Snowball in Hell: Biden Press Conference

Snowball in Hell

Don Jaffa

The second press conference of President Biden toward the end of his first year in office was a ‘tour de force’ exceeded only by Peter Sellers in “Being There.” With Joe Biden it was a matter of life imitating Art. Like Cherries Jubilee being served flaming, Joe offhandedly remarked, “Oh Putin will probably invade Ukraine,” and in sequence, should have followed with, ‘and tonight we are screening ‘Chamberlin in Munich’ for fun.’ 

 

In my pile of reading was the autobiography of Oleg Gordievsky, a KGB officer who was an MI6 agent for over a decade, who was exfiltrated from Moscow and returned to the UK for debriefing and safe haven. When MI6 revealed the source of the information he had provided, that he was being debriefed in a safe house in the UK, CIA Director Bill Casey immediately flew to a US Air base there and was escorted to personally debrief Oleg. After a bit of introduction, Casey got right to the point;  

 

“If we give the Soviets SDI will they agree to shut down the nuclear arms race?”  

 

Without hesitation Oleg replied,  

 

”Absolutely NOT! They are paranoid and won’t believe you are not withholding some secret part that makes their end not work. You only have the option of competing to make them compete, and they cannot compete with a Free Market economy. They will continue until the Soviet Union implodes.” 

 

Of course that is exactly what happened, and here we are, ‘déjà Vu’ all over again. And it is not merely Putin’s Russia; it is now also Red China. It follows a concise pattern of imitation. In 1970 on a Navy refueling and overnight stay in Taipei, we had an opportunity for some local shopping, and found ‘American’ LPs at five for a single Dollar. Then, on a business trip to Phrishtina, Kosovo, in 2004, with a runny nose and a fever, were able to buy over the counter, a brand name Antibiotic in 500 and 1000 mg tablet size, with the packaging noting ‘manufactured’ in Guangzhou.  

 

Putin imitates Mussolini, believing that NATO, like the League of Nations, to use the Chinese phrase [Zhilaohu], is a “paper tiger.” Putin has used forums like the Organization for Security and Co-Operation in Europe, to demand expulsion of former members of the Warsaw Pact, from NATO, and to guarantee that the Ukraine will be barred from NATO membership. Putin invading Ukraine is like Mussolini invading Ethiopia, and to what end? Like Hitler annexing the Sudetenland and getting Biden, like Chamberlin, to land at home waving a piece of paper and extolling, “Peace in our time!” [With aides frantically tugging his sleeve, ‘you idiot, that is toilet paper!”] 

 

Giving a hypothetical without asserting verity, that the Chinese unleashed the COVID virus to wreak havoc on western economies, especially here in the United States, and that it is to position their economic engine to obtain even greater influence, that such a position would also prove to be advantageous to Putin’s Russia. And that having the impotent and incompetent Joe Biden in the White House serves that impetus for Communist and Post Communist China and Russia. What pressure point would inflame the Chinese to take such covert action?  

 

Donald J. Trump 

 

President Trump put ‘pedal to the metal’ of the economic engine of the US GDP and made the US economy free from importing petroleum, and began encroaching on the oil market for export sales. A second term would have enabled the Trump administration the opportunity to start exporting mass amounts of LNG to NATO countries through Germany, and thereby cutting off Russia from the cash flow from its’ gas pipeline through the Ukraine to the EU. Russia wants the Ukraine because it is charging tariffs for the gas to flow through the pipeline, and keeps increasing the tariffs, diminishing the bottom line Russia needs to keep modernizing and expanding its’ military.   

 

A continuation of that policy would have enabled the export of cheap gasoline and diesel to the EU, which would have rumbled the EU economy into action as well. With price at the pump in the EU already far more than in the US, a lowering of fuel prices would have made more money available for economic development. But the real ‘Dragon’ in that forecast was the possibility that huge supplies of gasoline and diesel could be provided to commercial and ‘free enterprise’ assets within mainland China. The festering boils on the buttocks of the Chinese Communist leadership in Hong Kong, would burst into Gwangzhou Province, and the emerging Billionaires would become, as in the old days, War Lords who control their dominions. 

 

GDP growth reaching 10% would destabilize Chinese Communist Party control throughout mainland China. Eventually, the evening news would have provided video of BLM and ANTIFA like riots in all the major cities of mainland China. Watch the videos, sit back with a cigar, and a bottle of rum, a bowl of ice cubes, and a few cherries for a ‘Cuba Libre!” Which is why a few scared shitless Chicoms paid off Joe Biden and his son, and sent Chinese women to have sex with Congressmen.