Right now Vladimir Putin is battling against internal and external foes that beggar the imagination. He has a war on his flank, NATO arming and training his enemy, the Western world strangling off commerce and trade and a mad general in revolt at his doorstep.
And yet when he speaks to his nation he sounds like this.
Russian President Vladimir Putin addresses the apparent coup attempt by Wagner.
— ALX 🇺🇸 (@alx) June 24, 2023
By comparison we’ve had Biden, Trump, Obama, Bush and Clinton as our leaders over the last thirty years. We are led by men who in at least one case can’t even articulate a complete sentence off a teleprompter. Even Clinton, who was glib, could never inspire his country.
Putin is not our leader. Russia is not our country. But if honesty matters at all, it’s necessary to admit that we are led by, at best, mediocrities and in some cases fools. I don’t envy the Russians their situation. It is beyond dire. It’s catastrophic. And come to think of it, I’m not so sanguine about our own prospects. Pushing a desperate man to the brink who controls an enormous arsenal of nuclear ICBMs is not exactly rational. We could be hearing some very bad news at any time.
But to finish my thought. I wish we had a leader that was half as eloquent, even half as rational. We don’t need a Caesar or a Napoleon. We could use a Pericles but I’d settle for a Washington. Instead we’ve got Joe Biden.
I want to resurrect Reagan. Even as a “Weekend at Bernie’s” mummy he’d be better than Barry, Slick Willie and Joe Dementia put together.
Our leaders don’t represent us at all. All they want to do is replace us. I’ll give Trump credit for trying. The rest of them work for the Global Elite and would be happiest if we all just drop dead.
No, they don’t want that, they need our taxes.
I think they’d settle for the taxes paid by Guatemalan refugees. Fewer questions asked.