President Biden Gets It!

For the past 600 days at least, President Biden has led the global crusade on behalf of Ukraine in its ongoing cold or hot, political or military battle against russia. However, in the wake of his Oval Office address to the American people last week, the President of the United States undeniably assured supporters, naysayers, enemies and others that he and his Administration are solidly on the side of Ukraine as the Ukrainian nation is engaged in its ultimate, unavoidable existential war against its age-old nemesis – russia.

Extolling the singular greatness of the United States in a unique bipartite mission of aiding Ukraine and Israel, President Biden pledged unceasing support for Ukraine and Israel as he said russia wants to annihilate Ukraine while Hamas simultaneously wants to annihilate Israel. Connect the dots between bloodshed in Ukraine and Israel and you’ll see what’s happening: Russia plus Hamas plus Iran the arms supplier are committed to annihilating Ukraine and Israel.

“Hamas and putin represent different threats, but they share this in common: They both want to completely annihilate a neighboring democracy — completely annihilate it,” the President said last Thursday, October 19.

America’s commander-in-chief emphasized that it is in America’s national security interest to defend Ukraine. He also assured allies near and far that the United States will stand with Ukraine, so russia won’t embark on a course of invading and conquering the neighboring former captive nations.

“So, if we don’t stop putin’s appetite for power and control in Ukraine, he won’t limit himself just to Ukraine. He’s — putin has already threatened to ‘remind’ — quote, ‘remind’ Poland that their western land was a gift from Russia,” Biden said. “One of his top advisors, a former president of russia, has called Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania russia’s ‘Baltic provinces.’  These are all NATO Allies.”

This isn’t a partisan observation but rather an obvious affirmation that the President gets it about Ukraine and Middle East better than the Republicans on Capitol Hill. The President espoused geopolitical themes that have been promoted for years by The Torn Curtain 1991 as well as Ukraine’s former captive-nation neighbors. He gets it who’s the enemy – russia, who needs to be supported – Ukraine, and who needs to be defeated – russia.

“You know, the assault on Israel echoes nearly 20 months of war, tragedy, and brutality inflicted on the people of Ukraine — people that were very badly hurt since putin launched his all-out invasion,” Biden said. “We’ve have not forgotten the mass graves, the bodies found bearing signs of torture, rape used as a weapon by the Russians, and thousands and thousands of Ukrainian children forcibly taken into Russia, stolen from their parents. It’s sick.”
Despite putin’s propaganda threat, Biden declared that the United States and its allies are not withdrawing from Ukraine.

Alluding to russia’s faltering invasion, Biden said that when putin invaded Ukraine, he claimed russia would take Kyiv and all of Ukraine in a matter of days. “Well, over a year later, putin has failed, and he continues to fail. Kyiv still stands because of the bravery of the Ukrainian people,” he said. “Ukraine has regained more than 50 percent of the territory russian troops once occupied, backed by a U.S.-led coalition of more than 50 countries around the world all doing its part to support Kyiv.”

Toward the end of his address, Biden announced that the next day he would ask Congress for an historical amount of money to help Ukraine and Israel, which turned out to be $105 billion.

“All Ukraine is asking for is help — for the weapons, munitions, the capacity, the capability to push invading russian forces off their land, and the air defense systems to shoot down russian missiles before they destroy Ukrainian cities,” he said.

Turning to domestic critics of his stalwart support for Ukraine that claim he is draining the country of needed funds, Biden pointed out that “We send Ukraine equipment sitting in our stockpiles. And when we use the money allocated by Congress, we use it to replenish our own stores — our own stockpiles with new equipment — equipment that defends America and is made in America: Patriot missiles for air defense batteries made in Arizona; artillery shells manufactured in 12 states across the country — in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Texas; and so much more. You know, just as in World War Two, today, patriotic American workers are building the arsenal of democracy and serving the cause of freedom.”

With russian boots still on Ukraine’s historic, highly fertile black earth, the Republican opposition growing in Congress, and war fatigue spreading, President Biden’s emphatic words assured the world that with America firmly on Ukraine’s side, it will certainly triumph.