By Judd Garrett | Objectivity
We used to be a country built on courage. At the start of
the Civil War, the Confederate army was already in Maryland, on the doorstep of
Washington DC, and President Lincoln refused to abandon our Capital. He had the
courage to stand his ground, and that show of strength emboldened the people to
fight for his cause. At the behest of President Zelensky, the Ukrainian people
are arming themselves for this fight. They are not running away. They
are not surrendering. The contrast in the reactions between President Zelensky
and President Biden illustrates why this is happening in the first place. Joe
Biden and many of our Western leaders lack the courage to lead, and their
weakness invites aggression. Vladimir Putin smells weakness, he exploits
weakness.
It is predictable that Joe Biden would advise President
Zelensky to run and hide in the face of this invasion. Biden’s lack of courage
was on full display throughout the 2020 Presidential campaign, as he hid in his
basement for 9 months. Did anyone believe from the way he conducted himself
during the campaign that he would be a strong leader with the courage to stand
up to someone like Vladimir Putin? But this is what you get when you allow big
tech oligarchs to control the political narrative and censor political speech
during an election cycle. This is what you get when you expose your election
system to fraud. You end up with weak puppet-like leaders who are only
concerned with protecting themselves.
Joe Biden will never stand up for America the way
Zelensky is standing up for Ukraine. Biden has been selling out America to our
enemies for his and his family’s enrichment for decades, so he would never risk
his life to defend a country that he helped to corrupt. Every time Joe Biden
sold access to the office that we, the American people, entrusted him with, he
weakened America. Joe Biden’s inability to take a hard stand against Russia is
also a result of him being compromised by the Russians. His son, Hunter, has received millions of dollars from
Russian oligarchs in shady and possibly corrupt business dealings. Biden
is hesitant to put the screws into Russia because the paper trail most likely
leads back to him. This may have emboldened Putin as much as anything, having
the goods on the President of the one country that could stop him.
Leaders like Biden only show strength when they are
jailing grandmas who trespassed at the Capital, or crushing a trucker convoy,
or forcing mandates on kindergarteners, but when it comes to having the courage
to take on evil people like Vladimir Putin and President Xi, they shrink away.
They disappear. They are too afraid to fight the strong. When Donald Trump put
tariffs on Chinese imports, the left and many Democratic politicians were
apoplectic. They called him reckless, dangerous, inviting a war. But strength
doesn’t invite war, weakness does. That’s why Putin invaded Ukraine twice under
Obama, and this time under Biden, but did not make a move when Trump was President.
The people of Ukraine, the Canadian Truckers, Abraham
Lincoln, President Zelensky, and Donald Trump all have one thing in common –
courage. They are willing to fight for their freedom, fight for their country
against a more powerful enemy. And there is one thing that Joe Biden, Justin
Trudeau, Vladimir Putin, and leftist thugs have in common – cowardice. They are
all bullies, and at the heart of every bully is a coward. They love to beat up
on weaker people but will always backdown to strength. That’s why Biden advised
Zelensky to run from Putin and the Russians. And that’s why Biden targets
parents who speak up at school board meetings, or nurses who don’t want to get
vaccinated, but he is too afraid to stand up to Putin.
Joe Biden has placed more sanctions on the United States
oil and gas industry than he has on Russian oil and gas production. And he is
not going to change those crisis-emboldening policies in light of this
invasion. Biden’s sanctions which were supposed to hurt Russia economically are
having the opposite effect. They are driving up oil prices around the world
which hurts American and European economies, but ultimately helps Putin because
they also drive up the price of a barrel of crude oil Putin sells to us, which
means everything Putin loses on the front end of these sanctions, he is getting
back and then some on the back end.
Justin Trudeau sanctioned the Freedom Truckers for their
peaceful protests in Canada, more than Biden has sanctioned Vladimir Putin for
invading Ukraine. Trudeau froze the truckers bank accounts and shut down their
ability to fund raise through crowd sourcing methods, denying them the
resources to continue their protests. Biden could remove Putin and Russia from the international
payment system known as SWIFT which would shut down his ability
to finance this war, but he lacks the courage to do it. It is the same reason
why we never freeze the bank accounts of George Soros, the leading sponsor of
domestic terrorism in our country.
Putin, Russia, and other countries are emboldened by our
unwillingness to stand up for what is right and stand against what is wrong. We
have capitulated to the woke mafia, and it shows up throughout our government.
Our military spent the last year training our soldiers to be “woke” while
Russia has been preparing their military for war. Our leaders told us that the
biggest threat to America was “domestic terrorists”, not countries like Russia
or China. We spent more time tracking non-violent American citizens than
deterring Russian violent expansion. When Putin sees us allow BLM and Antifa
thugs to terrorize our cities, violent criminals to walk free, 2 million
illegal aliens enter our country unabated, drug cartels to poison our
communities, and climate activists to dictate our energy policy without a
fight, he knows we no longer have the courage or the will to stop his
aggressive expansion throughout the free world.
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Judd Garrett is a graduate from Princeton
University, and a former NFL player, coach, and executive. He has been a
contributor to the website Real Clear Politics. He has recently published his
first novel, No Wind.
