On Saturday, October 8, 2022 at 11:16:35 AM UTC-5, Dave Smith wrote:
> It is a beautiful day here and we are at home preparing for Thanksgiving
> dinner. Yesterday morning I made some pie dough, used half of it for a
> blind baked shell to be used later and the other half for a pumpkin pie.
> I also made some cranberry sauce and cooked a butternut squash.
>
> This morning I have been prepping dinner. I peeled and cut a bunch of
> potatoes, trimmed green beans and prepared the stuffing. My wife made a
> cauliflower and broccoli salad. In a little while I have to stuff the
> bird and get it into the oven.

We are shackled by a near decade of Russian reset and the aggression it invited on February 23, 2022.

Obama and Biden long sought to placate Putin to help with their puerile Mideast agendas.

They invited him into Syria.

They made him the key player in their pursuit of the Iran deal.

And they ignored his 2014 invasions of Eastern Ukraine and Crimea.

How ironic that we now find ourselves sending arms to protect Ukraine from reverse-engineered Iranian drones,
beseeching in vain regimes to send us oil that we refuse to produce for ourselves, and having given up an
Eastern European missile defense system to counter Putin’s nuclear threats—even as we coax both
our enemies Tehran and Moscow into cementing a nuclear deal that will be as disastrous to our friends
as it is to ourselves.