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2021-04-16 Home Front: Politix

[Townhall] Wars often arise from uncertainty. When strong countries appear weak, truly weaker ones take risks they otherwise would not.

Sloppy braggadocio and serial promises of restraint can trigger wars, too. Empty tough talk can needlessly egg on aggressors. But mouthing utopian bromides convinces bullies that their targets are too sophisticated to counter aggression.

Sometimes announcing "a new peace process" without any ability to bring either novel concessions or pressures only raises false hopes -- and furor.

Every new American president is tested to determine whether the United States can still protect friends such as Europe, Japan, South Korea and Israel. And will the new commander in chief deter U.S. enemies Iran and North Korea -- and keep China and Russia from absorbing their neighbors?

Joe Biden, and those around him, seem determined to upset the peace they inherited.

Soon after Donald Trump left office, Vladimir Putin began massing troops on the Ukrainian border and threatening to attack.

Putin earlier had concluded that Trump was dangerously unpredictable, and perhaps best not provoked. After all, the Trump administration took out Russian mercenaries in Syria. It beefed up defense spending and upped sanctions.

The Trump administration flooded the world with cheap oil to Russia's chagrin. It pulled out from asymmetrical missile treaties with Russia. It sold sophisticated arms to the Ukrainians. The Russians concluded that Trump might do anything, and so waited for another president before again testing America.

In contrast, Biden often talks provocatively -- while carrying a twig. He has gratuitously called Putin "a killer." And he warned that the Russian dictator "will pay a price" for supposedly interfering in the 2020 election.

Unfortunately, Biden's bombast follows four years of a Russian-collusion hoax, fueled by a concocted dossier paid for by the Democratic National Committee and the campaign of 2016 Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. Biden and others claimed Trump was, in the words of Barack Obama's former director of national intelligence, James Clapper, a "Russian asset."

Posted by Besoeker 2021-04-16 02:59|| || Front Page|| [11129 views ] Top

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2021-04-16 04:18|| 2021-04-16 04:18|| Front Page Top

#2 Go ahead Joe, fumble into war created by you and yours insanity about Russian collusion. I foresee the headlines, Blue cities hit hardest! The rest of us will muddle through.

Posted by Procopius2k 2021-04-16 07:38|| 2021-04-16 07:38|| Front Page Top

#3 Peace exists when all parties know who would win; war occurs when the issue is in doubt.

Posted by Glenmore 2021-04-16 09:12|| 2021-04-16 09:12|| Front Page Top

#4 Putin never dissed Trump. Trump never dissed Putin.

Everyone who ever dealt with Putin's predecessors during the Soviet era agreed that the one thing that was intolerable to those leaders was insulting their pride and honor. No matter how corrupt or brutal, every Soviet leader saw himself as upholding the sacred honor, earned in blood, of the nation that saved the world from Hitler.

And now we have an obscene little man, a demented corrupt buffoon famous only for his lies and self-aggrandize get bullshit, going up to the Russian president and calling him "a killer."

Words fail

Posted by Herb Spavimble3151 2021-04-16 09:21|| 2021-04-16 09:21|| Front Page Top

#5 Sad that we've burned out the troops with so many deployments and pussified so many within the US military leadership at this point.

Posted by rjschwarz 2021-04-16 10:24|| 2021-04-16 10:24|| Front Page Top

#6 If it makes you feel better, it isn't Biden.

Sunnovabitch can't even put a boot on the correct 'sprained ankle'.

Remember when Kerry bumbled our way OUT of war?

I'm all for a face to face between Putin and Biden. Heck even Biden's stunt double. Pay per view, proceeds go to the swksvolFF Proper Fishing Boat Foundation.

Posted by swksvolFF 2021-04-16 11:45|| 2021-04-16 11:45|| Front Page Top

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