Thread by @FreedomFriesInc

Biden confirms US to sanction Putin & Lavrov.

It's a huge step & will have some negative consequences for various people, institutions, & countries. Yesterday I urged patience to see if harsher actions would be taken, & I was right (in this matter.)

edition.cnn.com/2022/02/25/pol…

My source for that belief is this guy, who I've been following for some time and esp. in this situation affecting Ukraine and the other democratic countries of the world.

Every question you have about it is answered somewhere on his youtube channel:

https://twitter.com/BeauTFC/status/1497327424731766785

Good to see in Biden's statements that he is *listening* to America's European allies and joining them in their responses to Russian aggression as much as he can at this time. Who knows what the future holds.

I have written many times about the delay in entering WWI & WWII.

As a history buff concerning WWI and WWII I have studied extensively the reasons why the US delayed full entry into both wars.

The US had to learn then re-learn the lesson that collective security is the only way to achieve lasting peace.

In 1949, NATO was established.

NATO is one of the only postwar multilateral institutions that is still functioning as intended, to this day.

The UN is pretty compromised, but it's still better having a UN than not. And it's better than the League of Nations was.

Some NATO history: history.state.gov/milestones/194…

Watching a free country be invaded by a tyrant is painful. But what makes it even worse is that the sacrifices we made in WWII and the lessons we learned then, were forgotten about.

The slogan of the 1939-41 isolationists was "America First."

I did not know this in 2016 when I believed that on balance a Republican presidency would be good for the US at that time. I was wrong. And I hold Republicans responsible for enabling, and ignoring the dangers of, the candidate they nominated.

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From mid 2017 I could see the brainwashing of the far right base within TFG's cult of personality increasing in strength and number. I believed that denouncing them would be sufficient to fulfil my moral responsibility. I was wrong on that, too. I should have denounced all of it.

In about December 2020 I realized exec branch pandemic malpractice had cost hundreds of thousands of lives in the US. That was a sickening realization.

Then in early to mid 2021 I realized TFG, not Biden, had caused the tragedy in Afghanistan. More mass deaths.

Then:

As Putin's journey to destroying Ukraine progressed in late 2021, I started to realize how much culpability rests with not just TFG but with every current Republican leader and media pundit.

The preventable death toll from Covid, the Taliban, & invading Ukraine will be huge.

The US eventually had to enter WWI and WWII because of it's own national security interest. The country is big and strong, but it has an extremely long coastline and land borders. Ocean shipping was the main reason then, and it's still a factor now.

The delays cost US lives.

If the US had entered each of those wars earlier, then it would have been more effective, sooner, and thereby would have saved many American lives, and non-human resources too.

It took 2 years to get ready for D-Day.

This is why I support having a strong military defense (in my country and yours.) And the ability to ramp up the mass production of materiel. Kudos to Rosie the Riveter and everyone like her.

Sanctioning Putin personally is a huge step, that is not without downsides for us all.

All the signs I can see point to the conclusion that President Biden is not just a good leader in this moment, he could end up being remembered by history as an excellent leader in it.

His foreign policy experience is massive.

In 2020, I was wrong about Biden. But I said let's give him a chance, to see how good he will be in the job.

IMO, the criticisms of him are unwarranted. He has the toughest job of any president since Lincoln. I am so thankful he's in the WH right now.