With the Russian invasion of Ukraine now officially underway, worldwide attention is focused on Eastern Europe amidst fears of a world war. Ukrainians who fought Russia back in 2014 are picking up arms once again to defend their homeland. While this is all playing out, Vladimir Putin continues to play President Biden like a fiddle. It almost seems like embarrassing the leader of Russia’s greatest enemy is as important as annexing Ukraine in his latest maneuver. He’s doing a good job of it, too.
If you watch President Putin in his speech to the Russian people, which is a really long speech, if you watch him as he maneuvers every single day, you know this is the guy, gets up in the morning, and he’s having fun.
He wants to know how he can stick another needle into the West, how he can cause a little more pain in Ukraine, how he can dance around Biden, who is so slow and so lacking in understanding that he’s totally out of his league here.
What you have is a guy who barely plays tic tac toe against a guy who’s playing four dimensional chess.
The toothless sanctions Biden announced the other day, targeting banks and wealthy Russians, aren’t going to deter Putin from moving forward with his occupation of Ukraine. We’ve seen failed sanctions like this many times over the years.
Plus, the U.S. has been undermining Ukraine at every turn, basically acknowledging the Russians were going to invade and doing little about it but public posturing.
Even worse, Biden’s policies have only helped Putin grow his war chest because his anti-oil agenda has helped increase the price of Russia’s most valuable commodity: oil.
If the people of Ukraine and the rest of the world are looking for Biden to stop Putin, they will be sorely disappointed.
