Former National Security Advisor John Bolton has blasted President Biden over Ukraine’s stalling counteroffensive in an op-ed for The Wall Street Journal that was published on Sunday.
While Ukraine has received tens of billions of dollars worth of weapons from the US, a scale of aid not seen since the post-World War II Marshal Plan, the notoriously hawkish Bolton said Biden wasn’t doing enough and blamed the president’s “hesitancy” for Ukraine’s inability to break through Russia’s defenses.
“Ukraine’s offensive failures and Russia’s defensive successes share a common cause: the slow, faltering, nonstrategic supply of military assistance by the West,” Bolton wrote.
Bolton said the administration was too concerned about the risk of escalation. “The serial debates over whether to supply this or that weapons system, the perpetual fear that Russia will escalate to war against the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, and occasional Kremlin nuclear saber-rattling have instilled a paralyzing caution in Western capitals,” he wrote.
Bolton described Biden’s fueling of the proxy war in Ukraine as “timid” and “haphazard” and blamed the president for the growing public opposition to the policy. A recent CNN poll found that 55% of Americans are opposed to additional spending on the war.
Bolton also criticized the administration’s sanctions policy, arguing that they weren’t being properly enforced. He also called for the US to start sanctioning China over its relationship with Russia.
Echoing the more hawkish members of the Biden administration, such as Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Bolton warned against a ceasefire and negotiations. He said the US needs to garner more public support for the proxy war and keep fueling the conflict.
“The White House must make midcourse corrections to its strategic errors of the past 18 months if it’s to bolster domestic US support for Ukraine and revitalize and broaden the anti-Russia coalition. It’s time to get moving,” he wrote.
Bolton should be roasted on a spit. Re his service during Vietnam during which he joined the National Guard/Reserve: “I confess…no desire to die in a Southeast Asian rice paddy.” So, a faux warrior egging on others to die on his behalf. A lifelong political insider.
Amen!
Seems to be a common theme among the elites, Clinton, Cheney, Baby Bush, Bolton and so many others that have no problem starting wars and sending your kids off to die, but they and their offspring are too important to send off to a foreign land to get killed or come back missing limbs, etc. If there is an afterlife, they should go to the head of the line as Satan spreads his wings to welcome them to hell.
Daddy Bush too.
Poppy Bush was a WWII, carrier-based Navy pilot who flew combat missions in the Pacific. He was shot down in an attack on Japanese forces. Both of his fellow crew members died but Bush was rescued. He was awarded — checking — the Distinguished Flying Cross.
See above. Or below, wherever it ends up.
Yea, although he did serve. In fact, he took a plane down into the ocean. Where’s a Great White Shark when you need one?
Sorry man, I misread your comment. For some reason I had “starting wars” only on my mind. I stand corrected.
We call that hypocracy.
Bolton the blowhard should be stuffed into a howitzer shell and fired.
Nah, just conscript him off of the street like they do in Ukraine and send him to the frontline.
But a Howitzer would get him there so much faster!
He deserves knowing the fear and trench experience. A howitzer is too humane for a demon of death.
All of the war hawks can spend all eternity screaming at each other about how they should have been more hawkish than the other war hawks—that they should have just dropped a few more bombs sooner, supplied x or y group with a few thousand more guns, or pulled just one or two more coups.
Let them choose hell, they’ll probably like it better there anyway.
In-between the occasional stories admitting that this is going even worse for Ukraine than we thought, western media defaults back to alternating between it’s two comfortable narratives: Russian atrocities and Ukraine marching forward. Failure from not being hawkish enough…? Bolton is still starkly off-message admitting American hawkishness isn’t always a resounding success. Thanks for breaking the propaganda, Bolt-on.
Bolton is the sickest of the sick. Angry Exceptionalist psycho.
Big competition with Nuland.
Bolton vs Nuland …. The Cage Fight Of The Century!
And it can’t end until BOTH are dead.
LOL
Bolton is doing Biden a favor – raving suicidalists let the liberal warmongers picture themselves as reasonable, and will scare dissenters back into the ‘sensible mass bloodletting’ fold.
John Bolton, man of granite. One block between his ears and one block in the center of his chest.
Bring it on, Bolton, you total retard. Commit US/NATO troops to Ukraine.
Escalate all you want. It’s exactly what Moscow wants.
The Russian military is only operating at 20-25% and can ratchet things up at will. I’m sure that they will enjoy imposing yet further humiliation on NATO, and in particular would take delight annihilating any US troops stupid enough to enter the battle.
Where did you get the idea that Kremlin wants escalation? Everything they’ve been doing (or not doing) is showing direct opposite. They are certainly ready for any escalation.
They don’t want escalation. But if the west follows Bolton’s recommendation and escalates, Moscow would welcome the opportunity to destroy American soldiers.
It will be a sad, sad day when John Bolton’s black heart stops beating. Sad day …..
He could speed it up by getting a plane ticket and an AR-15 and get his derrière moved to the Ukrainian frontline, what is holding him? They could use him for cannon fodder too.
we should all grow a mustachio like his in honor of his excellentness
And 999 out of 1000 knows that you were being sarcastic. And I’m probably being generous.
That anyone even gives this mustachioed yahoo a forum anymore is disgusting. Wrong about everything; his only solution is “war”, as long, of course, as he himself doesn’t have to fight it, because he is at heart a colossal coward.
Someone should ask the f@ckwit just exactly what, by weapons system and quantities, he believes we should have “given” Ukraine that would have made a difference, and what each system would entail as far as cost, training requirement and logistical support.
He’d stand there stammering like the halfwit he truly is.
Just another neocon war criminal; on a par with Joseph Goebels.
Definitely a similarity.
Globalist Warmongering Lackey and Sycophant MIC Mouth of Sauron Bolton deserved(like his Enablers) a month on the Public Stocks…24/7 with bidding to hurl the GMO’d Tomatoes at the nonchuckling Bolton with his hands in the holes with his head…..top bidder gets to give a 5 min speech on why Mr Bolton deserves the PUBLIC Stakes and then(based on the bidding – proceeds can go to financially help as direct as possible the victims of the warmongering advocated and enforced by Mr Bolton and his Globalist Handlers) from the DISTANCE can proceed with appropriate venom and contempt hurl at the warmongering cretin lots of tomatoes(based on his bidding)..zoom in and out..with accompanying audio and sound and music… and available on the Tube for infinity….. or until I(we) wake up from this pleasant dream….it IS possible to convey our contempt for this cretin in print….until NOT BEING UP TO COMMUNITY STANDARDS….
“occasional Kremlin nuclear saber-rattling have instilled a paralyzing caution in Western capitals,” he wrote. Well duh…?????? The Neocons chose a wrong time to goad Russia into a war in Ukraine. While the Neocons & Bolton were all in on “The Great War On Terror” by attacking weak & military feckless Iraq, Afghanistan & chasing radical Muslims, they squandered trillions and two decades of distracted time. The Neocons thought that getting tough with Islam would make America strong, but instead it has made America WEAK in nuclear peer to peer and rocketry warfare AKA, “The Great Game”. While the U.S. PISSED AWAY ITS MILITARY SUPREMACY fighting nobodies and chasing Muslim nomads. Russia and China spent the time upping their great game assets!!!!! Lighter,faster, more Nomble fighter planes. Top of the line air defense systems, best in the world… But their crowning achievement is their currently unstoppable hypersonic missiles which they have used as a veto to Ukie facts on the ground.
The U.S.and its NATO Gnomes are so outgunned it’s almost laughable. There’s also the new generation of Russian nukes of 200 megatons, that have 4000 times the explosive force of deployed U.S. & NATO nukes. Just one of them could flatten many of the NATO Gnome’s entire country. U.S. NATO deployed nukes equal to 750,000 tons of TNT.. Russian deployed nukes equal to 200 million tons of TNT!!!!!
Think of it in dollars, 750,000 dollars vs 200 million dollars. 4000 times as much.!!! You wouldn’t have to think very long!
Let’s hope none of these nightmare weapons are ever used ….
Maybe it would sober the fools looking for “Full Spectrum Dominance” for long enough to realize if they dont lighten up that they may suffer the “Terrible Fall” that hubris precedes….!!!!!!! But not on two cities full of women & children like the U.S. in Hiroshima & Nagasaki.
I think you mentioned 200mgt before. Do you have any idea how powerful that is? The largest nuclear detonation was 50mgt. The Tu95 dropping it on Novaya Zemlya barely got away in time.
Also in the picture is the foreign aid and economic assistance China is providing countries that the US has decimated in a futile attempt to keep the Empire alive.
Bolton has Secret Service protection but Kennedy does not (Tucker just interviewed him).
What a world.
Hunter Biden too has Secret Service protection.
That makes me feel sick to my stomach.
I met Richard Trumka and his body guards one day at a ASME union hall when he snuck into Des Moines to poor over their books because there was some embezzlement going on (imagine that) and he needed a previous night’s break-in cleaned up (unreported so you could say I helped him cover up a crime about a union president attempting to cover up his crime before sentencing;-)
If those union thug bodyguards weren’t ex-Secret Service (or were current given he was visiting the White House all the time) they were certainly were ex(?) Mafia.
Everyone in that office was nervous except me and the forensic accountant because of the darkness that guy brought with him.
Trump gave Sénior mustache the opportunity to topple Maduro and failed miserably. He acknowledges our sanctions on Russia failed so his answer is sanctions on China. You just can’t fix stupid.
Bolton could not even manage the Venezuelan regime change when he served Trump. They organized demonstrations and no one came, the Generals simply did not show up for the coup either. What happened to Guaido anyway?
Even now Bolton does not get it, times have changed, the USA has become a has been superpower.
I sense a pattern with our readers commewnts.
How come the constant warmongers get MSM coverage all the time?
And now they (the former Bush II Repug advisors) are the darlings of the so-called “liberal” media.
Because Anglo-American propaganda machine work for them.
Big bucks. Many of them have been affiliated with defense contractors whether on the board or were high ranking employees OR were Pentagon shills. The racket is obscene. Bottom line is war/conflict is profitable in many obscene forms. Thus, humans, are nothing more than greedy self destructive beasts of all kinds and incapable of heeding the past. Wars/destruction repeat like stomach acid after a disagreeable meal.
Why is this POS not in prison for war crimes ??
^^^^ Question of the month award.
Which President are you talking about? they are all guilty.
Bolton
I watched Alex Mercouris talk about this on YouTube. He said once again that to the neocons logistics are beneath them, like Maoists talking about the economy. Everything should just appear when they will it so. But the U.S. simply doesn’t have enough to keep Ukraine going. As Biden admitted in an unguarded moment, “we’re running out of ammunition,” and that’s why they had to send old, outdated cluster ammunition.
Bolton is a War Pig, always has been, always will be.
Amen!
In the pictorial dictionary of psychiatry under the term megalomaniacal sociopath resides an image of John Bolton.
Actually your description applies to Democrats also.
Actually the description applies to “Rich Men North of Richmond.”
Thanks Mr. Walrus Mustache. What an asshole.
For a Marxist (do they still exist?) the Russo-Ukrainian war is Ukrainian workers killing Russian workers who kill Ukrainian workers for the benefits of their respective puppeteers.
He long ago established himself as America’s no.1 Israel firster! His record is flawless 0n that account. He never has a doubt about anything they do. His wife dumped him, perhaps for going to a famous sex club and dragging her along among other things. He really is some twisted piece of work… That he is so gung-ho on Ukraine makes me wonder what the Israeli angle is on this provocation & war…!!!! Perhaps someone here has a better understanding on it & could share it. Perhaps ferreting out what Victoria Nuland was doing when she worked for Dick Chainey may hold some clues. When Obama was elected with my vote among others. his first appointment was Rahm Emanuel. When I heard that news I knew there was trouble ahead.
“Rahm Emanuel is his own man, with an identity distinct from his father’s. He is not responsible for the actions or opinions of Benjamin Emanuel, a Chicago pediatrician who worked in the 1940s with Irgun, the militant Zionist group that committed acts against Palestinian and British targets that have been widely categorized as terrorism. (In 1938, according to the scholar Avi Shlaim, members of the group attempted to ambush an Arab bus, an attack that failed when a grenade did not detonate. In 1946, members of the group bombed the King David Hotel, Jerusalem, killing 91 people.” (From Google search)
With a rabid Zionist father possibly able to influence Obama, paints a rather apprehensive picture and back when this occurred I did not know these facts, but I started to call the Obama administration the Trojan Whorses… There are many dots here that might need to be connected to understand how we got here with self avowed ZIONIST Biden and this war in Ukraine that his gal Victoria Nuland sparked with $5 Billion dollars the nice people over at The National Endowment For Democracy gave her. I wonder what Bill Clinton could add to these thoughts??????
Obama appointed a lot of winners{not}
Bolthead is the dumbest Pentagon talking head in the Swamp.
Alex Christoforou mentioned last night that weaponized mustache wrote something in Murdoch propaganda rag. Hardly worth commenting empty puffs from some bum.
It is interesting that Bolton claims that the Ukraine counter offensive is failing. It is clear that Bolton is just another tankie.