As a madman begins the first war in Europe since the end of World War II, President Biden has successfully reunited NATO, our allies, and the world. This after four years of Trump trying to destroy it and pull us apart.
The traitor Trump cemented his legacy as a toady to Putin. He did this with his recent comments reported by CNN, “It took only 24 hours for Donald Trump to hail Russian President Vladimir Putin’s dismembering of independent, democratic, sovereign Ukraine as an act of “genius.” The former president often accuses his enemies falsely of treason, but his own giddy rush to side with a foreign leader who is proving to be an enemy of the United States and the West is shocking even by Trump’s self-serving standards.” Trump went on to say, “I went in yesterday and there was a television screen, and I said, ‘This is genius.’ Putin declares a big portion of Ukraine, of Ukraine, Putin declares it as an independent. Oh, that’s wonderful.” This crap must scare the hell out of our allies in Europe and anyone who believes Trump, by any stretch of the imagination, could become president again.
Threats of sanctions did not stop Putin from invading but will eventually bear fruit. The world has united against him and the Ukrainian people are standing strong. Their strength and heroism are amazing. The world can no longer view Putin as rational. He is a sick megalomaniac in the realm of Hitler and Stalin.
President Biden acted quickly in concert with nations around the world imposing harsh sanctions, including on Putin himself. As reported by Axios, “President Biden unveiled new coordinated sanctions against Russia that target Russia’s financial institutions and elite families. In doing so Biden said ‘Putin is the aggressor. Putin chose this war. And now he and his country will bear the consequences.’”
President Biden and his administration have effectively brought together long-standing allies who once again are willing to trust the United States. He has shown the world we moved beyond Trump’s disastrous ‘America First’ policies.
The president has also been honest with the American people. He told us our effort to help save Ukraine from Russia, and moves to protect our NATO allies will cause us some suffering. Gas prices will go up, inflation won’t be immediately curbed, and Russia may try to disrupt our life with cyber attacks. He is asking Americans to do what we have always done as a nation, stand up for democracy around the world, and ensure our allies in Europe and around the world we stand with them.
The president also made it very clear we will not be sending our military, men, and women, into Ukraine. We will send help, weapons, and humanitarian aid, and rally others to do the same. We will use all the sanctions at our command but President Biden has been realistic about what we can do. It is clear threats of sanctions didn’t stop Putin from invading. What we are seeing is the Ukrainian people putting up much more of a resistance than Putin expected. It is a country of 44 million people who believe in their own democracy. This is their war in the streets and the trenches and we are seeing many acts of bravery. Even if Putin manages to install a puppet government in Kyiv, he will never contain the resistance without occupying the entire country and that will not be easy.
What makes this so unreal is we didn’t believe after 70 years of relative peace in Europe this could happen again. We in the United States are watching this war live-streamed making it even more unreal. We sit drinking our morning coffee, going to work, going out to dinner, going to concerts and the theater, all while watching bombs fall on Kyiv on our cell phones and on TV.
Our hearts and minds must be with the people of Ukraine. We must give full support to our government, to President Biden, believing they are doing all America can to help the Ukrainian people in their time of greatest need. –Wahington Blade
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