President Biden Makes Republican Detractors Look Out of Touch With Reality

President Biden Calls Putin a War Criminal

There's something that comes out of the White House almost every day that blows holes in the GOP muttering about President Biden's age being a "diminishing factor," and that his approach to foreign policy, particularly with regard to Ukraine, is "weak."  

That's laughable and ridiculous, not only in light of their own record of support and praise of Vladimir Putin, and their chasing around after a genuinely "diminished by age," demented, insane former President 45, but in light of what is happening just about every day.  

Many of these duplicitous Republican wannabees had nothing but high praise for Reagan's bold bashing of Russian autocrats, particularly Mikhail Gorbachev.  Nor was Reagan all that kind to Gorbachev's predecessors, either.  President Biden hasn't minced any words about Putin, ever.  Not as Vice-President when he moved into the Donbas and into Crimea, and certainly not now.  This is a very calculated and edgy foreign policy move.  Putin has rattled the nuclear sabre and let that make up for the lack of military prowess his army has shown as it retreats, regroups or whatever you want to call it.  President Biden is pushing back, showing no fear of the threats and making a few of his own in the form of devastatingly accurate intelligence and the ability to make a few phone calls and further debilitate Russia's economy. 

Let's be very clear about the contrast between President Biden's approach and what would have taken place had FP45 been in charge.  Putin jumped into Ukraine before a NATO alliance plunged into uncertainty by the FP's deliberate cold shoulder and failed leadership could bring it into the alliance.  He attacked because FP's treatment of the NATO alliance and our allies created the uncertainty into which he could invade.  He knew FP45 was a real coward, interested only in his own bank account and possible future investments and deals in Russia and could care less about NATO, the EU, or Ukraine.  He knew that he had influenced the 2016 election and he got what he wanted out of our former President.  

I don't want to downplay the Ukrainian military or the Ukrainian population's efforts to save their country.  They would have fought this hard whether they had US and NATO support or not.  US intelligence, laid out deliberately and publicly well before the invasion, gave the Ukrainians their battle plan.  The US and its NATO allies have supplied all kinds of effective weaponry that wouldn't have been there had FP 45 been in the White House.  And there wouldn't have been any American sanctions, without which the European effort would not have succeeded.  

So here we are, with yet another major accomplishment for the Biden Administration happening at the beginning of the first week in April.  President Biden is making his Republican detractors, who keep parroting the same old tired themes, look really bad.