SOVEREN BORDERS
My View From Inside The Turret
In the past month, we have been bombarded by the TV pundits about the situation in Ukraine. Let’s put the actual invasion aside for just a moment and take a deeper dive into the repeated phrase – Ukraine’s sovereign border must be protected. Just exactly what does that mean?
Let’s start with the definition of sovereignty as defined in Oxford --- sov·er·eign·ty: supreme power or authority. The authority of a state to govern itself or another state. "National sovereignty"…. a self-governing state … supreme power especially over a body politic … freedom from external control, AUTONOMY.
Now let’s tack on the concept of borders to our understanding of sovereignty. Constituting America. Org tells us: Sovereignty is the very essence of what makes a “nation” a “nation”—a free and independent state in which the people of that nation exercise total control over the governance of that nation. Clear and enforceable borders are an essential element of that sovereignty. WITHOUT THEM, THE NATION ITSELF CANNOT BE DEFINED, AND THE SOVEREIGNTY OF THAT NATION WILL FALL AS A MATTER OF COURSE.
One month ago, Russia amassed a lethal military force on the border of Ukraine …
… ordering them to attack the sovereign nation of Ukraine, violating Ukraine’s sovereign borders as they go about indiscriminately destroying Ukraine, killing both military and civilians and generally laying waste to the land. Russia has shown no respect for Ukraine’s sovereignty and the people of Ukraine have risen up to fight the invaders and by all accounts, as of the writing of this piece, they are doing a very credible job on the battlefield.
Joe Biden has pledged several billions of US taxpayer money to Ukraine in military and humanitarian assistance after 200,000 Russians violated their border and has recited the now common refrain that the Ukrainians need our help to expel the Russians! Now, let that sink in --- Billions in US taxpayer money to bolster the integrity of the Ukraine border!
So, let’s review what we have leaned … Clear and enforceable borders are an essential element of sovereignty … a policy that apparently Joe Biden fully endorses and embraces in Ukraine. Now let’s look at the US southern border with Mexico. How does Joe Biden feel about that incursion?
If actions speak louder than words, then Joe Biden has made it clear to the citizens of the United States that he does not intend to enforce the sovereignty of our own country! His words on the unlawful invasion of Ukraine are empty and hollow for his own country … our own country … as he allows the unlawful invasion to happen HERE, to the United States of America, to our country. The invasion at our southern border is happening without military destruction; but it is a full-scale invasion none the less.
In Joe Biden’s Administration, the Border Patrol reported 1,659,206 encounters with migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border during the last fiscal year (FY 2021), narrowly exceeding the prior highs of 1,643,679 in 2000 and 1,615,844 in 1986. In 2019, the last full year of the Trump Administration, that number was 303,916 as reported by the Border Patrol. Let’s allow that number to sink in: 1,659,206 … that is the number of invaders that the Border Patrol had contact with – another estimated 500,000 may have evaded the Border Patrol. In February of 2022, there were 164,973 encounters along the Southwest land border, a 7 percent increase compared to January.
So, while Joe Biden is willing to spend billions of taxpayer dollars in US military aid and humanitarian assistance to Ukraine to defend their borders from the Russian hordes --- he is unwilling to do anything of substance to stop the hordes from crossing the US border and occupying American cities across the country. He compromises the sovereignty of this Nation!
This is the current state of affairs in the United States of America. Our national sovereignty is at risk. November 2024 is coming --- Vote for Change!