“Will no one rid me of this meddlesome priest?” is a quote attributed to Henry II of England preceding the death of Thomas Becket, the Archbishop of Canterbury, in 1170. Upon hearing the King utter these words his henchmen assassinated the Archbishop. believing that was his intent.
The New York Post observes —
President Joe Biden’s call-to-arms speech in Poland was long on soaring rhetoric about the virtues of democracy but woefully short on what more the West will do to help Ukraine defeat the Russian invasion. But by the time he got to the finish, most of that was forgotten.
What mattered most and what will be remembered for a long time was a single line the president of the United States said about the president of Russia: “For God’s sake, this man cannot remain in power.”
In the context of the speech and the slaughter of Ukrainian civilians, it’s impossible to understand that line as anything other than a call for regime change, a move that would dramatically raise the stakes with Russia at a time when Biden has been at pains to lower them.
It also raises the question of whether toppling Putin, a subject never before mentioned by the White House, is suddenly the new policy of the United States and NATO.
Shortly after the speech, a Biden aide told pool reporters that “the president’s point was that Putin cannot be allowed to exercise power over his neighbors or the region. He was not discussing Putin’s power in Russia, or regime change.
Who do take us for? No one is ignorant of previous documented presidential history in this regard. Do they expect us to believe previous presidents never ordered the assassinations of these individuals either ?
For formal conformation of these “targeted killings” see the US Senate Hearings below:
NOVEMBER 20 (legislative day, NOVEMBER 18), 1975
12:22 pm on March 27, 2022
