We Need Real Leadership to Help Ukraine

Day 5,241, 09:27 • Published in USA USA • by Ronald Gipper Reagan

Joe Biden's weak leadership on the international stage has led to an enormous international crisis. Not only is he inept, but we need to speak plainly and call him out for what he really is; a disgrace. Biden is complicit in the despicable crimes being committed against the Ukrainian people by his lack of action. The United States of America has the military and political power to have already put an end to this, yet he has chosen to do the bare minimum, and as a result, thousands of people are needlessly dying, and mass destruction is being brought to a great and historic nation.

It is made all the more worse when you consider this man has no consistent policies rooted in any sort of logic. He was the senate sponsor of the failed Kosovo resolution, which still led to the Clinton Administration committing war crimes against the Serbian people, and murdering hundreds of civilians in the process. He passionately insisted that he was in favor of bombing Belgrade, yet is too afraid to confront Vladimir Putin, who is mercilessly bombarding the innocent people of Ukraine. This sort of double standard is unfitting of an American President, and the world is in great peril to have such a man as the de facto leader of the free world.

We must ask the question as to why it is okay to ignore the United States Congress in its refusal to endorse a military campaign against Yugoslavia, but when there is a wide-ranging outcry across the political spectrum to take more action in defense of Ukraine, he remains on the sidelines. The American people have always been willing to step up and sacrifice in defense of freedom and for a just cause and righteous intent. This is one of those moments in history.

This was the same supposed leader who made a campaign promise to hold the Saudi Crown Prince accountable for the murder of a journalist, which he then shamelessly broke. His rushed, disorganized, and cowardly surrender of Afghanistan to a terrorist organization we had battled for two decades led to the deaths of 13 American service members, countless friends and allies left behind to be persecuted or hunted down, and showed that the word and commitment of the United States means little in today's world. Now we stand by as a nation which values and yearns for freedom faces a new evil, and do relatively little.

While there is near universal consensus on strong sanctions against Russia, and supplying the Ukrainians with whatever aid is required, this needlessly prolongs bloodshed, and raises the real risk that an irrational and frustrated Putin could use chemical, biological, or even nuclear weapons. How many more people have to die before America does what it has done so many times throughout history, and stands strong as a shield of liberty against evil in the world?

In another sign of cowardice, the Biden administration shot down a Polish proposal to give Ukraine much needed fighter jets, for fear yet again, of upsetting Putin, and that it could be viewed as “escalatory” in nature. All one has to do is look at the ruins of what was once the city of Mariupol, the schools, hospitals, and shelters with innocents in them that by all accounts have been intentionally targeted, and ask, have things not already escalated to an unacceptable level?

The millions of people forced to flee their homes, the great cities of Kyiv and Kharkiv and so many other places being attacked relentlessly, and the brave Ukrainian defenders holding them at bay deserve more from us. Real people are dying every day in Ukraine. A theater was bombed with CHILDREN labeled in giant letters in Russian to be read from the sky, killing hundreds by one strike alone. A lot of good people have been murdered, and I am sickened beyond words by it. Some even try to dismiss incidents like this, and listen to propaganda and outright lies. Where is your humanity?

There are even people who are openly supporting the actions of the Russian government, ignoring the reality of what is going on. In 2014, Russia marched in and stole Crimea, a sovereign part of Ukraine. They then funded and armed separatists in the Donbas leading to all these years of war, and they blame the Ukrainians for genocide? A war of their creation, which has led to many military and civilian deaths. They then launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine(despite lying about having no intention of doing so), which is killing tens of thousands of more people on both sides. It is as clear as day that they are intentionally targeting civilians, and at the very least not really caring what they hit as long as it terrorizes the population in to submission. How can you defend this?

Highlighting the extraordinary gravity of this situation, the President of Poland Andrzej Duda recently said-
“My countrymen, Poles, are looking today at Mariupol and are saying, ‘God’ — they say it with tears in their eyes — ‘Mariupol looks like Warsaw did in 1944 when Nazis, Hitler’s Germans, were brutally bombing houses, killing people, killing civilians with no mercy at all.”

I don't believe that the current leader of the United States, and by extension, the “free” world really understands or actually cares for the suffering these people are going through. The soldiers of Ukraine are some of the bravest in the world. The courage of their armed forces and people are an inspiration. They deserve more from us. We have allowed a KGB butcher and his cronies to get away with far more than we needed to. Some are too scared to call for regime change. The only hope for Russia is with the removal one way or another of this thug. Stop letting him send your sons to die by the thousands for an unjust war, and to murder your Ukrainian brothers and sisters. This will lead to generations of hatred between neighbors. And now 400,000 Ukrainians have been taken as hostages against their will into Russia.

The question is when and how this will end. To me there will be no justice without Putin and everyone involved with committing these war crimes and atrocities in Ukraine being held to account. I would confiscate every last penny from Putin and these oligarchs and give it to the people of Ukraine as reparations. We need American and other allied planes in the skies of Ukraine, and we need boots on the ground. You don't tell your enemy under no circumstances will you send troops in, but that's exactly what this fool we call a President has done. It's easy to talk a big game when you're safe away from a war zone, and don't have to risk your life on a daily basis, or run to a shelter as these invaders attack virtually indiscriminately. These people needed more help weeks ago, and yet we still don't take the action needed to defeat this enemy of basic humanity itself. I am ashamed at the cowardice of the American government today, and this sorry excuse for leadership.

This is not a matter of liberal or conservative, left or right, hawk or dove. It is time we do what is right. The world still waits on the United States to lead. If we stand up against the murderous despotism of Putin's regime by whatever means are necessary to end it as soon as possible, then Americans can once again call themselves as deserving of being the greatest nation on earth. The stakes are incredibly high, and we must face this challenge with valor and boldness, not with meekness and uncertainty. We need real leadership to be shown now.