Day: January 21, 2025

It Was Never About The Win

We enter into a new (for lack of a better word) world Biden has left the building and Donald has arrived doing what he does best….make nothing into some sort of filet…..but that is for others who care to write about I want to write about Biden’s waste of taxpayers money (he will not be last)…..

The US pissed away billions on its support for Ukraine in its struggle with Russia….was Ukraine ever gonna win this conflict?

Nope!

It was never about a Ukraine win.

President Biden spent hundreds of billions of dollars supporting Ukraine in its war with Russia, but according to a report from Time Magazine, a Ukrainian victory was never his goal.

Throughout the nearly three-year proxy war, the Biden administration never set any clear goals and only repeated mantras, such as the promise to support Ukraine for “as long as it takes.”

Eric Green, who was on Biden’s National Security Council at the time of the invasion, told Time that the administration never gave any promises to help Ukraine take back the land Russian forces had captured.

“We were deliberately not talking about the territorial parameters,” Green said. “That was not going to be a success story ultimately. The more important objective was for Ukraine to survive as a sovereign, democratic country free to pursue integration with the West.”

The report said Biden set three objectives for the war: ensure Ukraine would survive as a sovereign state, keep the US and its allies united, and avoid a direct war with Russia.

However, there was another goal not mentioned in the report: weakening Russia, something then-Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin acknowledged back in April 2022 after his first trip to Ukraine during the war. Austin’s trip came after the US and its allies discouraged peace talks between Russia and Ukraine even though there was a deal on the table that could have led to a Russian withdrawal in exchange for Ukrainian neutrality.

On their way out, Biden administration officials claimed the proxy war was a success despite Ukraine’s lack of a path toward victory. “It’s unfortunately the kind of success where you don’t feel great about it,” Green told Time. “Because there is so much suffering for Ukraine and so much uncertainty about where it’s ultimately going to land.”

The Time report noted that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who defined victory as expelling Russian forces and taking Crimea, recently complained about Biden despite the massive amount of aid he provided.

“With all due respect to the United States and the administration,” Zelensky told podcast host Lex Fridman, “I don’t want the same situation like we had with Biden. I ask for sanctions now, please, and weapons now.”

(antiwar.com)

There you have it….it is what I have been saying for these many years….it is not about the win but rather keeping the CEOs in bonuses and stock prices high….

Let’s see how the kakistocracy handles this and other of our proxy wars….

I am not looking for much to be different.

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”

So It Begins

Yesterday was a big day….at least that is what I am told by the media….personally I do not see it.

It is official Trump is now king in charge…..and a few things from yesterday….Trump and the Bible….

This is for all those religious people and their blind support of Trump….

While taking the oath of office at his inauguration Monday, President Trump never placed his hand on either of the Bibles Melania Trump was holding. The First Lady had her husband’s personal Bible, which he got from his mother, as well as the Bible that Abraham Lincoln used to take the oath of office in 1861, ABC News reports. But as Trump raised his right hand to be sworn in, his left hand remained at his side, which captured the attention of many observers. But, as CBS News reports, while presidents have commonly placed their hand on a Bible while taking the oath of office, there is no actual legal requirement that they do so.

Oaths of office are covered in Article VI, Clause 3, of the US Constitution, which states that while elected officials are bound to support the Constitution “by oath or affirmation,” “no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.”

Was he afraid of something?

Let’s get to the actions he took on day one….

A table was set up on the stage in Washington, DC’s Capital One Arena, where President Trump held an inauguration day rally soon after taking the oath of office Monday, and he signed a number of executive orders in front of the crowd, NBC News reports. “First, I’ll revoke nearly 80 destructive and radical executive actions of the previous administration, one of the worst administrations in history,” he told the crowd. He also said he’d institute a federal hiring freeze “to ensure that we’re only hiring competent people who are faithful to the American public, and we will pause the hiring of any new IRS agents,” and that he would sign a memo instructing his cabinet “to marshal every power at their disposal to defeat inflation and rapidly bring down the cost of daily life because your costs have gone through the roof in the last four years.” After signing a number of orders, he threw the pens into the crowd, the AP reports. A roundup of notable day one actions:

All that effort and not one of those actions will benefit the working peons that slobber all over this cretin.

Day one was off with a bang….we can only wait and see what fresh hell he will put the country through in the coming years.

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”