Through sheer weakness and incompetence Joe Biden paved the way for the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Rep. Elise Stefanik, Republican of New York, recalls his amazing stupidity.
Send the MiGs to Ukraine – NOW.
— Rep. Elise Stefanik (@RepStefanik) March 21, 2022
Stefanik: There should be no question that the American people stand strongly with the people of Ukraine. But Joe Biden has continued to meet President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s requests for assistance with weakness and delay, restricting Ukraine’s ability to defend its territory and resist Russia’s invasion.
During Zelenskyy’s address before Congress, he called on President Biden to be “the leader of the world.” Unfortunately for Zelenskyy, Ukraine, the United States and the world, Joe Biden’s lack of leadership has meant war through weakness, instead of peace through strength.
While Zelenskyy is inspiring the world and rising to the challenge of a catastrophic crisis in his country, the Biden administration has been far too slow, not only in its implementation of sanctions, but in its lack of complete sanctions on Russian energy and businesses.
The Biden administration actually lobbied against crippling sanctions on Russia that could have deterred the invasion of Ukraine. In May 2021, Joe Biden handed Putin a geopolitical gift when he waived sanctions on the Russian Nord Stream 2 pipeline.
This came on the heels of the week-long gas shortage because Russian hackers shut down the Colonial Pipeline in the U.S. Instead of holding Russia accountable, President Biden met with Putin in June and gave him a list of critical infrastructure that he reportedly said should be “off-limits” from Russian-backed cyberattacks. In all likelihood, Biden handed Putin a target list. He had many opportunities to hold Putin accountable and show strength, but Biden abysmally failed and handed Putin multiple wins.
Biden once promised that he could go toe to toe with Vladimir Putin. However, since he took office, Joe Biden sold out American energy independence to our adversaries and threatened our national security. Biden has played directly into Putin’s hands.
And Putin is not alone. Our adversaries around the world have been assessing and measuring Joe Biden’s abysmal failures on the world stage, especially since Biden’s catastrophic withdrawal and surrender in Afghanistan. Now, Europe is facing the most significant national security crisis since the end of World War II. The world is in chaos because Biden is incapable of leading, creating a vacuum that Vladimir Putin is hoping to fill.
Biden should have taken swift and devastating actions to cripple the Russian economy and imposed severe, irrecoverable consequences on Putin’s corrupt regime a long time ago. Instead, his delayed ban on Russian oil came far too late.
Predating Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, House Republicans have been united in advocating for strong, tough sanctions for months. And we stand strongly in support of making sure that the weapons and ammunition needed get to the Ukrainian people as quickly as possible.
Our nation stands proudly with the Ukrainian people and their relentless courage against a bloodthirsty thug as they defend their sovereign nation. Peace can prevail, but it will only endure if the United States and NATO work together and respond with strength.
It is clear the United States can and should do more to support our Ukrainian partners. We must end any delay in providing Ukraine with the lethal aid, including MiGs, and the swift humanitarian support they need. The United States must also use every lever of economic power to cripple the Russian economy through tougher sanctions targeting the Russian energy sector.
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He did so Day 1
He is not much of anything since he is not running the show. He who was twice is now running it for the third time. He is beholden to many foreign and domestic powers that to go against the grain would expose too much. Cover up of a love one is what matters only.
Putin understands and respects President Trump. He neither respects or understands Bite-Me Biden. If anything he views Bite-Me Biden as a modern day version of Neville Chamberlain.
Mrs. Stefanik, Ma’am, I agree with you 100%, and against Mr. Bidet’s = Mr. s’nediB = Mr. “Let’s Go Brandon’s” Anti-US Constitutional Schemes, When on his very 1st day as The Questionable US President, He EOed = (Executive Ordered) = CANCELED CULTURED The Keystone XL Pipe Line (That Is When The USA Was Actually Energy Independent For The 1st Time In It’s History, During #45’s 4 Years As The Legally Elected US President Mr. Donald John Trump) And #44’s And ?#46’s Anti-US Constitutional Communistic Socialistic Progressive Liberal Democratic Donkey Party Was Illegally Appeasing And Actually COLLUDING With The USA’s Enemies = Russia’s Nord Stream 2 Pipe Line Enterprise, before this, his Son = Hunter “Let’s Go Brandon Jr.” Un-Ethically Was Colluding with The USA’s Enemies as Per #44’s Veeeep High Echelon Last Name = With Both The Socialistic Russian’s and The Communistic Chinese ( The Left Side Of The US Political Equation’s Illegally Using All Of That Illegal Foreign Dark Money) = Persuasive Financial Help From these 2 Countries, That Do NOT Have An Equal Standing Document, Of The Likes Of The USA’s Constitution, Is ILLEGAL Inside The USA’s Very Own Boundaries, when he was #44’s = Mr. Bathroom Barry Alias Barack Hussein Soetoro’s Alias Soebarkah’s Alias Dunham’s Alias Obama’s Veeeeep For All Of His Bumbling 8 Years! During #44’s And #46’s Time As The US President’s, They And Their Administration’s And The Whole Left Side Of The US Political Equation Continually IGNORES = CIRCUMNAVIGATES = CIRCUMVENT’S The Whole US Constitution, And Especially The Last Part Of The Above US Document = The US Immigration And Naturalization Act’s Rules And Regulations, Where Every Single Illegal Foreign Alien And Migrants From Foreign Countries, Who Illegally Use The USA’s Southern Border Like It Is A UNSCURED Old Fashioned Department Stores Revolving Front And Back Doors, Which IS ILLEGAL TOO! I Am Definitely Very ….. Very Irritated At The Whole Left Side Of The US Political Equations Attitudes And Actions Against The Whole US Constitution, Because The Left LOVES To Either Perform The Stomp Dance On It Or Use It As A Giant Case Of Butt Wiping Papers Or A Giant Case Of Nose Papers!!!
Clearly we need to do all we can to help Ukrainians but how about our own border? Joe, your policies are bass-ackwards. Close the southern border before you bankrupt our nation. May GOD Help you
The Ukrainians already have MIGs. The defensive hardware they have now was sent by Trump. Biden set up the Ukrainians
The defensive weapons the Ukrainians have now were sent byTrump. Biden has been slow walking getting more weapons there
The Ukraine-Russia affair is not about what the rest of the world thinks. It is a smokescreen. The real “war” on the world’s people is going on right now and it has nothing to do with this distraction in the Ukraine. While Biden looks bad in this particular situation, it has taken the heat off his incompetence since his first day in office. Right now, people’s minds are on Russia (and a bit on China). But this illegitimate president has been a plant since Day One. And few are even weighing those transgressions.
I saw a website video saying that the Russian military doesn’t service their vehicles the same as the USA military. They have a lot of equipment breaking down due to lack of proper maintenance and if the war continues in just a few weeks they will have no equipment to fight the war with. Western Journal.
I feel certain Biden may be the weakest nilly, willy president ever in history – and at a time when Four Years may be critical to our own survival as a free and powerful nation. Unless some respected democrats get a hold of their party, I fear we may not survive if he is allowed (with whomever is pulling his strings) to continue on the path of destruction he has wrought. I think only a complete lack of support from those who put him there may slow him down. If he has his full faculties so that he realizes what he has done, I can’t fathom what he hopes to gain . . . what his end goal is!!!???
“Never underestimate Joe’s ability to F**k things up” – O’bama. Wrong on EVERY Foreign Policy decision in the last 45 years. Don’t expect this senile fool of a Socialist Trojan Horse to change any time soon.