Psaki: “President Vladimir Putin was unprepared for the Biden administration's response to Moscow's aggression against Ukraine and its visibility into Russia's actions. Putin is "improvising" and "adapting" in response to the US.”
February 24, 2022
Russia’s adapting to US?????
Psaki: “President Vladimir Putin was unprepared for the Biden administration's response to Moscow's aggression against Ukraine and its visibility into Russia's actions. Putin is "improvising" and "adapting" in response to the US.”
Thanks Greta
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 threat. Money should be spent on R&D to reduce the cost of alternate energy but we should be expanding the use of nuclear and natural gas.
Reducing nuclear power in Germany and natural gas production in the US has only increased Putin‘s leverage.
We need withering sanctions+
So far the US response has been whimpering sanctions and threats that have not deterred Putin
We need withering sanctions
We need to freeze Russian assets
We need to prosecute Putin and his generals for war crimes
We need to isolate Russia economically.
If Putin is not stopped now it will be a disaster as he tries to reform the Soviet union
And, if there’s much army remaining, we should be providing significant arms to Ukraine (anti-air, more antitank, heavy weapons, and consider providing air cover)
Way to go Joe!
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 – record inflation spurred on by excessive spending
- National Security-Russia threatens Ukraine, Biden gives a handful of antitank missile‘s to Ukraine, Russia takes Ukraine
February 23, 2022
F’ Putin
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, must know that Russia’s response will be immediate and will lead you to such consequences as you have never before experienced in your history.”
Biden: “The U.S. will not be sending American troops to Ukraine. I will address the American people on Thursday. I will hold Russia accountable.”
February 22, 2022
Whimpering not withering sanctions
Instead of a sweeping package that crippled top Russian banks, cut its financial transactions off from the global economy, or personally singled out Vladimir Putin -- the U.S. and its allies settled on a modest “first tranche” of penalties. Markets responded with a shrug, underwhelmed by the tit-for-tat approach.
The sanctions targeted a pair of Russian banks, VEB.RFand Promsvyazbank as well as three members of Russia’s elite with close ties to the Kremlin. The penalties also sought to freeze future purchases of Russian sovereign debt.
Yet the sanctions hardly amounted to the precedent-shattering, economy-crippling measures the U.S. and its partners long telegraphed if Russian troops rolled across the border.
More from WSJ
The White House bet seems to be that sanctions restraint will cause Mr. Putin to settle for holding the regions his forces now occupy and forgoing an assault on Kyiv. But the Russian has never been deterred before by Western restraint, and he may see this as more weakness. Mr. Putin responds only to strength, and the West still isn’t showing enough.
Everyone still making more
Using the latest data from the CBO on Income distribution:
- Everyone is still making more;
- The rich are still paying far more than others; and,
- The proportion the rich are paying is increasing.
Fix education don’t tax more
“Predistribution”, not “redistribution”, explains why Europe is less unequal than the United States.
After accounting for indirect taxes and in-kind transfers, the US redistributes a greater share of national income to low income groups than any European country.
February 21, 2022
Biden-ok to invade with peacekeepers
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 Russia invaded and annexed Crimea and invaded and occupied two Ukraine territories. Biden/Obama put meaningless sanctions on Russia.
In 2015 Russia and Ukraine backed by the EU and the United States made the Minsk agreement, once again guaranteeing Ukraine territorial integrity
Today Russia declared the two Ukraine territories to be independent republics and moved their troops into those territories claiming they are peacekeepers. This is in violation of the Budapest accord, the Minsk agreement International norms.
Biden‘s immediate action was the put meaningless sanctions on the two Ukraine Republic. Nothing on Putin or Russia yet.
Way to go Joe!
BIDEN: From the beginning of this crisis, I have been absolutely clear and consistent: The United States is prepared no matter what happens. If Russia attacks Ukraine, it’ll be met with overwhelming international condemnation. It’s about standing for what we believe in, for the future we want for our world, for liberty — for liberty, the right of countless countries to choose their own destiny, and the right of people to determine their own futures, for the principle that a country can’t change its neighbor’s borders by force.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has rejected Ukrainian nationhood in a speech, calling it “madness” and arguing “modern Ukraine was completely created by Russia.” He then signed decrees recognizing "independence and sovereignty" of two Ukrainian regions.
February 20, 2022
Duh!
After telling reporters that “Putin’s made his decision” to invade Ukraine, Kamala Harris says the threat of sanctions will “absolutely” deter him making the decision to invade.
Too little too late
Russia has thousands of tanks. The US has only sent tens of anti-tank launchers with hundreds of antitank missile’s
Russia has thousands of attack planes and helicopters. The US has sent zero anti-aircraft weapons
Good luck Zelensky.
February 19, 2022
Biden giving Ukraine to Putin?
There’s lots of coincidental evidence that, if anything, Biden has been encouraging Putin to take Ukraine. I can’t help but wonder what Biden said in his phone calls to Putin?
In May 2021 Biden gives the go ahead for the Nord Stream 2 pipeline
In June of 2021 Biden freezes lethal aid to Ukraine
In early December 2021 Biden takes military option off the table.
December 2021 Biden was still withholding lethal aide.
February 18 Biden takes kicking Russia out of the SWIFT (International banking ) system off the table
(Bush and Georgia)
2008 Russia and the aids part of Georgia
Bush sent warships to the Black Sea
Bush took the combat troops that Georgia had in Afghanistan and airlifted them back
Bush signals willingness to give logistical support
Russian troops stopped at … the two enclaves, and they did not make a move
Boris Johnson was roundly praised for his tough-talking speech at the Munich Security Conference today. The speech was seen as the most hardline speech given at the annual security conference. The British Prime Minister was praised afterwards by both supporters and critics alike for "defending a free Europe" and being the most outspoken Western leader against Russian aggression in Ukraine.
February 18, 2022
Borders Don’t Matter (to Biden)
I guess whether it’s our border or Ukraine‘s border, it’s really not that important to Biden.
Biden’s policies are a mess AND put many innocents at risk and allow Mexican cartels to get rich.
I support immigration. A lot of immigration. But legal immigration, with a mix of merit based (engineers, scientists, entrepreneurs, doctors, mathematicians, etc.) and opportunity-based (poor people who want to work hard, adopt American values, and get ahead).
(Note-The numbers are the apprehensions. We do not know how many people get through without being apprehended)
Mayors lives don’t matter?
Quintez Brown, a black 21-year-old activist was charged with trying to murder a Kentucky mayoral candidate. His $100,000 bond was paid Wednesday afternoon by the Louisville Community Bail Fund, which is an arm of Black Lives Matter Louisville,
https://blacklivesmatter.com/defund-the-police-reimagine-public-safety-center-care-and-humanity/
Chicken little goes to Greenland
For all of the alarmists out there and the doomsayers propagated the false narrative that climate change is an existential threat there is more good data to tell them they are wrong
No trend between Greenland ice loss and global warming
February 17, 2022
Romney was right Biden/Obama not so much
2012
Romney: “Russia is the major U.S. geopolitical foe”
Obama: “Cold War’s been over for 20 years”
2014
Russia invades Crimea and eastern Ukraine
Obama/Biden put meaningless sanctions on Russia
Obama/Biden refuse to provide lethal aid to Ukraine
2017
Trump sanction oligarchs
Trump provides lethal aid to the Ukraine
Trump puts hold on Nord Stream 2 pipeline
Trump kills Russian mercenaries in Syria
2021
Biden greenlights Nord Stream 2 pipeline
Biden puts hold on lethal aid to the Ukraine
Russia gathers hundreds of thousands of forces and threatens to invade Ukraine
Biden takes options off the table
February 16, 2022
Is the Fed being Fair?
Since December 2002 the Fed has increased the assets on its balance sheet by almost 8 Trillion dollars.
When the FED increases it's balance sheets it creates money by taking the assets from a seller and crediting the seller with dollars in the banking system. These dollars are then saved in small part with the remaining respent through consumption or investment, with these respent funds then being saved in small part and then further respent through consumption or investment and so on and so on. The result is that the 8 Trillion injected into the economy results in a manyfold increase in the supply of money in the economy.
All of this money in the economy leads to lower interest rates, more investment and more spending AND when done to excess can lead to inflation.
A few observations.
It can make sense for the FED to inject money when there is a crisis like we see in the real estate crisis (1.2 trillion) and the pandemic (3.25 trillion.)
What doesn't make clear sense to me is the significant difference in money that the FED has injected into the economy between the different political parties controlling the Whitehouse. We see dramatic injections during Obama and Biden. We see much small injections and even withdrawals during Bush and Trump.
February 14, 2022
Where’s NYT, WaPo, CNN, MSNBC, CBS, NBC ABC
Regardless of ones hate for Trump you have to recognize how wrong and dangerous this is for our country.
Democrats created a false narrative and then propagated and use that false narrative to try to win an election, and then when that filled they undermined the functioning of the President of United States.
February 12, 2022
Biden fails to prepare
While Biden has been asking the military to prepare to fight climate change, not an existential threat, fight systemic racism, a false narrative claiming all disparities are the result of racism, and fight for the right of men to compete against women, he has failed to prepare for real threats.
And note: In the 1994 Budapest Memorandum, the United States, Russia, and Britain committed ‘to respect the independence and sovereignty and the existing borders of Ukraine’ and ‘to refrain from the threat or use of force’ against the country. Those assurances played a key role in persuading the Ukrainian government in Kyiv to give up what amounted to the world’s third largest nuclear arsenal, consisting of some 1,900 strategic nuclear warheads
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