I know; I know – the jokes write themselves. Biden’s mind? What’s that? But I continue to think that Biden has more input into all of this than most people believe. And of course, whether he does or doesn’t, the … Continue reading →
…that I haven’t made many specific predictions about what will happen in the war in Ukraine, or about details such as bombings and casualties and the like. I leave that to others, and there’s plenty of it to go around … Continue reading →
Commenter “AesopFan” managed to watch the speech and has this summary. I haven’t watched the speech, have only read a few excerpts, and find I’m not even interested in commentary about it. That’s a new low point of interest for … Continue reading →
(1) For sanctions to work, they should not necessarily be considered a deterrence or a punishment. I suppose they would be a deterrence if the leader or leaders involved could be deterred that easily, but that sort of leader isn’t … Continue reading →
Here’s a thread to talk about Biden’s speech. I’ll probably discuss it further this evening.
Continue reading →When Obama was elected I suspected that I knew what we were in for concerning foreign policy: withdrawing from Iraq, empowering Iran, weakening our military, and general movement towards the leftist position. When Trump was elected, I was worried that … Continue reading →
The money angle on Putin and Ukraine: Before Biden became President, the U.S. was energy independent and an exporter of energy. [Biden lowered] American production and remov[ed] Trump’s restrictions on the Nordstream natural gas pipeline from Russia to Germany. His … Continue reading →
Count me in that group. A CNN poll for Jan/Feb of 2022 has revealed that only 17% strongly approve of Biden and 27% moderately approve, whereas 41% strongly disapprove and 17% moderately disapprove. What’s more, 56% of respondents could find … Continue reading →
I think for the most part we already knew much of what’s reported here, at least those who were paying attention: A 2,000-page Army investigation found that senior military officials were frustrated by the inability of the White House and … Continue reading →
This is unsurprising: Mohammed al-Qahtani, who planned to hijack planes on Sept. 11, 2001, for al Qaeda but was denied entry into the United States, will be transferred to Saudi Arabia following the Biden administration’s decision late last week to … Continue reading →
Biden pledged that his first nominee to SCOTUS would be a black woman. He did exactly the same with his vice president spot, and see how that’s turned out. Kamala Harris’ performance as Veep has been so abysmal that it’s … Continue reading →
The Democrats are looking forward to confirming Biden’s pick for SCOTUS Justice Breyer’s successor. This person is promised to be a black woman, according to Biden, and so one of the reasons the Democrats are so happy is that they … Continue reading →