Biden’s Deputies: 500,000 Migrants Per Month Expected at Border
Border chief Alejandro Mayorkas and his progressive deputies are warning Americans to expect a huge inflow of economic migrants if the Title 42 border barrier is dropped.
“Homeland security officials on Tuesday described contingency plans for managing as many as 18,000 encounters a day at the border, regardless of the cause,” reported the New York Times.
That inflow would add up to more than 500,000 people a month — or more migrants than American births in a month. The southern flood would exacerbate the economic damage already caused by the flood of roughly 1 million legal immigrants and perhaps 400,000 new visa workers.
The media briefing was likely intended to help persuade other officials at the White House and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) – as well as judges – to preserve the Title 42 barrier when it expires this week.
The CDC-governed barrier allows Mayorkas to regulate the inflow of cross-border migrants to a level that does not break into the evening news. Mayorkas’ regulated level is about 150,000 per month, including roughly 50,000 migrants who sneak across the border.
But the alarm signal likely was also intended to mollify Biden’s progressive base of pro-migration, university-trained extremists who say they would prefer to see an open border for migrants — regardless of the wage-cutting, rent-spiking damage to ordinary Americans:
If the "worst case scenario" of 18,000 migrants arriving per day came to pass, that would be 6,570,000 people in a year.
The U.S. currently has 11,300,000 job openings.
The predicted flood has been encouraged by Biden’s pro-migration deputies, who immediately ended the border protections established by former-President Donald Trump, reduced the use of the Trump-imposed Title 42 disease-related rejections at the border, and minimized the deportations of illegals.
But Biden’s officials are now alarmed about the public’s reaction to their refusal to defend Americans’ border: “Democrats do not want the southwest border to appear out of control in the months ahead of the midterm elections, which would fuel more Republican attacks on the Biden administration’s border policies,” the New York Times said.
The inflow has “rattled some Democrats who worry it may be too soon to return to pre-pandemic immigration rules at the border,” said the Washington Post.
In 2014,a rush of migrants at the border wrecked public trust in the border policies set by President Barack Obama. The bad poll numbers derailed Obama’s hopes for a mass amnesty and encouraged a New York TV personality to run for president.
A supercharged repeat of the mass migration in 2022 may help Americans to recognize their shared opposition to labor migration. The public opposition is revealed in polls, but it is suppressed by claims by investor-funded progressives that the United States is a “Nation of Immigrants.” The opposition is also hidden by the corporate-owned establishment media, which rarely describes the scale of migration or the public’s hostility to labor migration.
In September 2021, Biden’s polls were badly damaged by the TV news coverage of the invasion by roughly 30,000 migrants at Del Rio in Texas.
It is not clear if the administration is willing to stop mass migration.
Mayorkas is a Cuban immigrant and a pro-migration zealot who argues that the United States is, and must always, be a “Nation of Immigrants.”
He is backed up by progressives who wish to transform the United States from a society governed by European-origin civic culture into a progressive-led empire of competing identity groups. “We’re trying to become the first multiracial, multi-ethnic superpower in the world,” a Mayorkas ally, Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA), told the New York Times on March 21. “It will be an extraordinary achievement … we will ultimately triumph,” he insisted.
So Biden’s officials refuse to detain migrants — even the economic migrants who cut wages for Americans – as required by federal law. Without detention, migrants do not have to worry about the economic risk of migrating to the United States because they can be sure that they will get a U.S. job to pay off their smuggling debts.
Mayorkas has also announced he will not deport illegal migrants, even when they drive down Americans’ wages and push up their housing prices.
“Even if the administration briefly keeps some limited version of Title 42 in place for political reasons, almost everything else it’s doing is sending the signal to prospective illegal immigrants to come on down,” warned Mark Krikorian, the director of the Center for Immigration Studies.
Mayorkas’ easy migration policy is encouraging mass migration from many countries around the world. As more people from Africa and Asia get into the United States, they use their cellphones to show their success to their homeland friends and neighbors, so encouraging more migrants.
A 2012 survey by Gallup showed that more than 150 million people around the world want to migrate to the United States.
The Washington Post reported:
“The nture and scope of migration has changed fundamentally,” said one DHS official, who briefed reporters and spoke on the condition of anonymity under rules set by the department.
The official said an “unprecedented” 40 percent of the migrants being taken into custody are arriving from countries outside Mexico and the Northern Triangle of Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador that have traditionally been the largest sources for migration.
The New York Times noted that officials are refusing to send some migrants home, so they are encouraging more people to head north:
But the United States cannot put Cubans, Venezuelans or Nicaraguans on flights back to their countries because of a lack of diplomatic relations. One of the homeland security officials speaking on background on Tuesday called the situation “problematic,” and said they were most likely fleeing oppressive governments.
The pro-migration editors at the New York Times ignored the likely impact of a migrant flood on Americans’ workplaces, homes, and schools, saying only ‘The stakes are high, from both a humanitarian standpoint and a political one.”
But the elite-backed flood of migrant labor — and renters — has impoverished millions of less-education Americans. CNBC reported on March 30:
Roughly 20% of employees regularly run out of money between paychecks, up from 15% last year, according to the survey of more than 3,000 working adults in February.
As a result, about one-quarter of those polled said it’s harder to afford necessary expenses and one-third are unable to build savings, issues that are particularly problematic for low-to-moderate income workers.
Similarly, the Oxfam anti-poverty group reports:
as of 2022, more than 31.9 percent of the US labor force, or 51.9 million workers, currently make less than $15 per hour, and many are stuck at the federal minimum wage, which is less than half of that hourly rate. If Congress were to enact legislation changing the hourly minimum wage and who qualifies—making the law more equitable and inclusive—millions of workers would be lifted from poverty.
Source: Oxfam
Since at least 1990, the D.C. establishment has used a wide variety of excuses and explanations — for example, “Nation of Immigrants” — to justify its policy of extracting tens of millions of migrants and visa workers from poor countries to serve as workers, consumers, and renters for various U.S. investors and CEOs.
The self-serving economic strategy of extraction migration has no stopping point. It is harmful to ordinary Americans because it cuts their career opportunities, shrinks their salaries and wages, raises their housing costs, and has shoved at least 10 million American men out of the labor force.
Extraction migration also curbs Americans’ productivity, reduces their political clout, undermines U.S. workplace rights, and widens the regional wealth gaps between the Democrats’ coastal states and the Republicans’ Heartland states.
An economy built on extraction migration also radicalizes Americans’ democratic, compromise-promoting civic culture because it allows wealthy elites to ignore despairing Americans at the bottom of society.
The economic strategy also kills many migrants, splits foreign families, and extracts wealth from the poor home countries.
Not surprisingly, the wealth-shifting extraction migration policy is very unpopular, according to a wide variety of polls. The polls show deep and broad public opposition to labor migration and the inflow of temporary contract workers into jobs sought by young U.S. graduates.
The opposition is growing, anti-establishment, multiracial, cross-sex, non-racist, class-based, bipartisan, rational, persistent, and recognizes the solidarity that Americans owe to one another.
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When government was smaller you often had a choice - corruption "or" mis-management.
Now that government is larger, the choice has increased and you get both. All Congress does well, particularly Democrats, is spend money.
Why We Are Covid Broke
All Washington knows how to do is spend money—and it can’t even do that well.
By Kimberley A. Strassel
cult to know where to start. So there is usefulness in a recent White House missive to Congress—which in a few short pages neatly sums up the dishonesty and malpractice of today’s Beltway.
“Dear Madame Speaker,” begins the March 15 letter, devoted to the topic of Covid poverty. “We are notifying you of the following actions necessitated by the lack of critical funding.” Office of Management and Budget Director Shalanda Young and White House Covid coordinator Jeffrey Zients explain that unless Congress supplies tens of billions more in taxpayer dollars, the federal government will no longer be able to “secure sufficient booster doses,” will end “the purchase of monoclonal antibody treatments,” will halt “critical testing,” and will scale back “preventive treatments for the immunocompromised.”
We are, somehow, Covid broke. How? Didn’t Washington, under the cry of “emergency,” spend $6.6 trillion in fiscal 2020 and $6.8 trillion more in 2021? Both years equaled at least 50% more in spending than in 2019—and all for “Covid.” Only a year ago, Democrats waved through a sixth Covid relief bill, President Biden’s massive $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan—enough money to buy every Covid vaccine, ventilator, and hospital chain on the planet. Only this week, the White House put out a $5.8 trillion 2023 budget proposal. Yet the administration insists that without $22.5 billion in emergency dollars now, we again face Covid apocalypse.
Where did all the money go? Everywhere but to Covid. The Rescue Plan handed $350 billion in “relief” money to the states, and the Associated Press recently described its uses. Some $140 million is going to a high-end hotel in Broward County, Fla. Colorado Springs, Colo., is dumping $6.6 million into golf-course irrigation systems. An Iowa county is using $2 million to purchase a privately owned ski area. Massachusetts is ladling $5 million to cover the debts of the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the U.S. Senate.
Crain’s reports that even dollars earmarked for Covid aren’t safe. New York is sitting on funds that were supposed to go to homeowner assistance and small-business recovery but may not be needed as the pandemic wanes. Crain’s notes that “one watchdog raised the notion that the relief money—particularly $12.7 billion in American Rescue Plan Act funds—could become a pile of unassigned dollars for the state government to use as it deems necessary.”
And that’s just the legal waste, fraud and abuse. One of Congress’s first Covid-relief bills created a committee of inspectors general to provide oversight of Covid funds. It’s done a good job—even as Congress studiously ignores its findings. The inspector general of the Small Business Administration reported that fraud in the Paycheck Protection Program and other loans was “unheard of—unprecedented.” “In terms of the monetary value, the amount of fraud in these Covid relief programs is going to be larger than any government program that came before it,” he told ABC News in August.
The Labor Department inspector general now estimates that more than $163 billion of $872 billion in Covid unemployment dollars might have been improperly paid, “with a significant portion attributable to fraud.” That’s a 19% improper-payment rate and more than seven times the $22.5 billion the White House recently insisted it needed in emergency additional Covid dollars.
Democratic “moderates” are expressing outrage over this mismanagement, with Virginia Rep. Abigail Spanberger calling the state boondoggles “outrageous” and “nuts.” Yet the Rescue Plan passed on an entirely partisan vote (including Ms. Spanberger’s), and these Democrats were nowhere to be found when Republicans were trying to limit how the money was spent. Many Democrats even now are resisting Republican demands that additional money come from repurposed, unspent Covid funds.
Not that Republicans have much to brag about. They boycotted the final $1.9 trillion Rescue Plan, but they were partners in crime in the five Covid bills that preceded it. Those bills included hefty checks to households that didn’t need the cash, blue-state bailouts, and giant new infusions to federal government agencies.
Americans are increasingly realizing that Congress is barely capable of anything but spending money—and that only via shadowy back-room deals and last-minute votes. In recent years it’s proved unable to pass policing reform, any trade bills, or desperately needed changes to immigration policy, to name a few failures. But dangle in front of lawmakers a juicy infrastructure blowout, or an omnibus plumped with earmarks, or a payoff to states and the education lobby disguised as a Covid “relief” bill—and they’re all over it.
The mismanagement of Covid funds highlights the absurdity of the White House’s new demand for more, not to mention Mr. Biden’s $5.8 trillion budget. If Republicans can’t make spending discipline central to their midterm message, they risk alienating a voter base that is disgusted with Washington largesse.
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Before the Ukraine War is over it is likely Biden will have infected the Ukraine's with our virus of losing wars.
Let Ukraine Go on Offense Against Russia
The U.S. is still not providing all of the weapons it needs to retake territory from Vladimir Putin.
By The Editorial Board
As Russia’s war on Ukraine enters its sixth week, the script has flipped. Russia’s advance has stalled, and Ukraine now wants to go on offense to push back Russian forces from the land they’ve taken. But the country needs U.S. and NATO help to do it, and it seems the Biden Administration is reluctant to provide those weapons and intelligence.
In her Wednesday press briefing, White House communications director Kate Bedingfield said no fewer than eight times that Vladimir Putin had committed a “strategic blunder” or “mistake” or “error” by invading. That’s the White House line to suggest that the West is winning against the Russians.
But that sure sounds like a premature declaration of victory. His forces are still bombing Ukraine’s cities and they have grabbed more territory. Mr. Putin could still emerge with a strategic advantage in the medium- to long-term if he strikes a truce that leaves Russia in control of a large chunk of Ukraine.
The peace terms Russia is demanding in negotiations suggest that such a consolidation in Ukraine’s east and a long-term occupation is now Russia’s goal. He’ll have won the long-sought “land bridge” between the Crimea and the Donbas. Mr. Putin could claim victory, pause for some years while he re-arms, continue trying to assassinate Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, and otherwise make political, cyber and other trouble for a Western-leaning Ukraine government.
That’s why Mr. Zelensky now wants to go on the offensive. The more territory his forces can win back, the stronger position his country will have at the bargaining table. The experience of Russia’s behavior in Georgia in 2008 and eastern Ukraine in 2014-15 is that Mr. Putin doesn’t give up territory once his troops occupy it. The result is another “frozen conflict,” with the country he has invaded weaker than before and more vulnerable to more Russian mayhem.
The Ukrainians need heavier weapons to go on offense, including tanks and fighter aircraft like the MiG-29s that Poland wants to provide under the political cover of NATO. It also needs intelligence on Russian troop movements and vulnerabilities in the east. Now is the time to help Ukraine take the offensive. Reports of demoralized Russian forces are more frequent, including defectors who have taken equipment with them.
But in a private briefing on Capitol Hill this week, Administration officials continued to resist bipartisan pressure to provide heavier weapons. The claim is that they won’t make much difference to the conflict, but the Ukrainians are a better judge of that. It’s much harder to dislodge dug-in tank battalions with infantry armed with hand-held Javelin antitank missiles than it is with tanks or aircraft that can strike from above.
The concern among Ukraine’s supporters on Capitol Hill and the Pentagon is that the Biden Administration doesn’t want Ukraine to go on offense. It wants a negotiated settlement as soon as possible. France and Germany, the doves in the NATO coalition, are in a similar place. They worry that if Russia suffers even greater losses, Mr. Putin might escalate again and perhaps in more dangerous ways that drag NATO directly into the war. In a sense, Mr. Putin with his threats is defining the limits of U.S. assistance to Ukraine.
But the U.S. and at least some NATO countries won’t be able to ignore Ukraine even if there’s a truce or frozen conflict. Mr. Zelensky will have to sell any agreement to the Ukrainian public, who won’t be eager to concede territory after thousands of innocents have been killed. The Ukrainians are going to want security guarantees from the West, lest they be vulnerable to future Russian attacks.
One idea that deserves to be considered is a mutual-defense pact of the kind the U.S. has in the Pacific with Australia and Japan. After all that Ukraine has sacrificed, Mr. Zelensky won’t settle for Mr. Putin’s nonaggression promises, and President Biden shouldn’t lean on him to do so.
Throughout this conflict, the Biden Administration has been slow and reluctant to give Ukraine the weapons and intelligence support it needs. Pressure from the public and Capitol Hill has forced its hand. Now, with Russia on the defensive, is the time to keep the pressure on to truly achieve a strategic victory for Ukraine and NATO.
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Ross Rants:
This past week Powell said it would take 3 years to get inflation back to 2%. Most did not notice that comment, but it was a critical acknowledgment that now the Fed finally realizes it made a bad mistake not raising rates and reducing the balance sheet much sooner. That means there will almost surely be two or more 50BP raises starting in May. It might come to a 75BP raise in July if inflation ramps up to 12%, which is very possible with food prices and oil moving much higher in the next 45 days. Don't get mislead on oil just because Shanghai is closed down for a few says-oil is going up. The big thing in the May meeting will be the program for reducing the balance sheet as that will have more impact on the economy and the stock market than raising rates as it reduces liquidity. Standby for things to get worse in the market in May and June as these things become known, and as the economy is starting to slow. By then there could possibly be some good, or some very bad news out of Ukraine, just to add to the fun.
My forecast, which is just a guess at this point since the uncertainties are so widespread. Fed raises 50 BP May and June, and maybe 75 BP in July. Recession by late Oct, but it will be very mild. At best, GDP will go up by 1% in 2022 if no recession. The housing market is now suffering from excessive prices, over regulation, materials shortages and high costs, and now rising rates. Home prices are topping out now as mortgage rates move toward 5% by April, and home prices up to now have risen purely driven by 3% or less mortgage rates.. Mortgage rates have been on a downward slope since 1984. That is over for many years ahead. This does not apply to FL where sales are all cash in many cases. The Wells Fargo housing index has declined 3 months in a row. Consumer sentiment is down to 59.4 from 84.9 one year ago, a decade low. EU will be in recession later this summer. Emerging markets will be a bad place to invest as food inflation and shortages leads to riots and other uprisings. The only place to invest will be the US this year and early next year. Consumers expect inflation to run 5.4%, highest expectation since 1981. Many believe they will have a reduced standard of living-the worst reading other than the recessions of 1979 and 2008. 32% expect it to worsen-the worst reading since the mid-1940's. 50% expect a decline in real income. All of this spells reduced consumer spending and higher wage demands. A recipe for stagflation. The yield curve will possibly invert by May. The 5 year and 30 year already inverted Monday. It is already very close to that point especially comparing the 2 yr and 10 yr. If we get a fully inverted yield curve, it is further reason for the stock market to react very badly as it raises the expectation of recession. The only way to materially cut inflation is to slow the economy, so that is what we will have. German PPI in Feb was increased 25% yoy. Worst since 1948. UK has serious inflation. Central banks need to reduce it with high rates. The whole world economy will slow as the year progresses and central banks clamp down.
Ukraine could bleed the Russians so badly they are forced to withdraw to Donbas and Crimea, right where they started. Before this is over, Russia will have 20-25,000 dead and that means 60-75,000 wounded or captured. They already lost around 12-15,000 dead, and wounded normally is 3-1. Total of 40%-50% casualty rate in a short period before this is over. That will lead to major problems for Putin at home, or a bunch of dead generals after Putin takes revenge on them. That may mean Putin dies as the generals might try to kill him before he kills them.
Core durable orders for March were down .6%. Pending home sales down 4%. Mortgage apps down 14%. Consumer sentiment is down to 59- a near record low. We will have to wait to see what the subsequent economic reports show, but this may be the start of the slowdown. The chip issue is now going to get much worse as the neon shortage becomes impactful. That means autos will continue to have chip shortages a lot longer than expected, and some auto plants will lose production. Autos are a key component of economic growth. Add that to a possible housing slowdown as mortgage rates rise, and you have the makings of a mild recession as the Fed raises rates. If you are planning to refi do it now. We will know a lot more by mid-May when we will see how bad inflation is, what the Fed does, where mortgage rates are, and how bad the chip shortage is. Don't get all excited as some in Wall St say that we are past the bottom. In my view this is a false sense of relief, and a failure to understand what is really going on. Not unusual for Wall St. Keep in mind most of Wall St missed forecasting the crash in 2008. They were still forecasting good times right up to the Lehman BK. Several of us knew the crash was coming as early as spring 2007, but nobody wanted to hear what we had to say. Most of Wall St is always over optimistic. The new Biden budget and proposed tax increases are just more of the same left wing stupidity, and fails to deal with the real issues. Biden's budget speech on Monday was filled with lies, misrepresentations, and total nonsense. You are not missing a stock buying opportunity right now. Just wait and see what happens.
There is nothing in the underlying economy that suggests the market goes up from here. Maybe a short term pop, but not sustainable. Powell and others are all enthused that jobs are strong, but that just means much more inflation as there are still 11 million unfilled jobs, and nobody to fill them, meaning wages rise a lot more, but real wages are still very negative, so we are going backwards. My pool guy just told me he lost 4 workers this season and is having trouble finding even one replacement for a very low skill job. That is typical. It is real wages that matters for consumer spending to grow in real terms vs just on price. When they announce consumer spending grew, be sure to inflation adjust, and then determine if real spending declined. How many SKU's sold vs how many dollars did it take to buy the same or lower number of SKU's. Margins are going to shrink soon, and the Fed is working to slow the economy, so do you really think that is a good combination for the stock market. We know there will be food shortages due to wheat and corn shortages = more inflation of food and less discretionary spending. Even if oil prices do not rise a lot more, gas prices, and especially diesel, are already at unaffordable levels. Fertilizer is in very short supply so farm yields will be reduced, driving commodity prices higher. Farmers in the US are already saying that the combo of higher fertilizer and gas prices, and the severe shortage of fertilizer makes planting much more acreage a questionable investment. There is only so much people can pay for many foods before they find cheap substitute meals. There will be a real food crisis this year worldwide. Expect social disruptions across the world.
The whole war situation can be blamed on Merkel and the German policy of appeasement with Russia, plus the very clear weakness of Biden. Merkel believed that Russia could become a friendly nation, and part of the western ideology, if we all just traded with them and made them part of the west's economic collaboration, thus membership in the G 20 and G7. Obama and his national security team all went along with the concept of trade and globalization as the key to peace. For companies in the west, it made sense to shift production and mining to China and other Asian nations where labor was very cheap and there were no regulations. This allowed the US and Europe to have nil inflation for the past 30 years. That is what allowed rates to decline over time and fueled the rise in asset values, as debt cost relatively little compared to most of the decades prior, and especially after the Volker Fed increases. (Over decades the ten year was usually averaging around 5%-6% and home mortgages were 8%-12%.) Globalization became the ideology, and security of product and raw materials sources was forgotten as the world was generally at peace during that period based on the theory of nuclear MAD. The decision to allow China to join WTO and become a regular trading partner was based on the now naïve concept that by building their economy and integrating them into the western economies, they would normalize their politics, culture, corruption, and geopolitical behavior. This is why knowing history and understanding cultures is so critical. World leaders clearly did not understand Russian history of hundreds of years of war and deception, and other than Kissinger, they did not ever understand China, and their history of corruption and trade, and their inherent, centuries long distrust of all outsiders. They never understood who Xi really was.
The other major thing that was happening was Russia was running a vastly successful propaganda campaign in Europe and the US to drive the whole Go Green concept. There is now clear proof that Russia funded and drove this whole concept of getting off fossil fuels to save the planet. It is likely the most successful propaganda campaign in the history of the world. Not that climate change is not real, but it is not the crisis the world now is driven by. By achieving this climate change, anti-fossil fuel ideology, Putin drove Europe to now be totally dependent on Russia and unable to really shut off Russian gas and oil. It also served to underpin the Dem push to shut off US drilling and end energy independence. So here we are. Russia felt it could invade Ukraine due to the EU dependence on Russian energy, and the utter weakness of the Biden administration. China I am sure feels it can invade Taiwan because it controls so much critical production on which the US and others depend thanks to globalization being the driving ideology. . China could shut down the US by just stopping producing all sorts of goods critical to life as we know it. The US and EU need to go back to produce here and away from China for national security and not have cost savings as the driver. Biden's total failure last week to provide Ukraine with the weapons it needs to win will just prolong the deaths and problems for the world economy. It is planting season in Ukraine soon.
The problem now is there is no labor in the US to onshore all of the key manufacturing and mining needed, and the Biden administration will not allow us to do what is needed because of their obsession with the environment and the regulations that policy elicits. Russian money has funded some of this. Now we have Larry Fink who in essence controls proxy votes board elections, and the MSM pushing climate calamity.
So for the past several decades we lived in a make believe world. Trump was the first to realize the US needed to look after itself, and to rebuild its ability to defend against the evil people who populated the rest of the world. He also tried to get Germany to start paying for its own defense instead of having American taxpayers cover it. Biden is more interested in consensus than doing what needs to get done in a timely manner. Like Obama, he leads from the back. He is still coming with new sanctions a full 4 weeks after the war began. Why were they not put in place 30 days ago. Ukraine still needs the Migs and harpoon missiles.
To repeat what I have said before. The top 1% pays 40% of income tax, and the top 10% pays 70%. The bottom 57% paid zero in 2021. But the Dems still push we don't pay our fair share, and they are back to trying to tax unrealized wealth creation. The real issue is they are just envious of those of us who created wealth with our own efforts. It is why BLM and now professors at some universities preach that hard work and sacrifice is a racist white concept, and the government should take from the successful and give it to the lazy. Nobody gave me any privileges, and I am sure that applies to many of you. We earned it.
There are reports the EU is pushing Ukraine to settle the war, and maybe give Putin some land to get a deal, just to end the refugee crisis. Macron is pushing hard for this as is Poland. Ukraine is not agreeing to any Russians on Ukraine soil after all they have been through. This is going on for a long time. Biden did nothing at all in Europe to really make a difference for Ukraine. By not doing what was really needed he prolonged the death and destruction. Refugees are one of Putin's best weapons. I can't imagine they will give Putin Mariupol after the deadly battle to save it. I believe the Ukrainians will continue to fight until they win now that they have fought the Russians to a standstill and some retreat around Kyiv as well as some areas in the south. The successful sinking of the Russian ship and damage to the port will create even more serious supply issues for the Russians. If NATO gives them all the weapons they need, and quickly, they can win now. Biden had a chance to lead at the NATO meeting but he blew it. He should have said, Ukraine has stopped the Russian advance and is now pushing them back. They can win and the US and NATO are going to give them all the weapons and support they need to drive out the Russians. If the Russians use chemical or nuclear weapons we will change the whole situation, and we will retaliate with a very different level of support for Ukraine. He could then have left it unsaid what that would be. Let Putin worry instead of the way it is now with NATO fearing Putin. What did Biden mean by "it depends on the nature of the use' when asked about a response to chemical weapons. Very weak response. He also should have said, I have a message for the officers conducting the attacks on civilians -to the officers in the Russian army-you will be killed or captured, and when captured you will be charged with war crimes and imprisoned for life. That might have made the Russian commanders think twice. It is becoming clear Biden and the EU just want this to end and they are not giving Ukraine all it needs to win. Zelenskyy just called out Biden and NATO again as cowards for letting Putin intimidate them, and for not providing all the weapons support he needs, and he again asked Biden to lead without using Biden's name. China is watching all this. Biden is failing miserably to do all he should to stop Russia and to prevent the invasion of Taiwan due to his very apparent weakness and fear of Putin. Biden/Obama is very dangerous to world peace. The whole trip by Biden to Europe was a disaster. It is no wonder they never let him out of the basement during the election.
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