As things are unfolding in Ukraine there is one thing that is beginning to stand out to my untrained eye. Is Joe Biden in charge of the military as Commander In Chief? With as serious as the media and Congress are talking about the Russian special military operation in Ukraine, you would think the U.S. military would have a presence. Come on we have been the world police for well over 30 years now.
The War Powers Act, passed in 1973 is a federal law intended to check the Presidents power to commit the United States to an armed conflict without the consent of the Congress. Come to find out the Korea War, never declared, it was a joint resolution between the President and Congress called a “police action”. The Vietnam War was never declared as well. Military action happened as a result of the Gulf of Tonkin resolution. The last time war was declared was June 5, 1942, when the U.S. declared war on Bulgaria, Hungary, and Romania. Since then, the US has used the term “authorization to use military force,” as in the case against Iraq in 2003. (AUMF)
Some other strange cases, Ukraine has asked for air support. The U.S. has offered aid but no military personal. Poland has MIG fighters they said Ukraine could have but would not fly them personally to Ukraine. They flew them to Rammstein Air Force Base in Germany for the United States to fly to Ukraine, weird. As part of NATO an attack on one nation is an attack against all, so who really cares who flies the planes into Ukraine under that directive. The Biden administration has been almost begging any ally to bring force to Ukraine in the name of democracy. None of the NATO allies has been willing to go in to defend.
Here is my take. As soon as Biden took office there was scuttlebutt that he did not get the nuclear football. As warmongering as the United States has been thru its existence, the fact that Biden and Congress has been all about sanctions and no action, surprises me. Come on there is 2016 video of Lindsay Graham and John McCain in Ukraine telling the Ukrainian military they will receive all the support from the United States and they will win. The Democrats have the majority and plenty of RINO support, wouldn’t you be saving democracy, send the troops in. Bring the full might of the United States military against a so called unprepared Russian army. The Ukrainian resistance is supposedly holding it’s own against the Russians. Wouldn’t this end this conflict quickly? What are you afraid of? You folks in Congress and previous Presidents have had no issues sending Americans to die overseas for years. Putin is rattling his saber and you are telling me the best we can do is sanction Russia and sanction them a little more? So Biden are you really in charge of the military?