We talk a lot about Joe Biden’s confusion. But it’s something that seems to be a constant with his administration in general.
They just can’t seem to keep things straight, whatever the topic. Part of the problem seems to be, as with their leader, they’re just not very good at their jobs.
After spending billions of American money on Ukraine, delivering all kinds of weapons to them, you would think they would have their act together on the subject and be able to justify what they are doing. But instead, they have folks like Joe Biden spilling secret military information to reporters when he shouldn’t have about Ukraine and the U.S. running low on ammo. Biden said we were sending Ukraine cluster munitions now because we’ve “run out of ammunition.”
He also repeated that during an interview, saying again that the U.S. had run out of ammunition.
Why would you ever say such a thing and let Russia know that? Further, why would you ever deplete our supplies so much by giving so much to Ukraine if that’s what Biden is saying there? That puts us at great risk.
But on Monday, they still couldn’t seem to keep their stories straight about what was happening in Ukraine. State Department Spokesperson Matthew Miller spoke about the war, and he just completely blew the narrative and the script-reading by saying, “We believe the war has been a strategic failure for Ukraine.”
“The Secretary spoke to this in a speech he gave in Helsinki,” Miller said. The reporters then had to interrupt and correct him, saying he meant to say Russia, didn’t he? But then he did it again, saying it was a strategic failure for Ukraine. He then finally tried to dig out of it after being corrected by the reporters yet again. He said he hadn’t been at the podium for a week and was a “little rusty.” Third time is the charm? Unfortunately, with Biden at the head, I don’t think they can dig their way out from under the confusion. It’s a feature, not a bug, of the administration.
Biden’s remarks about cluster munitions also butted up against what he and his administration have previously said on the subject.
Samantha Power chastised former President Donald Trump for holding on to cluster munitions stockpiles. Yet here they are using those munitions.
Former White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki had similar words, calling it a “war crime” for Russia to use them.
The U.S. hasn’t signed on to an international convention that vowed not to employ cluster munitions in war.
Now I’m not talking about the worth of whether it’s good or bad to use them in this case in Ukraine. But I am noting once again the continual Biden hypocrisy. It’s bad when we need to attack someone else over them, but it’s good for us when we need to use them. There’s no core principle there, then, except whatever serves their purposes.