A Birthday Wish

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President Biden celebrated his 81st birthday on Tuesday, and our friend Annie over at annieasksyou wrote him a beautiful birthday letter that I think deserves to be widely shared!  Thank you, Annie, for this wonderful letter/tribute to a president who has accomplished so much despite overwhelming obstacles!  And Happy Birthday, Mr. President!

Dear President Biden: A Birthday Tribute From a Strong Supporter

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  3. Jill, thanks so much for your support. You are a most generous blogging friend.

    You may have seen yesterday’s NY Times piece about Biden’s intricate involvement in the likely hostage exchange. (It didn’t make the front page, of course.) Even while in the midst of the APAC meetings in CA, he was working the phones to free the hostages.

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      • What editorial process? What impartiality? I hardly ever watch official state propaganda. We get our news from experts in their field, raw and uncensored and non-redacted.
        But it doesn’t even matter, everybody knows that both Bidens are envolved in various businesses in Ukraine, so very very biased and of course deaf-blind to what’s really going on. Sleepy Joe ain’t as sleepy as many critics claim, he’s very capable of spelling doom for the Ukraine. Hes not a harmless old man but a bitter meaniepooface and warmonger!

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          • Okay. Got some evidence for where I am wrong, please? Making claims doesn’t equal being right, y’know?

            Oh, I just remember I’m still waiting for many more clarifications and facts from your side, you never delivered. For example about Putin’s form of governance and the freedom of Russian people. You never came back with some evidence for your outlandish claims.

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              • Don’t take too much time, Ukro action might be over soon. You know how cascades work, right? Starts slow, then more and more puzzle pieces fail, and then the end comes very abruptly. Everybody thinks Ukraine is finished, what we see are just the last nerve spasms.

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                  • Whjy are you hopelessly clinging onto your fascist fantasy? Any idea how many forced, kidnapped Ukro soldiers are dying each and every day just for Biden’s re-election?

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                    • You and I get our news from very different sources, my friend. I don’t wish to argue with you, but do you have any idea how many Ukrainian people have died at the hands of Putin? Why do you believe that Ukraine should be subservient to Russia?

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                    • “You and I get our news from very different sources, my friend.”
                      Yes, obviously. My sources are open and free, not state or oligarch owned. And so far all the development and current state of affairs proves me right. Coz I get my info wholesale, not spoonfed like the American public.

                      “I don’t wish to argue with you, but do you have any idea how many Ukrainian people have died at the hands of Putin?”
                      hear as many as 500.000. Most of them soldiers. You think the Russians enjoy being the executioners in this scenario? They offered negotiatons all the time, since long before the SMO got started. But neither in Washington nor in Kiev did anyone pick up the phone.
                      Now the tables have turned and the collective west cries murder.

                      “Why do you believe that Ukraine should be subservient to Russia?”
                      I don’t.
                      Never said that.
                      Never even thought that.
                      NOFUKNBODY CARES!!! As long as Ukraine doesn’t become subservient to USA/NATO all is fine.

                      And Putin doesn’t either. And neither do the Russians.
                      Coz Ukraine is such a ugly relative, nobody wants to touch her.

                      They bid a friendly farewell to Ukraine when the USSR disbanded in 91, and that was it then. Not even the Russian oblasts caught on the wrong side of the border complained. Donetsk, Lugansk, Crimea, Odessa … everybody was like “Let’s see what the future holds, EU is doing great, let’s become a part of that.”
                      Unfortunately for them idiots Ukraine turned out to be a mis-managed poorhouse, corrupt and nazi-infested. Not even EU wanted to touch her, not let her into the inner circle.

                      Time for Nuland and CIA to jump in and execute her sinister plan. Rest should be well-known, even for you.

                      No, honest? Why do you think such crap???
                      Putin never showed any interest in Ukraine, all he cared/cares about is keeping her out of bad company (NATO) and do good business and stay friends. Russia did support Kiev from day 1 with investing lots of money, knowledge, education, brotherly love. Russians and Ukraininans are kinda the same people ya know? Just the westerly brothers decided to go down in a swamp of corruption.

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                • I’ll just re-phrase that to ‘Everyone who has the same opinion as you thinks Ukraine is finished’.
                  Wishing for it, doesn’t mean it happens. Least of all in War
                  This war is far from done. War has a knack of writing its own agenda, even when the big guns are silent, it goes on.
                  I’ll reply, in a week’s time. It takes time to read through other sites and evaluate them in a balanced way, then get the post written. BUT I don’t want to keep hijacking Jill’s Post on this issue. My reply will be on one of my own sites…..I’ll let you know when.

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                  • You fukn siriuuuus???

                    Even if USA and DE are still pumping some little money into the lost cause, most smarter nations did already smell the roses and decided the money is better spent on their own people and their own projects.

                    But you want facts? Here are some:

                    On every dead Russian soldier we have 10 dead Ukrainians. They are now so desperate the Russians start finding not only dead teenagers and grandpas in the trenches and bunkers but the first dead wimminfolk, too.

                    Even if we had any ammo and weaponry to give them, Ukraine has no personnel to use that shit.

                    The last bigger surrenders were about 20,000 and 50,000 men. To be honest I was surprised to hear they still had so many guys at all.

                    Talking about cascade. What Wagner didn’t finish, now it happened: Bahkmut/Avdievka has fallen. The very town, purposed to terrorize Donetsk city with permanent shelling since 10 years, is no more. That was the last Ukro stronghold in Donbass.

                    They had some bridgehead in Zaporizhzhia region, got stuck and am now just offering fresh meat to the hesitant Russian butchers. It’s a fukn crime!

                    And don’t tell me you didn’t notice the last visitors to Kiev didn’t come with “as long as it takes!” bullshit paroles but as bringers of sobering news.

                    Nobody expects a fatuous Westerner like you to have any sympathy for the global South/East. But be realistic at least, open your eyes and welcome new people into your small bubble.

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          • M’kay, lemme rephrase that for clarity for the auditors: Everybody determined enough to do some light research and keeping up to date with the developments of the day; everybody not blinded by ideology.

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      • Indeed nothing wrong with that. Spending your time in the kitchen is a good meaningful way to age in dignity.
        BUUUUT!
        Joe Biden’s hobby is not cooking but ruining the USA, and all The West! For personal gains no less.

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        • “In politics it is essential to always bear in mind the time, place, circumstances and those on the stage, then measure.”

          Wrong! It’s not okay to vote for the lesser evil. It’s never ever ok to vote for the little bit less warmongery and greedy. I measure people in quality not in comparison. Politics and voting are two of the very few things one not only can – but must – think in absolutes.
          Trump = Giant Super Duper @$$wipe! = Don’t ever vote for!
          Biden = Super Duper @$$wipe! = Support and vote him!

          REALLY???

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          • So by this logic both Putin and Biden are equals then, on account of the fact that Putin moved against Ukraine and supported the Syrian Regime which wasn’t exactly Noble Prize for Peace material
            And by the way, about voting for lesser evils, as I recall back in 2020 you urged with some regret as a socialist that folk should have voted for Trump, as this would ruin the USA, which would be a good thing.
            That wasn’t really thinking in absolutes…. Well unless you think that the complete collapse of the USA is a good thing

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            • “Putin moved against Ukraine”
              No, he didn’t.Time for US citizens to learn the difference between saving your own people in Donbass region from being shelled and an impending invasion – and attacking Ukraine. Yes, sorry, we all know US citizens aren’t well versed in geography but look at the Donbass, and most of all look where the frontline is!

              “and supported the Syrian Regime which wasn’t exactly Noble Prize for Peace material”
              That’s a question we gotta decide on later. But the Russians went into Syria on invitation, to help fight ISIS. Little did we know ISIS was an US invention, else we would’ve given them more support.

              “about voting for lesser evils”
              Which I would never ever do!

              “folk should have voted for Trump, as this would ruin the USA, which would be a good thing.”
              Really, did I say that? Well, desperate times, desperate measures. As long as the planet finally gets rid of America I guess one can compromise a little. OTOH I don’t think Trump wouldn’t be even half as damaging as Biden already is.

              “unless you think that the complete collapse of the USA is a good thing”
              Sorry, I do. Kinda self-defence thing, ya know?
              And don’t forget, I’m not actively fighting the USA, I’m just sitting at the sideline, watching how they’re doubling down on self-destruct.

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              • If Putin and the Kremlin had decided that the Donbas was the true focus of their strategy they would have placed shielding forces to the north, and their main thrust would have been to the south, thus overwhelming the Ukrainian deployments there. They could have then cut across threatening the southern flank.
                Diversionary attacks in the north and centre could have been made to tie down units in those regions and make redeployment of Ukrainian forces problematic.
                That is unless you subscribe to the notion that Russia ‘had no choice’ and invaded Ukraine to protect its own borders, in which case it became mired in a very protracted conflict and failed.
                As I have said before The Kremlin could have used soft power backed by a nascent threat to achieve all its actual objective to bring Ukraine back into its fold. It has failed.
                The long term damage to its status has been set, where this goes is uncertain. No good will come of it though.

                Syria was a geo-political move. Russia has always required warm-water ports in the Aegean / Mediterranean. Syria has always provided them. They therefore supported the Syrian regime, and never mind the cost to the civilian populations.
                It was, nor still is a simple war on ISIS vs Govt. There at least five, maybe six major components ranging from Syrian Government and Hezbollah out of Lebanon, fighting against groups ranging from democratic, through nationalist, and Sunni or Shi’ite forces. And ISIS against everyone. Then you had Russia and Israel with a cosy relationship of ‘You hit the ones you don’t like. We’ll hit those we don’t like. And We’ll make sure we don’t hit each other’. While the West took pot shots at ISIS and sometimes the Syrian Govt. Only ones who used poisoned gas were the Russians. It’s not over by the way. Russia won what it wanted though.

                You would never do? Careful with your words there. I’m trying to play ‘nice’ The reason why is that in your next paragraph you write ‘desperate times desperate measure’ part of which is – choosing the lesser evils

                And finally, if you do think the collapse of the USA is a good thing, then you are being active, in thought.
                The collapse on any large nation is not a good thing for this world; the economic implications, along with the disruption in smaller unsettled states only causes more problems for a troubled world. USA, Russia, China, whether we like them or not; they are part of the current world system. We can only hope for stability and a move by each to a move moderate stance, of which I am not expecting in the near future.

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                • All the military strategy stuff is way above my head and also very boring. But I noticed two errors in your argumentation: In the west everybody assumes the Russians would think like we do.

                  They don’t!

                  Russians are not NATO ffs.

                  They didn’t decide Donbass was the true focus of their SMO – the people of Donetsk and Lugansk were. And still are. The Russians don’t fight for territory, they first fought to save the populations of the two breakaway republics, and to kill the Ukro nazis (Asov). Not more not less. Putin’s hope was to just show up, and that would scare Ukro and EU/US enough to come to the negotiation table.

                  Putin was wrong.

                  His very small task force (90,000 personnel) was obvsly not scary enough. So neither Kiev nor Washington picked up the phone.

                  They adjusted quickly and recruited more personnel and established heavily fortified villages and towns and cities, destroyed Asov and slowly began their war of attrition. And that’s what we still see today. Russians hardly moving, destroying the counter-attacking Ukro troops.

                  But they have around 1.3 million personnel in and around Ukraine and are just slowly, vewwy vewwy slowly and methodically grinding the last rest of the Ukro military out of existence. With minimum risk, own fatalities and without much disturbance of civilian life, in Donbass and Ukraine.

                  I said it already in the third or fourth week of the SMO: The Russian strategy is to bore us all to death. Seems I’m correct with that assessment; Washington is so bored already, after seeing they can’t gain anything in China matters they shifted their very flaky and short attention again onto the middle east and their special client state Israel.

                  And here we are today.

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              • Perpetrating a genocide through starvation and then occupation by forced emigration and repopulization under Stalin does not really give Putin and Russia ownership. Ukrainians are a dynamic peoples Russians a diminishing people. Criminal oligarchy is just not a good look.

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                • “Perpetrating a genocide through starvation and then occupation by forced emigration and repopulization under Stalin does not really give Putin and Russia ownership.”
                  No. And they never claimed ownership. They bid Ukraine farewell when they split after the SU disassembled. And they kept a friendly relationship, even when Ukraine went down coruption … until Nuland and her deep state goons executed their sinister plans in 2013/14.

                  “Ukrainians are a dynamic peoples”
                  Ukrainians are a corrupt, ethically dynamic people.

                  “Russians a diminishing people.”
                  Doesn’t compute. Explain diminishing please.

                  “Criminal oligarchy is just not a good look.”
                  No, it isn’t. Thats why Putin fights the criminal Russian oligarchs. That’s why you in America hate him, your own oligarchs tell you to hate him. And the whole planet looks at American double standards in disbelieve.

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            • No, I don’t ever play. Ok, yes, I do. But I used to play with boats and surfboards, motorcycles and cars, not boring stuff like money and luck. And the last place to gamble is politics.

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        • I define it like every sane person does: Turn 65 –> pension! End of story. Go fishing. Perhaps for easy-peasy, not very taxing jobs – like leading a powerful nation – we may push the end-date to 70. But that’s the max.
          And yes, I include Putin in that principle as well. Send that old man home. Russian gvmt are all profesionals, they’ll find a replacement pretty quickly. For the interim Medwedew will do just fine.
          Biden is nothing but a puppet by now. An ill-willed, nasty criminal, inhumane puppet, remote controlled by the industry.

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    • Actually, Roger, when I read historians Heather Cox Richardson, Michael Beschloss, and others, I think he’s already ensured his place in history. Ford never achieved the passage of significant legislation that Biden has—and he certainly didn’t have to function despite such a hostile opposing political party and a movement denying the legitimacy of his election.

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      • Quite so Annie.
        The attempt to malign him has air of Hysteria, lazy observation or just plain ignorance. Although historians will debate the withdrawal from Afghanistan for decades, overall he has worked very hard under nearly impossible conditions.

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      • I’d like to slip in that Pres. Ford was never elected in any fashion, while Pres. Biden was most certainly elected US President. Also, too. 😉

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        • A fine and valuable slip in, ali! Actually, the only similarity I see between Ford and Biden is that they both had lawless predecessors. And many experts believe that Ford’s pardoning Nixon set a bad precedent that we’re now living with—with a far more lawless character!!

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        • I stand n defense of President Ford. He was elected to Congress 13 times and nine years as minority leader. He was also the only Eagle Scout to reach the presidency (seven have stood on the moon). I believe he thought he was doing everyone a kindness in pardoning Nixon. He was at best a mediocre president but he was a good man.

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        • Sorry for the delay Ali.
          I can remember Ford coming in, and even then in my youth thinking ‘Tough Task, man. I don’t envy you’. (He had some lousy stuff dropped on his desk too. Economics. Political. Military. Political-Military)
          His decisions were most likely not the best overall, and I understand he ranks less than average as a president, overall it seems from my generation he ranks as ‘Meant well and decent’ – which was, of course not enough to win the next election.
          In comparison with the latest crop though…. they don’t come close to him in the Decency stakes.
          There may have been individuals over the history of the USA who were very, very bad, but as a bunch this lot of the current Republicans are the worst.

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          • They are far worse, by lightyears!

            My only thing is, they think it’s OK when it’s Republicans doing very bad things. (Hear Susan Collins.) But let a Dem try something bad (by bad I mean that actually harms we the people.) I thought the Fords were a nice family, and Betty was exemplary as a mom, for sure. When I was in high school, their daughter had a photo assignment in the Ozarks, and stayed at a friend’s parents’s hotel. He said he had no idea if she was nice because of the protection, but she smiled, wasn’t messy, and the bill was paid well. That is decent people, I agree.

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            • Nice folk don’t get remembered much.
              It annoys me that folk like Trump with no talent, no grace, no sense of decency and nothing constructive to offer Society now has a place in history. May be it overwhelmingly critical and condemnatory.

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    • Thanks Roger. Sometimes it takes a while for history to realize that those quiet ones just doing their job and not tooting their horns really were “the greats”! Yes, he has brought dignity, responsibility, and integrity back to the office. I just hope the fools in this country don’t cause it all to go backward next November.

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      • The memory of Churchill remains. You have to be a UK person with an interest in politics to known much about Clement Atlee, his deputy, and from The Labour Party.
        Atlee was much a polar opposite to Churchill. His approach was to be functional and efficient approaching a task as ‘a job to be done’, as opposed to Churchill’s Dramatic Bright Light and Fire.
        It was said there would be much relief amongst those who had to work with Churchill when he went on some overseas visit. There would be no long nights while he mused aloud, went off at tangents and pursued quirky schemes,
        With Atlee it was a case of meetings at required hours, business to hand discussed and decisions reached…’Goodnight / day and thanks you for your time gentlemen’ approach.
        And when the war was over his Party defeated Churchill’s and he became PM.
        (It is said Stalin just could not understand how that sort of thing happened- he wouldn’t)

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