Cognitively Impaired Biden Overmatched by Putin
17 Feb 2022
RUSH: Heโs a Trojan horse, heโs a figurehead, heโs a placeholder. Joe Biden doesnโt know where he is half the time! He literally has debilitating mental acuity issues.
REPORTER: How high is the threat of a Russian invasion right now?
BIDEN: Itโs very high! Very.
REPORTER: Why?
BIDEN: Because they have notโฆ (cough) They have not moved any of their troops out; they have moved more troops in, number one. Number two, we have reason to believe that they are engaged in a false flag operation to have an excuse to go in. Every indication we have is theyโre prepared to go into Ukraine, attack Ukraine. Number one. Number two, Iโve been waiting for a response to Putin for my letter that โ uh, my response to him โ itโs come to that Moscow embassy theyโre faxing it here โ not faxing, sending here โ I have not read it yet. I cannot comment on it.
President Biden said that he expected President Vladimir Putin of Russia to carry out an invasion of Ukraine within โseveral days,โ but that a diplomatic resolution was still possible. https://t.co/4j6sETYMVo pic.twitter.com/lcz6mp49CY
โ The New York Times (@nytimes) February 17, 2022
BUCK: Welcome back to Clay and Buck. You heard there the words of Rush about Biden that he has โmental acuity issues,โ absolutely true, and then youโre hearing today the commander-in-chief who is weighing in on the issue of whether thereโs going to be a war in Ukraine, a major Russian invasion. It feels like every 12 hours, Clay, on this issue, it feels like the momentum shifts. Their troops are moving away; diplomacyโs working.
Putinโs actually been shelling and things are getting more tense. Oh, it looks like the diplomatic path is bearing fruit. Thisโฆ Itโs remarkable. Weโve never really seen this. Your point before, there maybe have been deadlines. To the Taliban, hand over bin Laden or weโre coming. Obviously, they didnโt hand him over, and, you know, they got what they deserved. Saddam, leave or weโre coming in. But I canโt remember a time where weโve seen this level of invasion is imminent; actually, itโs not. Invasion is any second; actually, we donโt think so. Itโs bizarre.
CLAY: Yeah, and when you do game theory, which I know you guys in the CIA did all the time.
BUCK: A lot. The CIA nerds love their game theory.
CLAY: I like game theory, too. I think itโs an awful lot of fun, and for people out there who havenโt engaged in it, you sit around and try to consider the most likely outcomes, what is gonna happen. Itโs sort of like chess in the mind associated. Buck, the thing I keep coming back to that doesnโt really make any sense to me from the Russian perspective: I still donโt understand what Putin is gaining or losing other than the psychological homeland-related factors of Mother Russia needs to be powerful and heโs trying to appeal to that Russian ego based on everything kind of going into the toilet for lack of a better way to describe it, in the post-Cold War era.
So if he were on the edge of Ukraine and there was something where I could say, โOkay, heโs clearly negotiating for this,โ but it seems to me like the only real benefit is that Russian psychological approval of expanding the homeland and the belief that Ukraine is a part of Russia. Do you know what I mean? Itโs not a rational behavior that he seems to be engaged in, which is why trying to strategize his motivations and movements is so difficult to predict.
BUCK: You have to think about it from a Russian perspective. Whatโs fascinating is we donโt evenโฆ You should always know what your opponents really think. You know, in this country I think it took a while for people to realize that there were jihadists in, letโs say, Iraq who would reference battles that had occurred or reference battles that had occurred in the eighth century or the Balfour Declaration at the beginning of the twentieth century. People would say, โWait, what? Theyโre doing this because of that?โ
CLAY: Yes.
BUCK: โThereโs Sunni-Shiโa bloodshed in southern Baghdad because of what happened over a thousand years โ the answer is โyes.โ At least thatโs the mentality in some โ and in Russia, you have to remember Putin has presided over the creation of a Russian middle class that did not exist before. In fact, Russia was โ the fall of the Soviet Union, the Russian people were โ humiliated. Now, the creation of that middle class is really just the result of the fall of the Soviet system.
CLAY: And capitalism worked.
BUCK: Yeah. Of course, then they divvied up state resources, but they do have a lot of fossil fuels and Russia does have it. Itโs very rich in natural resources. So Putin does have a baseline of support within his own country. And for a lot of those people, the Russian psyche is they have been humiliated, and they feel like they have this whole NATO alliance thatโฆ Now, again, Iโm not trying to say this in any way to say what Putinโs doing would be justified or make any sense.
But to mirror image their mentality, at least the people who support Putin and are around him, theyโre saying, โWhy should our country have beenโฆ? Iโm sure you can get a Russian to say, โImagine if someone had just taken California from you, Americans. Wouldnโt you want it back?โ Now, we could say thatโs crazy and everything else, but there isโฆ You know, โirredentismโ is the word. There is this desire for the regaining of lost territory and lost prestige โ which, to us, may not make a lot of sense, of course.
But with their historical sense, itโs quite different. So thatโs the only thing I believe you can point to here โ and the resources. Ukraine is pretty mineral rich. Thereโs coal, thereโs natural gas, thereโs stuff beyond just the narrative of Kremlin and Putin glory here. So you add that all together, Clay, if they think they can steamroll the Ukrainian military in a couple of weeks with less than 10,000 casualties and flip this government and control the country, they think thatโs a win.
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