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Mr Biden — You’re Making a Grave Mistake

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3 min readSep 16, 2024

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Not allowing Ukraine to fire the weapons the West has given them into Russia.
You were right, long ago, to have called Putin a killer, but you’re not acting like you mean it.
Day in and day out, Putin continues to drop his bombs and shoot his missiles into Ukraine.
He doesn’t bother to differentiate between military and civilians.
It is irrelevant to him.
He bombs residential buildings, hospitals and energy centers. He shoots and shoots. His point is to kill, to degrade, to humiliate.
And then he adds, ‘don’t stop me because I have nuclear weapons.’
So, tell us, Mr Biden, when will it stop?
The NATO boundary that the West has established does not apply.
Ukraine is part of the West. They’ve earned it with their courage and resilience.
No nation today, none, has shown the courage that Ukraine has while fighting a formidable adversary.
And they tell us, again and again, loudly, ‘we’re willing to do the dying, but we need the right guns. Help us! We must be allowed to hit back into their territory.’
But we’re not giving then all they need.
We sit and listen and find a thousand excuses to not do what we must.
Putin wouldn’t be able to fire as he does without the help of China and Iran. And we still hold back.
You said Putin is a killer but you didn’t say, ‘We’ll stand up to him.’
You have not said that and if you did, you’re acting like you did not and what the hell are we waiting for?
Mr Biden, our…

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