Absolute disgust. It is one thing to hear media pundits and reporters say that the Ukrainian people should lay down their arms rather than fight against a superior military force. To hear United States military officers like Lieutenant Colonel Daniel Davis, say the same thing is more than troubling. I guess he is representative of the new American military that is more concerned with diversity and equity rather than the ability to defend freedom.

To be sure not all military men and women agree with Davis. It’s bad enough that so many Americans would choose living under tyranny as opposed to fighting for liberty and possibly dying, but when our military men and women express the same opinion, our nation is in real trouble. And so is the world.

Maybe the good Colonel has forgotten what a bunch of goat herders did to the two most powerful military forces in the world. I blame the military leadership and the politicians for those failures not the men and women whose boots were on the ground, whether those failures were in Afghanistan or Vietnam.

Maybe he has also forgotten what a bunch of farmers and merchants with muskets did to the most powerful army the world had ever seen. Given the state of our education system maybe he was never taught the history of the Revolutionary War.

Ukrainian President Zelenskyy is doing what a freedom loving leader should do; he is standing beside his fellow citizens with the odds stacked against them and choosing to fight rather than become slaves to a Russian dictator. Kudos to the Ukrainian citizens willing to take up arms and defend their country. It is something that used to be reflected in the public discourse in America but now, not so much.

And in America Joe Biden is making Jimmy Carter look like a hawk. Biden could be hitting Russia hard with economic sanctions that would destroy the ruble and the oil/gas industry in Russia. Joe Biden could open the U.S. pipelines and drilling to make us a net exporter of oil/gas once again. That would ease the pain at the pump felt by the EU and the American people. It would ease inflation. The fact that he’s not doing any of that proves he either doesn’t know what he’s doing or doesn’t care. Maybe both.

But he’s using this war to take the focus off his failed policies at home. But he is sacrificing personally. Hunter won’t be able to launder his money through the Ukraine for a while. I guess Joe will have to live off what he and Hunter have saved over the last 30 years.