The Biden Administration’s Pathetic Attempt To ‘Wag The Dog’

May 14, 2022

The US House of Representatives advanced a bill that would send an additional $40 billion in aid to Ukraine – $7 billion more than what President Biden requested. That raises the total amount of emergency aid issued to Ukraine from the United States alone to $54 billion; $54 billion in US taxpayer dollars. That bill is expected to pass the US Senate in an expedited manner.

With that vote, we are witnessing two things that every American should find disturbing and unacceptable. We are witnessing a kneejerk reversal of declared positions by the Janus-faced far-Left and we are witnessing a monumental attempt to “wag the dog” by the embattled Biden administration.

The Duplicitous Far-Left

As Glen Greenwald points out in his excellent substack, the vote in the House wasn’t even close. Led by every Democrat in the chamber, the bill was advanced to the US Senate by a 368-57 vote. Every vote cast against the measure came from Republicans. This requires some immediate explanation from the likes of The Squad and other far-Left ideologues in Congress who just thirty days ago proudly and loudly proclaimed that flooding Ukraine with financial aid geared to the war effort was poking the Russian bear.

Just last March, US Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), a Squad member, tweeted:

“The consequences of flooding Ukraine with billion dollars in US weapons, likely not limited to just military-specific equipment but also including small arms + ammo, are unpredictable & likely disastrous.”

In February, US Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA), guested on the fascist-Left program Democracy Now, stating:

“I certainly join [House progressives] in the concerns of having increased aid, lethal aid, into that area. That will only inflame the situation...we need restraint, that the last thing the American people want is an escalation which could lead us to some long war in Ukraine with Russia...very few people in this country would want that.”

In January of 2020, the co-chairs of the fascist-Left Progressive Caucus issued a statement saying:

“We have significant concerns that new troop deployments, sweeping and indiscriminate sanctions, and a flood of hundreds of millions of dollars in lethal weapons will only raise tensions and increase the chance of miscalculation. Russia’s strategy is to inflame tensions; the United States and NATO must not play into this strategy.”

And even though US Rep. Cori Bush (D-MO), stuck to her position saying she remained “concerned about the increased risks of direct war and the potential for direct military confrontation,” and even though she called the $40 traunch “an extraordinary amount of military assistance,” she voted in lockstep with her Democrat brethren.

Glaringly absent from the microphones was the brilliant mind of US Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (maybe her teleprompter broke and the committee she fronts couldn’t load the text in for her use), who until the events surrounding Ukraine made Code Pink appear pro-war.

Again, every far-Left fascist in the US House voted to allocate billions of US taxpayer dollars to aid Ukraine, a country that – until Vladimir Putin ordered its invasion – was recognized as one of the most corrupt governments on the face of the planet.

The Janus-Face Of The Far-Left Is Even More So

The kneejerk transformation of the anti-war Left from that of ignoring the acts of totalitarian genocide in the name of “peace at all costs” – Mao’s “Cultural Revolution” (40+ million lives), Stalin’s systemic class eradication (60-170 million lives), Pol Pot’s Cambodian “re-education” (3+ million lives), and the ongoing purge of Western-friendly Afghans under the Taliban (ongoing), to mention just a few – to chief facilitator of the Military Industrial Complex, is blatant in the legislation the far-Left has advance regarding aid to Ukraine.

The fact of the matter is this. Just a small portion of the $57 billion will ever reach Ukraine for use by its government for items they deem crucial. Instead, according to Greenwald’s reading of the legislation, the overwhelming majority of that “aid” – including humanitarian aid – will be channeled through “the coffers of weapons manufacturers such as Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, Boeing, and the usual suspects. Some of it will go to the CIA for unspecified reasons.”

Greenwald goes on to say:

“The extreme speed with which this was all approved means there is little to no oversight over how the funds will be spent, who will profit and how much, and what the effects will be for Ukraine and the world.”

Aside from the intellectual argument that fascists always end up resorting to violence to achieve control over the people, why has today’s Democrat Party so abruptly departed from the political narratives (“no war,” “give peace a chance,” “diplomacy not war”) that have brought them to power?

That’s A Very Big Dog To Wag

In 1998, then-President Bill Clinton was navigating the Monica Lewinsky scandal. His cover-up of untruthful statements to investigators (and the American public) threatened to make his presidency a counter-balance to Richard Nixon’s, which ended in the Watergate scandal.

But Bill Clinton – head and shoulders above his wife Hillary in crafting political strategy, drew from a Hollywood storyline. He “wagged the dog.”

As the storyline of the movie Wag the Dog illustrated:

“To wag the dog means to distract attention away from a political scandal, often through military action.”

Just three days after admitting he had “inappropriate relations” with Lewinsky, Bill Clinton ordered missile strikes against two countries – Afghanistan and Sudan, purposely diverting media and public attention from his sex scandal.

Clinton wagged the dog.

Today, with the exploding US budget, investments suffering because of the Federal Reserve’s spendthrift-money-printing stewardship of the US economy, the federal government in the middle of a hostile takeover of the cryptocurrency sphere, home prices and mortgage rates skyrocketing, gasoline at record highs, our southern border left defenseless, fascists threatening US Supreme Court Justices at the homes, and our country divided as only once before in US history, it can be successfully argued that a “diversion” from the disaster that is the Biden administration would be welcome to Democrats as the Midterm Elections approach.

Add to that the fact that the “ultra non-MAGA” agenda of Biden’s fascist-Left regime is so extreme only a scant percentage of the American people – 18 percent according to the usually reliable Monmouth University Polling Institute – believe the country is moving in the “right direction.” Put another way, 82 percent of the nation – over four-fifths of the country – hates the agenda being inflicted on the people.

As Mr. Biden and his crew have a documented issue with “borrowing” from other people when it comes to ideas they claim are original, one has to ask a question. Wouldn’t now be a great time for the Biden administration to wag the dog so the Midterm Elections don’t produce a veto-proof majority swing to Republicans?

Think I Am Shopping A Theory?

In his ham-handed attempt to defend the President from the niagara of warranted criticism coming his way, 20-term US Representative and House Democrat Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD), 82, took to the House floor Friday twice to say that “we are at war” with Russia; to wag the dog; to insist that it is “inappropriate” to criticize our inept President and his fascist, totalitarian regime because, well, we are at war, don’t you know (insert eye-roll emoji here).