This is what our elites do: they blame others for their own failures. Trump had nothing to do with this. Putin caused problems in Ukraine when Obama was president, did nothing when Trump took over, and is now causing problems now that Biden has taken over. This doesn’t look like it was Trump’s fault. Moreover, he was a dealmaker, and I’m sure he would have thought of some way to have made a deal with Putin that would have averted the conflict. And as many have pointed out, Biden enriched Putin by putting so many restrictions on our energy production, so we now must import oil from Russia. Yet, it’s somehow Trump’s fault.
But even supposing that Trump is somehow to blame, keep in mind that it was our elites who have spent the last fifty years weakening America to the point where our army worries more about pronouns and climate change and dumping good soldiers who haven’t been vaccinated than they do about being combat-ready. The world notices this sort of thing and makes plans accordingly.
And who actually believes this despicable rhetoric? Ukranians? Are Ukranians right now thinking about how wonderful it is that the "adults are back in charge" and that Biden is America’s president rather than Trump? How about people in Taiwan? How about women in Afghanistan under the Taliban? How about all the Europeans who were angry at Biden’s botched pullout from there? This rhetoric won't age well.
Mark Steyn wrote that the post-America world would be a brutal, violent place, not the kumbayah post-colonial utopia fantasized by the leftist elites. We are now seeing this firsthand, and it will get worse.
Posted by: Charles N. Steele | 02/26/2022 at 08:34 PM