{"id":2651,"date":"2022-02-25T14:20:53","date_gmt":"2022-02-25T14:20:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/far-right.co.uk\/?p=2651"},"modified":"2022-02-25T14:23:35","modified_gmt":"2022-02-25T14:23:35","slug":"putin-to-biden-your-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/far-right.co.uk\/?p=2651","title":{"rendered":"Putin to Biden \u201cYour move\u201d &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>February 24<sup>th<\/sup> was a black day in Europe with Russian troops supported by artillery, tanks and military aircraft invading independent Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>As the invading army closes in on the Ukrainian capital Kiev \u2013 what is becoming obvious is that President Putin has <strong>completely misjudged<\/strong> the sentiment of western European populations \u2013 who condemn this unprovoked attack on an independent nation but has <strong>correctly judged<\/strong> the response of the United States, Great Britain and especially the European Union \u2013 in being full of \u201cdramatic words\u201d but backed up with very \u201clittle action\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Populists who see the communists in Red China \u2013 as the gravest threat to our way of lives and to world peace \u2013 always wished that Russia could and would be brought into a \u201cmutual understanding\u201d where our economies would be closer linked to enable the eventual political, economic and military isolation of Red China.\u00a0 Unfortunately, Putin\u2019s decision to invade Ukraine \u2013 has destroyed that hope.<\/p>\n<p>The defence of Ukraine is now a matter of supreme urgency \u2013 demanded not only by Populists but also by the vast majority of \u201cfreedom respecting\u201d Europeans \u2013 and yet, 24-hours after the invasion \u2013 the European Union response \u2013 can be\u00a0 summed up by one word <strong>\u201cembarrassing\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Led by the Red loving \u2013 German chancellor Olaf Scholz and his green bedfellows \u2013 all attempts to enact punishing sanctions \u2013 expulsion of Russia from the \u201cSWIFT\u201d banking system, sanctions against all Russian banks, travel restrictions on all Russian citizens, complete ban on technology transfers to Russia \u2013 and the immediate flow of weapons to the remaining Ukrainian battalions have been blocked by the Red Chancellor.<\/p>\n<p>And Biden \u2013 who <strong>opposed<\/strong> Operation Desert Storm in 1991, <strong>supported <\/strong>the US invasion of Iraq for \u201cweapons of mass destruction\u201d, <strong>was Vice President<\/strong> when Russia invaded and seized the Crimea, <strong>lifted<\/strong> Nord stream 2 sanctions, <strong>led<\/strong> the Afghan debacle in 2021 \u2013 is clearly a man out of his depth<\/p>\n<p>As President Zelenskiy of the Ukraine stated \u201cThis morning, we are defending our state alone. Like yesterday, the world\u2019s most powerful forces are watching from afar. <strong>Did yesterday\u2019s sanctions convince Russia? We hear in our sky and see on our earth this was not enough,\u201d <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>February 24th was a black day in Europe with Russian troops supported by artillery, tanks and military aircraft invading independent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2652,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13,11,16,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/far-right.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2651"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/far-right.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/far-right.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/far-right.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/far-right.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2651"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/far-right.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2655,"href":"https:\/\/far-right.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2651\/revisions\/2655"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/far-right.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/far-right.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/far-right.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/far-right.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}