Almost Everyone has Done It
You can look back on our county’s history and find that nearly every President has either initiated or participated in some kind of conflict that involves US troops. Many were done to avert the attention of the US voter from some domestic malaise. Why? Because it works.
Pulling on patriotic heartstrings, every politician with a soap box knows they can muster enough support to weather what might be their failings here at home. I won’t go back to the Founders but Carter had the Iranian hostage taking, Reagan killed it in Grenada and ended the cold war, Clinton had Bosnia, Bush Iraq, Obama had the war on terrorism which included everyone (including some here in the US), and resulted in the killing of Bin-Laden, and now, Biden has Russia.
Note: Trump is missing from the list. He was the first President out of this list that didn’t send US forces into harm’s way and in fact reduced the number of troops in armed conflict zones.
Make no mistake, Biden is itching for a real shooting war with Russia and not through a proxy like Ukraine. In re-opening the American embassy in Kviv, Secretary Blinken said. “We have put forward additional measures to increase the safety of our colleagues who are returning to Kviv and have enhanced our security measures and protocols.” At most embassies, there is a contingent of Marines that act as security. Biden has famously said on several occasions, US troops will not be put into Ukraine. One has to question just what “enhanced security measures” were taken. Perhaps it’s of the “over the horizon” type. That should be reassuring to the embassy staff.
As with Afghanistan, we have now created a target should anyone choose to poke the US and goad us into a direct conflict with Russia. We are supplying Ukraine with not only defensive armaments but now offensive ones as well. The opening of the embassy and added armaments are just add-ons to the calling out of Putin as a “war criminal”, charging him with genocide and claiming he is not fit to rule Russia. It’s not a leap to suggest, we’re at the brink of the great diversion.
Don’t think about the failing plight of his domestic administration. We must fight back the tyranny of ….this week it’s Russia. Biden knows it works; he has plenty of history to go by.
Current Day Publius 