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Several weeks into the war in Ukraine, ABC’s George Stephanopoulos asked President Joe Biden if he agreed with those who call Russian President Vladimir Putin “a killer.”
“I do,” said Biden.
Since calling Putin a killer, Biden has progressed to calling him “a war criminal,” “a murderous dictator,” “a pure thug” and “a butcher.”
It is difficult to recall an American president using such a string of epithets about the leader of a nation with which we were not at war.
What is Biden’s rationale? What is his purpose here?
Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry Truman, to their eternal embarrassment, called Joseph Stalin, a far greater monster than Putin, “good old Joe” and “Uncle Joe” when they sought his cooperation in World War II and the early postwar era.
Richard Nixon toasted the century’s greatest mass murderer Mao Zedong in the Great Hall of the People during his historic trip to China in 1972. His purpose: establish relations with America’s most hostile adversary — to help Nixon advance a “generation of peace.”
But when it comes to depicting Putin, who launched this invasion of Ukraine, Biden repeatedly reaches for the nastiest of insults.
But why?
“Putin deserves it,” say the champions of a Cold War II. We need more truth and candor in diplomacy. When Biden referenced Putin in the closing remarks of his address in Warsaw, Poland — “For God’s sake, this man cannot remain in power” — they were elated.
Biden was calling for regime change in Russia, calling for the people of Russia to administer to the “killer” and “butcher” the fate he deserves and remove him from power by any means necessary.
Within minutes of hearing their president go off-script with his call for regime change in Russia, White House aides and Cabinet officers were scrambling to assure reporters that the president of the United States did not mean what the president of the United States had just said.
Biden was expressing his “moral outrage” at the carnage Putin has unleashed on Ukraine, they said — and not making a change in U.S. policy.
For days, the president and his advisers argued over whether Biden had meant it literally when he said, “This man cannot remain in power.”
Sunday in Jerusalem, Secretary of State Antony Blinken sought to shut down the argument:
“As you know, and as you’ve heard us say repeatedly, we do not have a strategy of regime change in Russia or anywhere else, for that matter. In this case, as in any case, it’s up to the people of the country in question. It’s up to the Russian people.”
One problem with Blinken’s statement is that the U.S. has been deeply involved, both during the Cold War and afterward, in “color revolutions” to effect the overthrow of autocrats we did not like.
Indeed, when Biden characterizes America’s cause in the world as leading the global struggle between democracy and autocracy, what is the desired and predetermined fate of the autocrats we oppose, if not their forcible ouster?
In 2014, the U.S. helped finance the Maidan Revolution that ousted a democratically elected president, Viktor Yanukovych, in Kyiv. Sen. John McCain and the State Department’s Victoria Nuland had both been seen in the square cheering on the rebels.
A second problem is that Putin is many things other than the terms Biden used to describe him.
He commands the largest nuclear arsenal on earth and 10 times as many battlefield nuclear weapons as the U.S. military. He is the man we must look to if we hope to end the war in Ukraine. For Putin alone can order the Russian army to stand down or withdraw, presumably a goal of U.S. foreign policy.
If the president of the United States is the most powerful man in the world, Putin is up there alongside him, disposing of an arsenal of intercontinental ballistic missiles that could bring an end to Western civilization.
Without Putin’s cooperation, the bloodletting goes on in Ukraine.
How does it advance the goal of getting his agreement to end the war in Ukraine for the U.S. president to repeatedly call him vile names?
Already, we have paid a price.
Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley are finding their secure phones to their opposite numbers in the Russian government have gone silent.
Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces Valery Gerasimov have not been picking up the phone.
In Moscow, there is talk of severing diplomatic relations with the United States because of Biden’s name-calling.
None of the aspiring peace-makers seeking to broker a cease-fire or truce in the Ukraine war are acting like this or using language like that.
President Emmanuel Macron of France, President Recep Erdogan of Turkey and Prime Minister Naftali Bennett of Israel have not used the kind of public language on Putin as has Biden.
We see the cost of what Biden is doing; wherein lies the benefit?
Patrick J. Buchanan is the author of “Nixon’s White House Wars: The Battles That Made and Broke a President and Divided America Forever.”
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We see the cost of what Biden is doing; wherein lies the benefit?
Why is the power instructing the MSM to turn up the heat on Hunter’s laptop now?
C’mon, Pat — do you really think Brandon is calling the shots?
What?
US is very much at war with Russia, that the battlefield is Ukraine, the guys dying are Ukrainians, and that American soldiers aren’t firing any bullets is irrelevant. The United States of America IS at war with Russia.
Foreign policy of US is very much to prolong the war as much as possible, and to end the Putin regime.
Come on, there’s sources, oficial sources, experts on the subject, writers, professors everywhere, who have demonstrated this beyond any doubt. There’s also history, the history of the US which demonstrates this even more.
“For Putin alone can order the Russian army to stand down or withdraw, presumably a goal of U.S. foreign policy.”
Hate to burst Pat’s bubble but the goal of US foreign policy here is, most likely, to keep the war going as long as possible.
And we know why.
War (sanctions) allows the US to manipulate it’s European vassels — to wreck their economies by detaching them from Russia (& china).
The US also lives in hope the war will destroy Russia & cause regime change.
So guys, keep up that killing !!
Biden is senile and mentally disturbed.
All this could be forgiven if the US were not generally brainwashed, unaware and in denial of their decade-long encroachment onto Russia
https://sincerity.net/ukraine/
Media disinformation questionnaire: Russia–Ukraine-war obfuscation-index
Putin a crazy man, attacking the Ukraine without provocation, this is simply a lie.
The WHOLE TRUTH must be told, more in our chapter here
Russia’s Ukraine war: NATO membership or death! The WHOLE TRUTH vs. media cover-up
https://truthrevolution.net/ukraine/
Who and what determines the occasional omission here of Mr. Buchanan’s columns?
Consider. A couple days before this one, he wrote a typically Exceptional! panic piece about “autocrats” and the deterioration of Uncle Sam’s power in Asia, concluding
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Before the Ukraine crisis exploded with the invasion ordered by Putin’s Russia, the foreign policy consensus was that America would be making a historic “pivot to Asia.” For that is where the challenges of the future to America’s global primacy would appear to come.
That may still be true.
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Someone apparently wants to obscure the full extent of this purported anti-interventionist’s fundamental loyalty to the Beltway uniparty and “America’s global primacy” from TUR readers.
Why?
For Brandon to have a “rationale” he´d need to have a functioning ratio.
That said I doubt any actual decision-makers are fazed by mere name-calling
(only Americans have precious little egos). Vlad has been forced to do
something he wished to avoid so he will rethink every step thrice before taking it,
and no amount of spittle is going to change that
(cf. Carlos Marighella´s Seventh Sin: Recklessness – reacting to one´s anger).
Besides it serves dandily as propaganda (Confucius say, Insults only dishonor
the sayer). If Brandon somehow manages to make Vlad look bad in front of
his own people (fat chance) i.e. something tangible, the equation changes.
You got to call a spade a spade.
NYT readers agree:
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To the Editor:
“For God’s sake, this man cannot remain in power.” — President Biden
Why all the scrambling about this statement? It’s exactly what is on the minds of most of the world’s population.
Charles Sturcken
New York
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/28/opinion/letters/biden-putin-ukraine.html
Unfortunately Mr Buchanan, the United States will engage in regime change in any country, governed by an autocrat or by a democratically elected government, or for that matter a clown. It’s what America does, especially when they want to get their filthy hands on the said county’s resources. Shakespeare mentioned perfidious Albion, should we call it the skank USA?
The stupid motherfucker is going to talk us right into WW III. Trump so broke the Left that they’ve gone completely insane. Daily they’re forced to defend a dementia-addled old goat who is gonna get us all killed. They know, and they’re doing it anyway.
They’re so used to treating their fellow citizens like this–and getting away with it–that the thought never even entered their heads that some other, independently-minded person who can stand on his own two feet would reject being treated this way. This is the “bubble” they live in. Their tactics only work against those whom they completely dominate.
This is the same Senile Jo who once proclaimed “Putin has no soul.” No mugger has ever had a kind word when a potential victim turns the tables and gives him a good slap in the face first. The arrogant fools in DC are so out of touch with reality that they really think they can outfox a Russia that has had decades to prepare for the final attack on its national sovereignty.
You nailed it. The jews have run roughshod over whites in the western world so they think they can do the same to Putin.
The jews think that cancel culture can be applied to foreign policy……they are simply getting a wake up call.
Biden is, at best, a very bad Catholic. Biden is a professional liar, and someone who does his best to divide Americans. He is the main culprit in the bloodletting in Ukraine as he could have stopped the war by simply telling America’s stooge in Ukraine (Zelensky) to promise Putin Ukraine would never join NATO. Biden did not give that order. Just to make things worse, Biden is sending weapons to Ukraine to prolong the violence. Putin, on the other hand, is a devout orthodox Christian. Unlike Biden, Putin and his policies are very popular in Russia. He serves the interests of the Russian people. Contrast that to self-confessed Zionist Biden who puts the interests of Israel, a rogue enemy state, before the American people. I think I know which one is the vile murderer and terrorist.
Quoting the NYT here at the Unz review destroys whatever little credibility you had to begin with.
The MSM are choc-a-block full of professional liars and misleaders. It’s their job. Their job is not to inform people of the truth – but only a desired narrative. The NYT is slap-bang in the middle of that narrative.
I think it’s more polite to call them Negros or whatever the current term is.
Pivoting back to Biden:
This is what happens when you call Melwood and ask them to “send over a President”.
https://melwood.org
I personally want to hear more about the inappropriate showers with his daughter. But meanwhile I will paraphrase America’s Negro #1, Will Smith: “Keep the word ‘Democracy’ out yo fuckin’ mout’!”
The benefit is that US government does not want the war to end soon. The war is a coup for the USA. Russia is daily humiliated; losing hundreds of troops daily. Reportedly the Ukranians already have turned over some vital secret Russian weapons systems to US. The strategy of America is to bleed Russia dry without sacrificing a single American soldier. It will work because Putin has made one big miscalculation after many years of astute statecraft.
Now this essay is very characteristically American. It goes on and on about the pros and cons of something some presidential puppet ruler did, in blithe ignorance of the black-letter law. Vilification is an inadmissible breach of A/RES/36/103, customary international law and federal common law per The Paquete Habana decision. Here, read it, so on at least one issue your intern won’t sound to all the world like a typical shit-for-brains backwater goober.
http://www.un-documents.net/a36r103.htm
Vilification is a form of intervention or interference in the internal affairs of states. Of course the USA, asshole of the world, bases its entire foreign policy on interference in the internal affairs of states. So maybe it seems normal to people who don’t get out much anymore. However the guys you call names can nuke your 4-F Stratcom rollers, swat down their feeble response, and finish you off in a salvo.
And really the only sensible response to the name-calling of the Vegetable in Chief is a 100 MT 400′ airburst at 47.75, -120.74. That would do us all a big favor.
Sure dude, breaking out of your echo chamber is difficult.
35% of human race resides in China and India, and they have not said anything like what the American President said.
“Most of world’s population” = https://twitter.com/zlj517/status/1504599052868255744
And how do you know they have not? Have you taken a survey? Maybe you are not reading the right news sources.
Whatever the outcome of Ukraine, Biden’s attempt at playing the war-president card flopped horribly. If anything he managed to stoke voteis’ #1 concern: inflation.
November won’t be pretty.
I would rather watch reruns of Trump or Lucy.
I would go bananas too if my son’s and my personal milking Ukraine is dried out by a “killer” from Russia.
Why is Biden calling Putin names? You must remember Biden’s history. This man has coveted the Presidency since 1987. His first run in that year came to an abrupt halt when it was proven Biden had plagiarized a speech he gave, the speech having been given by a UK politician. He withdrew from that race in disgrace. However, his monstrous ego was not to be deterred. He ran again in 2008, but faced the magic mulatto in Obama and dropped out of the race with very little support. Clearly, Biden was the answer to a question nobody was asking. Should have ended there, but then there was Trump. Half of the nation loved him, an equal number hated him. Democrats craved a legit minority candidate, but they offered the dregs of the party, so old white Joe was tapped to run against another old white man. Supposedly, Biden won. So, he now had the one job he wasn’t supposed to have and he is failing by any objective measure. The result? He wants to be seen as a wartime President so he (almost) picks a fight with Putin. He calls names because that’s all Biden has left to work with.
No, your thinking is not correct.
Prolonging the war in Ukraine benefits the Russian Federation!
Prolonging the war in Ukraine harms the economies of the European Union and the United States of America as the economies the EU and the USA will enter deep recession.
There is no rush for the Russian Federation to exit Ukraine without uprooting the evils there!
I would recommend the president of the Russian Federation to prolong the war in Ukraine so that world’s food shortage and oil-gas crunch would suck the blood out of the European Union and the United States of America.
America has become a thoroughly Jew nation. Jews are arrogant people who only know how to insult and put down others to get their way. That’s what America has become.
“FDR,,,called Stalin..”uncle Joe” ,,, to his eternal embarrassment.
Actually he died in 1945 and never lived to see what a breathtaking fool he was.
Patrick, we have not only carried out color revolutions to oust “autocrats” that do not meet our pleasure, but we attack democratically elected governments as well. The new regime does not necessarily have to be kind or fair to its own citizens, just compliant with our demands.
Hell, it looked like both Biden and Kamala were totally eliminated from the field of candidates in the first couple of primaries. They both kept coming in last or close to it. Bernie Sanders looked to be on cruise control towards the nomination. Suddenly the viciously non-progressive, illiberal wing of the (non)-Democratic Party stepped in, made some deals with the other remaining candidates and Sleepy Joe was golden. If THAT part of the process was not another fix (after the previous Hilary fiasco) made out in the broad light of day, I don’t know what will ever be recognised as pure gangster politics. The “horse trading”–the deals, the rigging–is not done at the level of the electorate, but amongst the candidates. Joe and his son Hunter were already a known commodity, as filthy as a waste disposal lagoon on a pig farm, so they got the nod from the inner party moguls. And now only Joe’s big yap stands between our entire population and the everlasting peace of the grave.
The Russians have tried radical equality in communism, which can’t really come back, radical libertarianism with Yeltsin and a sort of tough civic nationalist with Putin as an antidote to the Shock Doctrine.
Which one you think they are going to stick with?
Blinken lapsed into the Jewish default mode of gratuitous contentiousness at Anchorage. Biden now lapses into this habit of speech, pattern of thought, philosophy. I think the psychologists call it “mirroring.” I say “lapses into” because Biden can’t help himself. Philip Roth understood “can’t help himself” better than anyone. This reminds me of how Border Collies sometimes try to herd the guests together in a back-yard party; that’s their mode. But Border Collies do not have nuclear weapons.
There are many Europhile Russians — including those in the govt. — who want to go back to Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin’s time; because, “Communism” is an impractical ideology.
“Communism” is such an interesting ideology — devised by Carl Marks — that the poor DO NOT want it and the rich DO NOT need it anywhere on earth!
Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin’s libertine capitalism would herald a time when Russian natural resources (i.e., commodities) were put up for sale to the highest bidders of foreign countries, when Russian cities became infested with crimes, when many Russian women found their only livable livelihood in prostitution in the streets, and when Russians were just silent observers to American president William Jefferson Clinton’s military destruction of Yugoslavia after American president William Jefferson Clinton had received routine blow-jobs from a chubby Jewish girl named Monica Samille Lewinsky in the White House for a while.
So, the apparent Europhile Russians (i.e., traitors) aside, the average hard-working Russians would stick to nationalism of self-interest in my observation.
‘Sunday in Jerusalem, Secretary of State Antony Blinken sought to shut down the argument …’ — Pat Buchanan
It’s good that Secretary Blinkey is allowed home visits, as a break from the grueling State Department hardship posting in his adopted country of America.
Doubtless Blinkey and Bennett commiserated over the difficulty of puppeteering cranky, senile Uncle Joe to do his part for Israel.
Surely we could spare another billion-dollar special appropriation for our middle eastern ‘friends’ who have done so much for us!
Such as … errrr, well, let me get back to you on that.
Yup.
What’s the saying, “This will be the war to end all WARS!”
Ah, but you see, Yeltsin was a “democrat” (ie. a prostitute for the West). In a former job I specialised in covering events and news in the former USSR when he was Russian president, and Russian servicemen in remote outposts were even suffering from malnutrition, so rundown were the armed forces under Yeltsin. The kind of Russia the West likes.