The pledge comes just before Biden and Putin hold a second talk over security concerns ahead of a major meeting in January.
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Fox News, regretfully, keeps increasing the volume of the "
war trumpets" concerning Russia. The essential premise of Fox News's is that the US has the moral authority to tell Russia what to do. Russia is a sovereign independent country.
Nevertheless, there needs to be an acknowledgment that Russia is playing a dangerous game too. Russia annexed Crimea 2014. For several years, Russia has armed and supported Ukrainian separatists. In 2008 Russia and Georgia brief war (it may not be over).
Why this tirade?
While riding home today, the war mongering Fox News pundits spoke of how the US needs to teach Russia a "
lesson". That the US needs to start imposing sanctions on Russia now to deter Russia from taking any aggressive actions. One ludicrous unbelievable comment (by one of the Fox News pundits) was that the Ukraine was not in Russia's sphere of influence, even-though Russia and the Ukraine share a border. That person also went on to say that protecting the Ukraine was in out national interest. These remarks may sound superficially laudable, but there is a lot wrong, besides the arrogance behind those remarks.
- Biden is a "tough-guy" wannabe. A bully, That makes Biden very dangerous.
- The Democrats discuss their (humanitarian globalist) foreign policy as being in conformance with international standards, coalition building, and the United Nations. Yet here, the Biden administration is essentially proposing to bully Russia into compliance. (Has the US even gone to the UN to seek a resolution with Russia? So far all the US has done in the UN under Biden is to condem itself as a vile racist country.) It also demonstrates that the Biden administration is not listening (tone death) to Russia's national interests. See the NATO bullet point
- Evidently, the US wants the Ukraine to become a member of NATO. The original premise of NATO was to protect western Europe from Soviet aggression. The Soviet Union is now gone, yet NATO keeps expanding. From the Russian viewpoint this is aggression against them. Instead of talking to Putin, Biden (who is supposed to be the great unifier seeking common ground) it appears is putting the "screws" on Russia. This is not good.
- The very need for NATO, today, needs to be questioned. It should be up to the countries in western Europe to stand-up and protect themselves and not rely on the US. As one example, the US has no business in interfering with the Nord Stream 2 Pipeline. That is an issue between Germany and Russia.