Optimistic Skeptic

Putin is an evil man, a thuggish dictator running a kleptocracy. He kills journalists He kills political opponents He says he wants the old ...

Is Biden trying to help Putin? Biden restricting natural gas pipelines and exports https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2022/02/1...

https://www.newsweek.com/who-janice-rogers-brown-black-dc-circuit-judge-biden-blocked-appointment-1674175  

Biden should be ashamed of himself.  He cut off military aid to Ukraine at the start of his term. Then, as Russia gathers 100’s of thousands...

Russia Threatens ‘Serious Military’ Consequences If Sweden, Finland Join NATO After Ukraine Invasion https://www.dailywire.com/news/russia-t...

  Is Biden trying to help Putin? Biden Turned Over Intelligence To China On Russia's Plans To Invade Ukraine, China Gave It To Russia, h...

 

Biden says that we will stop bullies.   So far it looks more like we were standing aside for bullies. Before invasion We cannot put sanction...

Biden just said that his sanctions are worse than taking Russia out of SWIFT. That’s either ignorance or a lie  SWIFT is a critical Internat...

Does the world need a policeman? Yes. In the history of the world it is clear that evil strong men/powers will use their strength to impose ...

Psaki: “President Vladimir Putin was unprepared for the Biden administration's response to Moscow's aggression against Ukraine and i...

Climate is warming but it is not an existential threat. The costs of the actions that are being advocated today are far greater than the thr...

So far the US response has been whimpering sanctions and threats that have not deterred Putin  We need withering sanctions We need to freeze...

Biden has been in office a little over a year. Let’s see how he’s doing. Covid-more deaths even though he has had Trump vaccine Economy – re...

Biden needs to get tougher Putin: “Anyone who tries to interfere with us, or even more so, to create threats for our country and our people,...

  From Bloomberg News Instead of a sweeping package that crippled top Russian banks, cut its financial transactions off from the global econ...

  Using the latest data from the CBO on Income distribution: Everyone is still making more; The rich are still paying far more than others; ...

“Predistribution”, not “redistribution”, explains why Europe is less unequal than the United States. After accounting for indirect taxes and...

In 1994 the US gave Ukraine a promise of territorial integrity if the would return their nuclear weapons to Russia, which they did. In 2014 ...

BIDEN: From the beginning of this crisis, I have been absolutely clear and consistent: The United States is prepared no matter what happens....