UKRAINE: THE POLITICS AND THE FACTS

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Tierney’s REAL News (3/20/22)

So, what’s really going on in Ukraine? It’s complicated. My research shows that almost NOTHING you are hearing on the TV news is accurate. I’ve watched dozens of videos and listened to testimony from dozens of people who actually live there and I’ve listened to assessments from all sides. This is what I think:

IMHO, the Western media and politicians are feeding us a narrative that is FAKE – and they have many reasons to do that. Some good. Many bad.

Remember that Ukraine was once part of Russia. Remember that Putin is in Ukraine to rid it of the brutal and genocidal NAZI Azov forces, which were trained by the CIA to overthrow Putin, and have murdered 14,000 Ukrainian Russians in Ukraine since 2014 – and have literally threatened to attack Russia with nuclear weapons or bio-weapons from Ukraine. I’ve seen the evidence. So, Putin has a VALID REASON to get rid of them in Ukraine – which is right next door to Russia.

Putin is also fighting against the GREAT RESET transhumanist atheist globalists like Klaus Schwab, Bill Gates & George Soros and has partnered with Communist China, India & Brazil to combat them. However, Communist China is a major threat to the world on it’s own! See the problem? We are caught in the middle between a global battle for control!

This is the most accurate assessment I’ve heard so far – and it’s been confirmed by many people I trust:

“It’s obvious that any Ukrainian forces, that are still active, are surrounded and entirely cut off and isolated in various towns and cities. The Azov Ukrainian forces are incapable of anything but an occasional pinprick attack on something that doesn’t appear to be very robust or dangerous.

So the war, for all intents and purposes, has been decided. Russia has won. The issue for Russia from the very beginning has been “how do we proceed without killing large numbers of civilians and inflicting a lot of property damage” and Putin gave very strict orders from the outset that they were to avoid these things.

The problem with Putin’s warning is that it has slowed the progress of the operation to the point where it has given false hope to the Ukrainians and it has been seized on by people of the West to try to convince the world that a defeat of Russia is in progress – when in fact the exact opposite is the case.

The war itself, at this stage of the game could be decided very very rapidly – permanently – if Putin were to give the order and allow the Russian forces to disregard concern for civilians and property damage – but he has not done that. He has continued to negotiate even though he recognizes that the people sitting across from him (Zelensky tools) really are not in a position to deliver much.

Zelensky is being told what to do and it’s very obvious that Washington wants this to continue as long as possible with the hopes that Russia will be desperately harmed. I just don’t see that happening.

This morning the latest polling data was given to me from Eastern Poland about Russia and 70% of the Russian population is firmly behind Putin. That’s a very large percentage in any conflict for any president to enjoy. That’s up almost 10% since the war started!

They say Putin has lost two thousand Russian soldiers so far – but I have no way of confirming that and nobody else does either – that may well be the case – but out of two hundred thousand Russian troops – losing 2000 soldiers is not an unreasonable amount for three weeks of fighting.

We’re going to get inflated figures from Ukraine for their opponents and untrue figures for Ukraine because obviously Zelensky isn’t going to report honestly.

So I think the big problem right now is that in the West there is NO truth being reported. There is wishful thinking and there is this impression of success by the Ukrainians – it doesn’t stack up. Russians are even capturing large quantities of western military equipment, provided by the British & Americans, that has been shipped to Ukraine!

On this map of the Eastern front, in the South you have as many as 60,000 Ukrainian Azov [NAZI] troops that are completely surrounded by the Russians – what the Russians are referring to as a cauldron. That’s been going on for several days now – no one knows what the status of those forces is.

The Ukrainian Azov troops are probably running out of water, supplies and ammunition. The Russians would prefer that the [Azov NAZIs] surrender – some have – but there may be pressure now to end this which would result in a mass slaughter of some 60,000 Azov troops. I don’t think Russia is interested in that.

What the Russians are interested is – as you can see –they’ve gone to the large population centers and they tried to avoid the central portion of Ukraine because that’s the agricultural area.

In fact Russian troops have been told to stay out of the fields. The Russians realize that we’re on the verge of spring planting in Ukraine and they’re not interested in destroying the wheat and barley crops at all. They would prefer to see that go ahead. [Remember that China is Ukraine’s biggest trading partner – Ukraine literally FEEDS the Chinese people!]

So, the issue for the Russians right now is that everything worth controlling is controlled.

So this notion that you hear over and over and over again on television is that Russia must be losing because they haven’t increased their territorial control- they’re not interested in territory! The entire operation from day one was focused on the destruction of Ukrainian military forces and that’s largely complete with the exception of those that are still surrounded.

They’ve got a huge problem in Mariupol in the East where you have roughly 3,000 of these fanatical fighters in the Ukrainian Azov (NAZI) regiment or battalion, or whatever you want to call it, [NAZIs who have been trained by the CIA] who are refusing to allow any of the Ukrainian civilians in the city to leave.

In fact, I saw footage this morning of Ukrainian Azov (NAZI) troops telling the Ukainians that they can’t leave even though the Russians had opened a corridor for humanitarian assistance and evacuation.

These things are not reported in the west because it tends to damage the narrative.

My great concern is that Putin’s determination to annihilate the Azov Nazis could result in real destruction of Mariupol which would be terrible for the civilians there. [BTW – Putin just told Azov to surrender by March 21 or he’s going into Mariupol and all bets are off. Meanwhile, Zelensky keeps stalling and calling for WW3.]

But again, one doesn’t know what the thinking is at higher levels. I suspect there’s a desire to get this over with. But as long as Zelensky stalls and drags out the war, more Ukrainian forces will be killed and it doesn’t make any difference how much military equipment we try to ship into Ukraine – the Azov battalion can’t assimilate it or use it effectively. [All that will happen is that the Russians will confiscate OUR equipment just like the Taliban did in Afghanistan!]

But again this satisfies the West’s [false] narrative that the Russians are losing, Putin is evil and must be driven out and that he’s the aggressor.

All of the information going back to 2014 and earlier has essentially been deleted [from the internet] – nobody is aware that the Ukrainian Azov battalion has waged war against the Russians in Eastern Ukraine for 8 years and 14,000 Russians in Ukraine have been murdered since then [by the Ukrainian Azov NAZIs.]

It’s very tragic but I think the truth will come out eventually, the war will end and the Russians will be successful in what they set out to do – unfortunately Ukraine will be destroyed.

I’d rather not see that. I don’t think Putin wants to see that. Remember that he’s fighting against people that he largely considers to be very much like himself. There is no desire for Putin to murder all these people – contrary to popular belief.

The biggest lie I have heard repeated on television is that Russian troops have been told to deliberately murder Ukrainian civilians. That’s absurd, it’s nonsense. Nothing could be further from the truth.

Do they make mistakes – do munitions fall on things they’d rather not – of course. The US makes those mistakes too. Every military organization does – but it is ridiculous to assert that Russian troops are deliberately murdering Ukraine’s civilians.

It’s just as ridiculous to assert that when the US was in Vietnam, and other wars in the Middle East, that we were deliberately murdering civilians. We were not. We didn’t always tell the truth when we made mistakes – and we’d try to dress it up – but we never set out to do those things. I don’t see any evidence that Russia is doing it either – or the war would have been over 10 days ago.”

So, the CIA, Zelensky & the GREAT RESET atheist ONE WORLD ORDER globalists (Schwab, Gates & Soros) are fighting against BRICS nationalists (Brazil, Russia, India, China & South America) for control of the world and our money.

The problem is that Xi isn’t really a nationalist – he’s an atheist who wants to control the world too. Xi is in a battle with his own party in China – for control of the Communist Party. We The People are caught in the middle – and the fake news is on the side of the GREAT RESET atheist globalists. The globalists CREATED Xi & the monster known as Communist China and he has turned against them. Now they want to destroy him. Got it?

The question is – where does Putin’s allegiance really lie? Is he a Christian who wants to restore Mother Russia to her Christian roots and keep the New World Order from taking over the world? Or is he a Soviet KGB who wants to turn Russia back into the Communist Soviet Union and JOIN the New World Order? Here’s one view that was published by a friend of Steve Bannon’s:

Vladimir Putin is a powerful ideological symbol and a highly effective ideological litmus test. He is a hero to populist conservatives around the world.

Our globalist leaders have deprecated sovereignty since the end of the Cold War. [That means globalists hate countries – they want a ONE WORLD ORDER. Putin wants to restore faith and national sovereignty and has openly rebuked the NWO and “woke” capitalism.]

Putin is not the president of a feminist NGO. He is not a transgender-rights activist. He is not an ombudsman appointed by the United Nations to make and deliver slide shows about green energy.

He is the elected leader of Russia—a rugged, relatively poor, militarily powerful country that in recent years has been frequently humiliated, robbed, and misled. His job has been to protect his country’s prerogatives and its sovereignty in an international system that seeks to erode sovereignty in general and views Russia’s sovereignty in particular as a threat.

By American standards, Putin’s respect for the democratic process has been fitful at best. He has cracked down on peaceful demonstrations. Political opponents have been arrested and jailed throughout his rule. Some have even been murdered.

Yet if we were to use traditional measures for understanding leaders, which involve the defense of borders and national flourishing, Putin would count as the pre-eminent statesman of our time.

When Putin took power in the winter of 1999-2000, his country (the former Soviet Union) was defenseless. It was bankrupt. It was being carved up. Putin changed that. Out of a crumbling empire, he rescued a nation-state, and gave it coherence and purpose. He disciplined his country’s plutocrats. He restored its military strength. And he refused, with ever blunter rhetoric, to accept for Russia a subservient role in an American-run world system drawn up by foreign politicians and business leaders. His voters credit him with having saved his country.

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Putin did not come out of nowhere. Russian people not only tolerate him, they revere him.

There are two things Putin did that cemented the loyalty of Russians—he restrained the billionaires (Oligarchs) who were looting the country, and he restored Russia’s standing abroad.

Russia faces great threats from the Islamic world – just like Israel. Putin beat back the military advance of Islamist armies in Chechnya and Dagestan, and he took a hard line on terrorism—including a decision not to negotiate with hostage-takers, even in secret.

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Democrats (and leftists around the world) have gone to extraordinary lengths to discredit Putin. Why?

Today’s biggest threat to the U.S. isn’t Vladimir Putin. [It’s actually Xi of Communist China & Schwab/Gates/Soros of the GREAT RESET.]

But Putin makes a great scapegoat. He makes a great villain. When anything goes wrong – let’s blame Putin! Russia did it!

So why are people thinking about Putin as much as they do? Because he has become a symbol of national self-determination.

In the same way, Putin’s conduct is bound to win sympathy even from some of Russia’s enemies, the ones who feel the international system is not delivering for them. Generally, if you like that system, you will consider Vladimir Putin a menace. If you don’t like it, you will have some sympathy for him.

Putin has become a symbol of national sovereignty in its battle with globalism. That turns out to be the big battle of our times. As our last election shows, that’s true even in America.”

https://imprimis.hillsdale.edu/how-to-think-about-vladimir-putin/

One final thought from me about Putin – Russia is literally the world’s gas station. 70% of Russia’s economy depends on their ability to sell gas & oil around the world for the highest prices possible. That’s why Putin LOVES that fact that Biden is pushing windmills & solar panels in America – so that Americans will STOP drilling for oil and fracking for gas to COMPETE with Russia as the world’s energy provider.

In fact, America has the greatest oil & gas reserves in the world – we have more oil & gas than Russia OR Saudi Arabia. We have the cleanest air, soil & water in the world too. America is capable of being totally energy independent and not having to rely on any other country to supply us with energy! We have so much that we could sell it all over the world and drive DOWN prices so everybody wins. How cool is that?

Imagine what a gift it was to Putin for Biden to shut down American drilling and fracking and drive up the price of gas? Putin loves the climate change lobby because it helps Russia sell more gas & oil! Biden did that. Biden destroyed American energy and now he wants to blame Putin. Biden wants to appease the progressive wing of the Democrat party with climate change BS – which is nothing more than another money laundering scheme. Biden wants to make gas & oil so expensive in America that we AGREE to accept windmills and solar panels – made in China & Germany – while other countries keep drilling and laughing at us! We are a joke!

Why would Biden do that? Because Putin & Xi have so much dirt on the Biden crime family and Biden’s son that Biden will do ANYTHING they say to keep that hidden.

The West thinks by demonizing Putin & destroying Russia that it can dissuade Xi from invading Taiwan and taking over the global chip market. First they plan to destroy Russia – then Communist China – so that the GREAT RESET can flourish. How do you think the world will embrace that?

The other big issue is that the world literally runs on the dollar. If the BRICS nations take on the GREAT RESET and try to destroy the dollar – that could really hurt America. But my view is that needs to happen anyway. They are working on a digital currency to replace the dollar anyway. We need to go back to some kind of gold standard and STOP printing fiat currency out of nothing!

In closing, America created Communist China and now fears what we created. America created the CIA, which enabled the rise of the GREAT RESET Davos crowd, and now we fear what we created. America literally allowed a mobster, named Joe Biden, who is in the pocket of our enemies, to steal the White House from an American patriot, Donald Trump, who loves his country.

PETER SCHWEIZER: “If you look at the three big flashpoints in American foreign policy today – Ukraine, Russia & China – the Biden family has received funds, millions of dollars… from powerful individuals connected to the government in each of those countries.”

America created this mess. We let it happen. We need to fix it!

PS: I know this is complicated and I hope I haven’t confused you more! Please reach out with questions, comments or concerns!

March 21, 2022 | 10 Comments »

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  1. No America saw these Fascists as being an asset in what the American side called the Cold “WAR”

    In other words for America no peace in 1945

    So they worked with these Fascists obviously in exile.

    Thanks to America these Ukrainian Fascists went free.

    Most obvious case is Mykola Lebed.

    We wrote about researcher John Loftus on this site. He gave an overall picture. Is common knowledge.

    In short the US saved them post 1945 then supported their descendants in 2014 Maidan. There’s total continuity.

  2. @Felix

    You are right. These native Nazis were protected by America after 1945 and the results were seen in Donbass from 2014 to just before Putin invaded..

    This doesn’t make sense. After 1945 til 1991, Ukraine was a member of the Soviet Union, and the “native Nazi’s” there were not cultivated by the US. This is not to ignore or reduce the significance of those Nazi’s that the US did cultivate for themselves, but the Ukrainian Nazi’s were in Ukraine all along.

    The Ukrainian nazi problem is an organic Ukrainian problem. As I have read several times, a telling of the shifting power struggle between the pro-Russian/anti-Nazi and the anti-Russian/pro-Nazi groups in Ukraine could easily write the real history of Ukraine. This struggle has long been baked into their DNA. Following the fall of the Soviets, there was an ongoing balance between the two groups. The 2012 election was actually the closest that the two groups came to fulfilling a mutlicultural model, (note the word ‘closest’ should not be interpreted to mean ‘close’), but then the US broke what balance that had been built between the two groups in 2014 with an asymmetrical power coup, and, well, like most people who could grade their own homework, the Nazi’s were not meek in seeking out their wildest fantasies when there was no one to tell them to be tolerant in their approach.

    I expect you disagree, so I look forward to your explanation of how the US cultivated the Nazi’s in Ukraine after WWII.

  3. Steven L

    You are right. These native Nazis were protected by America after 1945 and the results were seen in Donbass from 2014 to just before Putin invaded..

    What concerns me is Joe Biden who insults Russia at every opportunity. I am counting that Putin has the level headedness to avoid nuclear exchange.

    Peg is one of those also resisting…

  4. @ Edgar G
    Laura Logan a real journalist has a lot to say about the Fanatics surrounding Zelensky; none positive.
    Apparently the Nuremberg commission gave a pass to the Ukrainian Nazis (spared for future use).
    Just like the Wernher Magnus Maximilian Freiherr von Braun captured to develop the rockets project in the US!

  5. Peggy sounds like a real Russophile. She mentions “murder” about several times, always when alluding to the AZOV NAZIS, and once when asserting that Putin doesn’t want to murder etc.etc.

    Then she goes off at a tangent about Putin’s KGB antecedents, and how he is an ELECTED leader….etc.

    Well we all know how he’s done that…or have we forgotten. He and his pet presidents/premier swapped roles, in already decided “elections”. So in effect he’s been in complete control of Russia since 1999. 23 years is generally called a dictatorship. Assad also has “elections”. I don’t think he gets more than 99% of the vote.

    Again, I MUCH prefer the report that Adam found, the one from “The Washington Free Beacon”…which reads as far more factual -meaning believable, no “Banner” Headliners.

    TIERNEY report of Ukraine’s wheat exports to China is VERY misleading. And the published reports of production and consumption by each country varies.

    List of major Wheat and Grains Producers..as of 2020.(mot reliable)

    1) China – 140 million tons. (Last year consumed 440 million tons and produced nearly all of it itself).

    3) RUSSIA- 85 million tons

    5) France 37 mill tons (much more than Australia and Canada)

    9) Ukraine -26 million tons,

    10) Germany 24.7 million tons.

    Russia is by far the world’s largest grains exporter. Last year 35 million tons.

    Last year China imported 4 million tons total. Egypt (7.5 mill) , Indonesia (6.5) and Turkey 5.4) import more grains than China.

    UKRAINE DOES NOT LITERALLY FEED CHINA.

    Australia, France, Canada and several others produce far more than Ukraine. (although it is heading towards being the 2nd largest exporter)

    I don’t intend this to be a Wheat-Mart report, but just to show that Peggy Tierney has been not reliable for a while.

  6. I’ve just read it and I don’t believe half of it. It’s written in “super-scaremonger” terms, which in itself should arouse suspicion. It smells of a Yellow Rag report.

    I’ve spent the last over two hours researching everything I could find about this Azov Group. There are NO 60,000 AZOV “fanatics”. And I saw NOWHERE that they were formed to kill Putin -except by Peggy Tierney. In every issue she avers how long she’s been tee-total, but, from her off-the- precipice statements lately, I have questioned this..

    I saw that the Azovs, formed in early 2014, were to be trained by the US and that 3 months later that intention was withdrawn due to perceived Neo-Nazi tendencies.. Other countries followed suit I also read that Pentagon pressure reinstated training, but could find nothing more..

    The only way to kill Putin is by assassination, not by a miniscule military group. however fanatical.

    The Azov goal in 2014 was 2.500 total. but reached only up to 600. Now is reputed to be about 900. They spent most of their time fighting against the Separatists, the reason they were formed. But after the Russian invasion they now fight against the Russians. They deny that as a group they are Nazis but say that there are many Neo Nazis in their ranks, as many as 15-20%. They have a generally bad reputation.

    Well, that’s nothing new. There are Neo Nazi groups in democratic countries all over the world, including good old USA.

    {Not counting those hundreds of groups which have “compounds,” separated from local communities, especially in the US.} .

    They do a lot of talking, parading, threatening, and very little else other than an occasional, riot. BLM is a 100 times worse but accepted by the US govt..

    There are Jewish Ukrainian Patriots in it also. SO it’s a rather confused hodge-podge kind of group. I read a lot about 20 Croatian volunteers joining them, causing a mini-international crisis…

    Anyway I hate to disagree with PELONI , but in this case, I at least reserve my support. I prefer Adams. post below.

  7. Meg’s notion that Putin “has become the symbol of national sovereignty” while he is using force to destroy the sovereignty of another nation is what George Orwell called “blackwhite”— assertions that are not only false, but the exact reverse of the truth.

  8. This column from the Washington Free Beacon is a much more realistic assessment of U.S. policy than Meg’s. It is right on the mark.

    Hope for Ukraine Is Not a Strategy
    Matthew Continetti
    President Biden Delivers His First State Of The Union Address To Joint Session Of Congress
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    The strongest part of President Biden’s State of the Union address was the section on the war in Ukraine. Biden condemned the Russian invasion. He welcomed the Ukrainian ambassador. He led Congress in a statement of solidarity with the Ukrainian people in their fight against the Russian aggressor. He announced that the United States was closing its airspace to Russian planes, cutting off Russia from the international financial system, penalizing the Russian central bank, sanctioning the Russian government and its leadership, and targeting Russian oligarchs. He made it clear whose side the United States is on. “Together with our allies,” Biden said, “we are providing support to the Ukrainians in their fight for freedom. Military assistance. Economic assistance. Humanitarian assistance.”

    All good. All sensible. And not nearly enough. Defeating Russia in Ukraine and restoring American deterrence will require much more than Biden has announced so far. The State of the Union was a chance for Biden to explain the nature of the threat, the stakes for America, his plan for rolling back Putin’s offensive, his strategy for American revival, and the potential costs to American citizens. He ducked the hard questions. He relied on bromides. He left the impression that the road ahead will be relatively painless, and that victory is assured. It isn’t.

    “Putin may circle Kyiv with tanks, but he will never gain the hearts and souls of the Iranian people,” Biden said. He meant to say the “Ukrainian people.” A laudable sentiment. And a misleading one. What does it matter to Putin if he gains the “hearts and souls” of Ukrainians? He doesn’t want their love. He desires their territory. And he won’t just encircle Kyiv with tanks. He will level it. Biden could have warned America and the world about the sorts of horrible images already being broadcast from Ukraine. He could have explained why the misery will grow worse long before it subsides. He could have steeled the nation’s spine for the uncertain years ahead. He chose not to.

    “Freedom will always triumph over tyranny,” Biden said. Another lovely idea that crumbles under scrutiny. Ask the North Koreans or the Cubans or the Venezuelans or the Iranians or the Chinese or, for that matter, the Russians if freedom always triumphs over tyranny. The tragic fact of the matter is that freedom is rare. Authoritarians are resilient. Biden left out the element essential to freedom’s victory. Freedom requires more than will. It requires force. And in today’s world of proliferating dangers, the only nation with the power to shield freedom from its enemies is the United States.

    I’m not talking about the power of our example. I mean the military and strategic assets at our disposal. These elements of national power are the foundation for a world of democracies. But they have atrophied. America’s armed forces labor under budget constraints. America’s nuclear deterrent requires modernization. America’s research and development has withered, and American energy has been constricted. America’s alliances are force multipliers that Biden has leveraged well against Russia. They can only get us so far, however. In the end, it will be American will and American might that guarantee international security in Europe, East Asia, and the Greater Middle East. Every minute spent evading this reality is wasted.

    Which is why Biden’s easy confidence in the eventual victory of freedom over oppression troubles me. Take the defense budget. Biden mentioned the Department of Defense a single time—in reference to his plan to “end cancer as we know it.” He spent an hour calling on Congress to pass legislation that has failed already. Not once did he ask Congress to pass the defense appropriations bill. Nor did he ask for more to be spent on defense in this global emergency. America spent an average of 7 percent of gross domestic product on our military during the first Cold War. Now we spend about 3 percent. To win a Second Cold War against an expansionist Russia and a belligerent China, we must spend more. Failure to do so isn’t just unserious. It’s reckless.

    Biden’s energy plan was similarly troubling. He announced the release of strategic petroleum reserves to tamp down the rising cost of oil and gasoline. The problem with reserves, though, is that they eventually run out. How will we replenish them? Biden left no clue. He wants to provide “investments and tax credits to weatherize your homes and businesses to be energy efficient.” He wants to “double America’s clean energy production in solar, wind, and so much more.” He wants electric vehicles to be cheaper. He’s deluding himself. The words “drill,” “natural gas,” and “nuclear” never passed his lips. He won’t ban Russian oil imports—meaning that we continue to fund the butchers of Ukraine. The American energy sector is the key to national independence, freedom of action on the world stage, and long-term weaning of Europe from dependence on Russian energy. You wouldn’t know that from listening to Biden.

    But you would get the impression that the president is averse to conflict. “Let me be clear,” he said, “our forces are not engaged and will not engage in conflict with Russian forces in Ukraine.” The reinforcements he’s deployed to Europe are there to defend NATO if Putin turns against the Baltic States, Poland, or Romania. America will send weapons to Ukraine, but otherwise the Ukrainians are on their own. This message doesn’t inspire confidence. It gives Putin a green light to conduct the war on his terms. The best way to prevent the expansion of the war is to make Putin second-guess his actions. How? Not by continually reminding him of what you won’t do. You deter Putin by forcing him to consider what you might do.

    The State of the Union contained nothing that might stop Putin from continuing his assault. Biden’s silence about the American withdrawal from Afghanistan was telling. He said the word “Afghanistan” just twice, in a section devoted to spending more resources on American veterans. I’m all for spending money to help the troops—active duty as well as reserve and retired. But the 13 servicemen killed as America retreated from a land that we protected for two decades deserved better. The Afghans themselves deserved a mention, as well, especially the ones we have welcomed to America. Their absence was odd.

    The whole speech was odd. It lacked the seriousness required during a national trial. Its logic was nonsensical: Biden argued with a straight face, for instance, that protectionism somehow will reduce inflation. His policy proposals either had nothing to do with, or will actively undermine, national priorities such as reducing inflation, securing the southern border, and reestablishing a peaceful world through military strength. “We are stronger today than we were a year ago,” Biden concluded. It’s pleasant to think so. But that doesn’t mean it’s true.

    Published under: Defense Budget, Joe Biden, National Defense, Russia, State of the Union, Ukraine, Ukraine Invasion, Vladimir Putin

  9. Peg really hit this one out of the park. Long read, but well worth the effort. There is a great deal of context to the Russia-Ukraine-Nato tug of war.