“Seriously? THIS is your legacy? This is how you want to go out? In a blaze of horror? Like, if Joe’s gotta go, we all gotta go with him… right into World War III?”
Filmmaker Michael Moore says time is running out for President Joe Biden to depart the White House with grace, saying that instead he is choosing to go out in a “blaze of glory” by leading the US “right into World War III.”
“Donald Trump just won the election. In two months, you’ll hand him the keys to the White House and the pin number for the alarm system. And you will be out of time,” Moore wrote in an open letter to Biden.
“Instead of using your precious little time left to do something to HELP THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, your first action after Trump won was to fast track the delivery of over $6 Billion in weapons to Ukraine.” Moore noted how Biden then approved the use of US long-range missiles by Ukraine “into a country with a massive amount of nuclear weapons, Russia.” The director then went to Biden's next work of “carnage,” which he said was the use of antipersonnel land mines in Russia.”
Moore couldn’t believe that Biden would allow anti-personnel landmines to be sent to Ukraine. “Seriously? THIS is your legacy? This is how you want to go out? In a blaze of horror? Like, if Joe’s gotta go, we all gotta go with him… right into World War III?”
The director reminded Biden that “America has spent well over a BILLION DOLLARS removing landmines from places like Iraq, Afghanistan, Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia (you know, the places we invade and then leave our landmines behind).” He said the Vietnam War might have ended 50 years ago but “kids today in southeast Asia are still getting their arms blown off by our landmines. That’s your legacy, Joe. This is what you’re doing.”
Moore was also critical of Biden’s policy in the Middle East and suggested lawmakers who support freezing shipments of arms to Israel should be applauded. But "you decided to slander this group of Senators from your own party. You said that by halting these armaments to Israel, these Democrats were on the side of Hamas.”
The director encouraged Biden to focus on his legacy in America before it’s too late. “What about us, Joe? What about America? You have two months left in office. What are you going to do with this time? Maybe you should stop arming foreign wars and leave that for the next guy. Maybe instead, you should focus on things that matter to Americans.”
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