I recently wrote about The Dumbest Things Said about Ukraine. So Far. Unsurprisingly, world-class bozo John Kerry was one of the first out of the blocks, fretting about how the war would affect the climate. But Kerry is far from the dumbest stump in the Biden White House. So it was only a matter before his bosses went galloping past him in the home straight of Stupid Stakes.
First off, Joe Biden, showing the sort of form that would have had late night “comedians” smirking and hooting for years, if the last president had said it.
First, on 24 March, the president told a press conference that if Russia used chemical weapons it would ‘trigger a response in kind’ – suggesting that America would unleash retaliatory chemical weapons on Putin’s soldiers […]
The next day, on 25 March, at a base in Poland, Biden was at it again. He told the 82nd Airborne Division that the Ukrainian people ‘have a lot of backbone’ before appearing to suggest that the troops would soon be in Ukraine itself – something his own officials have repeatedly ruled out. Biden continued:
“And you’re going to see when you’re there. And some of you have been there.”
That’s right — not only did Biden threaten Russia with chemical weapons, but he said that American troops had already been in Ukraine.
The real clanger came the day after that on 26 March. During a set-piece speech in front of the Royal Castle in Warsaw, Biden seemed to commit the US to regime change in Russia, saying of President Putin: ‘For God’s sake, this man cannot remain in power.’ It appeared to mark a sharp contrast from prior statements from the White House, which emphasised that regime change in Russia is not America’s goal.
John Kerry’s climate change mumblings were comically inconsequential, but Biden’s incoherent gibbering has a dreadful potential to get out of hand. As Putin made clear in his speech justifying the invasion, Russia sees America as an ever-encroaching threat. One which has had no compunction about invading other countries and toppling regimes around the world. The rest of us might laugh up our sleeves at Sleepy Joe, but who’d want to risk the Russians not seeing the joke?
Small wonder, then, that each time Brandon opens his senescent gob and flaps his toothless gums, White House aides are frantically scrambled to explain that, no, the president didn’t actually say what he pretty clearly just said.
On the other hand, Kamala Harris is delivering the relatively risk-free comedy gold. Notably, talking to Americans as if they were particularly slow children. Asked to explain the conflict “in layman’s terms”, Harris came out with this:
So Ukraine is a country in Europe. It exists next to another country called Russia. Russia is a bigger country. Russia is a powerful country. Russia decided to invade a smaller country called Ukraine. So, basically, that’s wrong, and it goes against everything that we stand for.
As one critic pointed out: ‘Layman’s terms doesn’t mean ‘assume the audience has never heard of Russia.’
Then again, she is speaking to Democrat voters. Or maybe she’s just using to saying things v-e-r-y s-l-o-w-l-y a-n-d s-i-m-p-l-y for her boss.
Harris, when she’s not barking out her trademark demented cackle that makes Hillary Clinton seem like a warm human being, also babbles the sort of rambling, disconnected dialogue that makes Biden’s “Corn Pop” speech sound lucid.
On a visit to the Polish border, she described her purpose thus:
I am here. Standing. Here. on the northern flank, on the eastern flank, talking about what we have in terms of the eastern flank and our NATO allies, and what is at stake at this very moment. What is at stake this very moment are some of the guiding principles around the NATO alliance.
Harris has also claimed on multiple occasions that the US is supporting Ukraine ‘in defence of the NATO alliance’ – even though, er, Ukraine is not in NATO.
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Well, when the world is going to hell in a handcart, it’s nice to know that the reins of the superpower are in such good hands.
