Speaking in the NBC GOP debate last night in Miami, 51-year-old former U.N. Amb. Nikki Haley slammed 38-year-old biotech entrepreneur Vivek Ramswamy for his stance on China and the Ukraine War. Ramaswamy is the only remaining GOP candidate, wit the possible exception for 44-year-old Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who opposes the Ukraine War and would engage China diplomatically, not with threats of war. “I am telling you, Putin and Presidnt Xi are salivating at the thought that someone like that could be president,” Haley told the debate audience. Haley presents herslf as another warmonger like 80-year-old President Joe Biden who ended decades of diplomacy, détente and arms control with Russia. Haley slams Ramaswamy to saying he would pull the plug on Ukraine funding, largely because it does nothing to advance world peace, in fact pushing for WW III.
Haley reacted to Ramaswamy criticizing 45-year-old Ukrainian President Volodymer Zelensky. Haley seems to think everything Zelensky says about the Ukraine war is factual, buying his rubbish that without the Ukraine War 71-year-old Russian President Vladimir Putin would takeover all of Eastern Europe. Haley acts like Zelensky doesn’t have an ax to grind, expecting the U.S. to pony up billions to pay for his bankrupt government and war with Russia. Zelensky doesn’t worry about WW III or destroying U.S.-Russian relations, he worries only about getting more cash-and-arms from the U.S. Yet Haley acts like Zelensky speaks the gospel when he tells the U.S. and EU that Ukraine defends European democracy. Haley buys Zelensky’s pitch that Ukraine saves Eruopean democracy from a Russian takeover. Ramaswamy doesn’t trust Ukraine because of its past corruption.
Ramawamy doesn’t buy that Zelensky promotes democracy in Ukraine. Haley said supporting a pro-Democracy Ukraine was in the U.S. national security interest. “Ukraine is no a paragon of democracy,” Ramaswamy told Haley. “This is a country that has banned 11 opposition parties. It has consolidated all media into one state TV media arm—that’s not democratic,” Ramaswamy said, disputing Haley’s statement about the U.S. supporting Ukraine’s democracy. Zelensky has played off U.S. Russian hysteria, where many war hawks, like Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), look for confrontation with the Kremlin. Biden’s decision to fund Ukraine’s war against Russia ended U.S. foreign policy since WW II. Halley sends the exact same message as Democrats the liberal press when they slammed 77-year-old former President Donald Trump for trying to get along with Putin.
Haley and Christie talk tough about Russia and China, serving notice that they’d pursue an aggressive U.S. foreign policy. How much more aggressive can U.S. foreign policy get under Biden? He’s already gone to war against Russia and promises to go to war against China, if it invades Taiwan. What are Haley and Christie thinking endorsing Biden’s disastrous foreign policy? Both know that Biden’s oil embargo and proxy war against the Kremlin has fueled the worst inflation in 40 years, driving energy prices through the roof. Federal Reserve Board Chairman Jerome Powell has increased interest rates to the point of pushing the economy into recession. Yet Haley and Christie offer no alternative to Biden’s foreign policy and economic agenda. Haley doesn’t like Ramaswamy because he parallels Trump’s policies when it comes to the economy and foreign policy.
Zelensky has put Ukraine through a ringer deciding to go to war against the Kremlin, rather than negotiate with Putin to end the conflict. Putin offered to end the conflict if Zelensky recognized Russian sovereignty over Crimea and independence of Donetsk and Luhansk. Zelensky opted for war, spending billions in U.S. tax dollars to battle the Russian Federation. He’s lost about 25% of Ukraine’s sovereign territory in 20 months or war and now scrambles to reclaim lost territory, something he’s finding next to impossible. Zelensky won’t admit he dragged Ukraine through a knothole all because he refused to negotiate with Putin. Listening to Haley and Christie, it clear how the liberal press demonized Trump for getting along with Putin, 70-year-old Chinese President Xi Jinping and North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un. Haley and Christie would get the U.S. into another world war.
Listening the debate last night, it’s clear that Haley, Christie and Scott embrace Biden’s warmongering with Russia and China. Trump was a rude reminder that diplomacy is the best way to solve world problems. Biden’s gotten the U.S. into a dangerous proxy war with the Kremlin that leads nowhere other than more death and destruction.. What is Christie thinking when he says he wants to send U.S. nuclear submarines into the South China Sea to intimidate China? Doesn’t Christie know the U.S. can’t afford to open up a two front war, one in Ukraine the other in Taiwan? Trump was unfairly slammed by the media for getting along with Russia, China and North Korea. What are the alternatives to peace in Europe and Asia? Everyone sees what happens when the world is at war with the Russian Federation. If Christie or Haley made it to the Oval Office, it wouldn’t take long for the U.S. to get into WW III in Russia or in China, both avoidable through diplomacy.
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John M. Curtis writes politically neutral commentary analyzing spin in national and global news. H’s editor of OnlineColumnist.com and author of Dodging The Bullet and Operation Charisma.
