THE DOCTRINE OF THE N.A.F.T.A. GLOBALIST DEMOCRATS IS TO SERVE THE BILLIONAIRE CLASS WITH ENDLESS WAVES OF INVADING 'CHEAP' LABOR SUBSIDIZED WITH WELFARE FUNDED BY TAXES ON MIDDLE AMERICA.
In many speeches, Mayorkas says he is building a mass migration system to deliver workers to wealthy employers and investors and “equity” to poor foreigners. The nation’s border laws are subordinate to elites’ opinion about “the values of our country,” Mayorkas claims.
The arrest in Mexico and repatriation of a U.S.-born Gulf Cartel member who had pending warrants in Texas on murder charges triggered a violent response by the criminal organization.
The case began last week when U.S. authorities received information that Obed Pena, who was wanted in Texas on murder charges, was living in Tamaulipas, U.S. Customs and Border Protection revealed in a statement.
On Thursday Tamaulipas state authorities captured Pena in the town of Diaz Ordaz. Mexican officials coordinated with CBP for his repatriation to the United States.
Information shared with Breitbart Texas by Tamaulipas state authorities revealed that during the arrest, they seized three vehicles, three radios, and several makeshift road spikes.
Pena is wanted in connection with a 2021 Hidalgo County murder. Breitbart Texas confirmed with various U.S. and Mexican law enforcement agencies that Pena was a local leader with the Gulf Cartel in the areas west of the border city of Reynosa.
By Thursday afternoon, Gulf Cartel gunmen began a series of attacks throughout Reynosa. The cartel focused on shooting out police surveillance cameras and used large trucks in an attempt to knock down the concrete poles used to hold the cameras, information provided to Breitbart Texas by the Tamaulipas government revealed.
Gunmen also carried out similar attacks in the cities of Diaz Ordaz, Miguel Aleman, and Camargo. The attacks continued into Friday night and early Saturday morning. Various videos on social media showed cartel members using stolen buses and trucks to ram the poles used to hold the police cameras.
While local residents reported hearing numerous shots being fired throughout the city, authorities claim that on Thursday night, no clashes took place between Gulf Cartel gunmen and authorities. They also claimed there have been no reports of injuries in Reynosa during the attacks.
By Friday morning, Mexican soldiers clashed with cartel gunmen in the city of Miguel Aleman whre they tried to remove blockades set up by the cartel.
Gulf Cartel gunmen also placed several banners throughout the region addressed to Mexican President Lopez Obrador, where they claim Tamaulipas Governor Francisco Cabeza de Vaca and his state police forces have been terrorizing the region.
Cabeza de Vaca called the Gulf Cartel actions a series of vandalism attacks in response to operations against criminal activity.
“We are not going to give up a single space to the criminal groups we are going to move forward firmly and with determination” Cabeza de Vaca responded in a prepared statement shared with news outlets. “In other parts of the country, they act differently, not here in Tamaulipas.”
Ildefonso Ortiz is an award-winning journalist with Breitbart Texas. He co-founded Breitbart Texas’ Cartel Chronicles project with Brandon Darby and senior Breitbart management. You can follow him on Twitter and on Facebook. He can be contacted at Iortiz@breitbart.com.
Brandon Darby is the managing director and editor-in-chief of Breitbart Texas. He co-founded Breitbart Texas’ Cartel Chronicles project with Ildefonso Ortiz and senior Breitbart management. Follow him on Twitter and Facebook. He can be contacted at bdarby@breitbart.com.
“J.C. Sanchez” from Breitbart Texas’ Cartel Chronicles project contributed to this report.
Report: Biden to Divert Agents from U.S. Southern Border, Send Them to ‘Assist’ with Russia-Ukraine Conflict
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President Joe Biden’s administration is looking to divert United States Border Patrol agents from their mission at the U.S.-Mexico border to send them overseas “to assist” those fleeing from Ukraine amidst Russia’s invasion, a new report states.
Even as illegal immigration continues pouring through the nation’s southern border at record levels, Biden hopes to entice Border Patrol agents to sign up voluntarily to aid American citizens, green card-holders, and their immediate relatives fleeing Ukraine into Eastern Europe.
John Solomon at Just The News, who exclusively obtained the Customs and Border Protection (CBP) memo, detailed the effort dubbed “Operation Support Ukraine:”
“The Office of Field Operations is seeking volunteers to assist with the possible evacuation of U.S. citizens, lawful permanent residents, and their immediate family members from Ukraine.,” the memo sent to field operations executives said. [Emphasis added]
“Eligible employees who volunteer for this situation may be selected to serve a temporary duty assignment in Poland to facilitate travelers for entry into the U.S., to include providing guidance and problems resolution to other government agencies.” [Emphasis added]
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The memo said volunteers need to be ready to deploy “within 2-3 days” of selection and should plan for about a month’s work overseas. It also offered a plan for COVID-19 mitigation that said workers need to either have the vaccine or natural immunity from a recent infection. [Emphasis added]
Last month, Border Patrol agents apprehended nearly 154,000 border crossers. Roughly 2.1 million border crossers and illegal aliens are expected to arrive at the southern border this year.
Since October, according to Fox News’s Adam Shaw, about 220,000 border crossers successfully crossed into the U.S. via the southern border, undetected by Border Patrol.
In January, alone, the Biden administration released more than 62,500 border crossers and illegal aliens into the U.S. interior. Border Patrol agents have blasted Biden’s policies, which they say have made illegal immigration close to unmanageable.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at jbinder@breitbart.com. Follow him on Twitter here.
Among them is Biden willfully violating federal immigration laws by throwing open the border. Also, there's Biden's conflict of interest while dealing with China and Ukraine owing to his son's shady deals with the two countries. The catastrophe in Afghanistan can also be used as a reason.
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A few days back, Texas GOP rep. Ronny Jackson, who was the White House physician during the Obama and Trump administrations, dared to state the obvious, which is an act of bravery in current times.
Jackson called for Biden to take a cognitive test because Biden is "not fit to be our president right now" amid the Russia-Ukraine crisis.
The whole country is seeing his mental cognitive issues on display for over a year now, and there's really no question in most people's minds that there's something going on with him, that he's not cognitively the same as he used to be and, in my mind, not fit to be our president right now.
Every time he gets up and talks to the American people, it's not just the American people that are watching him speak, it's the whole world, and that's part of what the problem is here.
He looks tired, he looks weak, he looks confused, he's incoherent, and it sends a message of weakness all over the world, and they're seizing up on that.
Jackson provided an easy way for even regular people to verify Biden's decline.
He's got 40 years of tape, go back and look at this man, it's not like we don't have anything to compare it to. He's always made gaffes but never like this. This is something different. These aren't gaffes. This is something much more serious.
Jackson said Biden's mental fitness for office, or a lack thereof, "was on full display during the debacle in Afghanistan" and that it could "get more Americans killed" and "ultimately get us in a war because of his lack of leadership."
This isn't a mean-spirited personal attack. Jackson is merely stating facts.
The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine's website states that cognitive disorder impairment or dementia usually affects older adults. This condition affects memory, thinking, and behavior. It progresses to the point where it affects basic activities and functions.
An individual who suffers from this condition deserves compassion, care, and protection.
This individual must not be assigned stressful or complex tasks. We won't travel in a vehicle driven by such an individual or allow him to lead an elementary project. We most emphatically don't want him to lead one of the largest democracies in the world.
The decline in Biden's cognitive abilities was apparent since he launched his presidential bid. But the Democrat news media conveniently ignored it. Biden's handlers used COVID-19 as an excuse to restrict public interaction. They rigged the elections, and soon Biden was in the White House.
It has been one disaster after another since then.
His schedule proves he does very little in the White House.
Biden rarely is subjected to the press for impromptu question-and-answer sessions. We have seen many situations where Biden is prevented from answering questions by his staffers. Live broadcasts with Biden are frequently delayed by an hour, perhaps because Biden is unprepared. He always reads from a teleprompter in a fashion that makes it obvious that he doesn't comprehend the words he is producing.
He frequently escapes to Delaware, even now at the height of the crisis in Ukraine.
For his handlers, Biden is probably the dream candidate. He can barely remember the names of his colleagues, and his legacy is the least of his concerns. They can use him as their puppet to implement their radical agenda. They made the consistently incompetent Kamala Harris the vice president, rendering Biden unimpeachable.
Installing a puppet and running a government by proxy are tactics used by the deep states of third-world totalitarian regimes. It is a disgrace that this is happening in the U.S.
The lust for power and the associated pecuniary gains cause people to behave in the most inhuman fashion. It is inhuman of Biden's wife and his immediate relatives to allow this exploitation that frequently makes Biden the target of ridicule.
Biden's handlers may be able to manage an incapacitated president behind closed doors in the White House and before an obsequious media. The problem arises when he is exposed to tough customers such as Vlad Putin. Putin knows all about incapacitated leaders and how to get around them and turn it all to his advantage, having lived in his formative years through incapacitated Soviet dictators such as doddering Leonid Brezhnev; the seriously ill Yuri Andropov; the very old and incapacitated Konstantin Chernenko, who was literally propped up by his aides; and, post-USSR, the drunken Boris Yeltsin. Putin understood how to gain power during those shambling times. He probably saw the pattern repeating during his one-to-one meeting with Biden. That likely emboldened him.
The question is, what should the GOP do if they have majorities in the Senate and the House following the midterms?
Firstly, they must ensure that a thorough cognitive test of Joe Biden is conducted and that the results be made public. Perhaps Dr. Jackson can administer the test in the presence of Biden's team of doctors.
If Biden were to fail those tests, there are two choices to relieve Biden from his duties.
The first is the invocation of the 25th Amendment. Under the 25th Amendment, which has never been used previously, the vice president and the majority of the president's Cabinet determine that the president is no longer fit for office. Congress then approves that process by a two-thirds vote in both chambers.
But Kamala and the Cabinet are unlikely to initiate such proceedings.
The next choice is impeachment.
An impeachment and a conviction is probably the only way to force Biden out of his office. This will create President Kamala Harris.
Next, the GOP impeaches and convicts Harris, too. The presidency is then in the hands of the speaker of the House. What if Donald J. Trump is elected speaker of the House?
A great hypothesis, but far-fetched.
It's impossible that the GOP would convict Biden in the Senate with the likes of Mitt Romney and Mitch McConnell around.
The only realistic choice seems to be an impeachment in Congress for symbolic reasons.
But unlike Trump's two impeachments, the GOP have other reasons, besides his cognitive impairments.
Among them is Biden willfully violating federal immigration laws by throwing open the border. Also, there's Biden's conflict of interest while dealing with China and Ukraine owing to his son's shady deals with the two countries. The catastrophe in Afghanistan can also be used as a reason.
To have a president who suffers from cognitive impairments such that he is managed by handlers is a vile affront and a mockery of democracy.
Reliving him from his duties is a way to save the U.S. representative democracy. It will be an act of compassion to relieve Biden from this torture so he can lead a peaceful life in retirement.
Alas, that is unlikely to occur, and hence, the U.S. and the world have to suffer the consequences.
The U.S. continues to sit passively on the sidelines while the Russian army pounds Ukraine. It is all too pathetic.
Nevertheless, President Biden has listed as a key priority the prevention of U.S. military deaths in armed conflicts. In his August 16, 2021 speech at Arlington Cemetery, President Biden declared:
How many more generations of America's daughters and sons would you have me send to fight Afghans — Afghanistan's civil war when Afghan troops will not? How many more lives — American lives — is it worth? How many endless rows of headstones at Arlington National Cemetery?
With this speech, he laid out what may come to be known as the Biden Doctrine, that there would be no conflict so small that the U.S. would not run away, no act of cowardice too craven, no desertion of allies too treacherous, and no commitment to democracy or global security worth securing with military force beyond those agreed on paper.
On that day, his net approval rating (approval minus disapproval) stood at +6.2%, entirely acceptable for a U.S. president. Three months later, on Election Day in November, it would fall to -8%, and the Democrats would take a historical shellacking at the polls. Virtually all the damage resulted from the means by which the U.S. pulled out of Afghanistan, leaving chaos, the Taliban, and now famine in its wake. Americans were appalled.
And here we are again, with the stakes predictably amplified. Why has Russian president Putin chosen now to invade Ukraine? The answer is simple: the Biden Doctrine of unilateral surrender. What does U.S. military power matter if we lack the will to use it or cower before those who threaten us? By pre-emptively foreswearing military intervention in Ukraine, President Biden all but sent an embossed invitation to President Putin to take Ukraine at his leisure.
The White House pinned its strategy on sanctions but clearly did not believe they would work. Biden had taken to the podium multiple times in the last month declaring that Putin would invade. Yet President Biden, on February 25, stated, "No one expected the sanctions to prevent anything from happening[.] ... Putin's not going to say 'Oh, my God, the sanctions are coming.'" The Biden White House has chained its credibility to a policy that, by the president's own statements, it did not believe to be credible. Biden merely gift-wrapped Ukraine for Putin with meaningless sanctions that would deter nothing.
Were Ukraine in a part of the world far from the superpowers, certainly far from Europe or East Asia, the U.S. could afford to take a pass. India and Pakistan regularly clash over Kashmir, but the U.S. would not ordinarily weigh in on the matter. But Ukraine is different, for several reasons.
Regardless of the outcome in Kashmir, neither India nor Pakistan will be wiped from the map and neither country's democracy, such as it is, is threatened by the other. In the case of Ukraine, however, both democracy and survival are at stake. We are seeing the brutal, unprovoked invasion of one country by another, one which seeks to both destroy not only the other's democracy but the very nation itself. The stakes are enormous.
Nor is the location of indifference. The US is intimately involved in European security through NATO and has been for nearly three-quarters of a century. Ukraine abuts four NATO members: Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, and Romania. What happens in Ukraine affects the security of these NATO members, not to mention possibly sending millions of refugees across their borders in the coming days.
Critically, the war is about more than Ukraine, certainly from the Russian side. The intent is to roll back NATO and reassert Russia's Soviet-era sphere of influence over all Soviet Union states, as well as central Europe, notably the Baltics, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, and Bulgaria, at a minimum. This would rewrite the entirety of the European security order and resurrect the perilous conditions of the Cold War. For Europe and, by extension, for the United States, this is an existential threat, just as it was during the Cold War.
Incredibly, for all the risks, Ukraine is not even the biggest threat. Russia has one sixth the population of NATO and 1/25 of its GDP. Russia is to NATO as Peru is to the United States — that is, not a peer. Putin is the Punk in the Kremlin and can advance only as long as the U.S. sits on the sidelines. As one seemingly knowledgeable, but admittedly unvetted, analyst assesses Russian fighting capability in the conflict:
The Russians cannot fight a modern war and their bullying capability is limited and would be ineffective against NATO's air power alone[.] ... A US-Russian war would look like Iraq '91, both by overwhelming asymmetry and by multilateral coalition backing.
The U.S. can beat Russia, perhaps handily. Not so China. China is a heavyweight, both economically and militarily, and it too is watching the Biden Doctrine unfold. If Biden fails to protect Ukraine, how can he lift a finger to defend Taiwan? Just as Afghanistan precipitated Ukraine, so Ukraine will precipitate Taiwan.
These are all strategic reasons to intervene in Ukraine, directly and with military force, right now. Failure to act here may well trigger a world war a year from now.
For Democrats, however, the proximate danger is political. Putin not only wants Ukraine, but also wants to humiliate the United States. He wants to show the U.S. as a fading power, cowardly and unprincipled. And it is working, because that is the essence of the Biden Doctrine: the avoidance of military casualties in the field at the price of national impotence and dishonor.
The American public, although rapidly having its fill of the Punk in the Kremlin, naturally has reservations about going to war with Russia. Nevertheless, if Kyiv falls due to the impotence of sanctions — President Biden's stated expected outcome and the essence of his strategy — the Biden White House will own the failure. It will own the humiliation of a loss, not to a great power, but to a punk who stole Ukraine on a bluff. And everyone at home and abroad will know that America did not lose on the field, but because we were cowards and ran away.
Americans can forgive many things, but they will not forgive humiliation at the hands of the Russians. The fall of Ukraine will be that humiliation, and it will bury the Democrats in its ashes.
Former Trump White House chief of staff John Kelly said Thursday on CNN’s “The Lead” that he does not understand the praise on the right for Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Anchor Jake Tapper said, “We’ve heard a lot of prominent Republicans, both in politics and in conservative media, praising Vladimir Putin, even calling him a genius. What’s your response when you hear that?”
Kelly said, “Disbelief. He’s a tyrant. He is a murderer. He has attacked an innocent country whose only crime is that they want to be free and democratic, and they’re working in that direction and have been working in that direction. They have been a cooperative country. They gave up, on our word, they gave up the nuclear weapons that the old Soviet Union left behind. They participated with other U.S./NATO allies. They participated in operations — peacekeeping operations in Africa and Afghanistan, places like that. They were part of the partnership for peace, although not members of NATO, they worked alongside NATO in these various good operations.”
Kelly added, “You know, is Putin smart? Yes. Tyrants are smart. They know what they’re doing. But that’s — I can’t imagine why someone would look at what’s happening there and see it anything other than a criminal act. I don’t get it, Jake.”
The Ukrainian capital of Kyiv (Kiev) was hit by rocket strikes overnight, with reports of fighting in its suburbs claimed on Friday morning.
Ukrainian foreign minister Dmytro Kuleba described the rocket strikes on the capital as “horrific”, saying the city had not suffered such an ordeal since 1941 “when it was attacked by Nazi Germany.”
“Ukraine defeated that evil and it will defeat this one. Stop Putin. Isolate Russia. [Sever] all ties. Kick Russia out of everything,” he implored.
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky made similar remarks when he addressed the nation early on Friday morning, saying Russia was operating military aircraft “treacherously over residential areas” and had bombed Kyiv.
He told Ukrainians in his address: “Terrible explosions in the morning sky over Kyiv, bombing, hitting a house, fire — all this reminds of the first such attack on our capital, which took place in 1941.”
Despite the dramatic and tragic progress of Russia’s invasion, an intelligence assessment of their actual military achievements so far by the British government claimed their successes have been limited.
Britain’s Secretary of State for Defence, Ben Wallace, said Friday morning in comments to a British television network that “Our assessment, as of this morning, is that Russia has not taken any of its major objectives.”
Noting that it was the belief of Britain’s Ministry of Defence that “the Russians intend to invade the whole of Ukraine, the nonsense they were spouting about Donbas… were not honest claims”, Wallace suggested that Russia is “behind its hoped-for timetable; they’ve lost over 450 personnel… one of the significant airports they were trying to capture with their elite Spetznaz has failed to be taken.”
While details of the fighting in Ukraine are often confused and unclear, Western foreign correspondents’ reports and footage aired by news outlets appear to show clear evidence of bombardment.
President Zelensky has said he remains in the capital, and that “the enemy has marked me as target number one”.
“They want to damage Ukraine politically by destroying the head of state,” he said.
On Thursday, CNN broadcast footage of Russian airborne forces at an airport close by to Kyiv, which they had apparently seized in order to establish a bridgehead for further troops, engaged in a firefight with Ukrainian counter-attackers.
Ukraine’s Ministry of Defence claimed later the same day that the airport had been recaptured and the “Russian airborne force eliminated” — likely the same engagement Wallace referred to above — but the capital was evidently still under pressure as of Friday morning, with multiple reports indicating explosions and gunfire in its suburbs as of the time of publication.
Patrick Reevell, a reporter on the ground in Kyiv for ABC, has described hearing the “sound of fighting, loud gunfire and explosions… Just a few miles north of Maidan [Square]” in the city centre, sharing video footage to corroborate his claims.
Reevell had earlier described “seeing Ukrainian troops in very heart of Kyiv hurriedly moving with ammunition to set up defensive positions”; an account matching that of CNN’s Tim Lister, who is said to have witnessed “Ukrainian security forces leave[ing] the city police headquarters with weapons & ammunition — apparently heading towards the northern district of Obolon, where fighting has been reported.”
Ukraine’s Ministry of Defence, according to TheNew York Times, has taken to its official Facebook page to confirm fighting is underway “in a district of northern Kyiv”, and told residents to “stay home and prepare Molotov cocktails.”
Content warning – graphic images:
Bodies of Russian servicemen wearing Ukrainian service uniforms lie inside and beside a vehicle after their raiding party was shot during a skirmish in the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv on February 25th, 2022. (Photo by SERGEI SUPINSKY/AFP via Getty Images)
Russian troops are advancing briskly into Ukraine. Vladimir Putin has brushed off Old Joe Biden’s sanctions and made it abundantly clear that he is not afraid of Biden, as Democrat operatives and their propaganda arm, the establishment media, have long insisted.
This is what happens when America has a feeble president, an obvious figurehead, and our military is compromised by Leftist ideologues. Clearly Putin is taking advantage of Biden’s obvious weakness and the decimation of our Armed Forces by wokeness and Covid hysteria. He knows that there is little likelihood that Biden will touch off World War III by committing American troops to the defense of Ukraine. Putin also likely considers that even if the American military does end up confronting Russian forces, that the U.S. military’s concentration on pushing Critical Race Theory and other Leftist agendas on the troops, as well as the culling that took place due to vaccine mandates, have left our military in such a weakened, distracted, and confused state that it will not pose any significant threat anyway.
Meanwhile, Putin emphasized in his remarks announcing the beginning of the operation against Ukraine that “in December 2021 we once again made an attempt to agree with the United States and its allies on the principles of ensuring security in Europe and on the non-expansion of NATO. Everything was in vain. The US position did not change. They did not consider it necessary to negotiate with Russia on this important issue for us, continuing to pursue their own goals and disregarding our interests.”
If this is an accurate summation of what happened, and there is no reason to believe that it isn’t, then the fecklessness of the Biden administration’s foreign policy is as much to blame for this conflict as Putin is. The questions must be asked: was it really necessary to begin maneuvering to incorporate Ukraine into NATO, and to ignore all Russian entreaties that may have led to the formulation of an agreement that was mutually acceptable to both parties? Were State Department officials too preoccupied with implementing the woke agenda to bother to negotiate with Putin over NATO?
The establishment media is portraying Putin as the reincarnation of Adolf Hitler and doing its level best to stir up war hysteria, but even if he is the new Hitler, which is by no means obvious, his conflict with Ukraine is not our fight. The only American interest in the region is our need for Russian oil, which Joe Biden himself has created by closing the Keystone Pipeline and ending the energy independence we had achieved under President Trump. There is no chance that Biden will reopen the Keystone Pipeline, so it is unlikely that he will risk a confrontation with Putin that could jeopardize our energy supplies. And Putin knows that, too.
Donald Trump has left us the example of an America-First president; keeping the best interests of Americans at the fore, Trump challenged our putative NATO allies to contribute their fair share for their own defense, and he did not threaten Ukraine’s security or unnecessarily provoke Russia by insisting on Ukraine’s inclusion in NATO.
The current situation can be ascribed to Biden’s rejection of the America-First principle and determination to ensure benefits for the military-industrial complex. A new Cold War with Russia will almost certainly secure profits for that sector for some time to come, but Biden and his Leftist handlers and allies are playing an extremely dangerous game. They’re playing chicken with a man who doesn’t appear to be easily cowed or intimidated. They’re trading on the historical memory of American power at a time when Leftism has corroded that power to the extent that it is not at all certain that America would prevail in a confrontation with its old Cold War adversary.
Meanwhile, Putin issued his own threat: “Now a few important, very important words for those who may be tempted to intervene in the ongoing events. Whoever tries to hinder us, or threaten our country or our people, should know that Russia’s response will be immediate and will lead you to consequences that you have never faced in your history. We are ready for any turn of events. All necessary decisions in this regard have been made. I hope that I will be heard.” Will he be? Doubtful, in the White House today.
It could be that after Ukraine, Putin will call the security bluff and challenge our Leftist-run, wrongheaded military. The consequences could be catastrophic.
A video unearthed from 2001 by the Republican National Committee’s research team revealed then-Senator Biden praising Russian President Vladimir Putin for embracing the West, heralding his actions as comparable to Peter the Great.
“I’m close to amazed by how far Putin seems to have come in making – throwing – his lot in with the West,” Biden said as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. “He seems to have – out of all the briefings I’ve gotten – actually stiff-armed his military and stiff-armed some of the browns and reds in his government and out of government.”
“And made a very – I don’t think anybody since Peter the Great has made such a significant – at least an initial move to the West,” Biden claimed:
In 2001, Biden said he was “amazed by how far Putin” has moved toward the West, then compares him to Peter the Great. pic.twitter.com/GANWitMWrs
Peter the Great was the first Emperor of Russia. Through multiple wars, he expanded the nation into a major European power. He also moved to transpose medieval political systems with the western enlightenment.
Biden’s comparison of Putin with Peter the Great is unfounded. Putin is seeking to restore the lost twentieth-century boundary of the old Soviet Union and denied the “real statehood” of Ukraine in a televised address to the nation on Monday. Putin further stated Ukraine was part of Russia’s “own history, culture, spiritual space.”
Biden has a history of questionable foreign policy judgment and analysis. Robert Gates, George W. Bush and Barack Obama’s secretary of defense, wrote in 2014 that Biden “has been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades.”
Biden’s foreign policy judgment before he became president are as follows:
Suggested sending $200 million to Iran, “no strings attached.”
On Tuesday, former President Donald Trump asserted that Russia’s “taking over” of Ukraine is due to Biden’s weakness. “I know Vladimir Putin very well, and he would have never done during the Trump Administration what he is doing now, no way!”
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) told CBS News Biden’s decisions as president could increase the price for a barrel of oil past $100 and perhaps to $115.
“I don’t believe the sanctions will stop them from doing what their plan is but I do think that if you don’t pay a price for doing this, he’s going to do more of it,” Rubio said. “I think Ukrainians are gonna fight back but this is gonna have an impact on Americans even though it seems to be really far away.”
Gas prices are already at their highest level since 2014.
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Poll: Biden’s Approval Rating Underwater on Russia/Ukraine Conflict
President Joe Biden’s approval rating on the Russia/Ukraine conflict is underwater, a Wednesday Politico/MorningConsult poll revealed.
Just 40 percent of voters approved of Biden’s management of the conflict, while 45 disapproved, including 35 percent who said they strongly disapproved.
Overall, the poll handed Biden a negative approval rating (44 – 53 percent).
A majority (58 – 28 percent) of respondents also indicated they would find Biden responsible if the Russian/Ukrainian conflict increases American gas prices.
Biden told the nation on Tuesday Americans will bear a financial cost for the conflict. “Defending freedom will have costs, for us as well, and here at home,” he said upon announcing sanctions on Russia. “We need to be honest about that.”
Moscow’s ambassador to the United States Anatoly Antonov seemed to agree with Biden, suggesting that the sanctions will hurt American consumers more than Russians.
“There is no doubt that the sanctions imposed against us will hurt the global financial and energy markets,” Antonov said. “The United States will not be left out, where ordinary citizens will feel the full consequences of rising prices.”
“With regard to Moscow, new US sanctions will not solve anything, Russia has learned to work and develop under restrictions,” he added.
With gas prices expected to increase, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) told CBS News on Tuesday the price for a barrel could surpass $100 and perhaps reach $115. Gas prices are already at their highest level since 2014.
“I don’t believe the sanctions will stop them from doing what their plan is but I do think that if you don’t pay a price for doing this, he’s going to do more of it,” Rubio said. “I think Ukrainians are gonna fight back but this is gonna have an impact on Americans even though it seems to be really far away.”
The national average price of gas per gallon is $3.535, up nearly a dollar from last year’s price of $2.645.
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W.H. Deputy NSA on Ukraine’s Call for More Sanctions: ‘There’s Almost a Bloodlust’ for Sanctions, But I’m Not Saying Ukraine Has It
On Wednesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “New Day,” Deputy National Security Adviser Daleep Singh responded to Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba’s call for harsher sanctions against Russia by stating that he wonders “if there’s almost a bloodlust out there for sanctions as an end in themselves.” But denied he was saying Kuleba has this bloodlust and said the sanctions announced on Tuesday were “a demonstration effect, and that demonstration effect will go higher and higher.”
Co-host John Berman read from Kuleba’s tweet and then asked, “How do you explain to the Ukrainian Foreign Minister why you are not hitting harder now?”
Singh responded, “Well, John, sometimes I wonder if there’s almost a bloodlust out there for sanctions as an end in themselves. But let me just be really clear, we did hit hard yesterday, and it was only a demonstration effect. … But the point the Ukrainians are making is right. These costs are going to escalate from here.”
Berman then asked who Singh thinks has a bloodlust for sanctions. Singh answered, “I hear it from many in the media, why didn’t you impose all of your sanctions on day one? And so, what I’m saying to you is, we saw the beginning of an invasion yesterday –.”
Berman then cut in to point out he was quoting Ukraine’s Foreign Minister, and ask, “So, does the Ukrainian Foreign Minister have a bloodlust for sanctions?”
Singh answered, “No. No. I’m not saying that. I’m saying I hear from questions out there and commentary, people wondering why didn’t we implement the full package of sanctions yesterday. And what I’m saying to you is, yesterday was a demonstration effect, and that demonstration effect will go higher and higher.”
