Ukraine is a Real and Dangerous Crisis. Stop Playing Politics and Show Some Real Unity
https://signalpress.blogspot.com/2022/03/can-we-stop-politics-and-get-together.htmlWith Ukrainian cities in flames once again, as they were when the Nazis invaded in 1941, Ted Cruz opens his mouth and proves to the entire nation why he is the most hated man in the United States Senate. Criticizing President Biden's foreign policy at a time like this is bad enough, a clearly unpatriotic and very blatantly selfish attempt to feather his own political nest. But the fact that this man threw his own father and wife under the bus to go chasing after the former president, whose foreign policy was responsible for the fall of Afghanistan, the isolation of most of our allies including NATO and South Korea, and now the attack on Ukraine, all of which put our national security in this unprecedented danger, is more than just unpatriotic and anti-American. He's a big part of the problem.
President Biden's foreign policy isn't pushing the opposition party to get in line behind an unprovoked attack on a sovereign country for the wrong reason, capitalizing on the American reaction to 9-11. That was a real foreign policy disaster, as was just about everything that followed during that administration. President Biden didn't undermine the legitimately elected government of Afghanistan by direct negotiation with the Taliban. He didn't isolate our NATO allies by cozying up to Putin. He didn't isolate South Korea by cozying up to Kim Jong Un. He didn't withhold military aid appropriated by Congress for Ukraine, bribing their president to invent lies about Joe Biden.
That's what bad foreign policy looks like, Mr. Cruz. And if you can't see all of that, and you can't get on board now, get behind the President and support our country and its efforts to help Ukraine, whatever decisions and actions that may require, then you need to resign now and get out of the way. We don't need someone who won't defend his own father or wife against lies to be involved in the defense of our country.
Walleye
(30,699 posts)Its no wonder Putin thought we would be pushovers.
Irish_Dem
(45,619 posts)He helped them get "elected" and gave them a great deal of money. Now it is show time.
Walleye
(30,699 posts)BigmanPigman
(51,430 posts)but I wish Putin would put out a list with their names on it, just for fun. I'd love to watch them squirm.
Irish_Dem
(45,619 posts)The GOP is very useful to Putin. They probably give him intel as well.
Walleye
(30,699 posts)Little bit of power, flash a large sum of money, never mind justice and liberty for all
Irish_Dem
(45,619 posts)He told them they could have what he has.
Total unlimited permanent power. All US assets.
Seize the voting system, take control, state by state.
Install a brutal autocratic regime.
It was irresistible to the GOP.
Walleye
(30,699 posts)Irish_Dem
(45,619 posts)lees1975
(3,718 posts)With President Biden, who knows what he is doing and gets the best advice he can find when it comes to foreign policy, I expect the outcome of this dangerous situation will be good for Ukraine, the United States, Europe and the Russian people. Cruz, "lyin' Ted" as his good friend dubbed him when he was enemy #1, knows this and that's why the propaganda keeps pouring out of his pie hole like puke. But just continuing to state that President Biden's foreign policy is "bad" doesn't make it bad. Sooner or later, sooner in this case, Americans are going to realize that all lyin' Ted is doing is parroting the party line and he doesn't know what he is talking about. Being critical is one thing, if you offer your own solution, but lyin' Ted doesn't have a clue how he would solve this. He needs to step down, get out of the way, maybe move back to Canada, since he's a native-born Canadian, or maybe Putin will give him a yacht and a big house in Siberia.
Walleye
(30,699 posts)lees1975
(3,718 posts)that Putin picked Trump over him in the GOP nomination in 2016 when he flooded all that money and social media help in to Trump. Cruz tried hard to prove that he could be an even bigger shill, a pushover, a loyal follower, willing to let someone slur his own family in order to get himself ahead or get some attention.