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UKRAINE: CAN YOU TRUST THE MEDIA TO TELL THE TRUTH WHEN THEY ARE PROTECTING BIDEN?

The Biden Administration is an impotent, leaderless, and heartless political operation that appears to concentrate on saving the legacy of the Obama presidency and to cover up the unconstitutional and criminal activities they perpetrated.

They refuse to face the reality that Obamacons like Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman, Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland, National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan, CIA Director John BrennanUnited Nations Ambassador Susan Rice, and others are manifestly corrupt and inadequate to the task of dealing with our enemies. And, of course, the perenially wrong Vice President who ran Obama’s Ukraine policy is worthless as a man and a leader.

They just don’t want to talk about it. Especially the activities of individuals like Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman and the State Department denizens involved in the Obama/Clinton silent coup against Donald Trump. Not to mention problems in Lebanon and Libya (Benghazi), Syria, and elsewhere.

This is the second coup attempt associated with President Obama and his national security team. The first was the 2013-14 Maidan Revolution in Ukraine, and the second was the 2016 coup in the United States.

Putin was caught in a media trap, not of his making…

It appears that the United States, under the Obama Administration, was corruptly interfering with Ukrainian internal affairs. And, it is no secret that it was the United States who kept taunting Russian President Putin with the threat of allowing Ukraine to join NATO – analogous to the Russians conducting military operations and placing missiles in nearby Cuba, Mexico, and Canada.

Putin is neither a paranoid madman nor a fool despite the ignorant progressive talking heads and know-nothing retired colonels and generals. What he appears to be is an ego-driven individual, much like former Presidents Obama and Trump – acutely sensitive of his reputation and presence in the media.

I believe that the current Ukrainian conflict, less than all-out war, was a political gambit that went wrong. A false flag operation to provide a pretext for Russia to breach the Ukrainian border and expand its territory. At least to me, the goal appears to be preventing Ukraine from joining NATO and forcing it to turn its attention toward Russia rather than Europe and the United States – even though there is more economic advantage for Ukraine with trading partners in the West.

After months of threatening war, Putin’s only choices were retreat and face the loss of respect at home and abroad, restraint with more posturing, and faux retaliation against his own false flag operation with a gesture short of all-out war. Putin was gambling that peace and stability in the region were more important to the United States and its NATO allies than the sovereignty of Ukraine and the protection of its borders. Ukraine strongly disagreed, and Putin was forced to call his own bluff.

What went wrong was Putin’s estimate of the degree of Ukrainian resistance to the invasion of their homeland -- and having tasted a modicum of freedom, decided to fight the invaders rather than becoming another slave state under the control of corrupt Russian thugs. Truth be told, Ukraine already had its share of corrupt thugs – some making deals with the President of the United States, his family, and a cadre of fast-buck artists.

The invasion of Ukraine was a hastily planned incursion that lacked logistical planning and support. Putin knows that he cannot wage all-out war or suffer the universal condemnation of Western nations, which could tank his economy. Thus he is continuing his nuclear saber-rattling while preparing for bilateral talks regarding cessation of hostilities. The price of peace: Ukraine turns away from NATO and Russia draws new borders.

Biden’s spin…

Look for a drugged-up Biden to use the State of the Union speech to pat himself on the back for this wonderful economy and his brilliant domestic and foreign policy. Ignore his interference in Ukraine, his abject surrender in Afghanistan, his relaxation of sanctions that saw the Houthis attack the UAE, and, of course, Hunter’s laptop, which documents decades of corruption.

Obamacons and the color revolution that set the stage for disaster…

Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs Victoria Nuland was the “mastermind” behind the Feb. 22, 2014 “regime change” in Ukraine, plotting the overthrow of the democratically elected government of President Viktor Yanukovych while convincing the ever-gullible US mainstream media that the coup wasn’t really a coup but a victory for “democracy.” <Source>

We also saw a feckless Obama/Biden administration do nothing about violations of Ukrainian sovereignty and territorial integrity in contravention of the Budapest Memorandum, which promised protection in return for surrendering nuclear weapons. Accepting Russian weasel-words to describe the government change in Ukraine as a revolution that created "a new state” with which Russia has not signed any obligatory defense documents.

Bottom line…

Unfortunately, the ordinary innocent Ukrainian citizen is now paying the price for a failed Biden presidency built on woke identity politics and division among Americans. Memo to Ukraine: after this turmoil abates, act in your own best interests because the United States views you as little more than a geopolitical pawn and a source of easy funds for corrupt American politicians and their special interest friends.

The war in Ukraine will end, low-level incursion and conflicts will continue, and corruption will reign supreme here and abroad.

However, domestically, we saw the Biden Administration destroy America’s energy independence and increase our Russian oil imports that are funding our enemy and its adventurism in Ukraine. We also saw the Biden Administration kill the domestic Keystone XL pipeline while lifting the sanctions on the Nord Stream 2 pipeline from Vyborg in Russia through the Baltic Sea to Lubmin in Germany -- bypassing Ukraine and Poland.

If the United States wants to regain much of its power, we must look beyond the Obama "Lead from Behind" policy and stop using the United Nations and other multi-lateral organizations to implement foreign policy. We must put America First, cripple the embedded progressive communist democrats in our government, become energy independent and a mass exporter of coal, oil, and gas. Punishing the traitors who almost sold America to the communists.

We are so screwed as I do not see the Republicans stepping up to the plate with workable policies, foreign or domestic in the near future. Prove me wrong.

-- steve

“Nullius in verba”-- take nobody's word for it!
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IS THIS YOUR UNITED STATES?

It is now time to re-think what the United States stands for and what it means to be a citizen of the United States...

Certainly, it is not what I taught in my Junior high school civics class. We have just watched, in real-time, where a madman has threatened world stability to declare war on a sovereign democratic nation and attack innocent civilians.

The United Nations, designed as a global forum where such matters are addressed, has proved itself a corrupt, self-serving, and impotent organization whose charter and functionality are meaningless.

Our politicians, the people's representatives, have proven to be lying, corrupt, feckless cowards that have little hesitancy to sell another country out in favor of a constant cash flow and an economy that can be exploited to advance their ideological agenda.

Our President is a cognitively impaired outer shell spewing lies, and an incoherent word salad as former President Obama’s cadre of communists run the nation.

We are more concerned with the sovereignty and borders of Ukraine than our own sovereignty, borders, and a mass invasion of millions of illegal aliens from numerous countries.

Did the Biden Administration sell out Ukraine to preserve Obama’s legacy?

How Moscow’s Man in Vienna Fooled Team Biden on Ukraine

Russia used the Biden administration’s obsession with a new Iran deal to distract from the Ukrainian invasion.

Reports from Vienna of Russian-facilitated progress with the negotiations in recent weeks must have come as welcome news in Washington, given the Biden administration’s prioritization of getting back into the JCPOA and the need to manufacture a diplomatic win for a struggling presidency. In fact, they may well have effectively acted as a blind to Moscow’s real intentions toward Ukraine if the U.S. team in Vienna has been praising their Russian counterparts as constructive partners in reaching a new deal. <Source>

Europe is, once again, ignoring history…

Perhaps the best illustration of this attitude and behavior comes from Italy's Prime Minister, who sought carve-outs for luxury goods should EU sanctions be imposed.

'Apparently selling Gucci loafers to oligarchs is more of a priority than hitting back at Putin': Fury as Italian PM demands luxury goods are exempt from Russia sanctions as EU nations are accused of 'disgracing themselves' over economic reprisals

Mario Draghi was accused of prioritizing posh shoes over punishing Putin as EU nations 'disgraced themselves' with a failure to take a hardline approach to sanctions against Russia.

They were accused of frustrating British and American efforts to kick Russia out of the world's biggest financial payments system. <Source>

Belgium's diamond leaders question effectiveness Russian sanctions

“Sanctions can have a significant impact on the diamond business,” said Tom Neys, spokesperson for the Antwerp World Diamond Centre (AWDC), reported Gazet van Antwerpen on Wednesday (prior to Thursdays attack). “It is a blow that should hurt Russia but there is a chance that we do more damage to ourselves. The Russians can easily trade their diamonds with non-EU countries.”

The Brussels Times reported more than 1 billion euros of Russian diamonds passed through the Belgian port in 2020. A recently signed agreement between Antwerp World Diamond Centre and Russia’s ALROSA would see 86 percent of its rough diamonds pass through Belgium, the AWDC stated.

Then there are the machinations of Germany and the cheese-eating surrender monkeys in France, both of which have extensive experience with the consequences of a hegemonic madman. They both are fighting anything which upsets their world.

Closer to home…

It seems that the progressive communist Democrats, and some feckless Republicans, appear to like the concept of an all-powerful central government with a strongman who "can get things done."

Our media is corrupt and useless as they waffle about protecting Ukraine's borders and sovereignty while ignoring an invasion into the United States and the collapse of our borders. While attempting to censor and cancel regime-opposing narratives, they define the very essence of mal- mis- and disinformation.

I can only wonder what the Republicans will do if they re-capture majorities in the House and Senate? Will anyone stand up to an incoherent, cognitively-impaired President being run by a cadre of re-tread poseurs from the Obama era?

The enemy within…

There is no doubt in my mind that the communists have infiltrated the environmental movement and captured the Democrat Party. The Russians, a major exporter of energy to Europe and elsewhere (like the United States), must be celebrating as the Democrats impose draconian measures against fossil fuels while promoting budget-busting unreliable wind and solar energy. Using the peace movement’s template against clean nuclear energy. We are destroying our own economy for a climate myth promoted by our enemies and subsidized by American taxpayers.

Putin’s Best Friend in the West: Environmentalists

Just as the Soviet Union encouraged—and clandestinely funded—the so-called “peace movement” in Europe back in the 1970s and 1980s, in recent years Russia has encouraged (and also clandestinely funded) environmental opposition to fossil fuel production, and especially fracking, in Europe and elsewhere.

Matt Ridley reported on this at length back in 2019 in “The Plot Against Fracking.”

The Russians also lobbied behind the scenes against shale gas, worried about losing their grip on the world’s gas supplies. Unlike most conspiracy theories about Russian meddling in Western politics,this one is out there in plain sight. The head of NATO, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, said the Russians,as part of a sophisticated disinformation operation, “engaged actively with so-called non-governmental organizations — environmental organizations working against shale gas — to maintain Europe’s dependence on imported Russian gas.”

The Centre for European Studies found that the Russian government has invested $95million in NGOs campaigning against shale gas.

Russia Today television ran endless anti-fracking stories, including one that “frackers are the moral equivalent of pedophiles”. The US Director of National Intelligence stated that “RT runs anti-fracking programming … reflective of the Russian Government’s concern about the impact of fracking and US natural gas production on the global energy market and the potential challenges to Gazprom’s profitability.” Pro-Russian politicians such as Lord Truscott (married to a Russian army colonel’s daughter) made speeches in parliament against fracking.

The truth is that the environmentalists are gloating. Russia supplies more than one-third of Europe’s natural gas while the Democrats cut our production and exports. The Biden administration is willing to shut down our pipelines while encouraging Russia’s pipeline to Europe. The Democrats love higher gasoline prices as it advances their agenda against fossil fuels and American mobility – economically forcing Americans into cities and using mass transit they control through their communist unions. Plus, nobody in our government is rebating those increasing tax revenues generated with higher prices.

Bottom line…

With leaving thousands of American citizens behind enemy lines with the surrender of Afghanistan, our national credibility, trustworthiness, deterrence threat value, and honor have been destroyed by the Biden Administration.

But our true enemy comes from within, The Democrats and the RINO (Republican In Name Only) Republicans who want to reshape and deodorize the establishment deal-making dung heap.

The Democrat Party has a long history of aiding Russia, whether out of corruption, ideology, or the actions of 'useful idiots.' The Clintons, Obama, and Biden have done more to sell America to its enemies than the Rosenbergs.

We are so screwed.

-- steve