{"id":611908,"date":"2023-02-25T21:24:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-26T03:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.sellorbuyhomefast.com\/index.php\/2023\/02\/25\/delusional-joe-biden-takes-victory-lapse\/"},"modified":"2023-02-25T21:24:00","modified_gmt":"2023-02-26T03:24:00","slug":"delusional-joe-biden-takes-victory-lapse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2023\/02\/25\/delusional-joe-biden-takes-victory-lapse\/","title":{"rendered":"Delusional Joe Biden takes victory lapse"},"content":{"rendered":"
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To mark the anniversary of Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine, President Biden made a surprising visit to Kyiv<\/a>, where he promised continued American aid and international support. There, and in a second stop in Poland, his speeches sounded like declarations of victory.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cPresident Putin is confronted with something today that he didn\u2019t think was possible a year ago,\u201d Biden said in Warsaw. \u201cThe democracies of the world have grown stronger, not weaker. But the autocrats of the world have grown weaker, not stronger.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Even allowing for Ukraine\u2019s remarkable tenacity, the assertion of large geopolitical gains for the West is premature at best. The war in Ukraine<\/a> is far from won, and claiming victory at halftime is a fool\u2019s errand.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In fact, the second year is already shaping up as far more complicated than the first. Iran is expanding its drone supply to Russia and China aims to play a bigger role, with President Xi Jinping planning<\/a> to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. More alarming, China might supply Russia with arms, creating a new axis of evil that could spark a world war.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Vladimir Putin is preparing to launch a new, larger offensive within weeks.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\"President
Chinese President Xi Jinping plans to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. <\/figcaption>
Bloomberg via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Despite these developments, Washington acts as if nothing has changed. It continues to drag its feet in helping Ukraine match Putin\u2019s weaponry even as most of NATO has pulled its usual disappearing act.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Although the US has committed a staggering $113 billion<\/a> to the war without serious auditing of where the non-military aid goes, it is still slow-walking military equipment Ukraine says it needs. The pattern is that first, the administration says no to a request, then weeks or months later says yes, and weeks or months after that, makes a delivery.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Two-year wait\u00a0<\/h2>\n

The habit is reaching new levels of absurdity over Zelensky\u2019s push for Abrams tanks. The White House agreed to the request on Jan.\u200925, according to The Wall Street Journal editorial page<\/a>, but now says it might take up to two years for the 31 tanks to make it to the front lines.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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President Biden recently said he wouldn\u2019t send F-16s to Ukraine \u201cfor now.\u201d<\/figcaption>
NurPhoto via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In wartime, two years means never. Zelensky\u2019s push for fighter jets<\/a> is still in the \u201cno\u201d stage, so presumably, he will get those sometime after he gets the tanks.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The possibility that China will compound Russia\u2019s offensive power should be a wake-up call<\/a> to Washington. Instead, officials comfort themselves by repeating wishful talking points.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The always-unimpressive Jake Sullivan, Biden\u2019s National Security Adviser, declared on CNN last week that \u201cRussia has already lost the war\u201d and sneered at a larger China role by insisting, without evidence, that many Chinese officials already find it \u201cdifficult to deal with\u201d Russia\u2019s assault on Ukrainian civilians.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re just trying to get through,\u201d he said of the Chinese officials, \u201cthey\u2019re trying to find a way in a very awkward space to not oppose Russia but to not fully support them either.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Samantha Power, head of the US Agency for International Development, echoed Sullivan\u2019s view of a reluctant China, saying: \u201cWhat Russia is doing is bringing them into circumstances that I think fundamentally are not in their economic interests, not in their \u2014 the interests of, again, expanding their standing\u201d in the world.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Both hailed the impact of sanctions on Russia\u2019s economy until anchor Fareed Zakaria reminded them of estimates \u201cthat the Russian economy is actually going to do better this year than the British economy or the German economy.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Biden\u2019s National Security Adviser declared on CNN last week that \u201cRussia has already lost the war.\u201d <\/figcaption>
AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Biden team\u2019s happy talk strikes me as a dated, self-serving view of Chinese motives and goals. It\u2019s as if the officials are talking about the China of 25 years ago when it was emerging as a modern power.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But what if they are totally misreading the communist regime\u2019s agenda now? What if China is using the war and America\u2019s involvement to make a move toward its goal of global dominance?\u00a0<\/p>\n

Count historian Niall Ferguson among those who believe the US is missing the big picture. Speaking on Dan Senor\u2019s podcast, \u201cCall Me Back,\u201d Ferguson expressed fears that Chinese leaders \u201care on a path to war and we don\u2019t yet realize that. We still think this is just about speeches at Davos and sending Secretary of State Blinken to Beijing.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Balloon boy\u00a0<\/h2>\n

He cited the spy balloon that crisscrossed America<\/a> as a \u201cclassic Cold War strategy,\u201d and worries Chinese President Xi Jinping has concluded a military showdown with the US is \u201cinevitable.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Ferguson also fears our massive military aid to Ukraine has reduced our ability to help defend Taiwan if China moves against the island.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThe military industrial complex has withered away,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s startling to realize how much capacity we\u2019ve expended in Ukraine and how long it will take to replace it.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

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There is a scenario where China could supply Russia with arms.<\/figcaption>
AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Recall that the Pentagon early on bragged that America aimed to wear down Russia\u2019s military capability by constantly resupplying Ukraine. Ferguson calls this a \u201cstrategic error\u201d because Washington \u201cfailed to realize that China is the bigger beneficiary\u201d of the policy.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re not ready for prime time and all the tough talk about defending Taiwan is from an alternate reality,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Given developments, that sobering perspective makes far more sense than the nonsense coming from the White House. Biden\u2019s notorious history of being \u201cwrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades,\u201d as former Defense Secretary Robert Gates famously put it, does not inspire trust.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Moreover, there remains a possibility \u2014 no, make it a probability \u2014that the Biden family\u2019s corrupt deals with China tie the president\u2019s hands. His response to the spy balloon<\/a> suggests he was pulling his punches.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He tried to keep the balloon secret from the public so Blinken could go to Beijing to try to reset relations. After civilians spotted the balloon, Biden let it meander across America for four more days until it was shot down.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It was an extraordinarily brazen act by China, and officials there followed the shoot-down by demanding that America apologize! Thankfully, Biden didn\u2019t, but days later, shrugged off the incident as \u201cnot a major breach.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Of course, he also said the fatal withdrawal from Afghanistan was a success and he had stopped inflation. And that Hunter\u2019s laptop<\/a> was Russian disinformation, that he never talked to his son about his foreign business and on and on.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The big guy<\/a> says a lot of things that aren\u2019t true. Why trust his assurances now about China?<\/p>\n

Gummy dummy\u00a0Gotham students<\/h2>\n

Mayor Adams, railing against illegal pot shops<\/a>, provides the quote of the week.\u00a0<\/p>\n


\n\"Mayor<\/a>
Eric Adams has slammed illegal pot shops in NYC.<\/figcaption>
Steve White for the New York Post<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cChildren are getting high on their way to school\u201d by eating pot-laced gummy bears, he said. \u201cI must be old-fashioned. People don\u2019t realize what\u2019s happening in our country and in our city. We have to start refocusing.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Amen to that.<\/p>\n

You asked for it, NY<\/h2>\n

Reader Robert Feuerstein, no fan of Gov. Hochul, says New Yorkers got what they deserved by electing her:\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cCrime, taxes and a poor quality of life for years to come. So get out or suck
it up.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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\n Michael Goodwin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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