“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.”
— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) February 21, 2020
This inane comment from Joe “King Kong” Biden reminds me of Slim Pickens removing his flying helmet, donning his cowboy hat, and announcing:
“Well boys, this is it. Nuclear combat toe to toe with the Russkies,” from Dr. Strangelove, directed by Stanley Kubrick in 1964, a superb movie presaging our possible war with Russia using our B-52H’s.
Recently, after meeting with European leaders, Vice President Harris told the assembled media,
“I mean, listen, guys (attempting to sound tough in a George Raft kinda way, I surmise), we’re talking about the potential for war in Europe. I mean, let’s really take a moment to understand the significance of what we’re talking about.”
Sure, let’s do that, Kamala.
The steely glint in Kamala’s eyes, hard set above her wizened face, indicated the newfound fervor for war of one recently initiated into its bellicose calling.
The statements from Vice President Harris simply appeared to be more posturing and fear-mongering meant to gin up hysterics on behalf of our allies while she’s trying to cow Vladimir Putin who, it is reported, wrestles bears on his time away from ticking off names to be rubbed out. It appears, at least until all the facts are in, that Putin is by no means cowed by the Biden team’s semi-modified tough talk and is having the time of his life while our allies are scared to death – not of Putin, of course, but of Kamala.
President Biden and Vice President Harris have been more than happy to drone on interminably about the possibility of another European war which allows them to pull a great big horse blanket over their crippling domestic failings in our ports, the skyrocketing cost of home goods and gasoline, the empty supermarket shelves and inflation climbing to heights last viewed during those glorious Jimmy “Mr. Peanut” Carter years of malaise. Biden’s inflation has been tracked to altitudes where the economic genius Lawrence Kudlow is said to be using the radio telescope at Jodrell Bank to chart it.
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Falling in line to support the Biden Administration, the deft economist Paul Krugman of the far left NY Times recently scribbled on Twitter:
“But really, everything we’ve seen so far is pretty much in line with a benign scenario.” Benign, of course, unless you have a family, work, and need a car to get there while heating a home and feeding your bairns.
Then, moving back to the sad reality repeated in Munich and the sad dumfounded Ukrainian leader who is gamely trying to keep up with “Blue Collar” Joe’s quips, “If Russia pursues its plans, it will be responsible for a catastrophic and needless war of choice,” according to the NY Post, and Kamala’s calls for war, where “…we’re talking about the potential for war in Europe!”
“So, you’re telling me that it’s 100 percent that the war will start in a couple of days. Then what [are you] waiting for?” President Zelensky of Ukraine asked Kamala Harris? “We don’t need your sanctions after the bombardment will happen, and after our country will be fired at or after we will have no borders or after we will have no economy or parts of our country will be occupied or lie in ruins,” the Patriot Retort told us.
But Harris indicated the Biden administration would not level sanctions before Putin acted to trigger them.
“We’re gonna take this one moment at a time in terms of what might need to happen in the future in terms of escalation,” she added archly.
She again warned Russia about the size and scope of the prepared sanctions such as freezing the assets of the pitiable few oligarchs who have money in NYC banks while taking a pass on all those who have their dough in Bermudian and Bahamian depositories.
“When we look at the significance of these sanctions, they are immense,” she said. Yes, immense to the individual depositors, or “guys” in Harris patois, maybe, but not to Russia as a whole.
Harris also warned that the United States would likely suffer higher costs for energy if they had to level sanctions on Russia because Biden has taken the US from an oil-exporting nation to one relying on the good graces of OPEC and the very country Kamala is threatening to lean on, Russia, which supplies oil to us, too.
“We are aware that again when America stands for principles, and all of the things that we hold dear, it requires sometimes for us to put ourselves out there in a way that maybe we will perhaps incur some cost and in this situation,” she said curiously. “That may relate to energy costs.” Indeed it may to your constituents, you fool!
But, hold on, not so fast. Now we learn that “…every day, Joe Biden buys 500,000 barrels of oil from Russia. Now how in the hell can you put sanctions on somebody, and you’re buying stuff from him? We bought 232 million barrels of oil from Russia in Joe Biden’s first year.
–US Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Al.)
I find it incredulous that someone so devoid of “gravitas” and common sense, namely Vice President Kamala Harris, who has yet to visit the southern US border – her initial key area of responsibility and instead traveled to Paris, not Texas but, yes, France – went to Munich where she drummed up a war panic the likes of which we haven’t seen since, “Remember the Maine!” She, quite frankly, scared hell out of President Zelensky, whom we were supposed to be calming and reassuring through our words and deeds.
So, this is our foreign policy under Biden. Send our now thoroughly detested current VP of doobie and hip-hop fame to scare the bejesus out the leader of Ukraine, drum up war fever among our now frightened allies, and leave the possible aggressor chuckling before he invades the country we’ve told the world he would but we daren’t place any sanctions on Putin until he actually invades. So, what’ll we do now, Joe? Nothing, because Joe knows we need Russian oil.
Then Vladimir Putin struck on February 24th with cruise missiles, rockets, artillery and bombing runs catching the Biden Administration without that Plan B, read – with their pants down, the lack of which has escaped them in every single major caper they’ve faced – at home and abroad.
Meanwhile, amphibious landings occurred in Odessa as the Ukrainian navy was incapacitated; missile strikes exploded in Mariupol, Kyiv, Kramatorsk, and Kharkiv.
Biden and NATO? They have called for more sanctions which will no more work than sanctions from the League of Nations slowed Mussolini’s gobbling up of Abyssinia nor would sanctions have slowed Hitler’s panzers and Stukas in Poland in September 1939 or knocked them off their record-setting race to the English Channel in May of 1940. Did sanctions slow Saddam subsuming Kuwait?
Strongmen are never stopped by the removal of their lunch money or turning out their lights. Bullies are only stopped by a swift belt in the mouth. If a prolonged fight ensues, it may be messy and that is the price of maintaining freedom here and in Europe.
America either stands, clearly elucidates its position and fights if stepped on, or we need to remain home and reconsider our place in the world. But sending a cackling VP like Kamala Harris to Munich shouting, “War!” scaring President Zelensky of Ukraine, then telling him that we won’t even impose sanctions until Russia invades, and when Putin does, we’re left scrambling, shows the world that the United States is run by fops and ninnies who don’t have the slightest grasp of international relations, power politics and dictators.
Putin’s panzers are racing onward in the night, our sanctions not slowing them a bit.
