Friend,
They say if you repeat a lie often enough, people believe it.
Republicans, particularly Donald Trump, are routinely called warmongers. But I guess that depends on what your definition of war is.
Democrats represent the party of peace. Never mind that Lyndon Johnson got us in the Viet Nam 'conflict.' Obama's drone wars in Pakistan, Somalia, Yemen, and Syria were largely ignored, and his involvement in the Libyan civil war, yet that Democrat President received the Nobel Peace Prize.
In contrast, President Trump got us in zero new wars, and he greatly pulled back in Afghanistan but ran out of time during his single term to do the final details. He left that to Joe Biden. Ouch.
Today the world is on the edge of their seats wanting to know what Biden is to do about Ukraine.
My question is: Why do anything? The U.S. has no vital interests there. Ukraine is not a member of NATO. So, there is only one possible compelling reason Joe Biden has to pull The Russian Bear's tail, putting the U.S. at risk of receiving anything as fundamental as cyber-attacks to full-scale thermonuclear World War III.
The reason is Ratings. Historically, being a wartime president is synonymous with high public approval ratings.
George W. Bush was not doing that well until 9/11 when he shot up to a 90% approval rating. But are high poll numbers worth the risk? No.
Are high poll numbers even guaranteed to raise Biden's numbers? No.
We live in a different world today than in September of 2001. Global news is virtually instant. There are no longer two sides to a story. There are 2 million—or more.
So, wouldn't it be a tragedy of Shakespearean—no, make that Orwellian proportions to see Biden's popularity junket fail? He'd not just be failing at boosting his polling numbers, but his failure could be to the tune of millions of lost lives.
Lest we forget, tensions from Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria's assassination quickly escalated into World War I.
World War II began when Germany invaded Poland.
Does this European theater sound familiar?
My public message to Joe Biden is: Whatever you're thinking, don't do it!
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