Biden forgets Af-Pak, warns Russia over Ukraine

We think that Indian politicians are hypocritical and stupid, but the Democratic leaders in the US, including President Joe Biden, beat our netas hands down.

“If Russia is sincere about addressing our respective security concerns through dialogue, the United States and our Allies and partners will continue to engage in good faith,” Biden said in a statement yesterday released by the White House. “If instead Russia chooses to walk away from diplomacy and attack Ukraine, Russia will bear the responsibility, and it will face swift and severe consequences.”

This from the guy who gave his country a bloody nose and bad name in Afghanistan!

Last week, Biden spoke to his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, reassuring the eastern European nation of the American support in the eventuality of a potential Russian invasion. “President Biden reaffirmed the readiness of the United States along with its allies and partners to respond decisively if Russia further invades Ukraine. He also underscored the commitment of the United States to Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity,” the White House said after the call.

Biden’s concern for “Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity” is as great as his disregard for his own country’s southern borders from where illegal immigrants continue to enter the US. A January 11 report by the Pew Research Center said, “Since President Joe Biden took office in January 2021, his administration has acted on a number of fronts to reverse Trump-era restrictions on immigration to the United States. The steps include plans to boost refugee admissions, preserving deportation relief for unauthorized immigrants who came to the US as children and not enforcing the ‘public charge’ rule that denies green cards to immigrants who might use public benefits like Medicaid.”

US immigration officials faced the highest illegal border crossings in two decades during Biden’s first year in office, according to a Reuters report. “Border arrests this fiscal year could surpass last year’s 1.7 million, according to current and former officials.”

The failure to stem the tide of illegal immigrants is not the result of Biden’s incompetence (Which, by the way, is monumental in general. This was evident in the US withdrawal from Afghanistan last year). The failure is the consequence of Democrats’ increasing tilt towards a postmodern anti-American theory, the critical race theory (CRT).

According to Encyclopedia Britannica, CRT is an “intellectual movement and loosely organized framework of legal analysis based on the premise that race is not a natural, biologically grounded feature of physically distinct subgroups of human beings but a socially constructed (culturally invented) category that is used to oppress and exploit people of color.”

The encyclopedia adds, “Critical race theorists hold that the law and legal institutions in the United States are inherently racist insofar as they function to create and maintain social, economic, and political inequalities between whites and nonwhites, especially African Americans.” If race is not natural, then Virat Kohli is a scientist, Hafiz Saeed is a disciple of Mahatma Gandhi, and I am the President of India.

Such, however, is the influence of postmodernism that such preposterous fantasies as CRT are taken seriously; they even become mainstream.

The politicians who hate their own country—as evident from their predilection for CRT—are not best suited to protect its borders. But this is exactly what Biden has done. Vice-President Kamala Harris, who represents the radical Left in the ruling party and whom he chose as his running mate, has been made in-charge of handling the border issue; this has further complicated the issue. Instead of focusing on simple measures—stopping illegal immigrants—she obsessed herself with some esoteric “root causes” of these people moving in to her country.

To make matters worse, Biden is suffering from a cognitive decline; he forgets names, he fumbles and bumbles while speaking; in fact, he can scarcely speak coherently. Therefore, he has not been able to do what the liberal establishment wanted him to: keep the Democratic Party united as the tug of war wages between liberals and the radical Left.

As on other fronts, Biden has failed miserably here too. It looks like he is being manipulated by his handlers; they give him directions what to do in press conferences; and most of them seem to be Leftwing.

Apart from Democrats’ hypocrisy, it seems that the military-industrial complex (MIC) is making its presence felt. A lot of people in the MIC benefit when America fights its wars.

Then there are neoconservatives who have appointed themselves as the evangelists of freedom. It may not be possible to find as to how much of their enthusiasm is the product of idealism and how much of it is MIC-influenced, but the MIC is a major factor. By the way, the MIC influence seems to cut across party lines.

Some wars are thrust upon Washington, like the one in Afghanistan after 9/11; some it thrusts upon others, like the Iraq invasion. The former are justified, the latter are not.

The Iraq invasion, while costing a lot of lives and money, served no American purpose. Neocons imposed that war on America. Left-liberals want their own war; they have chosen Russia as their enemy. Ukraine is the pretext.