The late Thomas Sowell warned that it is foolish to give decision making to politicians who pay no price for being wrong. President Joe Biden, his Democratic supporters and their controlled opposition, the Placebo Party (aka the Republican Party), testify to the truth of Sowell’s warning.
Since taking office, President Biden, like his predecessors (with the exception of President Donald Trump), has ignored the negative effects of NATO’s 30-year eastward expansion. Biden and his advisers have dismissed the complexity of the situation on the ground in Ukraine and Kiev’s importance to Russia’s national security as irrelevant.
Nothing mattered more than Washington’s long-term goal of turning Ukraine into a liberal democracy, allied with the West against Russia, and using Ukraine as a platform to subvert and destabilize the Russian state. Biden pushed for the demonization of the Russian state and its leaders; on regarding them as complete and incorrigible enemies with whom there can be no peace.
His wish comes true.
After 1991, in the hands of the old internationalists, now called globalists, US politics returned to the good old days of Vietnam, when national politics was determined by emotions, not reason; when US military interventions from Somalia to Libya to Syria turned into a series of moral crusades with unrealistic and unattainable goals.
Now Washington’s disregard for strategic reality has become truly dangerous, and no amount of air or naval power can compensate for America’s flagrant weakness on the ground.