Governor Rick DeSantis of Florida recently came out against American intervention in Ukraine. This stance does much to remove doubts about his candidacy for President. DeSantis has been an excellent Governor defending religious freedom and parents rights against LGBT radicals.

DeSantis successfully fought to remove trans and other propaganda from schools. For this, he deserves gratitude from conservatives and people of faith. The only problem left is if he can withstand pressure from the pro war extremists in both parties.

Donald Trump is the ideal candidate for 2024. Trump successfully resisted pressure to start wars with Russia and Iran. DeSantis however is emerging as an attractive backup in the event Trump does not get the nomination.

Even in the midst of the horrors of the Russian Ukrainian war, fanatics in both parties are attacking DeSantis for wanting to stay out of the war. Liz Cheney and Bill Kristol have attacked DeSantis for his sensible stance.

Cheney holds the same lunatic stance on foreign policy as her father, the former Vice President. Kristol has been wrong on all his foreign policy stances, especially Iraq. Donald Trump kept these extremists at bay for four years.

DeSantis is going to have to prove likewise if he wants the Republican nomination.

Medical dictator for life Anthony Fauci has said there should have been more stringent restrictions during the lock down. As if the lock down was not brutal enough as it was and did not make life as miserable as possible for the entire world. Fauci is a tyrant who has no empathy for ordinary citizens.

Everyone made enormous sacrifices during the lock downs. People could not go to work, Church, or eat in restaurants. People became depressed and suffered from depression. Thankfully, the lockdowns ended two years ago.

Fauci did not have to make these statements. If he were a real human being he would not have made them. He is a narcissist who secretly ordered the funding of the lab in Wuhan in 2017 without consulting with the President or the Secretary of Human Services. This power hungry man has no empathy for ordinary men and woman.

Consider another recent remark. He stated he would retire if Donald Trump were reelected. A serious Doctor would not be making partisan statements such as that. Testifying before the Senate months ago, Fauci attacked Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky.

Fauci is an unpleasant person and a fraud. He must be removed. Despite boasting about quitting if Trump is reelected, Fauci will not keep his vow. Fauci loves power and the spotlight and will never willingly resign.

All the more reason for the Republicans to take both houses of Congress in November. Out with Fauci the medical Stalinist!

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is intent on taking a trip to Taiwan which has infuriated the government in Beijing. The Chinese government is most certainly an evil one. Taiwan is a democracy while China is a totalitarian state.

Reality has to intrude here. Nancy Pelosi is a politician and more than likely is attempting to play politics on a very delicate issue. The stupidity of the Democrats and their ignorance of foreign affairs has the potential to do enormous damage to international peace and stability.

Should China invade Taiwan it will be impossible to remove Chinese forces. War with China is unthinkable based on reality. The hawkish statements coming from both parties indicated they have not learned from the mistakes in Ukraine. The Democrats (but also the neocons) played politics with Russia and Ukraine. Their demand that Ukraine become a member of NATO led to the Russian invasion.

Taiwan is not the only problem with China. America’s biggest problem with China is the lab leak in Wuhan which led to the pandemic. House Speaker Pelosi and the Democrats should stop the political posturing. If they want to challenge China’s nefarious influence they should begin investigating China’s stooges in Washington.

Shut down the January 6 investigations and join the Republicans in investigating the origins of the Wuhan lab leak. Anthony Fauci is complicit with the Chinese government and military. Fauci authorized funding for gain of function research in Wuhan and cared nothing about the involvement of the Chinese Communist Party and the People’s Liberation Army with said research.

Crack down on Americans involved with China. This includes Fauci and Eco Health Alliance which funded the Wuhan Labs. We should also remember that the World Health Organization is complicit with the Chinese coverup in Wuhan. That organization’s Director General has longstanding ties with Beijing and accepted at face value Chinese assurances that covid could not be spread from person to person.

The Trump administration cut off aid to the World Health Organization when it refused to reform itself by cutting off Chinese influence. Nancy Pelosi is a fraud and an incompetent politician playing politics over Taiwan. The Biden administration resumed funding to the World Health Organization. There are also the ties between Beijing and Hunter Biden.

It is well known that the Ughyurs in China are the victims of genocide. Over one million of these Muslims are held in concentration camps. It would be more helpful if Pelosi went to the Chinese mainland to discuss the Ughyurs and the Wuhan lab along with Taiwan. Visits to Taiwan should be made by professional diplomats at the State Department.

Considering the Democrats responsibility for the war in Ukraine, it is impossible to take them seriously on foreign policy. Yes, China is a totalitarian government but also a major power. Tensions should be defused and the status quo on Taiwan should be maintained.

Pelosi and the Democrats have taken hawkish stands on Ukraine and Taiwan. This despite the American failures in Iraq and Afghanistan. Do they really want to risk conflict with China? We know they are willing to risk conflict with Russia.

Once again we see the difference between conventional politicians in both parties and Donald Trump. Both parties believe in participating in wars in order to promote their ideas of “democracy”. Trump to his credit did not believe in this bullshit and succeeded in not starting any wars for four years.

Taiwan deserves independence but the Unites States cannot guarantee that independence. Caution and deescalation should dictate how to proceed with China. A free and democratic China should be the long term goal which will benefit Taiwan in the long term.

The process of democratizing China can begin by addressing the Wuhan lab leak and the Ughyurs first and foremost. Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats have a nerve. They have stayed quiet on the matter of Chinese responsibility for Covid. Everything they do is about politics and that is what Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan is about.

A Congressional Amendment sponsored by Chris Pappas (D) of New Hampshire has passed. This Amendment would prevent the Biden administration from selling F-16 fighter jets to Turkey. The Biden administration can still get around this by suggesting that the sales to Turkey are in the interests of American national security.

As imperfect as this Amendment is it is still a sign of success and an indication that Greek American influence may be returning. The way to build on this success is for the Greek American leadership to turn its back on the Biden administration. It is clear that Biden is no friend to Greece and Cyprus.

The foreign policy establishment has demonstrated it has no real grasp of realities in the contemporary world. Biden is getting his instructions from Anthony Blinken and others at the State Department. Blinken and the others are unimpressive in terms of their diplomatic abilities and understanding of what is transpiring.

The commitment to Turkey by this administration is out of date by decades. The old Kemalist regime (itself far from compatible with American interests) is gone and will not be returning. The Trump administration while not perfect in regards to Turkey showed signs of breaking with the pro Turkish past. The Greece-Cyprus-Israel agreement to import gas to Europe was supported by the Trump administration.

Biden and his advisors (mostly Victoria Nuland) destroyed that agreement. Biden and his administration only see the world through their anti Russian hatred. They do not see the ugly reality that Turkey is.

The success of this Amendment looks promising for further successes. Aside from the fact that Biden will not be seeking a second term (or if he does he will lose to another Democrat), Biden has stabbed Greece and Cyprus in the back. The Greek organizations should completely ignore his administration and work with those members of Congress, the think tanks, and careerists in the foreign policy establishment to cut off all aid to Turkey.

Greece and Cyprus have not had a major success in America since the Congressional Arms embargo on Turkey after the invasion of Cyprus. Hopefully, those glory days of Greek America will return.

Today in 1974, Turkey launched its first of two invasions of Cyprus. Supposedly, the invasion was carried out to prevent the union of Cyprus with Greece. On July 15, Greek dictator Dimtrios Ioannides ordered the assassination of Cypriot Makarios and installed fascist Nikos Sampson as President.

The Turkish government had originally renounced all claims to Cyprus at the Lausanne Conference in 1923. In 1955, Turkey claimed Cyprus despite the fact that eighty percent of Cypriots were Greek and that Ankara had renounced claims to Cyprus. The Turkish invasion of Cyprus was always about expansionism and colonialism.

The Democratic Party in 1974 (an entirely different party from the one today) understood what had happened in Cyprus and succeeded in imposing an embargo on Turkey. Turkey had invaded Cyprus a second time on August 14 long after the Ioannides government had been removed in Athens. Cyprus was about occupation and expansionism nothing else.

It is to the discredit of America, Europe, NATO, and the United Nations that Cyprus remains under Turkish occupation. Nothing calls out the hypocrisy of the “free” world than the occupation of Cyprus. The Biden administration hypocritically seeks to sell Turkey F16 fighter planes. The Democrats of 1974 were more principled.

The major villain in America was then Secretary of State Henry Kissinger who worked to ensure the Turkish invasion would not be opposed. Today, it is Under Secretary of State Victoria Nuland who harms Cyprus and Greece. The Democratic Party and the Republican Party seem to have changed places.

Today, it is the Democrats who advocate a hawkish foreign policy against Russia which is to the benefit of Turkey. Five decades ago, it was the anti Soviet Republicans who promoted policies that benefitted Turkey. Hypocrisy abounds in Washington as Turkey continues to receive American support.

Turkey has always been a sick country. Turkey is sicker under Erdogan but this has made no difference in Washington. The struggle for Cyprus is not over and all Greeks everywhere should consider Cyprus the most important issue for Hellenism.