Jan272022

Episode 479 – Is It Really That Important?

We could have another Supreme Court nomination fight.

Let’s talk a little about Ukraine.

And what is Joe Biden doing during all these emergencies?

 

Trading a Banana for a Banana

According to Fox News:

Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer is retiring, Fox News confirmed, setting President Biden up with the first opportunity to fill a vacancy on the high court. 

A source close to Breyer told Fox News that the justice will step down at the end of the current Supreme Court term early this summer.

The is not a shock that Breyer is retiring:

  • He’s 83 years old.
  • The Left has been calling for him to resign all year.

This will give Joe Biden a chance to get a Supreme Court Justice. The good news is that this is not going to change the makeup of the court since Breyer, who was picked by Bill Clinton, has been a very liberal judge. In the past, Joe Biden said, if he had to pick, would select a black woman. That’s a great idea because we saw how great a pick of a black woman for Vice President.

This raises a couple of questions:

  • Was Breyer forced out? Even at 83, he’s sharp and very outgoing.
  • Who would he pick? Is Kamala Harris on the list?
  • We know that this candidate is going to be a Leftist and extreme. But, during an election year, how hard should the Republicans fight? Could we see a Merrick Garland/Amy Coney Barret fight, somehow?
  • How moderate is Joe Biden going to be? I think this is a stupid question because I don’t think Biden is going to pick a moderate at all.

We’ll have to see. If he doesn’t retire until summer, that going to be close to the elections. This stuff could get really interesting.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/breyer-retire-supreme-court

 

This Ukraine Thing

I told you I would talk a little about Ukraine because, in reality, we could be looking at a World War III scenario, especially since Russia is joining Iran and China in military drills and this can be a real crystal ball moment on what is going to happen with China’s conflict with Taiwan.

 

What’s Happening

Here’s what’s happening between Russia and Ukraine:

  • Russia currently has about 100,000 troops on the Ukraine border, according to Ukrainian and Western officials. U.S. intelligence agencies have assessed that the Kremlin has drawn up plans for a military operation involving up to 175,000 troops that could begin in the coming weeks.
  •  In addition, Ukrainian fighters opposed to Kyiv’s rule, amount to about 30,000, according to an assessment by the Ukrainian military.
  • Russia has moved an additional five battalion tactical groups into the border area near Luhansk and Donetsk, including about 5,000 soldiers sent to reinforce the 12,000 or so stationed there permanently, according to Ukrainian authorities.
  • Joe Biden, who’s weakness has created this mess, has put 8500 troops on standby. These troops will be deployed in surrounding countries, not directly in Ukraine.
  • The United States has been sending lethal aid to Ukraine but will not send troops.
  • NATO is getting into the party:
    • Denmark is sending a frigate and deploying F-16 warplanes to Lithuania.
    • Spain is sending four fighter jets to Bulgaria and three ships to the Black Sea to join NATO naval forces
    • France stands ready to send troops to Romania
    • The Netherlands also plans to send two F-35 fighter aircraft to Bulgaria
    • Notice, no NATO forces are going to Ukraine. We will talk about that later.
  • NATO took control of a U.S. aircraft carrier this week as part of a preplanned military exercise that could not have come at a better time as it projects strength in the region as Russia appears ready to invade Ukraine.
  • The U.K. may send combat troops to support Ukrainian allies under threat of Russian invasion, Prime Minister Boris Johnson told the British government on Tuesday. But no decisions have been made.

That’s how world wars start.

Before we all start panicking, relax. I don’t think this is going to escalate to that, it just could. I’ll get into that later.

\https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/01/07/world/europe/ukraine-maps.html
https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-biden-puts-8500-troops-on-heightened-alert-to-prepare-to-be-deployed-to-eastern-europe
https://www.dailywire.com/news/nato-takes-control-of-u-s-aircraft-carrier-for-first-time-since-cold-war-amid-russia-invasion-threat
https://www.dailywire.com/news/russia-has-placed-a-gun-to-ukraines-head-u-k-will-send-troops-to-support-ukraine-if-russia-invades-johnson-says

 

Here We Go Again

In a show of strength and in an effort to build up the confidence of the Ukrainian people and government, Joe Biden has decided to evacuate Ukraine.

  • The State Department has ordered that all Americans to make plans to leave Ukraine.
  • The embassy will remain open to process paperwork but will eventually evacuate if tensions rise.

Does this sound familiar? Could we see another Afghanistan?

When asked, Jen Psaki’s answer was less than satisfactory:

Remember that. They have no plans. Just like Afghanistan. By the way, there are still Americans in Afghanistan and there are no plans to get them out.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-u-s-embassy-urging-americans-in-ukraine-to-consider-departing-now-using-commercial-or-private-transportation

 

What I Think

How did this whole thing happen? How did Russia get so emboldened to threaten another country? Why didn’t Russia do it four years ago?

  • Biden became President and showed his weakness.
    • The Afghanistan pullout was a disaster.
    • He has been blowing Iran for the last year to get them back into that crappy nuclear deal.
    • We emboldened Russia by allowing them to build the Nord Stream Pipeline.
    • Biden is ignoring China’s threats to Taiwan.
    • When Biden was Vice President, the Obama administration showed no support to Ukraine, sending them only blankets when Russia invaded Crimea.
  • But it wasn’t just Biden. The United States has shown weakness in other events. We did nothing when China took over Hong Kong. The conflict was occurring under both Obama and Trump.
  • There were no preemptive measures is place.

The big reason Russia wants control here is because they want to create those satellite countries they had when they were the Soviet Union. They have a fear of being invaded. Let’s not forget a couple of things:

  • Russia has a history of being at war in their land. We forget this because we have never had to fight a war against a foreign power on our homeland. Alexander Sholsitskin made this very clear in The Gulag Archipelago. Sholsitskin believed half the reason there was a gulag system in the Soviet Union was fear of another war, civil or foreign, being fought in their homeland. This was also a theme in books by Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky.
  • Putin was the head of the KGB during the Soviet era. He may embrace a lot of the Soviet philosophies.

Listen, I think the screaming about the World War III is hyperbole. It could happen. Th World Wars have been started for relatively small reason. But World War II was started much in the same way, an invasion. But it would not be in the best interest of Russia to invade directly:

  • Their economy is weak:
    • Their inflation rate is at 8%. Ours is high at 7%.
    • Their GDP is 7 times less than the United States and 6 times less than China.
    • Their main export is oil (about 65%) and oil is too low in price to really bring them a lot of money.
    • Their economy is that of Italy.
  • Though they would win a war, it will be extremely bloody and expensive. The Ukrainians aren’t just going to rollover.
    • The Ukrainians know how to fight. They’ve also had to fight within their own country.
    • The Ukrainians have heavy weapons from the United States and other countries.
    • And let’s remember, the last war the Russians fought was in Afghanistan and they got their asses kicked.

The goal of the Russians is to scare the crap out of the Ukrainians enough that they install a Russia-friendly government. This seems to be what most believe. This is what China did with Hong Kong and what they are trying to do with Taiwan.

I think, if anything, this will be a minor incursion. Just enough to scare the people to putting in a government that the Russians want.

 

The Irony

I do find some irony here. There seems to be kind of a push to protect Ukraine, even to the point of sending American troops to this corrupt country. By the way, there’s a reason why Ukraine is not in NATO and has no chance of getting into NATO and that’s because it was considered one of the most corrupt countries on the planet.

But the Biden administration has a reason to protect Ukraine. Here is Jonathan Finer, Biden’s White House Deputy National Security Advisor telling us why we should protect Ukraine:

You can’t make this stuff up.

Just an FYI: There were 179,000 arrests of illegal aliens at the southern border in December 2021. Let me give you some context as to how high that number is. If you combined the number of arrests at the southern border for December of 2020, 2019 and 2018, you still would not have 179,000 arrests.

And Fox News news has determined that these people are being, secretly, released into the country. Specifically, red states like Georgia, Texas and Florida. Gee, I wonder why?

I don’t want to hear from this administration about the sanctity of anyone else’s border when this President is pissing on our border. No one American troop should get involved and killed over Ukraine. This mess should have been prevented and the lack of foresight is the reason there is this mess.

Here’s the problem I have. This is a very unpopular and incompetent president. I can see him sending troops to Ukraine because he’s stupid. Never underestimate the ability for Joe Biden to f- something up. It’s not actually me that is saying that. It is President Barrack Obama who said that.

And, in another act of senile-laced reasoning, he may send troops to Ukraine because he thinks it will improve his poll numbers. Let’s not forget that Joe Biden does not care about the troops or the citizens of the United States. He’s a globalist. He only cares about his popularity and his power. He has proven this throughout his political career.

 

Joe Biden News

By the way, where was Joe Biden yesterday? What is he doing? Jen Psaki didn’t seem to know either:

Good news! The pool media knew what he did.

  • At 1:30 PM, Biden left the White House.
  • He went shopping where is was looking at table coasters with pictures on German Shepherds on them.
  • He looked at jewelry that he thought his wife would like.
  • And he bought ice cream and went back to the White House at 2:28 PM.
  • There, he put a lid on the rest of the day starting at 3:07 PM.

Yes, we should be concerned about Ukraine. Look at how concerned he is.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/hardly-working-biden-gets-ice-cream-press-covers-every-second

 

 

 

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