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Menu There is no diplomatic solutionIsrael should declare three nos;
no to nuclear Iran, no to two-state solution, no to bi-national state
no to nuclear Iran, no to two-state solution, no to bi-national state
Russia cuts the gas supply to the EU the 2nd time in 2 days (well, the EU claimed they can do without the Russian gas).
@Michael In 1980, in New York, we had mechanical voting machines with levers. It was the first presidential election I was old enough to vote in. I voted for Carter, not because I liked him, but because as a leftist I viewed Reagan as a fascist threat. The lesser of two evils. That’s how leftists view Biden.
@Michael I suspect Biden is being compared with Carter because Carter through the shah under the bus and Biden has been accused of throwing Zelensky under the bus with his latest speech.
Carter had no successes as president that I am aware of unless you count the Israel-Egypt accord but whether that was a good thing or a bad thing depends on who you listen to and in what era you are examining it. Sadat certainly intended it as a Trojan Horse to launch theTSS but the Abraham Accords put a different spin on it.
Carter was a deeply unpopular one term president. Reagan crushed him in almost every state.
Imagine if the Dems had had today’s state of the art hi-tech vote rigging available and machines with parts made in China.
Sebastien, you said,
That’s the point. Carter had some plusses, some impressive plusses, alongside his failures. Biden has had only failures.
The Europeans have now had 4 govt setbacks including Estonia, Bulgaria, England and France in recent weeks. The Estonian govt collapsed as they experienced 22% inflation, England’s PM was forced to face a vote of no confidence, the Bulgarian govt coalition has broken up, and now it appears that Macron has failed to gain a majority in the parliament. Consequences such as these were always palpably obvious to anyone considering the sanction policy where those implementing the sanction war on Russia could never seriously have avoided being among the victims of its consequential tragedy. Several months later, we see that the West is actually the major victim of this economic war, and Russia is looking to earn billions more than expected, directly due to this massive economic blunder, which will continue to have consequences all across the West. Meanwhile, the West has provided massive economic and military aid packages for Ukraine, all of which have failed to appreciably change Ukraines continued incremental retreat. It should also be recognized that the incremental retreat by Ukraine has only remained incremental due to the political resolve to sacrifice good troops while clinging to untenable positions due to political considerations. With all of this in mind, what more could the US do for Ukraine. They are not up to the task of their own self defence, and they are unwilling to negotiate, not even when negotiations would have saved them from the tragedy of this war, and the loss of their existing borders.
Sure is – thanks to Siemens the gas supply from Russia to the EU has been cut 40%!
14 Jun, 2022 14:18
So lets look at how the Ukrainians are employing some of that $50+ billion aid that has been given to them to protect them from the Russian onslaught. Yesterday, the city of Donetz, far behind Russian lines, well away from the current battle, suffered the most severe artillery barage by Ukraine since the war began, BACK IN 2014!! This amid the Ukraine demand for more munitions, claiming they do not have enough artillery to survive the war. The attack on Donetz came from multiple angles of attack and actually scored a direct hit on an active hospital. The UN did respond to the attack, noting their “concern over shelling of a maternity hospital in Donetsk, adding that this is an obvious breach of the international humanitarian law.”
https://sana.sy/en/?p=274638
If Ukraine is so limited in their means of defending against Russia, they should focus their artillery upon the Russian Army facing them. This savage attacks upon the people of the Dombas demonstrates the reality that actually began this war, 8yrs ago, they just enjoy killing ethnic Russians, and they prefer to fight battles they can win. The Russians are pressing their line of scrimmage ever forward into newly lost Ukrainian territory due to the lack of artillery to prevent their advance, makes the deployment of this significant artillery barrage at non-military targets all the more infamous. It also demonstrates the culpability of the US and Europe in this war crime, as they provided their proxy the means by which this war crime is being committed, and will likely continue until either they stop receiving arms or are bushed back beyond the successful range of their Western war weapons, which are being plied once more against a civilian population. It seems the more things change, the more some things remain the same.
@Michael Carter lost Iran and Nicaragua. He threw the Shah under the bus. Inflation went through the roof. As president, Carter was incompetent. He didn’t have the excuse of dementia. It is true though that – other than the bungled rescue attempt of the US embassy hostages in Iran – Carter was the last president before Trump to refrain from new military adventures.
Like Biden, he was hostile to Israel and in fact was a virulent antisemite who taught Sunday School out of the White House
https://www.jewishpress.com/indepth/opinions/jimmy-carter-the-sunday-school-years/2018/10/28/
Biden has never had a job other than politician, it’s true, and he never distinguished himself. He was wrongmost of the time.
@Honeybee
Well put.
I would like to be abandoned with 42 billion dollars
Biden has been compared to Carter. This is grotesquely unfair to Jimmy Carter:
https://twitter.com/LundeenOttawa/status/1470952439897636871/photo/3
@Adam Dalgliesh
Russia is no longer the USSR.
It is not a totalitarian state.
Russia’s “misfortune” is that it is sitting on most of the continent.
The West wants to rule that continent and this involves defeating Russia which was begging NATO for 30 years not to surround it, in vain.
The US et al. thought that Russia would be drawn into its “Afghanistan 2” or would be handily defeated quickly – it didn’t work, in fact, it boomeranged badly at the West.
Now the poor Zelensky is going to get it from all his “supporters”.
Biden has indeed abandoned Ukraine. Unlike Turdey, I think this is an outrageous betrayal, similar to Chamberlain and Daladier’s abandonment ofof Czechoslovakia and Poland at Munich and subsequently. Turdey’s glorification of Russia and China, autocratic states that deny people their most basic human rights, reveal him to be a fascist.
He really has some nerve calling himself a “patriot” when he backs hostile foreign countries against his own country.