by B. R. GOWANI
VIDEO/MSNBC
State of the Union report is a constitutional requirement
between 1801 to 1913, a hand written report was delivered to the Congress
President Woodrow Wilson changed that by addressing in person
it is a useless time wasting ritual which serves no purpose
the clapping/rising up/seating back nonsense by half of the members
i.e., from the president’s party, the opposition rarely rises or claps
this time Biden’s viewership was the lowest in last 30 years
Biden beat his own low record of 2021
Biden had to talk about the Ukraine war, he said:
“Folks, inflation — inflation has been a global problem because the pandemic dirup- — disrupted our supply chains, and Putin’s unfair and brutal war in Ukraine disrupted ener- — energy supplied as well as food supplies, blocking all that grain in Ukraine.”
One simple question?
why not end the war?
why sent the Abrams tanks?
why force Germany to send Leopard tanks to Ukraine?
Germany agreed to send
German lawmaker Sevim Dagdele talking to Democracy Now said:
This decision, sending battle tanks to Ukraine from Germany and giving the decision that Poland and others can send Leopard 2 German tanks to Ukraine, is a historic wrong decision. And it comes only because of the pressure, the heavy pressure, of the United States Biden administration, we have to say. Several months ago, Chancellor Scholz, in the German parliament, in the Foreign Affairs Committee, said it is a red line. It’s a line of escalation, sending battle tanks from Germany to Ukraine. That would cross a red line. But the pressure now was too heavy, too strong from the Biden administration to send Germany in the frontline of this war. And it was the pressure of the coalition partners, the Greens and the liberals — they are actually the neocons in this coalition in Germany. They officially said that they would breach the coalition if these battle tanks, Leopard 2, wouldn’t be sent by Chancellor Scholz to Ukraine. That was the problem.
And we are now in a very bad situation, because I think it’s a wrong decision, historic wrong decision, because it’s against the majority of the population in Germany. According to new polls in the last — in the recent days, the majority in Germany is against sending battle tanks to Ukraine. The majority is in favor for more diplomacy, for a negotiated peace in Ukraine.
Sevim Dagdele is surprised at progressives in the US who support the war:
“It concerns me a lot that many so-called progressives in the United States are supporting this line by the Biden administration to push Germany more and more into this proxy war.”
more than 100 member progressive caucus in the US Congress is gutless
if it wanted to, it could have refused to support the US proxy war in Ukraine
the US has the power to stop the war but it wouldn’t
Biden also said:
“And, by the way, every time — every time someone starts a small business, it’s an act of hope.”
such a hypocrite — Biden knows damn well how the system works
most of the small businesses have hard time to survive against big ones
they fail because they can’t compete against the monstrous monopolies
or are taken over by the giant corporations against whom they can’t fight
B. R. Gowani can be reached at brgowani@hotmail.com