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.”
