Our country is in trouble!

 Do Americans see what is happening to our country?    We have a president who refuses to lead and make decisions for the good of the country; he is totally political and living in his own world.   A few examples:

1. Our military is being downsized, navy ships, fighter aircraft and ground forces in the face of a rising China threat and Russia threatening us with nuclear war.  Appeasement with a smaller military is a dangerous direction.

2. Energy policy that thinks wind and solar can end the oil and gas industry is naive and dangerous.

3. Open border is also dangerous; drugs and crime increasing and immigrants being spread thoughout the country with no way of knowing who they are. Why don't we go after the cartels and take them down?

4. Government spending out of control;  inflation is coming soon and the president only brags about what he thinks is a growing economy; the opposite of what is  happening.

5. A refusal to enforce the law.   Allowing the protests of SCOTUS judges, the laws on  immigration, and a lack of support for police.   Crime in all major cities is rising with no remedy from the president or his DOJ.   We need a task force( Elliott Ness style) to clean up the cities; it was done once can be done again.

The direction of our country can be turned around by selecting new leaders and adopting aggressive policies not appeasing our enemies foreign and domestic.  It has to happen soon before it is too late.

 The Tragedy in Ukraine

Most Americans have great concern and compassion for the Ukrainian people, but our government is failing to project American power on behalf of Ukraine.    It appears that Putin has convinced our president that we must play by his rules or risk a wider war.   We need to remember that NATO is much more powerful than the Russian military, so we should deal from a position of strength not fear.  We should  put a marker down for Putin and give  him a date when the airspace over Ukraine will be closed to Russian aircraft and be enforced by NATO.   We must continue our shipments of arms to Ukraine and let Russia know not to interfere with humanitarian help.  Finally we can tell Putin all sanctions will be lifted on Russia if he withdraws completely from  Ukraine.   Nobody wants a world war, but we can't let the threat result in a policy of appeasement.   History has shown the tragic results of that policy.

 Another example of appeasement -

We did not learn from the debacle in Afghanistan as evidenced in the decisions being made in the Russian invasion of Ukraine.   We seem to base our decisions on a fear of escalation with Russia instead of exercising American power and let Russia worry about escalation.  We have it backwards.  Some examples:   We failed to support early before Russia invaded, and now we are concerned about our support being taken as escalation by Russia.  Recently we overlooked Poland's efforts to provide aircraft to Ukraine as well as Ukraine's requesting them; all based on a worry of Russia taking those actions as escalation by the US.   Very disappointing to see us act on the wrong assumptions in this conflict and fail to exercise American power and resolve.