Biden’s Bumbling Brilliance

 

I think that Joe Biden was the worst Commander-in-Chief that this nation has ever known. We endured his incompetence for 4 years. American lives were lost. American honor was tarnished. It was a bad time to be in uniform in this nation.

I served during the Carter administration. Ammunition and critical repair parts were not available. Selective interchange quickly became complete cannibalization. Desert One was a failure before one aircraft took off.

I thought that was bad. Biden was far worse.

Obama brought us ISIS, dishonor in Benghazi, and weakened us further but nothing could compare to Biden’s incompetence.  I could not imagine serving on active duty or the reserves while Joe Biden was the Commander-in- Chief.

But his incompetence was brilliant. It was Machiavellian brilliance for sure, and I am certain that he didn’t have a clue what was happening.

Biden’s weakness invited Putin into Ukraine. The desire to bring back the Former Soviet Union was always in Putin’s heart and mind but the opportunity under the previous Trump administration never presented itself.

Ukraine’s government is undoubtably corrupt, but the Ukrainian people are a hardy people. They fight for their own land and national identity.  I don’t doubt their courage.

The Russian people just want to scratch out a living in a nation where what we would call the American Dream is pure fantasy. They just want to survive.

But when the two countries engaged in war, Sun Zsu, Machiavelli, and Clausewitz all sat up in their graves and took note.

The once powerful Russia that Putin longed to restore to superpower greatness once again had unwittingly entered a protracted war. 

The Ukrainians did not roll over. They fought hard. The United States and Europe supplied weapons and ammunition but did not put their own lives at risk.

Both paid a price. It became what Vietnam was to us and what Afghanistan was to the Soviet Union in the days of the Mujahidin who wreaked such havoc on the more advanced Soviets.

Most of the early fighting took place in the Ukraine but eventually it spilled onto Russian soil.

Yes, the Russians gained some territory but at an incredible cost. In the most Machiavellian sense, the war weakened our enemy on many fronts.

The continuation of the war weakens the Russian nation and national will every day. Putin has been embarrassed. Russia has been weakened.

Unlike the peace with honor approach that the United States took in Vietnam, Putin still thinks he can win the war. It’s possible, but at what cost and what would be the cost of an ensuing occupation?

Biden’s weakness opened the door for Putin, and Putin is paying the price. Should we celebrate the ongoing conflict?

Yes, if we abandon our humanity. The cost of weakening our enemy—who has been very quiet until the Biden administration—is paid in the lives of the soldiers of Ukraine and Russia.

Yes, it is a victory for us but comes with an increased risk of nuclear war, for Putin is not looking for an exit strategy from a poorly conceived endeavor. Putin would rather launch nukes than admit that his invasion was a failure.

Remember the Russians invented the Scorched Earth Approach and Putin would use it again even at the cost of so many Russian lives, and nuclear fallout beyond the borders of the combating nations.

Russia is weakened.

Sure, the war is unjust and Putin should not profit from it, but United States was complicit in this conflict. Bumbling Joe Biden could not have signed a better invitation to invade the Ukraine with his autopen.

Trump would like to bring the war to a close. Terms will not be fair whatever they may be. Victory for the Ukraine and the United States was in deterrence. Biden’s buffoonery to save his son from prosecution showed Putin that the United States could be manipulated.

The terms, however unfair to Ukraine, are better than nuclear war. We are not surrendering liberty. Trump is seeking to end a war between two corrupt entities that could have devastating effects beyond the borders of either nation.

It’s one of those adages about life giving you lemons and making lemonade, except you can’t make chicken salad…IYKYK.

But as long as the conflict remains contained and conventional, it serves to weaken Russia. In a very base political sense, it has its own brilliance, unbeknownst to the architects.

So, the one feather in Bumbling Joe Biden’s cap is that his incompetence has cost the Russian nation dearly in money, lives, respect, military readiness, and world standing.

That said, I never want to go down this road of incompetence again.