{"id":1240,"date":"2022-03-29T09:21:08","date_gmt":"2022-03-29T08:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/malcolminthemiddle\/?p=1240"},"modified":"2025-07-26T10:46:30","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T09:46:30","slug":"biden-and-zelensky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/malcolminthemiddle\/2022\/03\/29\/biden-and-zelensky\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden, Zelensky and the Liberal Left Dilemma"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Once again I find myself having to preface a post by saying that I am not convinced in any direction these days. The media is so selective in what it presents; agendas are everywhere; bias is everywhere.  We have perhaps sadly seen RT news taken down in the west when it would at least have shown us what Russians are being told.  We seem to fixated on having Good Guys and Bad Guys. Zelensky good: Putin Bad. Biden Good: Trump Bad. The West Good: Everyone else Bad!    You get the point.  So as ever here&#8217;s some food for thought, not a settled opinion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;<strong>G. I. Joe<\/strong>&#8221; might just become a prophetic statement.   Pray NOT!<br><strong>Joe Biden<\/strong> hints at American soldiers going into the Ukraine and even responding like with like if Putin uses chemical weapons.<br>Hints of assasinating Putin and bringing regime change in Russia!<br>Careless, off the cuff words? Yes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">American policy? Hopefully not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">A dangerous President at a very dangerous time in history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">He has tried to retract what he said, but that only underlines how confused and out of control he is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Tucker: Biden can&#039;t regulate his emotions\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gsOnnLts-4U?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:28px\">Is Volodymyr  Zelensky all that we have been told or are we being conned by the Western Media?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Good Guy? Bad Guy? Comedian? Serious Politician? Corrupt businessman?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Gravitas Plus: The story of Ukraine&#039;s President Volodymyr Zelensky\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Kn2TCq6R8Tw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">BTW Ukrainians are very similar to Russians culturally.  They are way different to the much heralded modern liberal Western mindset.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In fact the Liberal Left have a real problem with the Ukraine. For years Ukrainians have been described as corrupt, Right-Wing, even fascist, resisting immigration, even denying LGBTQi and gender identity demands. Now they need to be seen as innocent victims with western values. Is that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hashtag\/catch22?__eep__=6&amp;__cft__[0]=AZUGmldNliCbXuXan0S9c6FomAm3sHYQzRspJUH9bXQQPX11kWZWHL29oz3Yopapo74o9RNE0f-1NImOy4IcuAhcyi7RGpHz_ZFSaxN7NpaLmQ&amp;__tn__=*NK-R\">#Catch22<\/a> or what?!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-israel-unwired wp-block-embed-israel-unwired\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"8EgUWblKHr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.israelunwired.com\/candace-owens-perfect-response-after-nyt-reporter-accuses-her-of-working-for-putin\/\">Candace Owens&#8217; Perfect Response After NYT Reporter Accuses Her of Working for Putin<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;Candace Owens&#8217; Perfect Response After NYT Reporter Accuses Her of Working for Putin&#8221; &#8212; Israel Unwired\" src=\"https:\/\/www.israelunwired.com\/candace-owens-perfect-response-after-nyt-reporter-accuses-her-of-working-for-putin\/embed\/#?secret=inREZUxKio#?secret=8EgUWblKHr\" data-secret=\"8EgUWblKHr\" width=\"525\" height=\"296\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once again I find myself having to preface a post by saying that I am not convinced in any direction these days. The media is so selective in what it presents; agendas are everywhere; bias is everywhere. We have perhaps sadly seen RT news taken down in the west when it would at least have &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/malcolminthemiddle\/2022\/03\/29\/biden-and-zelensky\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Biden, Zelensky and the Liberal Left Dilemma&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/malcolminthemiddle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/malcolminthemiddle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/malcolminthemiddle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/malcolminthemiddle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/malcolminthemiddle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1240"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/malcolminthemiddle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1246,"href":"http:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/malcolminthemiddle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1240\/revisions\/1246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/malcolminthemiddle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/malcolminthemiddle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/malcolminthemiddle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}