Former President Donald Trump criticized Biden’s decision to give cluster bombs to Ukraine. “Joe Biden should not be dragging us further toward World War III by sending cluster munitions to Ukraine–he should be trying to END the war and stop the horrific death and destruction being caused by an incompetent administration,” Trump said in a press release.
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Ted Rall
Ted Rall is a syndicated political cartoonist for Andrews McMeel Syndication and WhoWhatWhy.org and Counterpoint. He is a contributor to Centerclip and co-host of "The Final Countdown" talk show on Radio Sputnik. He is a graphic novelist and author of many books of art and prose, and an occasional war correspondent. He is, recently, the author of the graphic novel "2024: Revisited."
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Good point. Better point?
Of all the democrats who criticized Trump for almost causing WWIII, how many are criticizing Biden for this cluster bomb thing? Isn’t this, definitionally, a war crime that Biden has committed? Have any democrats said anything?
The cluster bomb clusterf*ck is significant because in announcing it ole Joe “full pantload” Biden mistakenly (as usual), revealed seriously important information (to “the enemy”) that the US doesn’t have enough standard artillery shells to give the Ukrainians.
The US/NATO is facing ignominious defeat in the war it plainly provoked in Ukraine and the perpetual war arms makers are having their pet & way over-priced creations revealed as totally inadequate for fighting, the term is, a “peer” enemy. Of course, the US having wrecked havoc for decades now, only on ≤4th-rate armies (double-digits-rate for Grenada), hash-hammered shepherds and nefarious wedding parties, presumably “peer” doesn’t refer exclusively to military capacity. This despite the grand US military costing at least 10-time as much as that of Russia’s … with less capability and even less robustness.
This leaves Nimrod-in-Chief and his hyena neo-con controllers what weapon, exactly, when they realize their massive “miscalculation”? The only weapons that will remain “in stock” are the nuclear ones which use will, at least, spare us the horror of having to experience species extinction by drawn-out climate calamity. (I’m assuming here that President Dirty Harry realizes he’d be assassinated if he merely mentioned the notion of negotiation … of course this could only occur as a result with another of his so “endearing” verbal gaffes.)
Counterpoint: Rocket Man was hilarious
Not to mention that “Putin’s patsy” initiated the sale of offensive weapons to Ukraine, which Obama had refused to do. I have two questions about that:
1) why doesn’t his refusal to sell offensive weapons to Ukraine make Obama “Putin’s patsy”? (I guess you have to be a Democrat to understand that!)
2)If “Putin’s patsy” is iniated the sale of offensive weapons to Ukraine, and also took the US out of several nuclear arms limitation treaties, among many other actions that were antagonistic to Russia, what kind of “5-dimensional chess” is Putin playing? Again, I guess you have to be a Democrat to understand.