Media goes aster 28-year-old Vivek Ramaswamy for statements made as an 18-year-old freshman at Harvard University. Ramasway once went on MSNBC’s Hardball with Chris Matthews, asking Rev. Al Sharpton why anyone would vote for him when he has no political experience. Guess Ramasway could have hit former President Donald Trump with the same question, a complete non sequitur when you consider some of the nation’s most experienced politicians make the worst decisions. Take 80-year-old President Joe Biden, for example, he’s had a ton of experience as six-term U.S. Senator and two-term Vice president. How did that experience inform his decision to go to war against the Russian Federation? Biden has all the experience but the worst judgment imaginable to trash decades of diplomacy and détente with Russia to start a proxy war with the Kremlin.
Ramaswamy gets more attention now that he was the stand out at the Aug. 24 Fox News GOP debate in Milwaukee. Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, former U.N. Amb. Nikki Haley and former Vice President Mike Pence all pounced on Ramaswamy, telling him knew nothing about foreign policy, insulting him calling him a “rookie” and “amateur.” Christie, Haley and Pence blasted Ramasway for opposing the Ukraine War, a catastrophic blunder made by Biden, ending decades of diplomacy and détente with Russia. When American’s most experienced president opted for proxy war against the Kremlin, Biden ended generations of arms control, something demanded since President Harry Trump opened the nuclear age dropping two A-bombs on Japan in 1945. Every American president worked feverishly since 1945 to control the spread and use of nuclear weapons.
So, when it comes to experience, it doesn’t equate with good judgment. Biden says that the Ukraine War prevents Russian President Vladimir Putin from invading the rest of Europe, preserving democracy. Biden knows that NATO, not Ukraine, defends Europe against threats to democracy. Yet Biden claims, with 45-year-old President Volodymyr Zelensky, that the Ukraine War prevents Putin from taking over Russia. Christie, Haley and Pence repeated Biden’s rubbish at the Aug. 24 debate, knowing that war is not the answer to the Ukraine War. All three raked Ramaswamy over the coals for showing good judgment that the U.S. should not give Ukraine a blank check to battle the Russian Federation. If Christie, Haley or Pence got their way, the world would be in WW III, possibly nuclear war. What has all the collective experience done for Biden and other war hawk’s bad judgment?
Media wants to dredge up old statements Ramaswamy made as a freshman at Harvard. How pathetic is that argument? Why doesn’t the media question why Christie, Haley and Pence back Biden’s disastrous Ukraine policy? Former President Donald Trump has promised to end the war before taking office. When Trump was president, he was battered by Democrats and the press for getting along with the Moscow, Beijing and North Korea. Biden, with all his vast experience, has the U.S. at war with Russia and close to one with Beijing over Taiwan. When it comes to North Korea, the world is closer to nuclear war, provoking North Korea’s Kim Jong-un. Trump was criticized by the press for developing a working relationship with Kim, actually invited to cross the DMZ into North Korea. Yet Democrats and the media slammed Trump for making peace with America’s enemies.
Ramaswamy lacks the experience but has showed more judgment than any of Biden’s sycophants, applauding his war with the Kremlin. Not one journalist asks Biden what happened to nonproliferation and arms control now that he funds a war against the Kremlin? How’s the U.S. supposed to return to normal diplomacy with Moscow when the U.S. funds Ukraine to battle the Kremlin? For all of Ramaswamy’s lack of experience, he has the right instincts to know that war in Ukraine can’t end without Ukraine ceding some territory to the Russian Federation. Before the war started, Russia occupied Donetsk, Luhansk and Crimea. Putin offered Zelensky an out to the protracted war by accepting the independence of Donetsk and Luhansk and Russia sovereignty over Crimea. Zelensky opted, with Biden’s full support, to go to war against the Kremlin to reclaim lost sovereign territory.
Pouncing on Ramaswamy, Christie, Haley and Pence know that he captivated the debate audience with fresh ideas on a lot of topics. It’s disgraceful when the primary GOP candidates imitate President Joe Biden who’s put the U.S. on a war footing and sabotaged the economy with a Russian oil embargo, creating the worst inflation in 40 years. Biden has blamed inflation on Republicians, the pandemic, chip shortages and anyone but himself. He doesn’t want to admit his Russian oil embargo fueled widespread fuel shortages, skyrocketing prices and hyperinflation causing economic havoc in the U.S. and over the globe. Ramaawamy resonated with voters because he didn’t rubber stamp the Biden policy like Christie, Haley, Pence and others. What Ramasawamy said 20 years ago is irrelevant, only a smokescreen for Democrats, Republicans and the press pushing Biden’s failed policies.
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John M. Curtis writes politically neutral commentary analyzing spin in national and global news. He’s editor of OnlineColumnist.com and author of Dodging The Bullet and Operation Charisma.
