So Joe proposed that Donbas be made an 'autonomous' region within Ukraine. Is it appeasement? First off, let's get something strait about Neville Chamberlain. He was a well-meaning PM doing everything within his power to avoid war. Of course he was wrong. But we have hindsight and he didn't. Chamberlain did have horrific memories of the last war, and he wanted to avoid another.
We have yet to answer our question. Maybe Joe's Donbas plan is appeasement. But who wants to send their sons and daughters to die to keep Donbas within Ukraine? A quick visit to Russia Today and Sputnik this morning shows only one story about the Ukraine issue, an op ed praising Joe's plan. Maybe things are settling down?
Later, this blog will cynically slam Joe for caving to Putin. What does the Kremlin have on him? Just how large are Joe's Burisma holdings? There were steps Joe could have taken before this crisis (aid to the Ukes, Nordstream).
Because this blog's enemies are sub-literate, we will declare once again we don't support Russian meddling in Ukraine and think Putin has little-man syndrome. What a mess. Vlad didn't do this when Trump was president.
Moving on to other areas in which Joe is appeasing the bad guys, the Times of Israel reports that Trump got mad at Bibi: 'Former US president Donald Trump has lashed out at former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu over the Israeli leader’s congratulations to US President Joe Biden after he won the presidency last year in statements published on Friday.' Where's the very stable genius? While Trump would be the first president since FDR to win three elections in a row should he run and win in 2024, sometimes we wonder.
In Washington, Cocaine Mitch has concocted some kind of deal where the Dems get to raise the debt ceiling. Some fools think Mitch could have used his leverage for spending cuts. Whatevs. We've seen these spending fights for 30 years and they always end the same way. Nobody wants to cut Washington spending. This blog doesn't care. The United States will get spending under control when the currency crashes and we default on the debt.
Speaking of, NRO's Kevin Williamson has some prescient thoughts on imperial decline: 'The United States must figure out how to craft for itself a new kind of diplomacy, one that reflects not the country it was in the post-war era but the country it actually is: rich, aging, eager for comfort and luxury, disinclined to fight. Americans, being prideful, naturally bristle at anything that sounds like a tribute payment or protection money, but if you have a great deal of money and no willingness to fight, you had better be honest with yourself about what that means. If we are still a superpower at all, our superpower is money.' The United States is in decline. In 1990, we had no doubt we'd kick the crap out of Iraq. What would happen were China to attack Taiwan? We've no idea.
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