Putin went into Crimea and eastern Ukraine in 2014 and again into all of Ukraine in 2022 — while mysteriously bookending the four invasion-free Trump years.


and hid the origins of, a vi- rus that destroyed the U.S. economy and undermined our entire culture. Thousands of Chinese are here mostly to aid in expropriating U.S. techni- cal expertise. Add in the Uyghurs and the


DEADLY A Russian infantry column was left in smouldering ruins after being ambushed on a residential street in the city of Bucha by Ukrainian defenders.


they there to protect the Nord Stream 2 pipeline from Russian attack? To reward Germany for spending less than 2% on de- fense?


CHINA For five years Americans were obsessed not just with Putin, but the left-wing myth that Russians were under all our beds — the tattooed, gap-toothed cruddy villains of Hollywood movies, the supposed satanic colluders of the Steele dossier, the nefari- ous bankers who stealthily com- municated at night with the White House. So we voluntarily gave up the


old Russian triangulation card when we once played dictato- rial China off against dictatorial Russia. The Kissingerian principle


dictated that neither of the two should ever become closer to one another than either is to us. We gave all that up and instead hung on every word for two years of Bob Mueller, James Comey, and the lunatics at CNN. Meanwhile, China birthed,


now vanquished Tibet, and China outdoes even Putin in its human rights atrocities. If Ukraine falls, Taiwan will be the third nation that the West “lost” during the Biden ad- ministration.


LEFT-WING MANIA On cue, an embarrassed left now offers some surreal takes on why Putin went into Crimea and eastern Ukraine in 2014 and again into all of Ukraine in 2022 — invasion-free years un- der President Donald Trump. We are told that hiatus was


because Putin got all he want- ed from Trump and rewarded him by not invading any of his neighbors.


REALLY? Were Vladimir Putin and his advisers more or less delight- ed that their poodle Trump thankfully flooded the world with price-crashing oil? They were thankful Trump at least had killed Russian mercenar- ies in Syria? Was he thrilled that Trump


sold once-taboo U.S. offensive weapons to Ukraine? Did the Kremlin grow ec-


static when Trump upped the U.S. defense budget? And was Russia especially


thankful that Trump jaw- boned NATO into spending another $100 billion on de- fense?


BIDEN Joe threatened the toughest sanctions in history that on Wednesday would deter an in- vasion and by Saturday were never meant to at all. But Biden promises some-


day a “conversation” to decide whether at some time he still will issue the toughest sanc- tions in history. Until then, he invites


Ukrainian President Volody- myr Zelenskyy safe passage out of Kyiv — the quickest way to destroy the dogged Ukrai- nian resistance. Left unsaid are the years of


rapacious Biden family profi- teering in Ukraine, a decade of leftist passive-aggressive love and hate of Russia, from obsequious reset to greedy Uranium One to pathetic “tell Vladimir . . .” to unhinged ve- toing of sanctions against the Nord Stream 2 pipeline. What a crowded road to


Kyiv.


This article first appeared at American Greatness (amgreatness. com). Copyright 2022 The Center for American Greatness. Reused with permission.


Victor Davis Hanson is a distinguished fellow of the Center for American Greatness, an American military historian, columnist, a former classics professor, and scholar of ancient warfare.


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