that all of us understand why this is happening now. first off,, i don t understand europe. they believe that we have allies in europe who need to be defended from putin in russia. but at this point that s a just nonsense. europe knows war with putin would be catalystsr profit for their economy since they get about 40% of their natural gas from russia a. p so if they fight putin, it means the gas stops flowing. they re all freezing. moreover, germany sees no threat from russia. the germans are happy to work with russia on the nordstream two pipeline and they have no intention of providing ukraine with any weapons in fact, both germany and france have opened their own negotiationsnd n with russia and ukraine without the united statesut t. now the truth is that germany, france and ukraine are all to closer to the russian position than they are to biden s threats. those off us on the populous side here in the united states tried to warn the biden folks that we don t really have allies in
. and third, the biden team doesn t understand the united states.ge now i get the political calculation here. they ve had a terrible timen in twenty twenty one they have another terriblee year coming ue and they re likely going to the housese of both c and the senate. good so i guess with no good news h on the horizonor, why not play the war card at this point?ck heck, they can always count on members of both parties to join in on a saber rattling. the people who were saying that we shouldn t be engaged in thiss at all are going to be singing a very different tune when f they go to fill upnd their car with gas. if indeed there is anee invasion , putin will not stop he believes if that the u.s. will not respond. and so at the end of the day, this is about defending ukraine ,but it s also about sending a message i have to parties now these people live in an alternate reality. we re standing up for democracy e means protecting ukraine s borders. why while we justr