The reality-based left??

Is that your new slogan?

Acknowledging that truth and returning Russian cold warin kind may be the ONLY viable solution.

A couple of years ago Biden said there would be the greatest of consequences if Navalny died in a Russian prison.

Now, he is announcing a 14th round of sanctions directed against Russia ... because the first 13 have worked out so well. ;)

It seems the only course forward at this point is a MASSIVE military/financial aid package for Ukraine coming from US/NATO - and that will merely be to put Ukraine in the strongest negotiating position possible. Time to face reality.

Exactly this... whatever it takes.

Did you perchance see Biden's primetime address to the nation on October 19, 2023? He addressed pressing foreign policy issues including Ukraine and Israel, and it lasted about 15 minutes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YsC5srE1cI

It might be helpful to do another primetime address, but at this stage, what Biden needs to actually accomplish is getting the Speaker of the House to bring the issue to the floor against the wishes of Donald Trump and the Putin wing of the GOP who are against it. If there is anyone out there at this point who doesn't fully understand how Donald Trump is (and always has been) Vladimir Putin's puppet, there is no better time than now to begin paying better attention. Johnson will lose his speakership should he anger the MAGAts, and maybe another primetime speech would go a long way to accomplish moving MAGA Mike to have a conscience, grow a spine and/or some cojones.

Whatever it takes to make Johnson decide to "do the right thing" rather than assuming the role of Trump's and Putin's useful idiot is definitely priority one, with next up being convincing MAGA Mike and the Putin wing of the Party to not close the government because Trump admittedly wants the U.S. economy to tank.

Perhaps the rumors are true that his team is afraid to make him more accessible in fear of him dropping yet another Biden-gaffe.

I don't think they're "afraid" since Biden has basically always been a gaffe machine; they've spent decades learning how to handle that since 1970, and they've been successful so far because Joe Biden has never lost in a general election.

Also, Biden is actually already scheduled to give quite a lengthy speech at the State of the Union Address on March 7, 2024. This one should be interesting since these things lately have become events where MAGA morons like Empty Greene and Lauren "On Her Way Out" Bobo cannot allow themselves to not scream at the president.

We are definitely living in interesting times.

Many of us forget that the president has the power to call Congress into an emergency session any time he damn well pleases.
Given the stakes, I would ask him to consider even that measure.

Bring em on ... 'cause I'm feeling kinda frisky. Heh.

Probably because Chris just wrote a piece about geopolitics! Woo hoo!

Because, as much as I hate to admit it and as much as there may indeed be more cringe worthy moments than is the norm for Biden in his old ...er, younger self ... ahem ... from such an important national address - ad Bidenitum, even - Biden has definitely lost a few steps but none that should prevent him from securing a second term.

Actually, a Biden theme song ain't a half bad idea! Who could we get to write it!?

There is an already worn out saying that anything Trump touches dies.

And, of course, there is a certain ring of truth to that.

I think Biden should stop mentioning Trump, altogether, from here to election day. It's just not necessary and it has already gotten old.

As for an aid package for Ukraine and Israel, I think Biden needs to do a lot more than merely make the case for why the US needs to support both. He needs to have a plan, a strategy for real security in Ukraine and Israel, without which his pleading may very well ring hollow - to Republicans in Congress and to Democratic voters everywhere and everyone else in between. His address needs to be a bit longer than 10 minutes, in other words. :-)

Where, oh where is the man with the plan when you need him!