of Democrats as soon as they get the opportunity, just as Gingrich suggested. If this rhetoric works, Trump can undercut legitimate prosecutions, while Democrats will become fair game for partisan prosecutors.
Lock her up.
Russiagate.
Go Brandon
They are significantly narrower than what European and American officials have spent weeks crafting to punish Mr. Putin should he invade Ukraine. Those broader measures have at times included options such as cutting Russia off from the global banking system and restricting the export of certain technology.
They cannot cut Russia off from China and other countries outside of the European Union. They don't have ultimate control over the entire global banking system and technology is bought and stolen all the time outside of mainstream western markets. They simply do not have that sort of leverage anymore. Russia can probably survive for quite some time exclusively trading with China if it came down to it.
They push too hard and they end up with all out war, which Putin is probably the only one with the stomach for right now. That is why the sanctions are not as heavy as some would like to see.
Putin has taken hold in Ukraine. For all practical purposes he has annexed more land, just as he annexed Crimea. Quite literally the taking of land from one country by another with military force has not happened in how long (not counting the back and forth of the Gaza area)?
Hitler was probably the last leader to attempt to use military to take control of land. Now Putin has done it twice in less than a decade.
Well.... Saddam attempted it with Kuwait. We all know how that turned out. We had "actual" leadership and the international community actually tangible did something to stop it.
Had they attacked Saddam Hussein with sanctions, Kuwait would probably be part of Iraq right now.
Putin invaded in 2014.
Obama was the pres.
Biden said American's must feel the pain of his policies.
No thanks.
China’s Ukraine Crisis
February 23, 2022 at 10:00 am EST By Taegan Goddard 56 Comments
Foreign Affairs:
“The crisis in Ukraine is exposing the limits of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s foreign policy. Beijing’s global aspirations are now clashing with its desire to remain selectively ambiguous and aloof. Although Chinese leaders may not recognize it, their country’s closer alignment with Russia is far from prudent.
“The upsides of this move are notional and long-term:
Russia might someday return the favor by supporting Chinese territorial aspirations or cooperating on revising the structures of global governance.
The costs to China’s larger global strategy, however, are real and immediate.”
No wonder the Chinese have been showing restraint.
liberal media hacks are opining.
The MSM is Democratic propaganda
Typical example of fascism tactics since the pre World War Two tactics in Italy and Germany, and the same thing is happening in Kuwait that Russia, since the communist government was destroyed
It escapes brainwashed people.
But the three of us keep telling Thecoldheartedtruth on his blog.
Saddam Hussein didn't pussyfoot around like Putin. He REALLY invaded Kuwait. And got his ears pinned back.
Maybe the prospect of all those body bags coming home from an unpopular and unprovoked war in Ukraine are upsetting Putin.
Putin is very much like Trump
It is a sobering reality to realize some things are just beyond one’s grasp and control. The American people have listened, watched, and observed the volatile situation between Russia and Ukraine for a while now.
We’ve watched an evil man, with severe delusions of grandeur scheme and plot in efforts to do what he’s been fervently wanting to do, likely for years now — invade Ukraine. Putin is very much like Trump, only MUCH smarter but equally evil. And he IS smart. He’s ex-KGB, and he gets off on playing mind-games with other countries.
President Biden spoke yesterday and announced the addition of severe sanctions. I happen to think President Biden is handling the whole situation with dignity, intelligence, and aplomb.
People — many people — have underestimated President Biden. If there is ONE HUMAN BEING I’d want at the driver’s seat right now, it is Biden. His wisdom on Foreign Policy is incredibly vast. President Obama chose him as VP in part because of this skill.
Right now, there is much we’re not sure of. But one thing is certain. Contrary to what idiotic alt-right idiots may say, Russia isn’t our friend. And we must be on guard. We must be on guard not just because of Russia but because of our own internal and psychological war.
No matter what Biden does and what WE as a nation do, many in the GOP will attempt to spin it. Indeed, they already are.
Foreign Affairs:
“The crisis in Ukraine is exposing the limits of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s foreign policy. Beijing’s global aspirations are now clashing with its desire to remain selectively ambiguous and aloof. Although Chinese leaders may not recognize it, their country’s closer alignment with Russia is far from prudent.
Thank goodness we have think tank twerps to counsel XI on any given strategery with Russia.
Whew!
For chrissakes. All these MSM asshats all trying to sound smarter than each other.
It's like every day around here with the BWAA, the alky and the child rapist.
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Putin’s approval ratings reached an all-time high of 89% less than one year after Russia forcibly annexed Crimea, a Ukrainian peninsula, in 2014.
The largely bloodless conquest resulted in “collective euphoria” among Russian people, who have often vacationed along Crimea’s scenic coastline.
But Russia’s other recent military actions, including its 2008 invasion of Georgia and its intervention in the Syrian civil war in 2015, were not met with the same enthusiasm.
Public support dropped following both of these military interventions.
Now, Russians have not expressed the same personal connection to the Donbas that they felt for Crimea.
Polls conducted since the annexation of Crimea in 2014 consistently show that most Russians support the independence of the two self-declared republics in the Donbas. But they do not see them becoming a part of the Russian Federation.
...the unfolding conflict in Ukraine could result in countless body bags of Russian soldiers returning to Moscow.
Russia’s ensuing military intervention in Ukraine may prove costly for Putin domestically, undermining his legitimacy and forcing him to spend more resources on quashing internal dissent.
This comes as U.S. President Joe Biden announced “swift and severe” sanctions on Feb. 22 that could harm Russia. Russia’s economy already faces high inflation and low projected growth.
U.S. and European sanctions could result in a subsequent economic fallout that will overwhelmingly hurt Russians’ pocketbooks — and further erode Putin’s support.
Honest, decent, truthful Rev.February 23, 2022 at 11:56 AM
Maybe the prospect of all those body bags coming home from an unpopular and unprovoked war in Ukraine are upsetting Putin
Don’t think so there Reverend. Body bags bother this man not at all.
They cannot cut Russia off from China and other countries outside of the European Union. They don't have ultimate control over the entire global banking system and technology is bought and stolen all the time outside of mainstream western markets. They simply do not have that sort of leverage anymore. Russia can probably survive for quite some time exclusively trading with China if it came down to it.
That, plus the fact that if the EU pushes too hard, Putin simply shuts off the thermostat and those poor bastards freeze for the next 60 days.
Those who think they look really smart by plagiarizing the MSM/DNC Steno Pool have given NO thought to any of the realities on the ground at all.
"OOh, look at me! Raw Story! Thomm Hartmann from Russia Today!"
LOL.
Fucking toolbox.
Body bags bother this man not at all.
He's spent a lifetime filling them.
People — many people — have underestimated President Biden. If there is ONE HUMAN BEING I’d want at the driver’s seat right now, it is Biden. His wisdom on Foreign Policy is incredibly vast. President Obama chose him as VP in part because of this skill.
LMAO.
0linsky picked Joey Sprinkles for impeachment insurance.
Not propaganda
Trump sides with Putin as Biden tries to stop a war
Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN
Updated 3 hours ago Feb 23, 2022
(CNN) - It took only 24 hours for Donald Trump to hail Russian President Vladimir Putin's dismembering of independent, democratic, sovereign Ukraine as an act of "genius."
The former President often accuses his enemies falsely of treason, but his own giddy rush to side with a foreign leader who is proving to be an enemy of the United States and the West is shocking even by Trump's self-serving standards.
As President Joe Biden reprises the fabled presidential role of leading the free world, the predecessor who wants to succeed him is showing Putin that impunity, dictator-coddling and hero worship will return if he wins back the White House. Trump's remarks on a conservative radio show on Tuesday will not only find a warm welcome in the Kremlin. They also will concern allies standing alongside the US against Russia who fear for NATO's future if Trump returns.
Trump also sent an unmistakable message to Republicans, who are already playing into Putin's hands by branding the current President as weak, that siding with a US foe is the way into the ex-President's affections ahead of this year's midterm primaries.
Trump didn't take long to make sure Putin knew he approved of his movement of troops into parts of eastern Ukraine, knowing that his comments would be picked up and beamed around the world.
"I went in yesterday and there was a television screen, and I said, 'This is genius.' Putin declares a big portion of the Ukraine, of Ukraine, Putin declares it as independent. Oh, that's wonderful," Trump said in an interview on "The Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Show."
The ex-President added: "So Putin is now saying, 'It's independent,' a large section of Ukraine. I said, 'How smart is that?' And he's going to go in and be a peacekeeper. That's the strongest peace force," Trump said. "We could use that on our southern border. That's the strongest peace force I've ever seen. ... Here's a guy who's very savvy. ... I know him very well. Very, very well."
Trump was referring to Putin's declaration on Monday that he would regard two rebel regions of eastern Ukraine, where he has been fostering separatism, as independent and his order for Russian troops, which Putin misleadingly called "peacekeeping" forces, to reinforce the enclaves. The move was a flagrant violation of international law, was resonant of the tyrannical territorial aggrandizement of the 1930s that led to World War II and was, as Biden said on Tuesday, tantamount to "the beginning of a Russian invasion."
In effect, the ex-President is trying to undermine US foreign policy as the current President tries to stop a war that could kill thousands of people and threaten the post-Cold War peace.
But it's unsurprising Trump would praise anything Putin does, given his genuflecting to the Russian leader while in office. Given that he tried to stage a coup that would have destroyed US democracy, it's hardly shocking either that he's not fretting at the loss of Ukrainian freedom. Trump once stood side by side with Putin at a Helsinki summit and trashed US intelligence agencies that said Moscow had interfered in the 2016 election to help him. And Trump tainted Ukrainian democracy himself, seeking to extort President Volodymyr Zelensky into announcing an investigation into his then-Democratic rival, Biden -- an abuse of power that earned him the first of his historic two impeachments.
More than the average Trump controversy
In the hierarchy of vital news stories on Tuesday, the ex-President's boastful ramblings pale in significance to the alarming events in Eastern Europe. But his comments amounted to more than the normal carnival barking and prioritizing of personal obsessions over national interests for which Trump is known.
Leftwing Media and NeverTrump -- But I Repeat Myself -- Declare Criticism of Biden Treasonous
http://ace.mu.nu/archives/397961.php
Yep. It's TREASON!!! to criticize Joey Sprinkles now.
TREASON.
Dissent is only patriotic when a Republican is in the white house.
No other living former president would dream of, let alone get away with, lionizing a Russian leader who may soon be waging the biggest war in Europe since World War II after declaring on Monday that Ukraine has no right to exist.
But Trump's status as the likely favorite for the Republican nomination in 2024 -- and the possibility that he could return to power -- takes his latest crowing over Putin's gangsterism to a new level. He's sending the promise of future favors and approval of Putin's illegal land seizures, which suggest he would do little to reverse them as president.
Trump's latest idolization of Putin is likely to widen the growing divide in the GOP between traditional hawks, who have sometimes praised Biden for standing up to the Russian leader, and pro-Trump lawmakers -- and conservative media stars like Tucker Carlson -- who have sided with Putin and the Coldheartedtruth troll
Trump's former secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, a possible future Republican presidential candidate, also recently praised Putin, a scourge of democracy, as a "very talented" and gifted statesman. "He was a KGB agent for goodness sakes. He knows how to use power. We should respect that," Pompeo told Fox in January.
The fact that this is coming from leading members of the party of ex-President Ronald Reagan, who beseeched then-Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev to "tear down this wall" in divided Berlin and was credited with winning the Cold War, represents a startling transformation. And it shows how far the GOP has traveled away from its respect for fundamental US democratic values in the pursuit of power.
Some Republicans have been more subtle in their criticism of Biden. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has backed the President's effort to unite Western allies behind the US in order to confront Putin and is in favor of strong sanctions to punish the Russian leader. But not for the first time on Tuesday, the Kentucky Republican demonstrated that he was ready to play the game at both ends -- accusing Biden of causing the crisis through weakness.
"I don't believe Vladimir Putin would have a couple of hundred thousand troops on the border with Ukraine had we not precipitously withdrawn from Afghanistan last August," McConnell said in Lexington on Tuesday. "The impression we have left, first with the abandonment of Afghanistan, is that America is not interested in playing as large a leadership role as we used to."
McConnell is tapping into a sentiment shared by many Americans of both parties that the US evacuation from Afghanistan last year was chaotic and poorly planned and hurt perceptions of Biden's leadership abroad. At the same time, however, Biden's leadership in this crisis has been more assured. He has, for instance, brought NATO members closer than they have been in many years.
The idea that Biden is weak in the face of Putin is sure to play out on the midterm campaign trail all year. But the fact that Republicans are laying such a charge following their complicity in Trump's obsequious attitude toward Putin is hypocritical and absurd. The House Republican leadership, which is in Trump's pocket, accused Biden of "appeasement" on Tuesday -- the same day that their de facto leader described Putin as a "genius."
Trump's repeated fawning over Putin
While the last administration often laid out a firm stance against Russia, it was repeatedly undermined by Trump's gushing admiration for Putin in public and his habit of making impulsive decisions that played into Russia's foreign policy goals, including the US withdrawal from northern Syria.
Trump lauded Putin in the interview Tuesday as a "tough cookie" who loves his country and he insisted that he had stopped Putin from invading Ukraine on his watch.
"I knew that he always wanted Ukraine. I used to talk to him about it. I said, 'You can't do it. You're not going to do it.' But I could see that he wanted it," the former President said. In reality, Trump suggested during his 2016 campaign that Russia could keep Crimea, another Ukrainian territory which Putin had annexed in 2014. "The people of Crimea, from what I've heard, would rather be with Russia than where they were," Trump said, parroting a Kremlin talking point.
The idea that Trump's toughness prevented Putin from invading Ukraine is undermined not only by his chummy exchanges with a leader who imprisoned opponents and presides over a country where journalists are often killed.
One of the goals of Putin's pressure on Ukraine -- as he has made repeatedly clear -- is to drive NATO back to its boundaries at the end of the Cold War and to divide the Western alliance. With Trump in power, the Russian leader didn't need to bother with the latter goal, since his counterpart in the White House frequently berated trans-Atlantic allies and cozied up to US enemies.
And it's not as if Putin let up on America when Trump was in power. Cyberattacks emanating from Russian soil also took place throughout the Trump presidency, including the SolarWinds operation that breached US federal agencies. Supposed respect for the US didn't stop Russian agents from using a biological weapon on British soil to poison a defector, according to the UK government.
There are multiple documented instances of Trump being soft on Putin. And GOP criticisms of Biden as failing to stand up to Putin conveniently forget Trump's notorious Helsinki news conference, not to mention the multiple strange contacts between his 2016 campaign team and Russian outsiders.
I have been saying this since Helsinki and even before he became the candidate.
Trump sides with Putin as Biden tries to stop a war
https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/23/politics/donald-trump-vladimir-putin-joe-biden/index.html
If a Democratic ex President said that I would have condemning him here
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I just summed up every single alky plagiarism for this week.
You're welcome.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Wednesday called Russia President Vladimir Putin a "tyrant" and said his latest aggression toward Ukraine is "an attack on democracy." Trump thinks he's a genius
What she's saying: “It’s stunning to see in this day and age, a tyrant roll into a country," Pelosi said in her first news conference since returning from the Munich Security Conference. "This is the same tyrant who attacked our democracy in 2016."
"You cannot ignore what Putin is doing ... You cannot take it any lighter than what it is: a total assault on democracy," she added, calling Putin's actions an "evil move."The House speaker also applauded President Biden's decision to sanction Russian banks that hold assets and provide financing for the Kremlin and the Russian military, saying that she respects his judgement.
Driving the news: Putin on Monday recognized two breakaway "republics" — Donetsk People's Republic (DNR) and the Luhansk People's Republic (LNR) — in eastern Ukraine as independent and sent "peacekeeping" troops into the regions.
Biden and other Western leaders slapped fresh sanctions on Russia, with the U.S. president saying Putin's recent moves represent the start of a Russian invasion of Ukraine.
It might turn into a war and invasion of Ukraine
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Biden is calling up more Troops.
To use against American Trucker.
Out of respect for 🇨🇦 Canadian Truckers.
Honk.Honk
Blogger KansasDemocrat said...
Out of respect for 🇨🇦 Canadian Truckers.
Honk.Honk
A leftist canadian MP said Honk Honk is code for Heil Hitler.
You can't make this shit up.
Yes , I know.
Mocking PM Brenda and Pres. BRANDON is too easy
Roger, Denny and James.
Tell us the Biden plan to Lower gas Prices?
Cut n paste at will, I will read them on this issue.
Republican senators, including Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.), Lindsey Graham (S.C.), Ben Sasse (Neb.) and Marco Rubio (Fla.), are urging Biden to go even further by imposing harsher sanctions directly on Putin and his allies, and faulting the president for not doing so earlier.
“President Biden is the president of the United States, and to the extent that I can help him push back against Putin and bring stability to the world, I will gladly do so,” Graham said Tuesday in South Carolina.
“I will not be part of an appeasement movement that will lead to further conflict,” he said, in an apparent reference to Republicans who have declined to oppose Putin.
“This is the Republican mainstream,” Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) tweeted on Wednesday, referring to GOP candidates downplaying Putin’s sending of troops into Ukraine. “People like Graham and McConnell are the outliers.”
Ch thinks that Rubio, Graham, Sasse and McConnell are traitors...
There are other stories making the rounds, too, and they are even more provocative. One has it that Trump — noting that Putin seized land from Georgia when George W. Bush was president and seized the Crimean peninsula when Barack Obama was president — warned Putin against a land grab on his watch.
“If you move against Ukraine while I’m president,” Trump is said to have told the Russian leader, “I will hit Moscow.”
Putin reportedly scoffed, “No way,” leading Trump to say, “All those beautiful golden turrets will be blown up.”
A similar story involves Chinese President Xi Jinping. It was during his visit to Mar-a-Lago in 2017 when Trump famously interrupted their chocolate cake dessert to declare he had just ordered the US military to fire 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles at a Syrian air base after the Syrian government used chemical weapons against rebels and civilians.
During that same visit, Trump reportedly told Xi that any military move against Taiwan would be met with an attack on Beijing. Xi, like Putin, is said to have been stunned, though it is possible neither man believed Trump was serious. While it is also possible that both accounts are exaggerated, it is a fact that neither man made the moves Trump is said to have warned against.
Doesn't sound like anyone is kowtowing to it does it Reverend.
Roger is not following democracy.
Roger is a traitor.
Notice that James post like Roger.
Meta’s (Facebook) attorneys assert that the “fact check” was an “opinion,” not an actual check of facts and declaration of facts"
Cowards.
The two lead prosecutors in the Manhattan NY criminal railroading of Trump have abruptly resigned. A new DA took over for DA Vance Jan 1 and seems to br unwilling to proceed with the farce.
Republican senators, including Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.), Lindsey Graham (S.C.), Ben Sasse (Neb.) and Marco Rubio (Fla.), are urging Biden to go even further by imposing harsher sanctions directly on Putin and his allies, and faulting the president for not doing so earlier.
But the Reverend implied that everyone (including Republicans) are beside themselves with how much leadership Joe Biden has shown and that they supported him 100% without question.
If this thing goes any further south, you will see Democrats start to turn on him.
TikToks and Satellite Images Show Russia on the Brink of Full InvasionDozens of satellite images and videos posted to social media show Russian troops preparing to attack
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By Wall Street JournalFeb 23, 2022 11:19 am
Russian troops and military equipment have moved out of large visible garrisons in Russia and dispersed into smaller harder-to-track units, along the northeastern border of Ukraine. Photo illustration: Ryan Trefes
Ok, thanks Jamie
Pointing out Biden's Failures
Roger, Denny and James.
Tell us the Biden plan to Lower gas Prices?
What to Know in Washington: Lawmakers Criticize Biden Sanctions
February 23, 2022 7:05 AMBy Michaela Ross and Brandon Lee
President Joe Biden’s debut set of sanctions on Russia for its actions over disputed Ukrainian territory hit markets with a whimper and were quickly criticized as limited in scope.
Instead of a sweeping package that crippled top Russian banks, cut its financial transactions off from the global economy, or personally singled out President Vladimir Putin, the U.S. and its allies settled on a modest “first tranche” of penalties.
President Joe Biden announcing sanctions against Russia at the White House Feb. 22.
The sanctions targeted a pair of Russian banks, VEB.RF and Promsvyazbank as well as three members of Russia’s elite with close ties to the Kremlin. The penalties also sought to freeze future purchases of Russian sovereign debt.
Related: Here’s What Western Allies Hit in First Wave of Russia Sanctions
Yet the sanctions hardly amounted to the precedent-shattering, economy-crippling measures the U.S. and its partners long telegraphed if Russian troops were to roll across the border.
One person familiar with the administration’s thinking said the U.S. still anticipated further Russian moves in the next 24-48 hours, which would trigger additional sanctions. In his address announcing the penalties, Biden said it appeared that Putin was laying the groundwork for Russian forces to move into areas now administered by the Ukrainian government – an action a second person familiar with the administration’s planning said would prompt the president to unleash additional penalties.
Top U.S. diplomat Antony Blinken later announced a summit this week with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov was off.
Biden is also facing intensifying criticism from hawkish lawmakers on both sides of the aisle. Republicans who encouraged him to impose sanctions before any attack by Putin spent yesterday criticizing his actions as ineffectual half-measures, with Senator Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) calling the developments “the 1930s all over again.”
But the South Carolina Republican wasn’t the only one to raise the specter of World War II-era appeasement. Allies like Senator Bob Menendez, the New Jersey Democrat who chairs the Foreign Relations Committee, said the U.S. should levy the “overwhelming amount” of sanctions now in order to deter further aggression by Russia.
“I don’t know what we need to wait for,” Menendez said in an interview with CNN. “What we can’t have here is another Munich moment,” a reference to a 1938 agreement that allowed Nazi Germany to seize part of Czechoslovakia. Read more from Justin Sink.
Biden's S&P 500 is in full retreat into a correction .
"4,234.71 -561.85 (-11.71%) year to date"
About 400 members of the D.C. National Guard and 300 members from outside of the district will support traffic control. None will carry firearms "or take part in law enforcement or domestic-surveillance activities," according to the National Guard Bureau.
Trucker convoy protests are expected to continue through early March, before and after Biden's first State of the Union address on March 1.
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