Democrats are using the Russia-Ukraine war to silence their opponents. By Tucker Carlson.
In this country, virtually everyone understands that the invasion of Ukraine is bad. It’s bad for us and for the world and Vladimir Putin is bad too. So, effectively in America, those are settled facts. We can stop debating them. …
Putin’s badness makes wise decision-making in the United States more important than ever and yet at the same time, it makes wise decision-making harder to achieve. It’s not easy to see the long view when you’re angry. …
Russia has obviously earned our contempt. Most Americans now despise Vladimir Putin, and that’s understandable. They’re outraged, but moral outrage is not enough. Moral outrage is not a foreign policy. …
Our leaders could easily turn this tragic and volatile moment into a historic disaster. They’ve done it before. …
Joe Biden is telling us he will not commit American troops to Ukraine. Biden also claimed he opposed vaccine mandates. So is he telling the truth? Even if he is telling the truth about his intentions in this case, Biden can’t see the future. …
The lefty herd is moving dangerously:
We do know that already many in Washington are pushing for a hot war with nuclear-armed Russia. They’re demanding a no-fly zone over Ukraine. That means American forces would shoot down Russian jets in Ukrainian airspace and also take out radar installations and other facilities within Russia itself. …
Shooting down Russian planes and taking out radar installations would, by definition, entail engaging Russian troops. If Vladimir Putin is even half as evil and crazy as they tell us he is, and he may be, that could easily spiral into nuclear conflict. …
Two former Supreme allied commanders of NATO, Wes Clark and Philip Breedlove are pushing for armed confrontation with the Russian military. … This is the moment when a functioning news media would step in and start to ask basic questions about what happens next. War with Russia, fine. …
You can think of many questions, but reporters aren’t asking any of them. Asking questions is now immoral. Richard Engel, who knows better, he’s the chief foreign correspondent at NBC, is now demanding that American troops fight the Russian army. It’s a moral imperative.
A massive Russian convoy is about 30 miles from Kyiv, the US/NATO could likely destroy it, but that would be direct involvement against Russia and risk everything. Does the West watch in silence as it rolls?
And of course, the answer is implied. We can’t watch in silence. That would be immoral.
If you’re a good person, you will support a war that could very easily turn into a nuclear conflict. Again, this is moral blackmail. No one in America takes pride at the sight, feels anything but revulsion at the sight, of Russian troops within Ukraine. It’s wrong. It’s destabilizing to the world. It is, in fact, against our values, but how we respond is the question. Thoughtfully, has to be the answer unless we’re prepared to risk massive consequences. …
The US left’s domestic agenda:
Democracy is defined, literally defined, by the tolerance of the regime for dissent. But no dissent is allowed. So they’ve pulled RT off the airwaves in Canada, we did that long ago, and that led Mother Jones Magazine to ask this question today: …
Will Biden follow suit and crackdown on pro-Russia disinformation? If he does, U.S. cable companies will also need to scrutinize media outlets like Fox News, whose shows — Tucker Carlson’s in particular — have parodied pro-Russia talking points.
OK, so Putin invades Ukraine, self-evidently a tragedy bad for the United States, and we’re using that as a justification because we care so much about democracy to shut down any news organization, any journalist who questions the Democratic Party?
How corroded have these people become that they’re calling for government censorship of dissent and telling us their defenders of democracy?
You know they want to.
The modern left lives in a fantasy world that makes them feel good, one in which there is no real threat from Russian weapons. Reality is quite different. That’s why it’s dangerous to let them lead in times of crisis.
