Never forget: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/01/robert-gates-thinks-joe-biden-hasnt-stopped-being-wrong-40-years/356785/

I heard an explanation today that the Russians don’t have non commissioned officers. So if you have an American unit with conscripts, you’ll have a trained Sargent directing the orders. But in Ukraine , they’re sending out squads of conscripts and it’s obviously not going well so generals have to keep going to the front lines to direct the clueless soldiers

Lol

“If I say everything is the opposite of the news one day I’ll be right and then will repeat how right I am since no one will ever call me out on all the times I was wrong since no one takes me seriously.” - half my feed

The Ukrainian ambassador to the US was on Face the Nation this morning saying they’d like Biden’s help on negotiating peace. Our Secretary of State instead sets the bar this high: https://www.wbur.org/npr/1086835380/blinken-sets-a-standard-for-lifting-sanctions-an-irreversible-russian-withdrawal

“I think most people who don’t deal in the lane of foreign relations don’t realize those nine words that he uttered would cause the kind of eruption that they did,” Risch said. “This administration has done everything they can do to stop escalating. There’s not a whole lot more you can do to escalate than to call for regime change.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/03/27/russia-ukraine-war-news-putin-live-updates/#link-UXARDMSODJCTBA6SXFQFRY74DM

Biden: Implements sanctions so high that it’s impossible not to interpret them as a prodding for oligarchs and Russians to topple Putin.

Biden: “Putin cannot remain in power.”

White House: “the U.S. does not have a policy of regime change in Russia, full stop.”

If you’re scratching your head why a big swath of the Trumpist right is covering for Putin, it’s because they’ve been sucking at the teet of Russian propaganda for years, and they’re not exposed to information that’s actually critical of him. He’s a Holy warrior for their cause and the documentary “God Save Russia” on Tubi explains it all perfectly. He’s the logical conclusion of America’s alt right.

The audience for tonight’s Oscars include 5,000 Hollywood insiders, 14 white women outside of Philly having a girls night together and 600,000 conservative and libertarian podcasters doing show prep to bitch about the thing that no one wanted to watch in the first place.