YOU CANNOT TAME MAD DOGS
REASONABLE AND RATIONAL APPROACHES TO MAD DOG PUTIN AND COURTING VENEZUELAN MURDERER MADURO JUST SINK US DEEPER INTO MORAL AND POLITICAL QUICKSAND
American officials traveled to Venezuela, trying to re-establish oil trade so as to further isolate Russia and channel Venezuelan crude to the US to compensate for Biden's anti fossil fuel energy mandates. Recall that the socialist dictator Maduro regime single-handedly turned Venezuela from the most prosperous nation in South America to one of its poorest. Now the leftys want to suck up to the brutal dictator who uses secret police terror squads to control his people. An older NYT headline read: "Maduro Turns to Special Police Force to Crush Dissent". Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro says he has agreed on an agenda for future talks with United States officials after meeting a delegation from Washington over the weekend. 03/08/22
Russia still wants to be part of Iran nuclear talks and use its influence on Iran as a bargaining chip to moderate western sanctions. Biden still hopes for progress, but world press scrutiny is keeping him honest, for now. Russian barbarism continues as they mercilessly drop cluster bombs on civilian targets, hospitals and schools. What are thermobaric vacuum bombs? Threats of Nukes, Bio and Chemical agents and escalation are hurled daily. We can't help but wonder which threats are credible and which are posturing and dread to find out. Why are we trying to use Russia to revive the discredited nuclear deal that Trump scraped and empower the worlds greatest exporter of global terror putting Israel in the cross-hairs again?
Who will be Blinken first? U.S. talks with Poland on a deal to send fighter jets to Ukraine as Russia warns the west against further escalation. Last month Poland and Slovakia became the first Western countries to announce the shipment of 41 MiG-29s to Ukraine, thereby crossing what was until then a red line in sending military equipment to the country.
Unlike the US, Poland still remembers the hell of being the kill zone between Hitler and Stalin and the brutality of 50 years of Soviet occupation. Unknown thousands (350,000 - 1,000,000) were murdered or sent to Siberian concentration camps.
IS INERTIA A STRATEGY?
What is the strategy for resolution of this conflict? What's the plan? There was a time, as Robert Kennedy has pointed out that some compromise resolution might have been achieved but those solutions have seemingly expired. Unfortunately, compromise is not to be found in the leftist Biden administration. Are they waiting for WW3? There are just to be too many compromises with Democrat global socialist goals. Projecting a western mindset on the Russian psyche with the hope of overthrowing Putin, is just wishful thinking. Psycho analysis of the former KGB murder boss is way beyond the Biden administration's addled brains. Read the excellent article cited below for a more realistic analysis. (Putin Misunderstands History. So, Unfortunately, Does the U.S.)
BETTER BRAINS:
Typical of left-wing policy, we have created a swamp full of quicksand and then proposed solutions that just sink us deeper. Listen to Florida senator Marco Rubio's warning that Biden is flirting with World War 3. Hear senator Ted Cruiz's call to restore America's energy independence and end our enemies ability to blackmail and subvert our foreign policy. As of this writing, Biden has finally come around to banning Russian petrol-products and eliminated most favored trade status (big deal), but Wall Street and many European businesses are still unwinding Russian business ties and back door petrol still finds its way into American cars.
Look for more halfhearted measures as Biden wanders through Europe and tries to stall and deflect blame for rampant inflation on Mad Dog Putin and continue its non-strategy of a (hurting stalemate) , allowing Ukrainians to die slow merciless deaths.
Today, and maybe for only a short time, the United States remains the most powerful country on Earth and we still retain the ability to lead the free world against Russian and Chinese totalitarian oppression. The caveat, the big however, is that such a restoration would require sacrifice an and discipline; two words that send pampered snowflakes and greedy bankers to the designated crying room. The ban on Russian oil and the collapse of the Ruble is a positive step in Biden's war protest higher oil prices have still not spured increased US domestic production. The lefty-green ideas coming out of Washington are just doubling down on stupidity. And, then there is the real danger that the higher prices that depress demand depress the whole economy. Get ready: Here comes the Biden recession. Green deal restrictions, shutting down the Keystone pipeline and restricting oil rich property leases will continue to slow the recovery process and batter American pocketbooks. Chinese aggression via their junior partner Putin will continue to sink us deeper into our own economic quicksand unless decisive policy changes are aimed in the right direction. You cannot tame mad dogs.
Pray for the intervention of God!
Bill Lami