As we watch the Ukrainian resistance hold off the Russians, the fifth-largest army in the world, the western world watches #TheBidenShow. One can only wonder how much time Ukraine has to secure sufficient assistance to run the Russians out of their country? The Ukrainians beg for Mig fighter planes; the U.S. refuses. Putin allies himself with China which undercuts the full strength of U.S. sanctions and helps forge a dark alliance against freedom. China steals U.S. technology while U.S. companies rely on China’s enslaved Weighers for greater profits. The U.S. refuses to tap its oil and gas reserves, the largest in the world, yet it begs terrorists’ states to produce the oil the U.S. needs to operate. The U.S. is willing to sacrifice the nation’s security to advance its utopian vision of an environmental paradise.
Watching the insanity take place lets the world observe the contrast in leadership between Ukraine, the United States, and Canada. Ukraine is fortunate, in its time of crisis, it has bright, brave leaders, who step up at a critical moment to fight for freedom. The western world has leaders unable to act but very able to shout their “importance” to the world.
The first comparison is between Kira Rudik, a member of the Ukrainian Parliament, and Alexandra Ocasio Cortez (“AOC”), a U.S. member of Congress. The second comparison is between Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the president of Ukraine, and Joe Biden, president of the United States, and Justin Trudeau, prime minister of Canada.
Kira Rudik was awakened at 5 a.m. by the Russian bombing of Kyiv on the morning of February 24, 2022. She took her family to a bomb shelter but left at 9 a.m. to attend a meeting of the Parliament to vote on imposing Marshall Law to protect Ukrainians from the bombing. After the vote, she went to the army’s warehouse, where she picked up a Kalashnikov automatic rifle to defend her country.
Later in the day, she was interviewed and asked about being on the Russian’s “hanging list.” She acknowledged the Russians wanted to hang her, president Zelenskyy and other parliamentarians on the same street. She noted in the interview; however, she had to support the Ukrainian Army and people. “Leaders must show people how to act. I am not going anywhere; I am self-armed.”
Compare Kira Rudik’s bravery to AOC hiding, barricaded in her bathroom, during the January 6, 2021 riot at the U.S. Capitol. AOC was not at the Capitol during the riot. She was in a House of Representatives Office Building about a third of a mile away.
After AOC’s many interviews of her “near-death experience,” in her barricaded bathroom, Representative Katie Porter revealed”
“…that during the riot, Ocasio-Cortez walked into her office, didn’t stop to speak to her, and just began opening cabinet doors.
‘I was like, ‘Can I help you?’ Like, ‘What are you looking for?’” Porter shared during an MSNBC appearance.
‘I’m looking for where I am going to hide,’” Ocasio-Cortez reportedly responded.
Porter said she tried to calm AOC down, saying that she was a mom and had plenty of supplies in the office to sustain them.
She [AOC] said, ‘I hope I get to be a mom. I hope I don’t die today,'” according to Porter, who works next door to Ocasio-Cortez….”
Before AOC’s “fear of death” from a protest, she was very outspoken about the need for protests on Twitter. AOC emphasized, “The whole point of protesting is the make ppl uncomfortable… To folks who complain, protests’ demands make others uncomfortable…that’s the point.” Tough talk from a member of Congress who hides in a bathroom during a moment she believed democracy was at risk.
Now turn to national leaders, presidents, and a prime minister.
Ukraine’s president Zelenskyy is staying in Ukraine to lead the resistance, knowing if captured, he would be the first to be hanged by the Russians. His family would be second. Bravely, he told the nation by video; he would not leave and stay to defend the country. The United States offered to extract Zelenskyy from Kyiv, but he immediately refused to leave, stating: “The fight is here. I need ammunition, not a ride.”
Sadly the “big-time leaders” in Canada and the U.S.become invisible when the slightest adversity arises.
During the recent truckers’ peaceful protest in Ottawa, Canada, trying to find Prime Minister Trudeau was as difficult as finding “Waldo.” A trucker identified as Harold Jonker told BBC the reason for the protests. “We want to be free, we want to have our choice again, and we want hope – and the government has taken that away.” Responding, while surrounded by his security detail, Trudeau “bravely” taunted the truckers characterizing their rhetoric as hateful, violent, and disrespectful. He also called them racists and fascists; however, he chose not to go anywhere near the protests. As the protests gained momentum, Trudeau and his family fled Parliament Hill to hide in an undisclosed, secure location, where he felt safe.
The U.S. president however, doesn’t need to be confronted by protests, let alone a war, to go into hiding. Biden is mostly in hiding, so the public cannot observe his inability to lead the nation. In Biden’s first year in office, he spent 73 days at his home in Delaware, another 16 days at his beach house, and 37 days at Camp David. And, when in D.C., Biden does not use the White House for meetings. He uses a digital view of the Rose Garden to read from a teleprompter to have the public believe he knows what he is doing. Biden is ridiculed for using a “literal game show set.” Jack Posobiec, a commentator, called it the “Truman Show Presidency,” adding that “they gave Joe Biden a playschool desk and a fake Oval Office in a fake White House.”
This is the same Joe Biden who “spent months of his presidential campaign safely ensconced in his basement, communicating to the country via a television camera. Biden even delivered his convention speech to a near-empty room in Delaware.”
President Biden will never be caught off-guard by protesters, an angry mob, the press corps, or ordinary citizens. His staff produces “#The Biden Show,” in which he stars as an invisible president that wraps the spirit of our nation in fearful dark.
William L. Kovacs has served as senior vice-president for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, chief counsel to a congressional committee, and a partner in law D.C. law firms. His book Reform the Kakistocracy is the winner of the 2021 Independent Press Award for Political/Social Change. His second book, The Left’s Little Red Book on Forming a New Green Republic, quotes the Left on how it intends to control society by eliminating capitalism, people, and truth.
