By Douglas V. Gibbs
Fifty years ago the Democrats were the anti-war party because it was politically expedient to stand against the Vietnam War, despite the fact that a Democrat President, John F. Kennedy, set the stage for the Vietnam War, and a Democrat President, Lyndon B. Johnson, entered us into the Vietnam Conflict, and escalated it to ridiculous levels. It was Republican Richard Nixon who campaigned to get us out of the war, and who accomplished the feat, yet somehow the Democrats convinced the younger generation that the Republican Party was the party of war-mongering and if elected Presidents who were members of the GOP could not be trusted with the nuclear button. When Republican President Ronald Reagan was elected, the Democrats portrayed him as an out of control cowboy who wanted war, despite the fact that Democratic President Jimmy Carter had supported China’s border war with Vietnam, and his support for the bloodthirsty communist madmen of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia. After President Bill Clinton’s failed foreign policies in Somalia, Bosnia, Kosovo, Iraq, Haiti and failed strikes against Usama Bin Laden where he got involved in more wars than any President since Johnson, when Republican President George W. Bush invaded Iraq allegedly in response to the 9/11 strikes against the Twin Towers, and the Pentagon, despite the Democrats being for the attack before they were against it, they went out of their minds calling Bush a “war-mongerer”. Could it be that they became anti-war because they realized the position may attract a segment of voters they had not been reaching before? Again, despite the reality that historically the Democrats have been pro-destruction via war and investors who draw wealth from the military industrial complex, the Democrats succeeded in convincing the average American that despite what everyone should be seeing, despite the reality of history, it was the GOP who was the pro-war party. The “peace through strength” model, established by George Washington, but resurrected when Ronald Reagan breathed life back into the idea during his presidency, while accurate in the basic sense, was maligned and twisted through the words that sliced out of the mouths of Democrats, convincing Americans that the Republicans were pro-war and the Democrats were anti-war.
Then, Donald J. Trump came along. He built a foundation of respect around the world by showing strength, and revealing a willingness to use America’s military strength when necessary, but did so in a manner that actually kept us out of war. Trump ended the war with ISIS, and started no new war or military conflict during his presidency, the first to do so in nearly a century.
During Joe Biden’s term in the White House, two new large wars emerged (Ukraine and Gaza), with rumors and fears of others rising into view. The Russian war against Ukraine, a war that Trump says would not have started under his watch because of his economic policies that would have kept Russia from putting the money needed for the war into their pockets, which changed when fuel prices went up largely due to Biden largely killing America’s domestic oil production, has brought many to believe the next World War is on the horizon. The rules of supply and demand took control, and as America became more dependent on foreign oil, and drove prices up, Russia began to make more money on their oil production as well – and Biden and the Democrats were more than happy to start throwing money into a war between two regions that have been fighting for position since before the United States even existed as a country.
More money… more war.
After Donald Trump achieved victory in the 2024 Presidential Election, running on a campaign promise to end the war in Ukraine, President Joe Biden did something he was repeatedly unwilling to do prior to the election – authorize Ukraine to use American long-range missiles to strike deeper into Russia – which undoubtedly will expand and extend the war.
Why? When did the Democrats become the political party of destruction?
The short answer?
Since their beginning.
Don’t get me wrong, the GOP has been guilty too. But, the new Republican Party under the guidance of Donald J. Trump understands there is a third option, other than appeasement, or the destruction of non-stop continual war.
National Security Council chief of staff Fred Fleitz says that Biden’s latest move is more than just-another-example of the pro-war Democratic Party’s path of destruction, but that it is also designed to “thwart Trump’s effort to create a ceasefire and peace deal.”
“The timing is really curious, because Biden was reluctant to do this before the election, because he was worried he would escalate the war. He would take a lot of criticism for possibly escalating the war,” Fleitz told the John Solomon Reports podcast. “And now that the election is over, he’s made this decision, which Putin has said is a red line and could put Russia at war with the United States…I don’t think this is an effort to give Ukraine leverage in negotiations with Russia, because it’s going to make the war worse. I think this is a deliberate attempt by Joe Biden to sabotage President Trump’s efforts to negotiate a ceasefire.”
Could it be a little of both? Biden and the Democrats are, despite what they try to convince the general public, pro-war, pro-chaos, and pro-destruction while also wishing to sabotage Trump’s efforts?
The general consensus is that Biden’s authorization is a response to the deployment of North Korean troops in support of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Russian President Vladimir Putin has warned that such a move by the United States may be viewed as an act of war, and he’s willing to use nuclear weapons in such a scenario.
While Republicans like Representative Thomas Massie of Kentucky has stated that Biden’s move without congressional approval was unconstitutional, the reality is that it was not. Congress, according to Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution, has the authority to declare war, but the President as Commander in Chief as delegated by Article II has the power to wage war. So, Biden’s move was technically constitutional. If Congress doesn’t like it, they can defund America’s role in the war between Russia and Ukraine. The American people disagrees with Biden and the Democrats, and want the whole affair to end, which is among the long list of reasons that led Trump to win the 2024 Presidential Election. Despite the legality of the move, and any argument to the contrary, it was still an unreasonable move and it was, as Former Trump Deputy National Security Adviser Victoria Coates told the Just the News, No Noise television show on Monday night that Biden’s action was a thumb in the eye of the American electorate and risked a dangerous escalation with a nuclear superpower.
“Why isn’t that a decision for the president-elect, who clearly has the support of the American people to make?” Coates continued. “Putin has said he might respond with a nuclear strike. You can’t handcuff your successor with that kind of responsibility, because you’re going to do something rash and not well thought through at the tail end of your presidency.”
Because for the Democrats it is all about power, and the narrative changes or sharpens based on what the Democrats believe will better enable their next path to power. However, since they can’t win in the arena of ideas because all of their ideas are destructive and dangerous they must target their opposition, even if they have to be untruthful along the way. They need wide-spread confusion, wide-spread chaos, and they seek to destroy the standards that have guided us since the beginning. Change must be about change, in their minds, even if the change is down a road that is known to be a failure, or against the common sense and moral standard that most people hold as important.
They have proven they are willing to destroy the lives of those who oppose them, as they did with the January 6ers, and they are willing to be as insane as possible in their attacks against their opposition as they have proven with Donald Trump – and now, they are proving that in their effort to stop Trump, to “resist” against the GOP, and work back toward their own path of power, they are willing to sacrifice the lives of people in other countries and even risk nuclear war – a possibility that Putin has indicated he is willing to entertain if the United States was willing to take the path that Biden has taken with his recent authorization of long-range American missile use by Ukraine.
Their power is so important to them that destruction is on the menu.
Ridiculous, and dangerous.
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