There are Actions and there is Illusion

 While Germany, Poland, Switzerland and even France, are hitting Russia with major sanctions and acquiring the properties and yachts from Russian oligarchs, why isn't the US doing the same? Why aren't we shunning Russian oil and producing our own energy? What ties does the Biden administration have with Russia these days?

"...The 237-foot Stella Maris, which was seen by an AP journalist docked this past week in Nice, France, was believed to be owned by Rashid Sardarov, a Russian billionaire oil and gas magnate. After publication of an earlier version of this story, AP was contacted Sunday by yacht broker Joan Plana Palao, who said his company represents a U.S. citizen from California who purchased the Stella Maris last month. He declined to disclose the name of the buyer or the person from whom the boat had been purchased..."

I kind of wonder what tech magnate here in the US bought the Stella Maris, don't you?

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https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-vladimir-putin-boris-johnson-europe-united-states-10a82777a3b4a6ccafc38c223b659a03

Pardon my cynicism, but I have a serious question about the news we're being shown. I have great sympathy for the Ukrainian people who are fighting for their freedom and even more for the women and children fleeing the violence in their homeland, BUT On NBC News today they showed a clip of how they were trying to keep things normal for the children and in that clip they were presenting a birthday cake and singing "Happy Birthday" IN ENGLISH. I don't begrudge the cake or celebration (although most celebrate their Baptismal day, not their birthday...) but wouldn't a child prefer to hear birthday wishes in their language? Gut instinct tells me something isn't quite right. Is this "news" manufactured for US consumption? If so, WHY?

Biden The Destroyer

First, it is important to know that Joe Biden has always considered himself modeled after FDR. He likes the image of being a rich, elite, liberal socialist imposing rules on people "for their own good." We've seen much of this-COVID mandates, masking, lockdowns, shutdowns, fines are just the top of this particularly nasty iceberg. We also have demands for "green" measures that cost more, trigger inflation and in general hurt average Americans so that the rich liberals can feel good about themselves.

We've seen this Biden administration misstep on so many fronts. They've bungled COVID. They've abandoned Americans and allies in Afghanistan. They've made our military so woke that we're the laughingstock of the world. And none of this seems to bother this president. They allowed untold numbers of foreign nationals to enter our country without so much as a COVID test. Along with those people are cartels agents delivering deadly drugs to their networks across the nation. How many Fentanyl deaths do we need to make this real?

There's homelessness, rising crime, inflation. There are houses no middle class couple can afford and cars they cannot buy. And none of this matters to the Biden administration. They have a Secretary of Transportation that was MIA for MONTHS before announcing he was on family leave. That same goober, Pete Buttigieg, gave his donors $33,000,000 in contracts-a crime that would get most politicians removed, but Democrats can do anything with impunity. We hear this story over and over again.

Hunter Biden's paintings, Nancy Pelosi's stocks, all the children of Romney's, Kerry's, Schumer's and on and on who get six figure jobs with no experience or background knowledge in the industry-are all part of the type of patronage that supposedly went out of fashion when the feudal system ended. Think back if you would to 2009, when Nancy Pelosi rounded up JUST DEMOCRATS to meet behind closed doors with Big Pharma. Who got paid and who made deals? These people are mandating "free" shots that are not free at all. They are paid for with tax dollars, just like those checks that we now have to include as income for the IRS.

This debacle with Ukraine is a symptom of a much larger problem. Ukraine has been corrupt for a long time. Biden knows that. It's the center of lots of organized crime and in that regard Putin, playing global Al Capone, is taking over another gang's territory to run his games through the Ukraine. Make no mistake, this is about having a better posture to influence Syria, Iran and Iraq as well as controlling the crime schemes that flow through that country. On Biden's part there's probably the hope that war will so confuse things that the evidence and witnesses of whatever scam he and Hunter ran via Burisma will disappear.

We have rich despots playing Risk with real lives. And if we don't man our borders, return to a law and order footing, I'm not so sure that terrorists entering via our sieve-like borders will wait patiently. If there was ever a time when Americans needed the Second Amendment, this is it.