One would think George W. Bush, having gotten hundreds of thousands of Afghans and Iraqis killed in his 2001 and 2003 criminal wars there, would exit the perpetual war arena.
But this week he’s back at it, meeting with Ukraine Zelensky at the George W. Bush Presidential Center in Dallas. He will be advocating more endless billions in weapons to Ukraine which will exceed $100 billion with the upcoming $37 billion giveaway the Lame Duck Congress will pass by year end.
David Kramer, managing director for global policy at the George W. Bush Institute, pitched the joint appearance saying “Ukraine is the frontline in the struggle for freedom and democracy. President Bush believes in standing with Ukraine.”
What President Bush means by ‘standing’ is standing on the sidelines without offering a single US soldier or attack on Russia to stop the destruction of Ukraine as a functioning state. Massive US weaponry, much of which disappears before reaching the war zone, ensures the war will continue till the last Ukrainian soldier exits the battlefield.
If Bush was really willing to stand with Ukraine, he’d call out President Zelensky for his recent false flag ruse, claiming an errant Ukraine missile that killed 2 in Poland, was actually fired by Russia. That is Zelensky’s most serious provocation yet, among many demanding the US engage Russia directly, that could trigger all-out war between NATO and Russia.
While Bush will promote endless weapons for Ukraine, he’ll likely not offer one word on the only policy that can end the war, short of Ukraine’s complete collapse: negotiations.
Bush is all in for US policy of weakening Russia thru proxy war using Ukraine to accomplish the weakening. He knows this plays well with the US national security state seeking to maintain US unipolar dominance in the world. He also knows that having suffered no consequences from his 2 murderous wars, he can partner with the reckless President Zelensky to keep our proxy war against Russia raging unabated.
That’s all it took was a narcissistic billionaire to win an election to get the public to forget what this POS war criminal did. And it also gave us Biden. The Don, the gift that keeps giving.
Yup.
Because obviously we would be better off with Clinton right now. Don’t assume that if Trump wasn’t around that somehow magically a good decent honest Republican would have shown up and taken charge. LOL Most likely they would have lost and if they had won. so what? They aren’t any better.
Blame Trump for what he does, not what you falsely believe the Republicans would have fixed if not for Trump. You got four years with no new wars, that’s what you got with Trump. He delayed the neo-con’s and neo-libs for four years. The fact that he couldn’t delay them further, is not exactly his fault, the American People voted for Biden, not Trump.
If not for Trump you would simply have had Hillary or some neo-con piece of garbage like Jeb Bush running the show. I’ll take a billionaire, narcissist or not, over that crowd and Trumps actions still speak louder than words for me. Yes, it was a mixed bag, but that’s better than All BAD, which is what Biden is or what Hillary would have been.
Biden’s a compete failure and we are in this proxy war with Russia largely due to his actions. But sure, lets put the blame on the guy who tried like hell to stop them but failed, thanks to bubus Americanus who voted for Biden.
Many of the anti-war people seem to feel they float above the rest of the world and are too good to vote, lest they ever be blamed for anything. Funny how that works isn’t it? Libertarians in general love to yack about personal responsibility but when it comes down to it they also love to brag about how they are not to blame because they refuse to vote in a way that can change the outcome.
Don’t blame me they cry, I didn’t take responsibility for anything, so I’m not responsible!!
Did you go vote for Trump? If not then I’m not sure you can personally blame Trump for losing to Biden, why not just blame yourself and the others who spent four years bad mouthing him and refusing to believe that he’s any better than Biben? The same goes for anyone else here complaining about Biden. If they didn’t vote for Trump, then they shouldn’t also complain that Trump failed to beat Biden, that would be rather silly wouldn’t it?
I didn’t say we’d be better off with Clinton. That’s why I voted for neither her nor Trump. I don’t believe the transformation of Bush’s popularity, into what seems to be favorable, would have happened if Trump hadn’t won.
Trump was a lateral move. He didn’t stop anything other than the war with Iran that he himself almost started. He bombed, droned and sanctioned just like his predecessors and his successor.
I blame Trump for Biden because the only way people could possibly vote for someone as god-awful as Biden is because of his comparison to the god-awful Trump. If there is another reason, it alludes me.
But here are a couple of tidbits that helped form my opinion:
On Ukraine:
Trump said that while he was giving ‘anti-tank busters’ to Ukraine, Presidents Obama and Biden gave ‘blankets,’ referring to humanitarian aid.
‘The Fake News Media refuses to report that I was the one who very early and strongly gave the anti-tank busters (Javelins) to Ukraine, while Obama/Biden was giving blankets, to great and open complaints,’ he said in a statement.
Then Biden came in, and canceled the remaining military equipment that was packed, loaded, and ready to be shipped. Now the Fake News Media is trying to say that Trump gave Ukraine nothing and it was Biden who is their great friend and gave them weaponry. The dishonesty is so unbelievable. All I can do is report it!’
Donald’s idea of law and order:
“If you look at countries throughout the world, the ones that don’t have a drug problem are ones that institute a very quick trial death penalty sentence for drug dealers,” Trump said.
Just what we want regarding nukes:
Donald Trump Says He Should Have Nuclear Codes: ‘Enemies Would Be Afraid’.
This one shows the degree of senility isn’t very much different:
“People want the border wall. My base definitely wants the border wall, my base really wants it — you’ve been to many of the rallies. OK, the thing they want more than anything is the wall. My base, which is a big base; I think my base is 45 percent. You know, it’s funny. The Democrats, they have a big advantage in the Electoral College. Big, big, big advantage. … The Electoral College is very difficult for a Republican to win, and I will tell you, the people want to see it. They want to see the wall.”
“I blame Trump for Biden because the only way people could possibly vote
for someone as god-awful as Biden is because of his comparison to the
god-awful Trump.” Bingo!
During the Iraq war I had a letter in the local paper pointing out we put the Nazi hierarchy to death for what Bush Jr. did, and people looked up my number and called to thank me. If the right president got in office there is certainly some sentiment out there for a war crimes trial, and Bush Jr. could probably be convicted just with his headlines.
Bush doesn’t leave the country.
That’s the trick, isn’t it? The right president.
Our first truly airhead president.
When Bush go and meet his maker, I hope he has a good explanation for the millions of deaths he caused by starting the Afghanistan and Iraq wars.
There is another option that can end the war, the complete collapse of the Russian army. That is what I am betting on. Elon Musk has spent more destroying Twitter than we have spend helping the Ukrainians destroy the Russian army. Looks like pretty good value to me.
You do not understand what is going on, do you? We are at war with Russia, not Ukraine. We armed Ukraine and continue to arm Ukraine. We have boots on the ground (it has been confirmed that 10 Americans have been KIA), not just trainers, men helping plan operations. If the Russian army collapses and Russia itself is threatened, what do you think will happen? Capitulation? Thirty year ago there was the opportunity for peace between Russia and the West. Squandered. The pursuit of total dominance continued. And now. Russia is entering the fight for its existence. We brought things to this point. In the words of the late Kurt Vonnegut (a witness to the Dresden fire bombing)..so it goes.
We aren’t at war with Russia, Ukraine is we are helping out, a lot admittedly. Russia has lost, they failed to seize Kyiv and they have no backup plan. The sum total of human misery ( including Russians) would be lower if they realized the obvious and left. God is on the side of the big battalions , the big economies, the big populations and this is what Russia is faced with. What US boots on the ground? as much evidence for that as the attack mosquitos. Trainers in Romania almost without a doubt beefed up defenses and logistics operations in Poland sure.
Please don’t hold your breath…
Bush is an idiot. A wealthy idiot but an idiot just the same.