As Russia invades Ukraine, amasses troops on the Polish border and threatens to use nuclear weapons, some reflections on President Joe Biden’s rejection of the Army’s findings on the bug out in Afghanistan are in order.
One of the most important characteristics of effective leaders, whether in government, business or the military, is a firm grasp of reality. The best decision makers look at the facts whether they like them or not and act on them. Leaders who think they can alter reality by simply ignoring it or, worse yet, rejecting it have started down a one-way street to disaster. Such is the case with Biden.
Reality is clear. At home, Biden’s socialist policies have resulted in an unprecedented level of inflation, empty grocery store shelves, a tyrannical response to the COVID pandemic, supply-chain tie-ups and thirty members of his own party giving up their seats in Congress rather than run on his record. Yet, with his leftist house of cards collapsing all around him, Biden continues to ignore reality and claim things are going great. Americans are standing outside in the rain getting soaked while Biden sits in the Oval Office claiming it’s a bright, sunshiny day.
As bad as Biden’s rejection of domestic realities is, it pales in comparison to his rejection of the Army’s findings on the Afghanistan debacle. Why? Because his rejection of the Army’s report may have even worse consequences in the long run than his failed socialist agenda. While Biden may have learned nothing from the Army’s findings, Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping certainly did. The most important fact they learned is Biden is a weak, feckless president who lacks the foresight, vision and courage to stand up to their expansionist plans.
Putin and Xi have been emboldened by Biden’s rejection of reality. The president has unified our enemies rather than our allies. The hostile actions of Russia and China have already begun with Ukraine and Taiwan, but they won’t stop there. Russia hopes to eventually dominate all of Europe, and China plans to dominate the rest of the world, including the United States. Thanks to Biden, both are making progress.
A hard reality Biden refuses to accept is you cannot stop Russian or Chinese aggression with empty words or symbolic sanctions. Sanctions that hurt the Russian people don’t trouble Putin. Sanctions must be hard felt. Biden must lead in removing ALL of Russia’s banks from the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunications and placing strong sanctions on Russia’s oligarchs, including Putin. Anything less is like beating Putin with a pool noodle. Further, Xi must be shown conclusively the cost he will pay for invading Taiwan.
Another reality Biden cannot grasp — or refuses to — is Putin and Xi do not think like rational leaders of democratic nations. Putin couldn’t care less about his people suffering. Suffering is a fact of life for the citizens of Russia. Biden gives the world words while Putin makes brutal war on the Ukrainian people. In the irony of ironies, the strongest response to Russia’s aggression came from the president of France who, when Putin threatened the use of nuclear weapons, reminded the Russian tyrant NATO is nuclear armed, too.
Beyond sanctions, Biden needs to embrace reality and do what is necessary to nullify Russia’s gas and oil stranglehold on Europe. He should complete the Keystone XL pipeline from Canada, lift his disastrous “green” sanctions on America’s energy independence and export American liquified natural gas, crude oil and coal to our European friends. Until he is willing to take these important steps, his administration is helping finance Russia’s invasion and occupation of Ukraine.
Oliver L. North is a combat-decorated U.S. Marine, No.1 bestselling author, and founder and CEO of Fidelis Publishing LLC and Fidelis Media LLC. Find out more about him at www.olivernorth.com. David Goetsch is a Marine Corps veteran, member of the Florida Veterans Hall of Fame, professor of business, Christian counselor, and author of 76 books. Find out more about him at www.david-goetsch.com.
You cannot be a competent Commander-In-Chief if you do not know and understand your enemy. And, if you are part of the domestic enemy, you are seriously compromised.
Watch as Joe continues to talk at Putin to give him a heads up on our military’s every tactic. Like Putin, when his Presidency starts crumbling about his ears, he will finally do the right military thing, Too Little and Too late. Ukraine will have fell and we will be less the strength of one more nation that could have assisted us in removing the Russian criminal and his crimes against humanity. That giant sucking sound you hear is the Ukrainian troops and civilians being vaporized by illegal Russian Vacuum bombs, soon to be followed by our own troops. If Joe cannot lead, refuses to follow, he needs to just get the hell out of the way. Apparently, Joe is the kind of man who if he saw a woman being raped on the streets, he would do nothing but take out his video camera so he and Hunter could later get some more jollies, then chastise the woman for not driving an electric car.
AND where the hell are the generals and admirals, who had NO PROBLEM IGNORING Orders, from then president Trump, and seemed PROUD OF IT? Why are they NOT IGNORING BIDEN, and taking the military into action, to defend Ukraine???
Lacking A Real Presodent Putin feels Eboldened To Attack Little Ukrine With His Massive Russian Army , I Guess We Really Showed Little Ukraine A Thing Or Two And Surprise , Surprise China Didn’t Object To What Its Friend Had Done To Little Ukrain.. But Joe Biden Showed His Stuff, He’s Going to Apply More Sanctions, That will teach Putin , don’t Mess With Joe Biden Alright.
But in this case, our enemy is Joe Biden and the dummycrat party. It’s more like time the republicans understand who OUR real enemy is.
To “Let’s Go Brandon” and Democrats, Truth, Facts, Reality and History are all irrelevant,
If the Democrats do not WANT to believe them or they disagree with them.
Democrats will just make up their own, Truth, Facts, Reality, History or voter tally to fit what they WANT to believe or fits into the Con or Deception that they are running at the time.
What Biden criminal should do is face reality, however what Biden will do is destroy our Country. Biden is beholden to Putin and communist China!
He’d first off, need a New BRAIN, to face true reality…