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Ukraine"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003ELast year, Secretary of Defense Austin claimed that a new strategy called \"integrated deterrence\" would be at the heart of Biden's new defense strategy. Last month, he was talking up a new National Defense Strategy driven by integrated deterrence while claiming that it would prove effective against Russia in the war in Ukraine. Instead the war showed “ID” doesn’t work.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEg1Zcg3hqjBxWIOx6FAI00G7GhBIObroEFu4JFLTjL0qvSwgmm9m_EKffgWRGdxiurao1p2VB6oUerUKI331UNoKrMzm-mCNkbSBSVCd69gg1tSo7h5F3aXD6H6hyeYSbbgHaIniS2271ld9ZarJMTHweT4DIIagrHr3EyEfOY3n_JB6Gopf-Q\/s652\/biden%20car%20frame.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"484\" data-original-width=\"652\" height=\"238\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEg1Zcg3hqjBxWIOx6FAI00G7GhBIObroEFu4JFLTjL0qvSwgmm9m_EKffgWRGdxiurao1p2VB6oUerUKI331UNoKrMzm-mCNkbSBSVCd69gg1tSo7h5F3aXD6H6hyeYSbbgHaIniS2271ld9ZarJMTHweT4DIIagrHr3EyEfOY3n_JB6Gopf-Q\/s320\/biden%20car%20frame.png\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EWhat is \"integrated deterrence\"? It sounds better than leading from behind, which was Obama's version of it, but it’s not too different from the failed approach of the Obama administration.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELike a lot of organizational jargon, \"integrated deterrence\" is a collection of meaningless buzzwords that no one understands concealing the same old thing that dresses up failure as  success because under the exciting new approach, no one was even trying to succeed.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIntegrated deterrence, if you listen to Austin, is everything and therefore nothing. ID is going to perfectly integrate together all military capabilities without regard for service rivalries, combined with all elements of the federal government, and be ready to go anywhere at home or across the globe without any friction or limitations, while also seamlessly integrating with our allies.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOr, as Austin put it during a visit to Poland, integrated deterrence uses “the capability and capacity that's resident in our partners and allies.\" Or, you know, leading from behind.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EID means being \"integrated across our allies and partners, which are the real asymmetric advantage that the United States has over any other competitor or potential adversary,\" Colin Kalh, Biden's undersecretary of policy, had claimed. “Our adversaries know that they're not just taking on the United States, they're taking on a coalition of countries who are committed to upholding a rules-based international order.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAmerica has plenty of asymmetric advantages. Being tied to the Germans and the French, not to mention the awesome might of a variety of small countries that have marginal militaries and no desire to fight is not making China, Russia, or anyone else tremble in their leather boots.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EA rules-based international order has not stopped a single war or deterred any aggressor.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnnouncing that our true asymmetric advantage is that we have allies is just an excuse for dumping the problem on them and then leading from behind. That’s what Biden keeps doing.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd it isn’t working.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBiden’s Pentagon flacks and hacks keep talking up the “integrated” part, but haven’t actually integrated anything and they certainly haven’t deterred anyone.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe “rules-based international order” has not stopped China’s incursions into Taiwan’s airspace (not to mention its violation of its agreement over Hong Kong’s civil liberties), the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan, or Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Had they been unable to defend themselves, they would now be just another conquered province. That is the real lesson here.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat’s the lesson every country, predator or prey, around the world is taking to heart.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIntegrated deterrence saw its first real field test in the Ukraine war. And it failed.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EInternational outrage, condemnation, and even the most punishing sanctions failed to stop Putin. Much as Obama’s previous sanctions had done nothing to stop Putin from claiming Crimea, and as sanctions had likewise failed to do anything but annoy everyone from Saddam Hussein to the Kim crime family to the otherwise bankrupt socialist regime in Venezuela.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"You're seeing us lead with diplomacy. You've seen us work very, very carefully with our allies and partners to share information,\" Austin claimed in Poland.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELeading with diplomacy is appeasement and it works almost as well as sanctions. But, equally important, information sharing has been nearly as disastrous, not only among allies who were blindsided, as with the Poland plane deal, but even within the White House. Much as Obama and Kerry blindsided each other over Syria’s chemical weapons, Biden, his cabinet members, and White House comms people keep contradicting each other about Ukraine and Russia.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIf the Biden administration can’t even integrate its own responses to a crisis at the White House level, what hope is there for the fantasy of a federal and multinational team “all woven together and networked” across all levels and theaters that lies at the heart of the ID fantasy?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Biden administration hasn't even figured out how to crawl and in typical prog fashion unveiled a plan to not only fly, but encompass all space and time with a single thought.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIntegrated deterrence provides a familiar set of excuses for not doing things.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESecretary of Defense Austin and other Pentagon brass are using ID to shift the burden away from building up a military that is ready to fight and win wars over to the State Department and other parts of the government. The deterrence part already signals retreat while the integrated part assigns the responsibility to everyone else including foreign governments and militaries.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhile America’s partners aren’t where they need to be, the massive amounts of money we spend on the military are meant to buy us real offensive and defensive capabilities, not excuses.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E Integrated deterrence deemphasizes the role of the military while focusing on alternatives to it as the solution to conflicts. This isn’t a new idea for Democrats and the Left, it’s also notoriously ineffective. The military can’t and shouldn’t be the default solution to everything, but neither should we pretend, as Biden is doing in Ukraine, that there are a variety of effective non-military solutions to military problems. We can choose to engage or not engage in conflicts, but when we get involved in a war by throwing out useless non-military solutions, we show weakness.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd that makes it more likely that we will end up having to fight a real war.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIntegrated deterrence asks top defense officials and military leaders to act as if non-military solutions are military ones. But just as it’s not the job of diplomats to fight wars, diplomacy is not the work of generals. Yet under Obama and Biden, the military has been dragged into doing the work of diplomats in Libya and Afghanistan even as our military capabilities have declined.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EUnsatisfied with emphasizing appeasement over actions within the White House, the Biden administration’s integrated deterrence is emphasizing appeasement within the military.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWe want generals to win wars, not negotiate with enemies. That absurdity is how Chief of Staff Gen. Milley ended up assuring his Chinese opposite number that he would warn him of any attack. It’s bad enough when diplomats act like this, it’s much worse when generals do.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd yet turning generals into diplomats is what integrated deterrence is built on. Not only don’t we get good diplomats out of the deal, we also get useless generals.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBeyond integrated deterrence, Biden defense officials increasingly champion “holistic” solutions which efface specific capabilities. They insist that America’s military isn’t being weakened, it’s becoming more “flexible” and “responsive”, even as they eliminate metrics for everything from individual soldiers to classes of aircraft. When everything is “flexible” and “integrated”, then nothing actually works because everything is a giant buzzword that never means anything.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt doesn’t matter how well the F-35s work or whether the new fitness standards for recruits amount to anything because what really matters is the unsolvable puzzle, not the pieces.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat is invariably how leftist projects, which are all about the vision, not the details, fall apart.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhen the real solutions don’t come from the mere deployment of force, but emerge out the syzygy of identity politics, inspirational talks about innovation, and emergent integration of everything that military leaders have become obsessed with then battlefield competence becomes a footnote in a progressive vision of tomorrow’s military that doesn’t work today.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd may never work.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EUkraine has shown that integrated deterrence is another in a series of Potemkin villages cloaking the same bad ideas in buzzwords and jargon. ID, in Obama’s familiar line, tries to make a weakness seem like a strength, but in reality it just makes everything into one big weakness.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EDaniel Greenfield\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EFront Page Magazine\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ci\u003EClick\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/2005\/03\/blogging-hara.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ehere to subscribe\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;to my articles.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Ci\u003EThank you for reading.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/414574219163485908\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2022\/04\/bidens-integrated-deterrence-military.html#comment-form","title":"7 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/414574219163485908"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/414574219163485908"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2022\/04\/bidens-integrated-deterrence-military.html","title":"Biden's 'Integrated Deterrence' Military Strategy Failed in Ukraine"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Daniel Greenfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13575285186581875356"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"20","height":"32","src":"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-ywx0Wkms-cU\/Vm75eobzYVI\/AAAAAAAAPg0\/kAlR7rDxOIc\/s113\/picture%2Bnewspapery%2Bsmall.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEg1Zcg3hqjBxWIOx6FAI00G7GhBIObroEFu4JFLTjL0qvSwgmm9m_EKffgWRGdxiurao1p2VB6oUerUKI331UNoKrMzm-mCNkbSBSVCd69gg1tSo7h5F3aXD6H6hyeYSbbgHaIniS2271ld9ZarJMTHweT4DIIagrHr3EyEfOY3n_JB6Gopf-Q\/s72-c\/biden%20car%20frame.png","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"7"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-3321886622329668614"},"published":{"$t":"2022-04-06T01:14:00.000-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2022-04-06T01:21:33.621-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"recent"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Russia"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Ukraine"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Ukraine Demands Everyone Else Boycott Russia While Making Billions From Russian Gas"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Nearly every major American and European company has imposed its own form of sanctions on Russia even if they sometimes consist of pointless virtue signaling for the social justice set.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELego announced a pause on shipments of toy bricks to Russia. Nike has closed all its stores preventing Muscovites from purchasing $75 t-shirts made by Vietnamese slave labor. Airbnb will no longer rent dachas, Netflix won’t allow Russians access to its library of social justice pedophilia, and Blizzard has announced Russians can’t battle orcs in World of Warcraft.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEi4QxnhBunWKomQe8h7EUucWNJv2GWv-OXYTrxQA4YughMgBZiIJm5vVtW13WAPeKKCRoHPhJ4t959y8nBOM9MviCUU6kohIgoggWDIildtY-Q-vcgdosLi6dYf3agUdc9CyYsE7xKO4Fk5txeOV1H_s4Uk425NkTLhjN2tEvVWltIHwtqSZXs\/s961\/image_2022-04-05_221712.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"570\" data-original-width=\"961\" height=\"190\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEi4QxnhBunWKomQe8h7EUucWNJv2GWv-OXYTrxQA4YughMgBZiIJm5vVtW13WAPeKKCRoHPhJ4t959y8nBOM9MviCUU6kohIgoggWDIildtY-Q-vcgdosLi6dYf3agUdc9CyYsE7xKO4Fk5txeOV1H_s4Uk425NkTLhjN2tEvVWltIHwtqSZXs\/s320\/image_2022-04-05_221712.png\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EIt’s unclear that denying Russians access to Disney+ or Hitachi TVs will end the war. The average Russian has less say in his country’s politics than the average Disney employee. And if Vladimir Putin really wants a pair of Nike cleats or a chance to watch The Batman then, like other sanctioned tyrants, he will have plenty of options for getting hold of them anyway.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe sanctions have even escalated into cultural boycotts of Russian artists, performers and writers, including those who, like Dostoevsky, are long dead.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EVolodymyr Zelensky has virtually toured world governments urging harsh sanctions on Russia.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EZelensky demanded that the Senate ban Russian oil imports and revoke Russia's most favored nation status. According to Alaska's Senator Dan Sullivan, Zelensky argued that \"stopping the purchase of Russian oil and gas around the world would be one of the most powerful sanctions possible.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn his virtual session with the Japanese parliament, Zelensky told legislators that it was “necessary to remove companies from the Russian market so that money does not go to the Russian army.” In his abrasive address to Israel's Knesset, the leader of a country that remains a\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/2022\/03\/ukrainian-chutzpah-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003E major trading partner of Iran\u003C\/a\u003E stormed, “Why has Israel refrained from sanctions on Russia? Israel needs to give answers to these questions and after that, live with them.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EA more elementary question may be why is Naftogaz, Ukraine’s state owned gas company, continuing to transport millions of cubic meters of Russian gas to Europe each month.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOne answer is that Russia continues paying billions to Ukraine to transport its gas.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EUkraine earns about $2 billion in transit fees from the Russian use of its pipelines to move gas to Europe. Russia, and Putin’s cronies in particular, obviously make even more than that.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ERussia cashes in an estimated \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.iea.org\/articles\/frequently-asked-questions-on-energy-security\"\u003E$400 million a day\u003C\/a\u003E from its gas exports to Europe.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E$400 million a day would buy a whole lot of Lego bricks, Netflix fees, and Nike sneakers.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Ukrainians claim that they would love to cut off the flow of Russian gas, but the Europeans are dependent on it. And the Europeans promise to build more windmills and solar panels to eventually one day kick the Russian gas habit, but it’s exactly that kind of green nonsense that addicted them to reliable energy supplies from Russia and helped bring on the current war.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMeanwhile Americans are expected to accept higher prices while Ukraine’s state-owned company collects billions from Russia. Zelensky stages Zoom calls with foreign governments accusing them of funding the Russian military if they don’t pull out of Russia while enabling Putin’s regime to make hundreds of millions of dollars a day. That’s a little awkward.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“If Europe continues importing gas from Russia, why shouldn’t Ukraine benefit from it?” asked an expert quoted in a media story spinning the situation.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIf Russia is going to continue to watch bad movies, why shouldn’t we benefit from it?.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe European-Ukrainian hypocrisy has Russia and Ukraine making billions while Americans are expected to shoulder the burden of higher prices on everything from gas to wheat.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMeanwhile Russia’s state-owned energy company is paying Ukraine’s state-owned energy company in “hard currency”.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWithout the\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.pipeline-journal.net\/news\/russian-natural-gas-still-flowing-through-ukraine-europe\"\u003E energy exports\u003C\/a\u003E, Russia “wouldn’t be able to finance the current war, pay salaries to its soldiers and all the crowds currently supporting Putin. It will immediately impact the regime’s support, which is why they don’t want to disrupt this revenue stream,” Naftogaz's CEO said.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWouldn’t that be a more useful form of sanctions than boycotting Dostoevsky?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EUkraine does have the ability to cut off the flow of Russian gas any time it wants. Naftogaz claims that the Russians would just use other pipelines, but then why aren’t they doing it now?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhy is Russia paying billions to a country it’s invading that can be used to finance its defense?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhy would Russia put its economic lifeline and massive amounts of gas at risk by using a country that it’s currently bombing with all the adroit aim of a drunk in a toilet as a transit point if it could be easily replaced? Neither Europe nor Ukraine are prepared to kick their addiction to Russian gas. Putin knows it, which is why behind the scenes business is going on as usual.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe pettiness of the sanctions and the cultural boycotts are a distraction from the reality that it’s easy to pour some vodka down the drain or skip the ballet, but a lot harder to stop the gas.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEurope’s support for Ukraine is conditioned on the flow of Russian gas through the country.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPutin understands that very well which is why he's demanding that Germany and other European countries pay him for gas in rubles. Considering that the Europeans have already paid Russia some 13 billion dollars for his gas since the war began, he's calling their bluff.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMeanwhile Ukraine's energy people keep urging everyone else to boycott Russian energy.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENaftogaz's CEO had told BBC News that Europe \"should make this very clear choice to get rid of this dependency on Russian gas and oil.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENaftogaz's former head met with Senate members and told them that Putin believes that \"the energy supply is so important to the West\" that \"they’ll always be forgiven, that Western countries will crawl back on their knees asking for their oil and gas.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHe’s got a point, but Ukraine has the power to change that. All it has to do is pull the plug.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEurope and Ukraine are asking Americans to make sacrifices while they keep on doing business with Putin.\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EDaniel Greenfield\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EFront Page Magazine\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ci\u003EClick\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/2005\/03\/blogging-hara.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ehere to subscribe\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;to my articles.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Ci\u003EThank you for reading.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/3321886622329668614\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2022\/04\/ukraine-demands-everyone-else-boycott.html#comment-form","title":"3 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/3321886622329668614"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/3321886622329668614"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2022\/04\/ukraine-demands-everyone-else-boycott.html","title":"Ukraine Demands Everyone Else Boycott Russia While Making Billions From Russian Gas"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Daniel Greenfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13575285186581875356"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"20","height":"32","src":"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-ywx0Wkms-cU\/Vm75eobzYVI\/AAAAAAAAPg0\/kAlR7rDxOIc\/s113\/picture%2Bnewspapery%2Bsmall.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEi4QxnhBunWKomQe8h7EUucWNJv2GWv-OXYTrxQA4YughMgBZiIJm5vVtW13WAPeKKCRoHPhJ4t959y8nBOM9MviCUU6kohIgoggWDIildtY-Q-vcgdosLi6dYf3agUdc9CyYsE7xKO4Fk5txeOV1H_s4Uk425NkTLhjN2tEvVWltIHwtqSZXs\/s72-c\/image_2022-04-05_221712.png","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"3"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-8943978512004879965"},"published":{"$t":"2022-04-04T04:02:00.001-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2022-04-04T04:02:00.263-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Israel"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"recent"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Ukraine"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Ukraine Shows Hating Israel Isn’t About the Palestinians"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003EA war is raging three thousand miles away from Jerusalem between two nations that share no borders with Israel, and in which it has no troops, no interests, and no involvement.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd yet somehow the war between Russia and Ukraine has come to be about Israel.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgk_9jbT_7sJdtWCsD7_7X7wZUws5WDUXzaZL40J3SMOx1qlQosvbaZQqy8yARUudTxnVkWtxloiGOrgWT3ZZLaj9mSyQHylOeKXMVJgOMBIYM_JS29Id8-8uplupd80pN0vjSIWoTCk_N64Z2n_SFJMWgqvOlSQSX71Nh1ofso0pi_gaqA_gQ\/s811\/image_2022-04-01_175548.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"544\" data-original-width=\"811\" height=\"215\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgk_9jbT_7sJdtWCsD7_7X7wZUws5WDUXzaZL40J3SMOx1qlQosvbaZQqy8yARUudTxnVkWtxloiGOrgWT3ZZLaj9mSyQHylOeKXMVJgOMBIYM_JS29Id8-8uplupd80pN0vjSIWoTCk_N64Z2n_SFJMWgqvOlSQSX71Nh1ofso0pi_gaqA_gQ\/s320\/image_2022-04-01_175548.png\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\"Israel Needs to Make Up Its Mind on Ukraine,\" a Foreign Policy Magazine op-ed blares as if the Jewish State were somehow a major player in a war between two much larger countries thousands of miles away. It’s as absurd as demanding that the Dominican Republic (which is still larger than Israel) make up its mind on the border clashes between India and China.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"Israel’s reaction to #Ukraine will have bearing on future aid from the US to #Israel,\" Rep. Adam Kinzinger warned on Twitter. Whatever “bearing” it has won’t come from the Never Trumper ex-Republican who is retiring after becoming unelectable. But that hasn’t stopped him, or assorted politicians and media outlets, from threatening Israel anyway.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"Ukraine asked Israel - no bigger fan of Israel than Lindsey Graham - for Stingers, and apparently Israel said no,\" Senator Graham said. \"So I'm going to get on the phone with Israel - you know, we stand up for Israel with the Iron Dome.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe only thing more baffling than why Graham felt the need to refer to himself in the third person is why the senator is demanding that Israel supply U.S. missiles to Ukraine. Isn’t that his job?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDespite Israel delivering 230 tons of humanitarian aid, including bulletproof ambulances, setting up a field hospital, and taking in thousands of refugees, the pressure campaign insists that it isn’t doing enough. And that the war not only involves Israel, but the outcome depends on it.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThere’s notably much less interest in India, a country of 1.3 billion, which buys Russian oil, has close ties to Russia, and refused to condemn the invasion, than in Israel, a country of 6.5 million, which doesn’t buy Russian oil and did vote to condemn the invasion at the UN.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENo matter what the position on the war is, the consensus is that Israel is doing the wrong thing.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, a Soros-Koch project that attacks America for being too tough on China, Iran, and Russia, demanded to know, \"Why is Israel MIA on Ukraine-Russia crisis?\" The outrage at Israel for not being involved enough in the Ukraine crisis is being directed by the same leftist-libertarian group that is warning against America getting involved with articles like, \"Washington Should Think Twice Before Launching a New Cold War\".\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Catch 22 hypocrisy is as obvious as the hate. If Israel is involved in a war, it’s evil, but if it’s not involved in a war, it’s also evil. Whatever Israel does or doesn’t do is an outrage.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe hatred of Israel never had anything to do with the so-called “Palestinians”, the Arabs, Muslims, or anyone in the Middle East. That’s why the same political interests are capable of taking a war in Ukraine thousands of miles away and making it all about the Jewish State.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Ukraine war has trotted out the familiar toolbox of tropes with the insistence that Israel somehow has the ability to resolve a war it didn’t make, even as Israel’s Prime Minister Bennett scrambles around on the impossible mission of bringing peace to people who don’t want it.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThere’s the Holocaust inversion with Zelensky and assorted critics depicting Ukraine as the new Jews facing a new Holocaust, with the Jews now reinvented as the unfeeling bystanders. And that leads to the anti-Zionist contention that Israel’s nationhood is at odds with “Jewish values”.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“Ukraine War Ignites Israeli Debate Over Purpose of a Jewish State,” the New York Times argued, complaining that Israel hadn’t taken in enough refugees after it took in 15,000.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E(The number of Ukrainian refugees taken in by the New York Times is estimated at zero.)\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECompare that to France, which took in 26,000 Ukrainian refugees, despite being ten times the size of Israel. But France, like India, isn’t full of Jews. And so there’s no contention that France which, proportionally took in far less refugees than Israel, should just stop existing.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe magical ability to make any war anywhere about Israel with the same set of familiar anti-Zionist tropes shows that these arguments were never contextual responses to regional conflicts, but a general opposition to the existence of Israel regardless of anything else.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhatever war is going on wherever, it’s Israel’s fault and evidence that it shouldn’t exist.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe media’s attempts to link Israel to the war in Ukraine are often so tenuous as to take on their own form of surreal absurdity. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENPR found it vitally important to write an entire story based around the fact that \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2022\/02\/28\/1083446525\/after-russias-invasion-of-ukraine-jerusalems-putin-pub-is-now-just-named-pub\"\u003Ethere was\u003C\/a\u003E a bar named the Putin Pub in Jerusalem (it's since been renamed). When a media outlet is this desperate to negatively connect Israel to the Ukraine war, the agenda is clear.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E(This is the same media outlet which claimed that it didn't want to report on Hunter Biden's laptop because, \"We don't want to waste our time on stories that are not really stories.\")\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EUkraine’s government has colluded in the international hate campaign against Israel.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EZelensky and his government have berated Israel, exploited the Holocaust and demanded everything from Iron Dome (designed to stop crude rockets shot by terrorists, not a full assault by a world power) and the Pegasus cyberwarfare tool (it won’t stop Russian tanks), pushing for Israeli sanctions on Russia even while his government refuses to stop doing business with Iran.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn the latest bid, the Ukrainian government is demanding security guarantees from Israel, despite the fact that Israel is a country of 8,600 square miles while Ukraine encompasses 233,000 square miles. Ukraine is not only vastly bigger than Israel, it has seven times Israel's population. That's like Canada demanding security guarantees from Cyprus.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut that’s just the ex-comedian doing what he does. In his lecture to Congress, Zelensky invoked Pearl Harbor and 9\/11, when addressing the Arabs, he brought up Syria, while speaking to the Japanese parliament, he called the Russian invasion a “tsunami” and referenced Japan’s nuclear disaster. The shallow formula of namechecking deep traumas in other countries while linking them to Ukraine and complaining they’re not doing enough to stop history from repeating itself has become a trite routine to anyone actually paying attention.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt’s the media’s fault for gleefully weaponizing Zelensky’s pressure campaign and amplifying outright antisemitism from leftists and Islamists who are happily exploiting the narrative.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EContinuing his virtual world tour, Zelensky phoned in to Qatar's Doha Forum. The Emir of the Islamic terror state of Qatar had opened the event by comparing “Palestinians” to Ukraine.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Al Thani scion allied with Iran and Hamas then complained that, \"The accusation of anti-Semitism is now used wrongly against everyone who criticizes Israel's policies.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOr, like Qatar’s Al Jazeera propaganda channel, broadcasts raw uncut antisemitism.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBack home the propaganda campaign against Israel is offset with weapons-grade levels of hypocrisy as bad actors tied to totalitarian regimes berate Israel over Russia and Ukraine.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWilliam Cohen, Bill Clinton's Secretary of Defense, went on CNN to rant to Christiane Amanpour that he was \"deeply disappointed\" with Israel. Cohen (despite his last name, he’s a Unitarian) and Amanpour both have a long history of hating Israel. And taking cheap shots at it.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"Are you with the Russians or are you with the United States and the West? They do have to make a decision here,\" Cohen railed.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAmanpour neglected to mention that the Cohen Group has an office in Beijing, that Cohen serves on the Board of Directors of the U.S.-China Business Council and that his group includes        \"Chinese nationals with extensive experience in Chinese government ministries\".\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Cohen Group also boasts of \"decades of experience working with officials in Moscow\", and \"building relationships with government decision makers\".\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETwo years ago, Cohen was claiming that \"President Putin is going to try and step in and be the peacemaker here” between America and Iran.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“I’m a bit more optimistic that the Russians will come in as a peacemaker,” he \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/01\/07\/william-cohen-sees-putin-trying-to-step-in-to-defuse-us-iran-tensions.html\"\u003Etold\u003C\/a\u003E CNBC.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThis exciting new hatred of Israel is not about Ukraine, any more than the old variety was about the “Palestinians”. Hating Israel is in the end always about one thing and one thing alone.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHating Jews.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EDaniel Greenfield\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EFront Page Magazine\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ci\u003EClick\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/2005\/03\/blogging-hara.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ehere to subscribe\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;to my articles.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Ci\u003EThank you for reading.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/8943978512004879965\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2022\/04\/ukraine-shows-hating-israel-isnt-about.html#comment-form","title":"2 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/8943978512004879965"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/8943978512004879965"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2022\/04\/ukraine-shows-hating-israel-isnt-about.html","title":"Ukraine Shows Hating Israel Isn’t About the Palestinians"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Daniel Greenfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13575285186581875356"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"20","height":"32","src":"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-ywx0Wkms-cU\/Vm75eobzYVI\/AAAAAAAAPg0\/kAlR7rDxOIc\/s113\/picture%2Bnewspapery%2Bsmall.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgk_9jbT_7sJdtWCsD7_7X7wZUws5WDUXzaZL40J3SMOx1qlQosvbaZQqy8yARUudTxnVkWtxloiGOrgWT3ZZLaj9mSyQHylOeKXMVJgOMBIYM_JS29Id8-8uplupd80pN0vjSIWoTCk_N64Z2n_SFJMWgqvOlSQSX71Nh1ofso0pi_gaqA_gQ\/s72-c\/image_2022-04-01_175548.png","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"2"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-8018608680365544210"},"published":{"$t":"2022-03-28T01:43:00.001-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2022-03-28T01:43:00.339-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"immigration"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"recent"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Russia"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Ukraine"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Stop the Russian Invasion of America"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"While the Biden administration is focused on protecting the borders of Ukraine from Russia, some 8,600 Russians have shown up at our border with Mexico since last August.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENot to be left too far behind, 5,534 Ukrainians have also arrived since October.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELast December, two cars carrying 18 Russian migrants tried to barrel their way through at the San Ysidro Port of Entry. A CBP officer opened fire on a Mercedes driven by the invaders.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EYouTube is full of guides for Russians looking to get into the United States through Mexico.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEi-i7OLnCxpdUXsIaoEOJ9Osjwp0moYQbExzDrrufPwCO37EyMsVnjuzS--VpNbWg8VEd7aIleSU2O507qmRKPNJpS1x_aqQqxlpYxC-6oZ_BagWfPC91LCFM_Mu9-dMU_f4vsJn_wDbdd_NezbdvRLzcjakRTZoFtZSEyLdXpSyqULqNaFK_I\/s662\/image_2022-03-27_211139.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"441\" data-original-width=\"662\" height=\"213\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEi-i7OLnCxpdUXsIaoEOJ9Osjwp0moYQbExzDrrufPwCO37EyMsVnjuzS--VpNbWg8VEd7aIleSU2O507qmRKPNJpS1x_aqQqxlpYxC-6oZ_BagWfPC91LCFM_Mu9-dMU_f4vsJn_wDbdd_NezbdvRLzcjakRTZoFtZSEyLdXpSyqULqNaFK_I\/s320\/image_2022-03-27_211139.png\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EIn \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1Pd7m8Rvv7I\"\u003Eone video\u003C\/a\u003E, a man with Asiatic features wearing a Russian Army shirt directs his video to all Russians, describes how he made it to San Diego after a previous failed attempt in which they discussed trying to evade CBP and race to the border crossing, and advises that if you don't leave Russia with a \"commanda\", close friends, relatives, \"like in the army\", it won't work well.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHe suggested that in immigration detention around 70% were Russian speakers, \"Ukranians, Belarusians, Russians, Kazakhs, Kyrgyz.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"Make a decision and make a run for it, in a fraction of a second,\" he advises. \"And it'll be what will be. Even if they catch you, nothing will happen to you.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat ought to be the motto of the Biden Administration’s open borders immigration policy.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat’s why there are encampments of Russians and Ukrainians in Mexico demanding asylum.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDid Putin invade Tijuana while no one was looking? If he tried, a heroic resistance of cartel members with machine guns mounted on Toyota pickup trucks would have sent Russian troops, already suffering from dysentry, alcohol poisoning, and six different kinds of STDs, packing.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHow exactly did a town worth of Russians and Ukrainians pop up in Mexico? They flew there. And they didn’t do it to buy hundred peso Rolexes made in China but because they know that if they come up with a timely sob story about fleeing the latest crisis, we’ll let them in.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd it’s working.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAccording to the AP, of the 8,600 Russians \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/spectrumnews1.com\/ca\/la-west\/news\/2022\/03\/19\/russians-are-blocked-at-u-s--border--ukrainians-are-admitted#:~:text=All%20but%2023%20were%20processed,a%20walkway%20to%20San%20Diego.\"\u003Ewho\u003C\/a\u003E invaded America, \"all but 23 were processed under laws that allow them to seek asylum.\" When Russians invade Ukraine, we send in the Javelin missiles. When Russians invade America, we throw a parade to welcome them in.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOnly four of the Ukrainians who showed up since September were asked to leave.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEvery Russian who shows up now claims to hate Putin. But if loving Putin were grounds for asylum, they’d all come dressed in Putin t-shirts. The Ukrainians, regardless of where they live, including one who came from Uganda, claim to be fleeing the Russians. And they’re all fleeing each other to Mexico and demanding that we save them from each other. Right now.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Trump administration's Remain in Mexico policy was supposed to stop this kind of migrant tourism under which migrants from every single country in the world would fly to Mexico and show up at the border, demanding asylum.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAsylum from what? Mexican sunsets?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDespite the Biden administration's open borders plot, state lawsuits and court rulings led the policy to remain in force. Russians and Ukrainians flying halfway around the world to show up at our land border don’t have a credible fear of persecution in Mexico. They’re gaming the system.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“While Moscow to Cancún is the most common route, some Russians fly from Amsterdam or Paris to Mexico City and then go to Tijuana,” an expert relates. Is there a reason these folks can’t apply for asylum in Amsterdam or Paris? Having reached Paris, aren’t they now safe?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDespite Gov. Ron DeSantis suggesting, 'If (Putin) went into France, do you think they'd do anything to put up a fight? Probably not”, Paris hasn’t actually fallen again. Yet. It’s safe from Putin (albeit not so much from Algerian or Moroccan Jihadists shouting, “Allahu Akbar.”)\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe United States does not share a border with either Ukraine or Russia. Despite that we’re being invaded anyway because the one border we aren’t allowed to protect is our own.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIf Putin wanted to invade America, all he would have to do is fly his forces into Tijuana International Airport (if we don't steal your luggage, it's because your clothes aren't good enough) and have all 150,000 conscripts apply for political asylum. Two days later they’d all be on buses heading around the country courtesy of the Lutheran Immigration Services, the Conference of Catholic Bishops, HIAS, and the beleaguered American taxpayer.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHe wouldn’t even need to bring any tanks. We’ve already surrendered our border and nation.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe AP informs us that one Russian \"narrated his trip from Moscow’s Red Square to a San Diego hotel room, with layovers in Cancún and Mexico City. His YouTube video shows him confessing to nerves after buying a used car in Tijuana, but he says later in San Diego that everything went smoothly – despite two days in US custody – and that others considering the journey shouldn’t be afraid.\" Maybe they should be afraid. At least just a little.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EA few days ago, Biden announced another $800 million in security assistance to Ukraine.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EImagine what $800 million could do on our border. There still isn’t any money to build a border wall. Texas is shouldering the costs of deploying the National Guard to the border. Border personnel are still deprived of the resources they need to deal with the invasion of America.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Ukrainians are entitled to secure their border. But why don’t Americans have that right?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnyone who has a legitimate fear of persecution and requires political asylum can file their requests for asylum. The vast majority of arrivals however are economic migrants. The Southern land border now sees a vast horde of international migrants from India, China, Russia, and every other part of the world who fly into Mexico, rent cars, and drive up for asylum.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOpen borders mean that we share a border with the entire world. And the world is showing up.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMaybe after spending billions securing Ukraine’s border, the Biden administration and some of its Republican open borders allies can give a thought to securing the border of a beleaguered nation being invaded by the Russians and by everyone else. A country called America.\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EDaniel Greenfield\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EFront Page Magazine\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ci\u003EClick\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/2005\/03\/blogging-hara.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ehere to subscribe\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;to my articles.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Ci\u003EThank you for reading.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/8018608680365544210\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2022\/03\/stop-russian-invasion-of-america.html#comment-form","title":"2 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/8018608680365544210"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/8018608680365544210"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2022\/03\/stop-russian-invasion-of-america.html","title":"Stop the Russian Invasion of America"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Daniel Greenfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13575285186581875356"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"20","height":"32","src":"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-ywx0Wkms-cU\/Vm75eobzYVI\/AAAAAAAAPg0\/kAlR7rDxOIc\/s113\/picture%2Bnewspapery%2Bsmall.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEi-i7OLnCxpdUXsIaoEOJ9Osjwp0moYQbExzDrrufPwCO37EyMsVnjuzS--VpNbWg8VEd7aIleSU2O507qmRKPNJpS1x_aqQqxlpYxC-6oZ_BagWfPC91LCFM_Mu9-dMU_f4vsJn_wDbdd_NezbdvRLzcjakRTZoFtZSEyLdXpSyqULqNaFK_I\/s72-c\/image_2022-03-27_211139.png","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"2"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-8382236550285620168"},"published":{"$t":"2022-03-21T02:00:00.002-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2022-03-21T15:59:17.903-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Israel"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"recent"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Russia"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Ukraine"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Ukrainian Chutzpah"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003EUkraine’s ambassador to Israel is not happy. Ambassador Korniychuk has demanded that Israel cut off all business dealings with Russia. Meanwhile Ukraine’s business dealings with Iran rose over 30% and reached nearly $2 billion. Iranian exports to Ukraine increased by 40%.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat means Ukraine is literally financing Islamic terrorism against Israel. And genocide.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEgmN8ysd-wgX-Yb6c2sGmG8fJhm-wO7K0ZW4F2Wf8zBlqdf_DvY988jjBvQIw1QYX1CrsEzoTAilx2VerwHyUxuYBsQvmH0jyw2tnGR5Gy2bEnjvewn-OHEKxpWxzuN8ENXCuVWDydepRbVK-h_zy4K7Cn4nDPPWHsKTmyGufbZH6r0dVBMIRY=s652\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"432\" data-original-width=\"652\" height=\"212\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEgmN8ysd-wgX-Yb6c2sGmG8fJhm-wO7K0ZW4F2Wf8zBlqdf_DvY988jjBvQIw1QYX1CrsEzoTAilx2VerwHyUxuYBsQvmH0jyw2tnGR5Gy2bEnjvewn-OHEKxpWxzuN8ENXCuVWDydepRbVK-h_zy4K7Cn4nDPPWHsKTmyGufbZH6r0dVBMIRY=s320\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EIs Ukraine ready to stop all business dealings with Iran in exchange for Israel ending its business dealings with Russia? Don’t be silly. These demands only go one way.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EUkraine's President Zelensky has repeatedly invoked the Holocaust in the influence campaign against the Russian invasion of his country. “What is the point of saying ‘never again’ for 80 years, if the world stays silent when a bomb drops on the same site of Babyn Yar?” he tweeted.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EA better question might be why is a country whose people were responsible for much of the killing of Jews at Babi Yar is shamelessly appropriating the Holocaust for its propaganda.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEspecially since Ukraine, like Russia, continues to finance the modern genocide of Jews.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDuring the Holocaust, Ukrainian nationalists participated in large numbers in the massacres of Jews. Including at Babi Yar. Rather than feel any sense of shame for this, Bandera and his thugs, who were responsible for the murder of tens of thousands of Jews, are national heroes and continue to be celebrated in Ukraine. Including by Zelensky.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"Stepan Bandera is a hero for a certain part of Ukrainians, and this is a normal and cool thing. He was one of those who defended the freedom of Ukraine,\" Zelensky argued a few years ago.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EYou can wrap your cause in the Holocaust or celebrate Bandera, but you can’t do both.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“Addressing all the Jews of the world: Don’t you see why this is happening? That is why it is very important that millions of Jews around the world do not remain silent right now,\" Zelensky recently demanded in a speech that was helpfully translated into Hebrew by his office.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhat is happening in Ukraine is wrong, but it is not genocide. Unlike Nazi Germany and its Ukranian nationalist allies, the Russians are not marching tens of thousands of Ukrainian men, women, and children, stripping them, shooting them, and throwing them into pits. Nor, like Ukraine’s Iranian trading partners, is Russia plotting to drop nuclear bombs on its cities.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EConsidering the centuries of actual massacres of Jews by Ukrainian national heroes like Bogdan Chmelnitsky, Simon Petlura, and Stepan Bandera, (who have streets and medals named after them) the willingness of Israel to quickly rush aid and provide political support to Ukraine ought to be appreciated. Especially since it’s another wholly one-sided relationship.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIsrael voted in support of Ukraine at the UN despite the fact that Ukraine has repeatedly voted against the Jewish State and in support of the terrorists trying to kill Jews.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E'President Zelensky does feel a \"special emotion for Israel because his mother is Jewish,\" but that feeling has to be reciprocal,\" Ambassador Korniychuk was quoted as saying.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EReciprocal? What exactly have Zelensky and Ukraine done for Israel?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELast year, a Ukrainian emissary suggested that if Israel were to provide his country with its defense demands, then it might agree to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat’s about it.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEh3yXz6YAou4z5_C6MTDkIaxD4JlKnLBS3yqiGnRZLKPPZgUnO3tJSJlwJohfvZ39g7CS49XQbmutSmNuJM7D-2sh0P1d4q23QVwYO120ethr74829SF02a8mUBhGf8awblHck6acq0WhRt6veTdYbPyu5Z5XbmjfxHVp__T__SkSJe2P9PCDU=s945\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"561\" data-original-width=\"945\" height=\"190\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEh3yXz6YAou4z5_C6MTDkIaxD4JlKnLBS3yqiGnRZLKPPZgUnO3tJSJlwJohfvZ39g7CS49XQbmutSmNuJM7D-2sh0P1d4q23QVwYO120ethr74829SF02a8mUBhGf8awblHck6acq0WhRt6veTdYbPyu5Z5XbmjfxHVp__T__SkSJe2P9PCDU=s320\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EPresident Zelensky and Ambassador Korniychuk complain that Israel hasn’t been vocal enough in its opposition to Russia. When Israel was at war, how vocal was Zelensky?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhen Israel was last under attack, Zelensky tweeted, \"The sky of #Israel is strewn with missiles. Some cities are on fire. There are victims. Many wounded. Many human tragedies. It is impossible to look at all this without grief and sorrow. It is necessary to stop the escalation immediately for the sake of people's lives.\" Passive voice. No specific condemnation.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EInstead of showing appreciation for the fact that Israel has gone out on a limb to support a country that is not an ally, but has repeatedly opposed Israel at the UN, and has extensive trade ties to Iran, Korniychuk has escalated his demands and tirades against the Jewish State.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAmbassador Korniychuk has repeatedly berated Israel and Israelis for not doing enough. The latest acts of chutzpah include Korniychuk pushing the Israeli High Court to overrule a decision by the Israeli government on accepting Ukrainian migrants without any quotas, and demanding that the Israeli Knesset convene specifically to listen to a Zelensky speech.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPresident Zelensky is entitled to make the best possible case for his country. Ukraine is suffering from an invasion that threatens its national existence and it’s understandable that its government is frantically trying to push every possible button to avert that catastrophe.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWar propaganda is an exchange of lies. And we have witnessed Putin and Ukraine hurl accusations of Nazism at each other when in reality both sides collaborated with the Nazis. Both sides likewise insist that the other is part of a vast conspiracy and their defeat will lead to WWIII.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe cold hard reality is that both sides are spewing as many crazy lies as they can to win a war.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETwo ex-Soviet countries with little going for them except energy resources are using their broken ex-Soviet militaries to fight over who gets the profits from those energy resources.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt’s entirely reasonable to sympathize with the Ukrainians who have been invaded.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Biden administration has chosen to express that sympathy by making it clear that we will not intervene militarily, but will pile on economic sanctions. That’s a move likely to inflict maximum economic pain on Americans with a minimal military impact on Russia. That’s convenient for Biden who can blame Putin for the disastrous economic situation in America without having to risk American casualties and the domestic political fallout from a war.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIsrael’s best bet however is to just stay out of a mess that really does not involve it.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EZelensky happens to be of Jewish descent. A number of close allies of Putin also happen to be Jewish. That’s every bit as significant as the fact that both Trump and Clinton’s children have Jewish spouses. Or that China's only non-Chinese general was General ‘Two Gun’ Cohen.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt’s possible to admire Zelensky’s doggedness in the face of a massive invasion without bowing to him as a moral authority. He’s a very effective advocate for his country. And, like many people of Jewish descent who participate in antisemitic movements, he’s managed to reconcile the conflict by putting Ukraine first and mobilizing his Jewish ancestry in its defense.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMuch as Jewish leftists do with Muslim terrorism, or Jewish sympathizers who join far-right movements, Zelensky has puts his ‘Jewishness’ at the service of antisemites. And, unlike his willingness to embrace personal risk during the conflict, there’s little admirable about that.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EUkraine has no historical claim on Israel’s sympathy. And only liberal Jews with no sense of history who know their great-grandparents came from Ukraine, but don’t know why they got the hell out would think otherwise. And there’s certainly no reciprocal alliance worth mentioning.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPutin’s Russia and Ukraine are both close trading partners of Iran. In addition, Russia supplies weapons and support for Iran. Both repeatedly vote against Israel at the UN. Both have an ugly history when it comes to Jews. They’re not allies or friends, they are at best friends of enemies.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPrime Minister Bennett’s foolish attempts at acting as if he can mediate between Russia and Ukraine have done nothing to help either end the conflict or improve Israel’s image.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhen Ukrainians\u0026nbsp;were surveyed at the\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/international\/article-689678\"\u003E end of last yea\u003C\/a\u003Er, 71% said that they did not support either side in the conflict between Israel and Iran. And there’s nothing surprising about that. Different countries with no shared borders, values, or interests don’t have to support each other.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe same is true for Israel in the conflict between Russia and Ukraine.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EDaniel Greenfield\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EFront Page Magazine\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ci\u003EClick\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/2005\/03\/blogging-hara.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ehere to subscribe\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;to my articles.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Ci\u003EThank you for reading.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/8382236550285620168\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2022\/03\/ukrainian-chutzpah.html#comment-form","title":"8 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/8382236550285620168"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/8382236550285620168"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2022\/03\/ukrainian-chutzpah.html","title":"Ukrainian Chutzpah"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Daniel Greenfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13575285186581875356"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"20","height":"32","src":"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-ywx0Wkms-cU\/Vm75eobzYVI\/AAAAAAAAPg0\/kAlR7rDxOIc\/s113\/picture%2Bnewspapery%2Bsmall.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEgmN8ysd-wgX-Yb6c2sGmG8fJhm-wO7K0ZW4F2Wf8zBlqdf_DvY988jjBvQIw1QYX1CrsEzoTAilx2VerwHyUxuYBsQvmH0jyw2tnGR5Gy2bEnjvewn-OHEKxpWxzuN8ENXCuVWDydepRbVK-h_zy4K7Cn4nDPPWHsKTmyGufbZH6r0dVBMIRY=s72-c","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"8"}}]}});