President Joe Biden has not yet announced his intention to run for reelection, but there is no doubt his surprise stops in Kyiv, Ukraine, and Warsaw, Poland, this week were meant to kickstart his campaign. Video footage from his Monday visit with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky shows the two leaders coolly strolling through the streets of the Ukrainian capital. The sound of distant gunfire can be heard in the background as well as the blaring of … an air raid?
Not to worry. In this little scene, neither Biden, Zelensky, members of the Secret Service, nor even the passersby seemed the least bit ruffled by the sound. The photo-op went on, undisturbed.
According to a White House statement, Biden traveled to war-torn Ukraine to “reaffirm our unwavering and unflagging commitment to Ukraine’s democracy, sovereignty, and territorial integrity.”
Biden also visited Poland, where he delivered an impressive speech. It was quite well written and it was executed with minimal verbal blunders. He may have even meant what he said.
But what’s bothersome about Biden’s trip to Eastern Europe is that his “unwavering and unflagging commitment” to “democracy, sovereignty, and territorial integrity” stops at America’s own front door. He has no problem defending Ukraine or NATO or the idea of a Western alliance — but please don’t expect the president of the United States to make that same commitment here at home.
He told the crowd, “One year ago, the world was bracing for the fall of Kyiv. Well, I’ve just come from a visit to Kyiv and I can report Kyiv stands strong. Kyiv stands proud, it stands tall and most important, it stands free.”
He assured the group, “Autocrats only understand one word: No. No. No, you will not take my country. No, you will not take my freedom. No, you will not take my future.”
Saying “no” to autocrats? I don’t recall Biden saying no when his administration waived Trump era sanctions against Russia’s Nord Stream 2 project.
Nor did he say no to Chinese President Xi Jinping when their surveillance balloon first entered U.S. airspace and hovered over strategic military installations and missile silos. Indeed, he refused to act until after the balloon had already traversed the entire continent.
Likewise, it’s hard to be concerned about Ukraine’s territorial integrity when our own is breached on a daily basis. The Biden administration’s refusal to enforce U.S. immigration laws has resulted in more than 5 million immigrants entering the country illegally in the past two years. Moreover, the dangerous drugs that are flowing over our open border and killing 100,000 Americans every year are coming from China — yet I don’t hear Biden saying no.
Biden’s speech in Poland continued, “President Putin’s craven lust for land and power will fail.” That statement begs the question: What about his own craven lust for government control?
The Democrats’ determination to impose one-party rule in the U.S. has become glaring and total. They no longer even try to hide it. Their progressive agenda has infused every aspect of our society, from corporate America to public school classrooms to the military. Over the weekend, for example, the Department of Defense claimed prioritizing diversity in the branches is “a strategic imperative critical to mission readiness and accomplishment.” Twitter CEO Elon Musk was quick to remind them that, actually, their ”strategic imperative is defending the United States.”
But this is par for the course with Biden’s party. As former President Donald Trump once put it, Democrats have skipped right over socialism and are heading straight for communism. The relentless onslaught of far-Left policies is slowly stripping citizens of their civil liberties and weakening the greatest country on earth.
Biden has made it clear this is intentional. Rather than uplifting U.S. citizens as he did the people of Ukraine, he regularly demonizes half of us as racist. At last week’s White House screening for the new film Till, a true story of a mother’s search for justice following the brutal lynching death of her son in 1955, his incendiary remarks brought him to a new low. The president said: “Lynched for simply being Black, nothing more. With white crowds, white families gathered to celebrate the spectacle, taking pictures of the bodies and mailing them as postcards. Hard to believe, but that’s what was done. And some people still want to do that.”
It’s nice that Biden has vowed his unyielding devotion to the Ukrainian people. But he should save his rhetoric for the people he was elected to serve. He may want to start with the people of East Palestine, Ohio, where a toxic train derailment has left the local community begging for support to no avail.
It’s almost as if Biden has forgotten about a certain oath he took two years ago to preserve America’s democracy, sovereignty, and territorial integrity. Voters, however, have not.
A previous version of this article appeared in The Washington Examiner.
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China? Hardly.
Oath? Biden is but one of a long line of people we never held to the oath they took. That oath was a pledge to someone he has no use for: God. We already knew he had no use for all us citizens. Nowadays, oaths are mere speed bumps for the wicked politician.
My concern is about all us “people” who remember, but have no control over our own votes. That’s the endgame that Stalin laughed about, concerning who counts them.
It’s those consequences we overlooked.