{"id":1858,"date":"2023-03-09T10:45:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-09T15:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/?p=1858"},"modified":"2023-03-09T10:45:01","modified_gmt":"2023-03-09T15:45:01","slug":"ukraine-bidens-war-of-wishful-thinking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/?p=1858","title":{"rendered":"UKRAINE: BIDEN\u2019S WAR OF WISHFUL THINKING"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%20370%20247'%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-29-1024x536.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"zeen-lazy-load-base zeen-lazy-load wp-image-1859\"\/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"536\" src=\"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-29-1024x536.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1859\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-29-1024x536.png 1024w, https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-29-300x157.png 300w, https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-29-770x403.png 770w, https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-29-293x153.png 293w, https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-29-390x204.png 390w, https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-29.png 1100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/noscript><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I have written in the past of President Biden\u2019s tendency to be behind the curve in terms of the war in Ukraine.&nbsp; Others \u2013 including many of the top generals \u2013 have referred to his response to the war as a policy of too little\/too late.&nbsp; They call for the United States \u2013 and NATO \u2013 to give Zelenskyy all the weaponry he is requesting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Make no mistake, Biden\u2019s statements on Ukraine have been tough \u2013 spot on.&nbsp; He called Putin a war criminal who needed to go.&nbsp; He said there is no other option than defeating Putin.&nbsp; He promised maximum support for President Zelenskyy \u2013 whatever it takes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you look at his actions, however, they do not live up to the talk.\u00a0 It seems Biden may be trapped in wishful thinking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When Putin started amassing troops on the border, Biden threatened crippling sanctions if Russia actually invaded.&nbsp; Biden\u2019s policy seemed to be based on hoping that Putin would not actually invade.&nbsp; It was not until world intelligence determined that an invasion was imminent that Biden all but conceded that his tough talk had no influence on Putin.&nbsp; His wishful thinking proved wrong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Biden immediately hit Russia with sanctions.&nbsp; They were not everything possible sanction as Biden suggested in his tough talk.&nbsp; In fact, they had no discernible impact on Putin\u2019s plans.&nbsp; Biden apparently chose to believe \u2013 wished \u2013 that his initial actions would be successful.&nbsp; They failed miserably.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Amazingly, despite Biden\u2019s initial threat to throw the book at Putin, the initial sanctions were only a small portion of the potential.&nbsp; Over the course of the next months, Biden was forced to impose other sanctions in the hope that they would not only change Putin\u2019s mind but make it impossible for him to execute the war.&nbsp; If it was not a bad assessment of the situation, it was certainly no less than wishful thinking.&nbsp; Not only has the series of sanctions not stopped the war, they have not even slowed it down \u2013 and they certainly have not crashed the Russian economy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Biden was initially opposed to providing Ukraine with targeting intelligence and advanced weaponry.&nbsp; He seemed to be hoping and wishing that Zelenskyy\u2019s army could win without them.&nbsp; When those hopes were being threatened, Biden acquiesced to providing more intelligence and sending more advanced missile systems to the Ukrainians.&nbsp; After rejecting requests for American Abrams M1 tanks \u2013 obviously hoping Zelenskyy could win without them \u2014 Biden again acquiesced to Zelenskyy\u2019s and the pressure from other NATO nations.&nbsp; Acquiescence is not leadership \u2013 unless you subscribe to Obama\u2019s irrational policy of \u201cleading from behind.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Biden and administration officials have expressed wishful thinking that the enormous body count of dead young Russian boys would cause a groundswell of pressure on Putin by grieving moms to end the war.&nbsp; So far, that has not happened.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tangentially, there was expressed hope that the Russian people would lose confidence in Putin and his dirty little war.\u00a0 Current polling in Russia shows that 80 percent of the people support Putin.\u00a0 The few initial street protests have vanished.\u00a0 The Idea of a popular uprising has been nothing but wishful thinking that has not manifested itself in the current reality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Biden has been strong with his words of commitment to total victory over Putin \u2013 and I applaud him for that.&nbsp; However, since I believe he is sincere in the desire for Ukraine to win the war, it is safe to assume that at each stage of his actions, he was hoping \u2013 wishing \u2013 his policies would make an existential difference.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, the best wish for the Ukrainian people is that the Russian army continues to be as weak and inept as they have been so far \u2013and that Biden will engage in a winning strategy based on reality and action \u2014 and not wishful thinking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, there \u2018tis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/punchingbagpost.com\/ukraine-bidens-war-of-wishful-thinking\/\">https:\/\/punchingbagpost.com\/ukraine-bidens-war-of-wishful-thinking\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have written in the past of President Biden\u2019s tendency to be behind the curve in terms of the war in Ukraine.&nbsp; Others \u2013 including many of the top generals \u2013 have referred to his response to the war as a policy of too little\/too late.&nbsp; They call for the United States \u2013 and NATO \u2013 to give Zelenskyy all the weaponry he is requesting. Make no mistake, Biden\u2019s statements on Ukraine have been tough \u2013 spot on.&nbsp; He called [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-president-biden","category-ukraine-russia-war"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1858"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1860,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1858\/revisions\/1860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}