Feb282022

Episode 497 – The Stand

This didn’t age well. This is Joe Biden in 2020 talking about Russia and Trump:

Good job, Joe!

 

What’s Happening in the War

  • Russia is forming a perimeter around Kyiv. It is looking like a siege around the city.
  • Ukrainians, aged 16-60, are required to stay in the city, get weapons from their local police departments and fight (2nd Amendment is looking pretty good right now).
  • Russia is looking ill-prepared for this war:
    • Tanks are running out of gas and are stuck on the roads.
    • Many Russian soldiers do not know why they are their or what is going on.
  • Russia is trying to take away Ukraine’s energy sources.
    • Russia has taken over Chernobyl and another nuclear facility.
    • It has been reported that Russia accidently hot a radioactive waste disposal site with a missile.
    • Russia has been targeting oil and electric facilities.
  • It has been reported that the Russian force has been underfunded.
    • In the middle of the fight for Kyiv, Russia stopped their assault for a day to “regroup”.
    • Multiple tanks have been seen on the side of the road, out of gas.
  • Ukraine has set up a curfew because it fears Russian saboteurs are in the city and will blow up buildings.
  • Russia is bombing Ukrainian hospitals.
  • The Ukrainian government claimed that Russia has “suffered” about 3,000 troop casualties and lost 516 kinds of various military vehicles, 80 tanks, 10 airplanes, and seven helicopters so far on Friday, possibly indicating that the Ukrainian people have had some success against the Russian invaders.
    • Russia has sent mobile crematoriums to handle the dead.
    • Multiple Russian planes have been shot down. This includes several transport planes. Though the number cannot be confirmed, there is video so we know some are.
  •  Russia is deploying the TOS-1A missile system.
    • The fact sheet on this weapon states: “The TOS-1A heavy flamethrower system is designed for providing fire support to infantry and tanks, defeating enemy manpower from open and closed firing positions in a variety of offensive and defensive combat, as well as disabling light armored vehicles and transport. Combined target destruction is achieved through effects of high temperature and overpressure.”
    • The system is armed with “unguided artillery rockets with thermobaric warheads.”
    • The world community states that if this weapon is used against civilian targets, this could be considered war crimes.
  • Currently, there are between 60 and 90 thousand Russian troops in Ukraine.
  • Russian President Vladimir Putin raised his nuclear deterrent forces to an elevated alert status Sunday, citing “aggressive statements” from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and increased sanctions against his regime.
    • Putin said: “Western countries aren’t only taking unfriendly actions against our country in the economic sphere, but top officials from leading NATO members made aggressive statements regarding our country.”
    • Fox News reported: Putin ordered the Russian defense minister and the chief of the military’s General Staff to put the nuclear deterrent forces in a “special regime of combat duty.” The move signals tensions could boil over into a nuclear war. 
    • Not good.
  • Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko have announced talks will take place between Russia and Ukraine.
  • Death squads have been sent into Ukraine to kill government officials by Putin.

We are in the middle of what is called the fog of war. We really don’t know what is going on over there. We are just listening to reports, which could be propaganda, from both sides. We are also looking at reactions. An example of this can be seen in a viral video of a tank running over a car, trapping an old lady. It was reported that the tank was Russian but other reports stated it was actually Ukrainian. To this moment, we don’t really know where the tank came from.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/ukrainian-males-ages-18-to-60-banned-from-leaving-the-country
https://www.dailywire.com/news/ukraine-official-says-russia-bombing-ukrainian-hospitals-this-is-beyond-evil
https://www.dailywire.com/news/ukraine-official-claims-russian-troops-have-suffered-nearly-3000-casualties-lost-hundreds-of-military-vehicles-numerous-aircraft
https://www.dailywire.com/news/multiple-russian-military-transport-planes-shot-down-along-with-other-military-aircraft-ukrainian-gov-claims
https://www.dailywire.com/news/russia-has-mobile-crematoriums-to-evaporate-dead-soldiers-report-says
https://www.dailywire.com/news/russia-sparks-outrage-after-deploying-terrifying-weapon-system-to-ukraine-a-war-crime-aimed-at-slaughtering-people
https://www.dailywire.com/news/just-in-putin-raises-nuclear-deterrent-forces-to-special-combat-readiness
https://nypost.com/2022/02/27/ukraines-second-largest-city-kharkiv-claims-victory-against-russia/?utm_source=NYPTwitter&utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_medium=SocialFlow

Heroes

There is some legendary stuff going on from the Ukrainians.

  • Evidence of the Ukrainian people’s fighting spirit can further be seen in the 13 Ukrainian service members who told Russian battleships to “go f*** yourself,” rather than surrender to their enemies. All 13 service members were killed.
  • A Ukrainian soldier is being credited with giving his life by blowing up a bridge to stop advancing Russian forces that were cutting through Ukraine after Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered a full-scale invasion this week. His name was Vitaly Skakun Volodymyrovych.
  • A video from over the weekend inside Ukraine shows a man kneeling in front of a Russian tank to stop it from advancing for a brief moment as Russian forces continue their quest to take over the country. The New York Times confirmed the video.
  • Another video that went viral late this week showed a woman confronting a Russian soldier, berating him for invading Ukraine, and telling him to put sunflower seeds in his pockets so that when he is killed in Ukraine, flowers will grow where he ultimately dies.
  • Ukraine instructed its citizens to take up arms, including manufacturing Molotov cocktails, to fight back against the Russian military on Friday as it advanced close to the nation’s capital city of Kiev.
  • The mayor of Kyiv, Vitali Klitschko, was photographed on top of a building behind an M-60. By the way, that is the same Klitschko that was boxing heavyweight champion (WBO and WBC).
  • President of Ukraine,  Volodymyr Zelenskyy, was asked to be evacuated from Ukraine by the United States and the Great Britain. He said, “The fight is here; I need ammunition, not a ride.” He’s in the streets in fatigues.

This is stuff that creates nations.

 

https://www.dailywire.com/news/ukrainian-soldier-blows-himself-up-to-stop-russian-military-from-advancing-across-bridge-ukraine-says
https://www.dailywire.com/news/man-runs-in-front-of-russian-tank-and-kneels-to-briefly-stop-it-from-advancing
https://www.dailywire.com/news/u-s-ready-to-evacuate-ukraine-president-zelensky-so-hes-not-captured-or-killed-he-refuses-to-go
https://www.dailywire.com/news/ukraine-instructs-citizens-to-make-molotov-cocktails-to-burn-and-destroy-invading-russian-military
https://www.dailywire.com/news/13-ukraine-soldiers-posthumously-awarded-hero-title-after-telling-russian-ship-go-f-yourself
https://www.dailywire.com/news/woman-confronts-soldier-in-viral-video-put-sunflower-seeds-in-your-pockets-so-when-you-die-flowers-grow
https://www.dailywire.com/news/shocking-footage-russian-tank-crushes-civilian-car-with-driver-still-inside

 

 

World’s Response

Let’s be honest: the Biden administration did pretty much nothing during this whole thing.

  • Protests are happening throughout the world, including in Russia. Protesters is Russia are being arrested.
  • Banning of Russians is occurring everywhere
    • Tennis has banned any events in Russia.
    • Eurovision banned Russia from their singing competition.
  • A set of Russian banks have been frozen from the SWIFT banking system. This is like Venmo and Gmail and is what allows Russia to collect money.
  • The United States, Germany, Poland, the United Kingdom, Finland, the European Union and NATO are sending arms to Ukraine.
    • Better late than never, I guess.
    • There is still some talk about how to get arms to the Ukrainians but the Poles have said they will get the arms to them.
    • For Germany, this is a big deal. It is against the law for them to give arms to another nation but they did it anyway.
  • Russia’s invasion seems to have the opposite affect on the world.
    • Finland and Sweden, two very neutral countries, have asked to join NATO.
    • Countries in the region have decided it might be time to develop nuclear weapons in order to ensure mutual ensured destruction.
    • Russia has threatened these countries with, what many think, with nuclear weapons.
    • I’d love to see Russia against Finland, one of the best militaries in the world.
    • For the first time, the European Union is sending Ukraine weapons including 10 fighter jets.
  • The United Nations held a vote, condemning the invasion.
    • President Zelenskyy requested Russia be excluded from the vote. They weren’t.
    • Russia vetoed the vote.
    • China abstained.
    • The U.N. is worthless.

Some of the media is praising Biden with unifying Europe. Politico released an syrupy article stating that it was Joe Biden that got Europe to respond. He didn’t and anyone who is paying attention knows it.

Here’s the problem, Europe did it on their own. Biden had nothing to do it and was “surprised”, according to the Washington Post, that Europe has changed their policy. In fact, according to the Washington Post, the Biden administration rushed to add more sanctions and look like they are doing something.

I love it when to Leftists newspapers contradict each other.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/sports-world-pulling-events-from-russia-following-invasion-of-ukraine
https://www.dailywire.com/news/eurovision-bans-russia-from-competing-in-singing-competition-after-ukraine-invasion
https://www.dailywire.com/news/cities-around-the-world-light-up-blue-and-yellow-in-support-of-ukraine
https://www.dailywire.com/news/russia-vetoes-un-resolution-condemning-ukraine-invasion-china-abstains
https://www.dailywire.com/news/russia-threatens-serious-military-consequences-if-sweden-finland-join-nato-after-ukraine-invasion
https://www.dailywire.com/news/russia-threatens-to-take-military-action-against-two-more-european-nations
https://www.dailywire.com/news/u-s-and-allies-will-expel-certain-russian-banks-from-swift-financial-messaging-system
https://www.dailywire.com/news/elon-musk-praised-for-coming-to-ukraines-rescue-pushes-a-button-and-changes-the-course-of-history
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-60539303#:~:text=The%20EU%20has%20imposed%20a,controlled%20aircraft%2C%22%20she%20said.

 

Biden’s Response

The Biden administration is ball-less, as usual.

It seems that the sanctions he implemented are hard core but they go short of being brutal. Some were already implemented. They do not attack Russia ability to collect money (the SWIFT program) though it is implemented now in a measured way. And it does not stop Russia from exporting oil and natural gas.

But the biggest problem is the Biden administration seems disconnected from the real issue at hand. Here is Jen Psaki on This Week with George Stephanopoulos on ABC:

John Kerry, on of the worst Secretaries of State in American history had the same thoughts, Here he is on Al Jazeera:

Some things:

  • These guys are so lost. They have no idea about reality.
  • All this green B.S. is what got Europe into trouble and emboldened Russia in the first place.
  • Last year, we were energy independent. We didn’t need Russia.
    • Now, we need Russian oil.
    • We are still buying Russian oil.
    • And we are begging Saudi Arabia to produce more. They won’t.
  • All Biden has to do is turn the XL Pipeline and re-establish the oil drilling leases and we will not need to care about Ukraine.
  • This weekend, Biden cancelled more oil drilling leases on federal lands.

I’m going to ask this again. Is the Biden administration’s f-ing up of America look like an accident?

By the way, This “crisis” was so important that Old Joe went to his beachside mansion in Delaware this weekend. Remember that when his poll numbers drop so much he decides to send U.S. troops to Ukraine.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/two-russian-cosmonauts-remain-at-intl-space-station-and-biden-just-sanctioned-russias-space-program
https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-halts-oil-gas-leases-as-oil-prices-skyrocket-at-home
https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-turned-over-intelligence-to-china-on-russias-plans-to-invade-ukraine-china-gave-it-to-russia-report-says
https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-biden-admin-launches-mostly-symbolic-sanctions-against-putin-report-says
https://www.dailywire.com/news/nasa-will-keep-its-partnership-with-russian-space-agency
https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-psaki-grilled-over-what-actions-biden-admin-has-taken-on-ukraine-that-have-worked
https://www.dailywire.com/news/ukrainian-government-official-blasts-biden-and-democrats
https://www.dailywire.com/news/zelensky-appears-to-take-shot-at-biden-the-worlds-most-powerful-forces-are-watching-from-afar

 

The Media and Celebrities

It was really hard to figure our what was the dumbest reaction from the media and Hollywood last week.

Sean Penn, who never saw a communist he didn’t like, said that the United States had to do something about Ukraine. Presumably send troops. He is over there filming a documentary that I’ll never see. Well, since he’s there, he should grab a rifle and start defending Ukraine. I’m sure he’s on a plane and running away like a little bitch.

Joy Reid is an idiot. She actually equated racism to the invasion of Ukraine. She said:

“I have come to expect very little from the Republican party, to be blunt. I understand that they prefer autocracy. They want a White nationalist autocracy in the United States. They believe that white Christians are beleaguered and need to rule the United States without elections. Got it. But this is really, at this point, open.”

The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur agreed with Reid saying:

“Right-wing doesn’t love Putin just because he is an authoritarian, tyrannical leader, they love him because he’s a WHITE authoritarian leader. Race has become more important than even nationality. They’ve turned on democracy and now even America, in favor of a white warlord.”

Cenk is white.

Some things:

  • I find it amazing that the Left is so racist, they group all white people as the same. There are different groups of whites.
  • Putin is white. Zelenskyy is white. Russians are white. Ukrainians are white. What’s the thing with racism here?
  • Putin isn’t attacking Ethiopia.

But Christians and Trump are bad.

Daily Beast writer, Wajahat Ali, tweeted:

He’s an Arab. Arabs hate Christians. And Jews. And Buddhists. And everybody. I just wanted to point that out. I want to get to the next tweet before I get to the point.

Here is the Daily Beast’s David Rothkopf. He tweeted:

Some things:

  • The realignment these guys keep talking about is happening now. Not when Trump was President.
  • It is these guys that are trying to change our way of life. Not the Republicans.
  • Republicans aren’t in power. When Republicans were, there was no war.
    • Putin took over Crimea under Obama.
    • He’s attacking Ukraine under Biden.
    • He didn’t attack anything under Trump and a Republican Congress. Hmm….

Leave it to Joy Behar of The View, who is the heart of Leftist philosophy. Listen:

Do you think she listens to herself after the show and says, “I shouldn’t have said that”? What an elitist.

The government is being stupid. When Putin put their nuclear weapons on alert, ready.gov, a partner with FEMA released instructions on how to deal with a nuclear attack:

Got that? The China virus is just as bad as nuclear war.

Anna Lynne McCord, who is a has-been actress, decided to get involved with the Ukrainian war. She wrote a poem and read it on Twitter.

That’ll do it. War is over. Well, unless Vlad gets pissed off that the poem disrespects his mother.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/actor-sean-penn-is-in-ukraine-filming-a-russian-invasion-documentary-as-it-unfolds
https://www.dailywire.com/news/as-ukrainians-fear-for-their-lives-joy-behars-scared-because-her-italian-vacation-might-be-ruined
https://www.tmz.com/2022/02/27/jeremy-renner-fan-cast-play-zelenskyy-biopic-movie-ukraine/
https://www.dailywire.com/news/not-a-joke-john-kerry-is-worried-war-in-ukraine-will-distract-world-leaders-from-climate-change
https://dailycaller.com/2022/02/24/liberals-make-russia-ukraine-about-race-vladimir-putin/

https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-russian-missiles-hit-radioactive-waste-disposal-site-of-the-kyiv-branch-ukraine-agency-says
https://www.dailywire.com/news/russian-platoon-surrenders-to-ukrainian-forces-high-ranking-ukraine-military-leader-claims
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/02/27/russia-ukraine-war-kyiv-news/
https://www.dailywire.com/news/not-a-joke-john-kerry-is-worried-war-in-ukraine-will-distract-world-leaders-from-climate-change