It happens to be Fat Tuesday, or Mardi Gras as the folks down my way call it. And in lots of places in South Louisiana and elsewhere along the Gulf Coast, there will be fair amounts of alcohol consumed in the final throes of the two-week carnival that precedes Lent.
But Joe Biden is giving the State of the Union speech tonight. And there is nothing to party about where that subject is concerned.
We’re in worse shape as a country than we’ve been since the early days of World War II, and if there is anything to be relieved about, it’s that we’re not actually in a war right now.
If we were, we’d likely lose.
And while all the experts are starting to appear wrong in that Russia doesn’t seem to be overwhelming the Ukrainians in a conflict provoked by the abject weakness of American foreign policy, that isn’t exactly something to be relieved about.
That the war in Ukraine might be coming to a stalemate means Vladimir Putin could well become desperate. He continues to threaten the use of nuclear weapons against Western nations who supply the Ukrainians with arms to fight his logistically challenged armed forces, and that’s something which suggests Putin isn’t the cagey fox he’s known to be but rather an unhinged tyrant utterly corrupted by power.
Unhinged tyrants lack limits. They cause death and destruction. So while it’s a good thing that Ukraine’s military and society didn’t collapse in a week under the strain of a Russian invasion, the crisis is hardly over. In fact, the toughest stage of this game might be about to begin.
What we know is that Joe Biden’s America is not poised to manage the Ukraine crisis successfully. Biden will undoubtedly spend time in his State of the Union address touting the fight of the Ukrainians and drawing applause for saying We Stand With Them, but it was nevertheless his disgraceful pullout of Afghanistan which precipitated Putin’s invasion.
Not to mention the Russians have watched Lloyd Austin and Mark Milley, and their ministrations in making sure our military is trans, woke, vaxxed, and boosted, and concluded they have nothing to fear from us.
That it turns out they have plenty to fear from the Ukrainians is not something Joe Biden can or should take credit for.
Sorry State since DAY ONE of BIDEN !!!!
our mililtary has been pussified by the socialist democrats. i wouldn’t fight for our country the way it is but I am a veteran. I believed in our country back then. I don’t now. I am ashamed of the democrats and hope the rest of the world knows republicans do not support any of the bs coming from washington dc