{"id":1363923,"date":"2022-03-08T08:13:05","date_gmt":"2022-03-08T13:13:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1363923"},"modified":"2022-03-08T08:18:46","modified_gmt":"2022-03-08T13:18:46","slug":"miranda-devine-as-threat-of-nuclear-war-looms-how-democrats-spin-a-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/miranda-devine-as-threat-of-nuclear-war-looms-how-democrats-spin-a-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Miranda Devine: As Threat of Nuclear War Looms, How Democrats Spin a Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmiranda-devine-as-threat-of-nuclear-war-looms-how-democrats-spin-a-crisis%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1363923&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<div class=\"inline-module inline-module--columnist inline-module--author\">\n<div class=\"inline-module--author__img\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>As the world teeters on the edge of nuclear catastrophe, the Democrats are doing what they do best: projecting.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/03\/06\/ukrainians-flee-russian-bombs-as-civilians-are-killed-in-small-kyiv-suburb\/\">Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine<\/a>, opined Adam Schiff in Rolling Stone on Friday, \u201chammers home how despicable an act it was to treat Ukraine as a political plaything.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Well, yes, but treating Ukraine as a political plaything has been a reckless Democratic obsession for a long time, not least when Schiff, as chair of the House Intelligence Committee, led the impeachment of Donald Trump over a phone call to President Volodymyr Zelensky.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The hypocrisy makes me faint!\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Other Democrats were quoted peddling the same narrative.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI sense the first impeachment sounded kinda obscure to some people,\u201d said Sen. Brian Schatz of Hawaii. \u201cBut withholding lethal aid was both an actual crime and a moral crime.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Except that Trump did send lethal aid to Ukraine, unlike the Obama-Biden administration, which sent blankets and goggles.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/Russia_Ukraine_War_Biden_Toll_of_War-e1646625956475.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/Russia_Ukraine_War_Biden_Toll_of_War-e1646625956475.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1024\" alt=\"Joe Biden\" class=\"wp-image-21436021\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/Russia_Ukraine_War_Biden_Toll_of_War-e1646625956475.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/Russia_Ukraine_War_Biden_Toll_of_War-e1646625956475.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/Russia_Ukraine_War_Biden_Toll_of_War-e1646625956475.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;w=512 512w\" \/><\/a><figcaption>President Biden made empty promises to Ukraine, with the impression that joining NATO would help it.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP Photo\/Evan Vucci<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/1372574142.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/1372574142.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1024\" alt=\"Adam Schiff\" class=\"wp-image-21436016\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/1372574142.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;w=2048 2048w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/1372574142.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/1372574142.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/1372574142.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;w=512 512w\" \/><\/a><figcaption>House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff speaks to reporters after receiving a briefing in the House SCIF.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Anna MoneymakerGetty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>And do Democrats really think Americans have forgotten Joe Biden\u2019s boast that he withheld $1 billion in aid from the Ukrainians unless they fired the prosecutor who was investigating his son Hunter\u2019s oligarch boss at the corrupt energy company Burisma?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This was the scandal that Trump, in his clumsy fashion, was trying to get to the bottom of. He was impeached for pressing Zelensky to look into Biden\u2019s quid pro quo. But Biden\u2019s bullying of Ukraine was far more sinister and consequential. Trump got nothing. The Biden family <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/02\/02\/us-diplomat-warned-about-hunter-biden-ukraine-deals-in-2016\/\">got millions of dollars from Ukraine<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Biden was President Barack Obama\u2019s point man in Ukraine, and often flew into Kyiv to deliver lectures about corruption, at the time his son was earning $83,333 on the Burisma board.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/AFP_324H2A4.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/AFP_324H2A4.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1024\" alt=\"Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky\" class=\"wp-image-21436017\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/AFP_324H2A4.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;w=2048 2048w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/AFP_324H2A4.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/AFP_324H2A4.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/AFP_324H2A4.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;w=512 512w\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky delivering an address in Kyiv. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">UKRAINE PRESIDENCY\/AFP via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/1238796772.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/1238796772.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1024\" alt=\"Smoke in Ukraine\" class=\"wp-image-21436015\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/1238796772.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;w=2048 2048w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/1238796772.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/1238796772.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/1238796772.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;w=512 512w\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Smoke rises from behind buildings following bombings on February 27, 2022, in Kyiv, Ukraine.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Pierre Crom\/Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>George Kent, a US Embassy official in Kyiv, went to the VP\u2019s office in February 2015 to raise \u201cmy concern that Hunter Biden\u2019s status as a [Burisma] board member could create the perception of a conflict of interest,\u201d he testified to a Senate inquiry into Burisma.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Then-US special envoy on energy policy Amos Hochstein also tried twice directly to warn Biden in the West Wing in October 2015, and again on Air Force Two in December 2015.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But their pleas were ignored.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As he is wont to do, Biden made lots of empty promises to Ukraine, giving it the impression that joining the North At\u00adlantic Treaty Or\u00adga\u00adni\u00adza\u00adtion would be good for the country, not a fatal provocation to Russian President Vladimir Putin.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>John Mearsheimer, the Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago, one of America\u2019s foremost international relations theorists, warned at the time: \u201cThe West is leading Ukraine down the primrose path and the end result is that Ukraine is going to get wrecked \u2026 What we\u2019re doing is in fact encouraging that outcome.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Seven years later, his tragic prophecy is realized.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Oxford historian Robert Service, a fel\u00adlow at the Hoover In\u00adsti\u00adtu\u00adtion, points to another provocation by Biden last year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was the last straw\u201d for Putin when the US and Ukraine signed a Char\u00adter on Strate\u00adgic Part\u00adner\u00adship on Nov. 10 last year, declaring Amer\u00adi\u00adca\u2019s sup\u00adport for Ukraine\u2019s right to pursue NATO mem\u00adber\u00adship, Service told the Wall Street Journal last week. After that, Russia began massing troops on the Ukrainian border.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Biden spoke with Zelensky on Saturday night. The next day, Secretary of State Antony Blinken told CBS\u2019s \u201cFace the Nation\u201d that NATO members have the \u201cgreen light\u201d to <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/03\/06\/schumer-ill-fully-support-us-back-up-to-nations-giving-ukraine-jets\/\">send fighter jets to Ukraine<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/Russia_Putin-3.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/Russia_Putin-3.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1024\" alt=\"Russian President Vladimir Putin\" class=\"wp-image-21436019\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/Russia_Putin-3.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;w=2048 2048w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/Russia_Putin-3.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/Russia_Putin-3.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/Russia_Putin-3.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;w=512 512w\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks to representatives of the flight crew of Russian airlines on Saturday, March 5, 2022. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This would be a major escalation, with Russia\u2019s Defense Ministry warning on Sunday that any countries hosting warplanes that attacked Russian forces \u201ccould be considered as those countries\u2019 engagement in the military conflict.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In comments widely interpreted as threatening a nuclear strike if NATO imposed a no-fly zone over Ukraine, Putin warned of \u201ccolossal and catastrophic consequences not only for Europe but also the whole world.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Frightening times.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Yet the priority for the Democratic brain trust all weekend was to spin the war to their own political benefit. The same people who pushed the Russia collusion hoax are back blaming Trump for the catastrophe in Ukraine and claiming that the situation is a triumph for Biden, who has \u201cunited NATO.\u201d Putin probably had more to do with that.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/Russia_Ukraine_War_Trump.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"678\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/Russia_Ukraine_War_Trump.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1024\" alt=\"Donald Trump\" class=\"wp-image-21436024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/Russia_Ukraine_War_Trump.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;w=2048 2048w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/Russia_Ukraine_War_Trump.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/Russia_Ukraine_War_Trump.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/Russia_Ukraine_War_Trump.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;w=512 512w\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Donald Trump speaks during the Republican Party of Iowa\u2019s America First Dinner, June 11, 2019, in West Des Moines, Iowa. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP Photo \/Charlie Neibergall<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cWe got the best damn generals in the world,\u201d Biden told Gen. Mark \u201cWhite Rage\u201d Milley as he shook his hand after the State of the Union. \u201cI\u2019m counting on you, man. Now don\u2019t tell nobody, but I listen to everything you say.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But while Putin was preparing to recreate the Soviet empire, what was our military doing? Forcing officers to undergo mandatory training on gender pronouns and how to offer soldiers sex change surgery, according to documents provided by a whistleblower to the Washington Free Beacon.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>No wonder Putin regards the West as so decadent and weak that he could stroll into Ukraine with impunity. The fact he met such fierce resistance <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/03\/06\/ukrainian-actor-who-played-soldier-takes-up-arms-vs-russians\/\">is due to the courage of the Ukrainians<\/a>, not fear of the West.<\/p>\n<h2>Murphy\u2019s lawman\u00a0<\/h2>\n<p>New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy made a big mistake appointing his unqualified personal clean-up merchant to be acting state attorney general.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>From the coverup of campaign volunteer Katie Brennan\u2019s sexual assault allegations to the Cuomo-esque forcing of COVID-positive patients into nursing homes, Matt Platkin\u2019s confirmation process will air dirty laundry Murphy will regret.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Republican state Senate leader Steven Oroho already has expressed \u201cextremely serious concerns about Matt\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/05\/15\/phil-murphy-campaign-volunteer-gets-1m-in-lawsuit-against-staffer\/\">handling of Katie Brennan\u2019s allegations<\/a>,\u201d and it is believed that the Essex County Democratic senators who need to sign off on Platkin are not all on board.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Brennan, a volunteer in Murphy\u2019s 2017 campaign, testified before a bipartisan state legislative committee that she was sexually assaulted by top Murphy official Albert Alvarez, and that Platkin, Murphy\u2019s then-campaign policy director, covered up for his friend. The committee concluded that Platkin and other top Murphy loyalists failed Brennan \u201cevery step of the way.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignright\">\n\t<\/aside>\n<p>Platkin had gone on to become the governor\u2019s chief counsel, and Alvarez was given a cushy six-figure job in the administration, only resigning when Brennan went to the media the following year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Former colleagues are aghast at Platkin\u2019s latest promotion. One ex-campaign staffer describes a toxic \u201cboys club\u201d atmosphere under the 35-year-old Montclair resident, in which chair-throwing in meetings was tolerated and women who complained were iced out.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As the governor\u2019s chief counsel, Platkin was responsible for the decision to force nursing homes to accept COVID-positive patients. As a result, New Jersey suffered one of the nation\u2019s highest pandemic death tolls and the Murphy administration last year had to quietly pay out $53 million to families of seniors who died at state-run veterans\u2019 homes.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>How Platkin\u2019s woeful record recommends him to be New Jersey\u2019s chief law officer is a mystery known only to Murphy.<\/p>\n<h2>Thanks a \u2018latte\u2019 to Gotham\u2019s pandemic-braving baristas<\/h2>\n<p>Bravo to New York\u2019s best baristas, who gathered at the Javits Center over the weekend to compete in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldlatteart.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Latte Art World Championships<\/a>, mask-free at last. The caffeine cowboys who braved the pandemic to deliver the city its daily fix now have their chance to shine.<\/p>\n<p>Midtown\u2019s Frisson Espresso\u2019s Tulian Sanchez was one of the talented froth artists who won Sunday\u2019s sudden-death rounds, earning a spot in Monday\u2019s contest against PlantShed Cafe\u2019s Ujae Lee. The winner will compete in the final rounds Tuesday for the coveted latte artist trophy.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a complex business for the judges to decide whose little hand-poured tulips and swans look the best atop a latte.<\/p>\n<p>But seriously, New York\u2019s baristas all deserve a medal for preserving a sense of normalcy for the past two years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the world teeters on the edge of nuclear catastrophe, the Democrats are doing what they do best: projecting.\u00a0 Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine, opined<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1363923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1363923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1363923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1363923\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1363923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1363923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1363923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}