Did Biden Just Adopt Trump’s Ukraine Policy After Almost 2 Years Of Failed War Support?

Should this shift mean Joe Biden is now ‘Putin’s Puppy’?

The left never tires of trying to frame Trump as if he’s a Putin sympathizer who owes his political success to Russian interference. (That allegation will make the gOP investigation of money the Bidens received from Elena Baturina all the more colorful.)

Naturally, the reasons for claiming Trump is Putin’s stooge keep falling apart under scrutiny. The Russian hookers and pee tape? That was a Hillary Clinton frame job. Russian collusion in the 2016 election? Thirty million dollars of investigation turned up nothing that could be brought against him.

Then along came Hunter’s laptop (it’s real and they knew it) and claims that Russians were paying the Taliban a bounty to kill Americans was used in Joe’s campaign ads. Whoops! That’s another bogus claim.

Then Trump described Putin as a cunning predator who recognized Biden’s weakness as an opportunity he could exploit. That was held up ‘proof’ that he was quietly cheering for Putin. (Forget the fact that Biden personally leaned on Chuck Schumer’s senate to block sanctions on Nordstream II, giving Putin a pipeline that bypassed Ukraine and helped finance his war machine. That same undersea pipeline was eventually blown up by ‘someone’.)

What did Trump really want?

Simple. He wanted the killing to stop.

He figured he could force both parties to (however reluctantly) come to the negotiating table.

Former President Donald Trump would not say Wednesday night who he thinks should prevail in Russia’s war against Ukraine, instead telling New Hampshire GOP primary voters that he wants “everybody to stop dying.”

“I want everybody to stop dying. They’re dying. Russians and Ukrainians. I want them to stop dying,” Trump said at CNN’s town hall moderated by “CNN This Morning” anchor Kaitlan Collins. “And I’ll have that done in 24 hours.”

Trump, who would not say whether he wants Ukraine to successfully deter Russia when pressed by Collins, told the audience gathered at Saint Anselm College that he doesn’t “think in terms of winning and losing.”

“I think in terms of getting it settled so we stop killing all these people,” he said. — CNN

CNN made sure to frame that statement in the context that foreign allies and even former advisors thought that was the wrong position. Others made Trump out to be a villain in league with Putin for the mere suggestion that he might accept anything less than the full retreat of Russia and reparations on top of it.

What a difference a few months can make.

Pragmatism is suddenly a reasonable position.

With U.S. and European aid to Ukraine now in serious jeopardy, the Biden administration and European officials are quietly shifting their focus from supporting Ukraine’s goal of total victory over Russia to improving its position in an eventual negotiation to end the war, according to a Biden administration official and a European diplomat based in Washington. Such a negotiation would likely mean giving up parts of Ukraine to Russia.

The White House and Pentagon publicly insist there is no official change in administration policy — that they still support Ukraine’s aim of forcing Russia’s military completely out of the country. But along with the Ukrainians themselves, U.S. and European officials are now discussing the redeployment of Kyiv’s forces away from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s mostly failed counteroffensive into a stronger defensive position against Russian forces in the east, according to the administration official and the European diplomat, and confirmed by a senior administration official. This effort has also involved bolstering air defense systems and building fortifications, razor wire obstructions and anti-tank obstacles and ditches along Ukraine’s northern border with Belarus, these officials say. In addition, the Biden administration is focused on rapidly resurrecting Ukraine’s own defense industry to supply the desperately needed weaponry the U.S. Congress is balking at replacing.

The administration official told POLITICO Magazine this week that much of this strategic shift to defense is aimed at shoring up Ukraine’s position in any future negotiation. “That’s been our theory of the case throughout — the only way this war ends ultimately is through negotiation,” said the official, a White House spokesperson who was given anonymity because they are not authorized to speak on the record. “We want Ukraine to have the strongest hand possible when that comes.” The spokesperson emphasized, however, that no talks are planned yet, and that Ukrainian forces are still on the offensive in places and continue to kill and wound thousands of Russian troops. “We want them to be in a stronger position to hold their territory. It’s not that we’re discouraging them from launching any new offensive,” the spokesperson added. — Politico

Biden’s team claims he isn’t actually changing his Ukraine policy and that the goal is still pushing him Russia out of Crimea entirely.

Does he REALLY believe that? No. We can prove it.

Here’s the left’s dirty little secret.

The GOP would be willing to send more funding to support Ukraine’s war effort, but Democrats have loudly rejected the terms that would be attached to it.

Money sent to help Ukraine must be paired with meaningful changes that STOP the flow of people across the border.

News flash. For Schumer to EVER agree to those terms, he’ll have to be dragged kicking and screaming.

He’s the guy who whipped the vote to shut down a clean bill of support of Israel just hours after he and other Senators (like Fetterman) had shown up in person to that pro-Israel rally in DC.

Their open borders policy is the hill they are ready to die on. The reason why is no secret. Jennifer Palmieri, from Hillary’s Campaign team, gave the game away in a leaked email in 2018.

The Center for American Progress (CAP) Action Fund memo, which circulated Monday, called on Democrats to “refuse to offer any votes for Republican spending bills that do not offer a fix for Dreamers and instead appropriate funds to deport them.”

The memo from the left-leaning think tank also said that protecting DACA is not only a “moral imperative” but also a “critical component” in winning elections.

“The fight to protect Dreamers is not only a moral imperative, it is also a critical component of the Democratic Party’s future electoral success,” the memo read.

It finished, “If Democrats don’t try to do everything in their power to defend Dreamers, that will jeopardize Democrats’ electoral chances in 2018 and beyond.” — FoxNews

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