Speaking to a fellow Democrat about
Joe Biden being the party’s nominee in 2020,
Obama famously warned, “Don’t underestimate Joe’s ability to f–k things up.”
There is no legitimate claim the former president was wrong about his vice president.
The evidence that he was on target is everywhere, from the border to the economy to the crime explosion on Biden’s watch.
Then there is Ukraine, which offers proof of Obama’s point in a different way.
It shows that even on the rare occasion when Biden gets the big policy right, he still finds ways to “f–k things up.”
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Yet since that impressive start, the president’s habit of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory has surfaced repeatedly.
His serial denials of upgraded weaponry to help Ukraine have been followed months later by reluctant approval, delays that cost unnecessary casualties and territory for our ally.
On artillery, tanks and fighter jets, Biden’s dithering ran counter to the strategy of giving Ukraine sufficient punch to send Putin packing.
Joe’s murky accounting
Moreover, despite the gargantuan cost of keeping the status quo, Biden never expressed any concern that all the money is reaching its intended purpose and is not being siphoned off by graft.
His lack of curiosity comes despite the fact that well over $30 billion and counting has gone to broad categories of humanitarian aid and financial support, with little tracking of where the money actually ended up.
In plain English, that means American taxpayers are paying the salaries of civil servants, keeping the lights on and who knows what else in a notoriously corrupt country.