
It’s a little bit awkward after the media had spent the past 6 years accusing Republicans of working for Moscow and after the attacks on anyone who questioned the current strategy.
But the Left has always been good at pulling the “Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia” routine.
A group of 30 House liberals is urging President Biden to dramatically shift his strategy on the Ukraine war and pursue direct negotiations with Russia, the first time prominent members of his own party have pushed him to change his approach to Ukraine.
Liberals? Is that what we’re calling Communists now?
The group, predictably includes Squad members, AOC and Ilhan Omar, Cori Bush… and Jamie Raskin?
That’s the Rep. Jamie Raskin who back in February tweeted, “As Putin launches his premeditated war of aggression against Ukraine, a sovereign democratic nation, Trump and his pro-Putin stooges and puppets praise this authoritarian aggressor. Pro-democracy Americans stand against this unfolding war crime.”
We’ve gone from that deranged word salad to demanding a “realistic framework for a ceasefire” and a “pro-active diplomatic push” to “engage in direct talks with Russia.”
Not that signing the appeasement letter prevented Raskin from tweeting on Oct 18, that Trump “bows down to Vladimir Putin, former KGB spymaster still lamenting collapse of the USSR” even while Raskin was preparing to bow down to Putin.
As a practical policy matter the letter is stupid. It undermines Biden (not that there’s much to undermine) by pressuring him to cut a deal with Putin.
Biden has no ability to cut a deal with anyone, let alone Putin. And it’s not up to us to make a deal or cut a deal. That’s Ukraine’s call. We get to decide if we should be providing weapons and how many of them.
There is a sane middle ground here, which is to drop the economic sanctions which aren’t working and just hurting us, and provide military aid appropriate to what we think Ukrainian military operations should look like. If we want them to pull back, that’s easy enough to accomplish by staggering aid appropriately. The U.S. does this with Israel all the time.
The argument for continuing to back Ukraine is that we’re cheaply degrading Russia’s military capabilities for cents on the dollar without putting any Americans in harm’s way. It’s the sort of thing that Russia does to us all the time. And letting the Ukrainians do the heavy lifting makes it less likely that we’ll be dragged into an actual war if Putin makes it all the way to Poland.
The argument against is that this is an endless war and it’s having a negative impact on us. And we have enough economic problems to deal with.
There’s a reasonable argument to be had there. (Not that anyone is in the business of reasonable arguments anymore. And when it comes to Ukraine, a lot of people have picked a crazy maximalist position one way or the other.)
Raskin and the gang want to have it both ways, staking out a popular antiwar position on the Left while still calling Republicans pro-Putin puppets.
I’d say “pick one”, but we all know that’s not how it works anymore.
And considering Jamie’s dad, Marcus, was a Communist collaborator, calling anyone else a Russian puppet is unintentionally funny.
“Liberals? Is that what we’re calling Communists now?”
As a matter of fact, that’s what they were mistakenly called back in the 60s when most everyone didn’t realize what they really were. The Communists just accepted this to maintain their cover.
“Liberals? Is that what we’re calling Communists now?”
That’s one of the saddest things, the way the meaning of “liberal” has changed, due to public usage. It used to have an important meaning, like give the donkey a carrot sometimes, instead of only using the stick. I wonder if younger generations know that there used to be a time when government used only the stick.
Is not little Jamie the son of two teacher’s union steadfasts? Gus Hall supporters, in fact?
So little commie Jamie had a commie mommy and a commie daddy. And they were so proud. Their little Jaimie, right there in the seat of influence. Where he can foment real damage to the deplorable bourgouis.
Note: all misspellings are the fault of Android. It’s like wrestling an octopus holding eight fountain pens. Rewrite wrong, over and over.
His parents were the founders of the pro-Communist D.C. “think tank” the Institute for Policy Studies. Jamie is a dishonest creature who, in 2017, voted against accepting certain state’s pro-Trump electors but is now on the January 6 committee investigating Republicans for “election denial.” He also recently railed against anyone asking about the role Ray Epps played in the January 6 riot and claimed Epps was simply an innocent martyr being percecuted by the political right. Unfortunately, he is my Representative.
the red apple doesn’t fall far from the red apple tree
Raskin’s father was an outright apologist for the excesess of Communism
or what we’d call an agent of foreign influence these days
The Europeans had how many decades to get their defenses up? If they hadn’t depended on the US to defend them they wouldn’t be in the mess they are in today. Today the Russians have the democrat party right where they want them, black mail works very well when you know the truth about the one you are blackmailing them. The democrats don’t have a leg to stand on and Putin knows it very well. So do the democrats, but they are buried so deep in their own lies about their opponents in politics they are trapped into doing what our enemies tell them to do.
Even if the democrats were to cheat way beyond what they did in 2020, and actually pull off a win, it would still be a huge loss for the American people. The mess we are in would then be far worse than it is today, why? because the democrats aren’t going to change anything.
At present, they think they have nothing to lose, so, go for the gold with every lie they can think of and even manufacture some new ones.
The democrats are disparate enough to destroy everything they can if that is what it takes, they can’t afford to lose to an angry population because of the things they have done already, That is why the border has been opened like it has.
governments come and go, but foreign intel assets are convenient tools to be picked up
like how the Russians were very interested in the Bernie Sanders campaign
but do keep on flailing
BTW the signers you’re defending are now fleeing their own appeasement letter
A typical Liberal do as I a say not as I do Liberal Democrat
He and some other Democrats seem to have been trying to provoke Trump lately by challenging his manhood. That seems laughable, coming from such weakies 🙂