April 10, 2024
Gen. Ben Hodges argues that those who fear “escalation” with Russia, if Putin were to be challenged by the West, are dead wrong. Rather by parading weakness and indecision, the US is provoking Putin to launch further aggression against Ukraine and eventually against America and its allies. If Russia were to triumph in Ukraine, the results would be horrific for not only Ukraine, but all of its allies. The winners, in the scenario of a Russian victory, would be China, Iran, and North Korea. It is critical that the West wakes-up to the danger-at-hand and takes immediate action to assist Ukraine in liberating its territory to their internationally-recognized 1991 borders.
The West’s collective inaction, emboldening Putin and his dictator-allies, is putting the security of America and Europe in peril. A Russian victory would carry an unimaginable and incalculable cost to not only our wealth, but eventually the lives of our citizens. For those interested in a peaceful resolution of the war in Ukraine, that would guarantee a peace in the greater West, the best thing that can be done, right now, is to arm Ukraine to the fullest to show that we will not tolerate rogue dictators’ aggression.
Gen. Hodges explicitly condemns the Republicans in Congress who are blocking aid for Ukraine and gives his views on the Trump Administration. However, in this interview, Hodges gives new insight into the challenges he himself faced in working with senior national security officials in the Obama Administration – many of whom are now occupying lofty positions in the Biden Administration. It was precisely these officials, with their perennial fear of “escalating” the situation with Russia, that led other decision-makers to erroneously believe that backing Ukraine would “provoke” a nuclear war. General Ben Hodges, who commanded the US Army in Europe from 2014 until 2017, says that Western policymakers need to open their eyes to a hard truth: Russia is already at war with us.
“Secretary Austin, after the first Ramstein group, said : “We’re gonna have Ukraine win. We’re gonna beat Russia. We’re gonna hurt them so bad they’ll never do it again.”
Gen. Hodges:
“You can be sure he got smoked after that. He never said anything close to that again.”
There you have it. The fear of “escalation” again came to Russia’s aid.
Having already shown his hand with the “no ground troops” statement, Biden made it even more helpful for the tiny nazi by weakening the administration’s public rhetoric.
The culmination of that being Austin hideously being forced to request that Ukraine doesn’t attack putinaZi oil refineries!
You couldn’t make it up!
Biden has been the wrong president at the wrong time. As a matter of fact, Biden was never the right president, no matter for what or when.
Who would’ve guesses that the twenties of the twenty-first century would see the downfall of the West and the rise of trash countries, and this with the help of internal enemies of the West, both those who help evil voluntarily, like Trump, the maga bandits, Orban, and Fico, and those who do so involuntarily, like Biden, Scholz. et al.