bylm1-Bernie wrote:
As usual, you've gotten everything backwards. Biden has been politically neutered for 50 years.
Two years ago, Biden was elected to the highest office in the government. I wouldn't call that being politically neutered. Perhaps you can explain what you think politically neutered means?
bylm1-Bernie wrote:
All he responds to is money.
I don't find that to be the case at all. Are you sure you're not just saying that to avenge the exact same accusations leveled at Trump?
bylm1-Bernie wrote:
Blackmailing the Ukrainian with our money to leave his son alone so he can continue his influence peddling.
So far, there is no evidence of any such thing... Just a LOT of conspiracy theories. On the other hand Trump actually got impeached for blackmailing the Ukraine. I remember listening to the recording of the phone call. And now you're saying, without ANY evidence that Biden blackmailed the Ukraine. Are you seeing the pattern here?
bylm1-Bernie wrote:
Knuckling under to the Mexican drug cartels.
LOL - I don't think I've heard that one before. Where are your sources?
bylm1-Bernie wrote:
I wonder what he is getting or expecting to get from keeping our borders open.
The borders aren't open. That's just what people say when their emotional hatred toward Biden exceeds their interest in the facts.
bylm1-Bernie wrote:
The guy is definitely a wimp.
Well, he's not a blowhard like Trump, if that's what you mean. Personally, I don't judge people by their "act" I judge them by their actions. That's why Trump's tough-guy act never worked on me. I guess he fooled you though.
bylm1-Bernie wrote:
Putin saw a 4 year window of opportunity to invade Ukraine and he took it.
Well, it's not working out so well for him is it?
Putin is probably regretting the fact that he didn't attack the Ukraine when Trump was still in office. Trump was expanding his business into Russia... (in a pretty big way, I might add). I have no doubt Putin would have turned that into an advantage and everyone knows Trump is not above corruption. At the same time, Trump's relationship with our NATO allies was already contentious enough to weaken the pact. Not because Trump was standing ground as his autobiography will no doubt say, but because no one knew what Trump was going to do. As clever has his fans think that is, it really isn't good for building trustworthy alliances.
It seems just as likely, if not more, that Putin underestimated the American people in 2020. I'm sure when Biden took office there was a meeting in Moscow where Putin and his men were pondering the situation, like a chess player who just lost his queen. My bet is that waiting another four years was not an option, so Putin probably said... "Well... We just have to carry forward. If we strike hard we can take Ukraine before the U.S. can deploy."
Well, that didn't work, did it? Ukraine held out long enough for Biden to deliver a constant stream of defensive weapons and supplies, much like how we supplied Britain in the early years of WW2, when the British and Europeans did the actual fighting. Had we not done that it's possible Britain may not have held out in the Battle of Britain that turned the tide on the western front. If Britain lost that battle, we would have lost all strategic positions near Europe and all the protection for North Atlantic shipping and there would have been a far greater chance that we ourselves would have lost the war.
Biden is being very careful to limit shipping to what Ukraine needs to hold off the Russian invasion and nothing more. This is 100% in line with NATO and the rest of our European allies. It's basically a strategy of attrition. (Which incidentally is what Britain and Germany were trying to do to each other. I'm not speculating on which side is right or wrong here... The point I am making is that with Biden in the White House, NATO's influence is strong and coherent and it's slowly strangling Russia.
That's how the pros do it.