Jim Bratten
Joe Biden has dragged his feet through every step in his attempts to impose sanctions or any other punishments on Vladimir Putin or the Russian Federation. It’s a classic example of “non-leadership” concerning the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The longer Joe hesitates or prevaricates, the more time Putin has to adjust his strategy to the Ukrainian resistance.
President Donald Trump had preplanned a weapons shipment to Ukraine, staged to ship in April 2021. Biden placed a hold on that shipment when he entered office and eventually sent it in August 2021. Another shipment of arms to Ukraine, more Javelin anti-tank weapons and Stinger shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missiles, was scheduled to ship that fall, but was also delayed for months.
Biden threatened sanctions on Russia but didn’t impose them. Then he imposed the sanctions gradually, instead of unleashing them sooner and at a more devastating level.
He resisted any type of ban on the purchase of Russian crude oil, waiting months past the ideal time – before Putin gave the “go” to his staged military units to invade Ukraine. Joe also resisted any trade restrictions, seemingly unwilling to negatively affect the Russian economy.
And he continues to need prodding to send more weapons to Ukraine, even using MIG-29s from the Polish Air Force to trade for last decade’s version U.S. F-16s. The deal was developing, then Joe said “No.” Joe Biden and his minions obviously cannot grasp the meaning of the word, “deterrent.”
Then there’s the Hunter Biden laptop scandal; the “real deal.” Undeniable evidence that Hunter Biden delivered the laptop for repair is documented. Video proves he was there. His phone number, address, and signature are on the work order/receipt and the hard drive proves it’s his.
The Department of Justice (DOJ) has had the hard drive from the laptop since before the November 2020 election and has done nothing. They say there’s an investigation in process, but no one knows how far along it is or if it has accomplished anything substantive.
The Democrat Media still refuses to report on the scandal or even spend time discussing it, since what’s on the laptop’s hard drive implicates Joe (the “Big Guy”). They continue to call it illegitimate and cling to the Democrat narrative (propaganda) that it was a Russian operation – a disinformation campaign to deny the presidency to Joe Biden, since Joe would be so harsh and unforgiving toward Putin, his oligarchs, and his Russian operatives in the U.S. Every Democrat Media story matches the same mythical network narrative… for Joe’s benefit.
Hiding the story after it broke in the New York Post in October 2020, the New York Times and other progressive news outlets (including social media giants like Twitter and Facebook suspending the Post for printing the story) fully understood how many votes would be lost for Joe if the scandal was allowed to live before the upcoming election. 
Some current estimates show 20% of Independents who voted for Joe would have changed their vote if they were aware of the laptop. A recent poll of those voters who cast their votes for Biden revealed that 17% of Democrats who voted for Biden would have voted for another candidate or abstained if they knew about the contents of Hunter’s laptop.
And Joe’s been lying about every bit of this since the laptop was discovered. In the presidential election debates, when Trump broached the issue, network debate moderators shut down any discussion. They refused to hear it.
Inside all of this is the money – the Biden Family syndicate profited handsomely from Joe’s political positions over his 40-odd year career, particularly when he served as vice president of the U.S. from 2009 through 2016. Even after he left the Obama White House in 2017, Joe and Hunter continued to rake in millions from Russia, Ukraine, and Communist China, filling the Biden Family coffers.
Is Joe trying to preserve the gravy train for his extended family after he leaves the presidency? Is this why he’s so weak and indecisive on Russia and Communist China? Is it the money, protecting Hunter, or something far worse? Has the Chinese Communist Party issued their blackmail threats yet, leveraging the millions they paid the Biden family for favors over decades?
Putting a clown in a castle doesn’t make him a king. It turns the castle into a circus. In this case, a thoroughly corrupt, compromised circus.
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