Weakness Invites War

This morning, we all woke up to the news that Putin "pulled the trigger." Overnight, he ordered an unprovoked attack on Ukraine. How did we get to this point? Why did Vladimir Putin feel he could get away with a savage attack on Ukraine now?

We know the inconvenient truths, but many of our fellow Americans are just now waking up.

Virtually every nation in Europe now depends on Putin's oil and natural gas. Most of these socialist countries have waged war on their own energy industries in the name of climate change. (Thank you, Greta Thunberg!) In doing so, they have allowed a foreign dictator to determine their future. 

John Kerry's reaction today to the outbreak of war was his concern that it would increase emissions.

Unfortunately, as is often the case with too many "trends," America wasn't far behind Europe. (See below.)

When Donald Trump was in office, America was energy independent. We didn't need a drop of oil from anyone. But one of the first things Joe Biden did when he took office was to shut down our pipelines, while approving Putin's pipelines.

He also shut down new U.S. drilling and put us back in the terrible Paris Climate Accord. Now we're buying oil from Russia, feeding Putin's war machine. 

Biden also declared "climate change" as the greatest national security threat facing the country. Does anyone believe that nonsense today? Why did anyone believe it before?

Speaking of nonsense, far too many American presidents allowed our socialist European allies to dodge their NATO defense obligations. Donald Trump demanded that they pay up, and left-wing politicians attacked him for it. But now we see just how weak NATO is, and Putin sees it, too.

Here's another truth that millions of people still deny: Under a strong America First president like Donald Trump, the dictators of the world were afraid to act against America's interests. Under our current aging and weak president, the world's dictators believe they have at least three more years to do whatever they want. Dark days are ahead.

My friends, I want to be very clear about this: The Biden Administration has failed in the number one thing they said they were trying to do, which was to deter this attack. 

They watched for weeks as Putin massed an army around Ukraine, and they did virtually nothing. In fact, the Biden White House killed tough sanctions against Russia that congressional Republicans tried to pass a few weeks ago.

Whatever else happens from here on, this is another foreign policy failure of the Biden/Harris Administration. You can bet that communist China and Iran are watching. Chinese warplanes violated Taiwan's airspace just a few hours ago.

By the way, I talked to a liberal friend who reads my daily report, and he said, "Ok, Bauer: What would Trump do now?" My response was simple: If Trump were president today, Putin would not have risked invading Ukraine today.

Sadly, this is another tragic reminder that weakness, not strength, invites war.