Who or what is to blame for this international disaster?

Of course the primary blame for the new international disaster now unfolding must go to Vladimir ("the poisoner") Putin and his minions. But Joe Biden must take a good share of blame in a supporting role. He has unfurled disaster after disaster: the catastrophic Afghanistan collapse, millions of illegal immigrants pouring across our own border, spiraling inflation, rising debt, and the impoverishment of many Americans.

"Of course!" You say. "The man is half-senile, and was never that sharp to begin with! What did you expect?"

I'm not sure the president's personal incompetence explains it. Biden's chair for his Council of Economic Advisers is an economist and Dean of the School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton. His UN secretary has a fair amount of experience, as does his Secretary of State (if not so successful.) Jimmy Carter and Barack Obama were smart enough.

But then it crossed my mind how foolish American universities have become about a simple matter like sex. (I am reading one of Heather MacDonald's books.) On the one hand, they repudiated any semblance of self-restraint or, hell forbid, chastity decades ago. On the other, when drunken girls roll around with drunken boys, school officials drum up a crisis of "date-rape" that they treat much as Joe Biden has tried to deal with Putin. Nag, nag, sign forms, lecture, talk about patriarchy and racism, pretend you know nothing about human nature. On the rare occasion that a real rape occurs, the blue-collar cops come in and deal with it professionally, if they are still allowed.

This is the real thing, ivory tower leftists. What we are seeing now is an actual rape. Too bad there aren't any cops around, when you need one . . .

So the stupid, I conclude, goes deeper than brain fog in an elderly man.

It sinks all the way to the tap root of ideology, "liberalism" that evolved into "wokism" and that never had much of a grip on the world.

These ninnies only know how to bully middle-class tax-payers and truckers draped in the Canadian flag. They haven't a clue how to deal with actual criminals.