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.

 

Terms you need to know: TDS and TIS

 

I say with firsthand experience that Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) is real.  So many Americans have let hate supplant love of country. I get it that the man has faults. Apparently, he is human as are we all.

The Christians among us know that we all fall short of the glory of God; yet TDS still has taken root in our ranks. But he was a womanizer. True, but so was JFK, and while he was in office no less!

The country glamorized Kennedy’s indiscretions and demonized Trump’s. I’m not trying to paint Trump as the perfect human being. He is not, but his dedication to America remains unchallenged. He is rivaled only by JFK and Reagan and has surpassed them both in efficacy.

I will go farther out on that limb. President Trump has surpassed all presidents that served in my lifetime in efficacy.

But Trump had many business deals go south.  You have got a point there. He had his ups and downs in business but rebounded very well. But, but, but he sometimes lost other people’s money. Yes, Virginia, there is risk in business. Investors know that.

Unlike previous Presidents, Trump is the only one who has not personally profited from political office. That includes every president in this century and most for the last half of the previous century.

Can this be stated any more clearly?  President Trump is the only president in my lifetime not to personally profit from political office.  All others have used public office for private gain. We turn a blind eye to that and demonize the only president who did not.

I’m not here to tout Trump’s virtues or accomplishments. I do appeal for so many Americans to stop hating your country because you hate a single individual so much. But all commentary to this point is to warn of a looming danger.

TDS has marred the virtue of the American public but is not the greatest risk to our once great nation. President Trump has had such incredible success in spite of TDS that we are at risk of what I call Trump Idolization Syndrome. Let’s go ahead and slap some initials on that—TIS.

When a man fixes more problems in 100 days than any of his predecessors in the past few decades, people come to idolize him. That’s fine for a short time but it must not prevail.

He is doing exactly what he was elected to do. He is enforcing the law. He is rooting out waste, fraud, and abuse—and that’s ticking off many who were profiting from those scams. He is taking on this nation’s enemies without qualification. He is not susceptible to bribes. He is leading the charge against the disease of the past 4 years known as wokeism.

And, oh by the way, God is once again welcome in the White House. Veterans are no longer classified as mentally deranged and things kept secret for no reason other than to protect those who profited from secret dealings are being declassified.

Yet so many hate him.  Keep it up and see what happens. The pendulum could swing too far, and we as a nation are susceptible to the tyranny of the mob.  We saw the previous administration support lawlessness in our cities, at our borders, and in our foreign relations.

As those things are being righted, we must make sure that we don’t go too far.  Those screaming now are doing so not for the good of the nation but to cover their own misdeeds.

But one day, if the TDS continues, we might end up going too far in response. What is good now—and I cannot comprehend how exposing the fraud and abuse that has been a way of life for too long is a bad thing—could easily continue into something with a life of its own.

I have asked President Trump to be aware of this and lessen the focus on himself and increase the fervor for America. Yes, I realize that my request is not near the top of his inbox.

I’m not talking radical nationalism, but the America that was once a nation of laws not activist judges. I’m talking the nation that was once compassionate where compassion was needed and we were equipped to meet the need like no other nation, not sending money to anyone and everyone even those sworn to destroy us.

If we get to TIS the root cause will be TDS. The mindless, emotion driven persecution of one man could have significant unintended consequences.

What do we do, then?

Grow a set.

Man up.

American up.

Realize that Donald J. Trump is the lawfully elected President of these United States and deal with it. Get over it. If you don’t like him, find someone better for the next election.

Christians, pray for him. Pray for America. We have a better chance of putting integrity back into public office now than we have in decades.

Open your eyes. America is getting better. Don’t go looking for someone different. Look for someone better. That’s the victory of the America I knew. Get better. Make each generation better than the ones before. That’s not only a worthwhile goal; it’s a noble one.

It’s the JFK mantra. Ask yourself, what can I do for my country? We lost that along the way. It’s making a comeback. TDS must go and TIS must never take hold.

Americans must learn to love their country more than they hate one man.

Christians, we are to be known by our love not our hatred. No exceptions.

Who among us does not want a better America? Quit hating the man and start loving your country once again.