{"id":11666,"date":"2022-03-29T07:36:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-29T14:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/?p=11666"},"modified":"2022-10-17T10:07:25","modified_gmt":"2022-10-17T17:07:25","slug":"time-to-take-a-deep-breath-did-biden-say-were-putting-troops-in-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/2022\/03\/29\/time-to-take-a-deep-breath-did-biden-say-were-putting-troops-in-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"Time to take a deep breath – Did Biden say we’re putting troops in Ukraine?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In remarks to the 82nd Airborne Biden did his usual rambling type of speech. It’s Here<\/a> if you’d like to read it for yourself. I personally find that reading his speeches, like listening to them, makes my dang head hurt. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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You’ve been warned…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The part of the speech that made my blood run cold was this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And \u2014 so, you know, with the Ukrainian people \u2014 Ukrainian people have a lot of backbone. They have a lot of guts. And I\u2019m sure you\u2019re observing it. And I don\u2019t mean just their military, which is \u2014 we\u2019ve been training since back when they \u2014 Russia moved into the \u2014 in the southeast \u2014 southeast Ukraine \u2014 but also the average citizen. Look at how they\u2019re stepping up. Look at how they\u2019re stepping up.<\/p>

And you\u2019re going to see when you\u2019re there.<\/mark> And you \u2014 some \u2014 some of you have been there. You\u2019re going to see \u2014 you\u2019re going to see women, young people standing \u2014 standing the middle of \u2014 in front of a damn tank, just saying, \u201cI\u2019m not leaving. I\u2019m holding my ground.\u201d They\u2019re incredible. But they take a lot of inspiration from us.<\/p>Remarks by President Biden During Visit with Service Members of the 82nd Airborne Division. March 25, 2022<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Did President Biden just say to the world, including President Putin that the United States was going to deploy troops?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wasn’t that one of the things that Putin said was going to trigger a vigorous, Possibly nuclear Russian response?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’m used to idiotic saber rattling. But DAMN!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you’ve poked the bear and managed to not get eaten, it’s probably not a good idea to poke the bear again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thus far the Russian \/ Ukraine war has been largely an affair between two affiliated countries. Ukraine was, after all part of the old USSR. The tipping point for Putin, (if there is a geopolitical one,) appears to have something to do with the possibility of Ukraine becoming a NATO nation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I doubt seriously that NATO would accept Ukraine, but that’s a different issue. Putin on the other hand has reason to prevent Ukraine becoming part of NATO.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NATO troops sitting that close to Moscow would give Putin endless headaches and he would likely perceive it as an ongoing threat. It’s a little too close to home. I go so far as to say Putin is telling the world, “Not in MY backyard!”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The long history between Russia and Ukraine is too intricate and soaked with too much blood for me to begin to understand the underlying issues between them. That’s the job of political historians and I’m so not qualified. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have begun to think that Zelenskyy and Putin may well be cut from the same cloth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I don’t know if there can be a peaceful resolution to the conflict between the two countries. That’s for diplomats from Ukraine and Russia to work out, Send some decent and savvy ambassadors to assist in brokering a deal, but keep Biden himself 10,000 miles away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who knows? It might be something as simple as Ukraine saying they won’t join NATO.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I feel compassion for the Ukrainian people that have been conscripted, killed, displaced, and had their lives and homes destroyed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I however, don’t think that it’s smart in any way for The President of the United States to add fuel to the fire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’m not ready for World War III. I haven’t finished building my hyperdrive! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Joking aside, we need a strong cogent statesman. We do not need a President that isn’t respected, (or perhaps feared,) by the leaders of the world. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are reports that the Saudis aren’t taking calls from Biden, and other reports that suggest General Miley is not having his calls returned by his counterparts in Moscow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It bodes ill that two former superpowers heavily armed with nuclear weapons aren’t talking with each other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We can only hope at this point that Biden did not mean what he said in his remarks to the 82nd, and that the world leaders assume it was a doddering senile old fool speaking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who knows, it might be the one time when Biden’s apparent state of mind does some good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In remarks to the 82nd Airborne Biden did his usual rambling type of speech. It’s Here if you’d like to read it for yourself. I personally find that reading his speeches, like listening to them, makes my dang head hurt. You’ve been warned… The part of the speech that made my blood run cold was … <\/p>\n

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