I find it quite amusing that certain people will tout Joe Biden as if he is some sort of international foreign policy expert because he spent some time on the Senate foreign relations committee. At any given time, we have over twenty Senators who sit on this committee and they probably never really make any hard choices and their choices really are advisory at best. For the most part is is something Senators like to have on their resume if they decide to seek higher office.
There is nothing experience-wise like being the person who must make decisions and live with those decisions in the real world. There is literally nobody on planet earth who has more experience of making these sorts of decisions than Putin. More to the point, Putin is not one to sit back and allow things to happen. He is generally the one pushing the envelope. Real live first hand world leader experience? Putin has this covered.
Imagine if you will that Biden is the sort of guy who might have spent a lot of time "hanging around" foreign policy. In fact he got all sorts of relatives rich in Ukraine when he was watching over Eastern Europe as Vice President (even as Putin invaded some of those countries and annexed Crimea on Biden's watch). But this certainly doesn't qualify him to outsmart Putin. Expecting Biden would outsmart Putin is like expecting someone who spent a lot of time around MMA gyms to be able to jump in the ring with a world champion and compete. It just won't happen.
Perhaps with the combined forces of NATO under the leadership of someone other than Biden willing to step up, we may be able to end this whole fiasco before Kyiv falls to Russia. But if I had to bet money on this I would have to bet that if Putin wants Kyiv that Putin will take Kyiv and that the rest of the world will wring their hands, make demand, rattle their sabers, and ultimately do nothing but apply sanctions that won't work as designed as long as China and others refuse to follow along.
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Trump Calls Putin a ‘Genius’ and ‘Very Savvy’
February 22, 2022 at 3:46 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 198 Comments
Former President Donald Trump called Vladimir Putin a “genius” on Buck Sexton’s podcast for moving Russian troops into parts of Ukraine.
Said Trump:
“I said, ‘How smart is that?’ And he’s gonna go in and be a peacekeeper. That’s the strongest peace force… We could use that on our southern border. That’s the strongest peace force I’ve ever seen. There were more army tanks than I’ve ever seen. They’re gonna keep peace all right. No, but think of it. Here’s a guy who’s very savvy.”
He added: “But here’s a guy that says, you know, ‘I’m gonna declare a big portion of Ukraine independent,’ he used the word ‘independent’ and ‘we’re gonna go out and we’re gonna go in and we’re gonna help keep peace.’ You gotta say that’s pretty savvy. And you know what the response was from Biden? There was no response. They didn’t have one for that. No, it’s very sad. Very sad.”
Savvy means shrewd not genius, genius.
Earlier this month, Biden promised to "bring an end" to Nord Stream 2 if Russia invaded Ukraine. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, appearing with Biden on his first official visit to Washington, was far less explicit about stopping Nord Stream 2, but said that the U.S. and Germany would have the same approach on punishing Russia financially.
The Nord Stream 2 has seen a faster development and deployment despite sanctions placed on it by the Trump administration. With those sanctions removed, Germany remains keen to see the pipeline activated sooner rather than later.
Scholz had insisted that the pipeline is a "business project," according to German outlet DW.
Biden last year removed sanctions on the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, allowing construction and activation to proceed.
The plan to allow Russia to develop the pipeline to create leverage in times of political crisis may have backfired, as Germany has also rapidly grown dependent on the completion and activation of the pipeline.
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Meanwhile, senior administration officials told reporters on Monday evening that they will "continue to pursue diplomacy until the tanks roll."
"We're under no illusions about what is likely to come next," one official said. "And we are prepared to respond decisively when it does."
Fox News' Mark Meredith, Greg Norman, Paul Conner and The Associated Press contributed to this report
If only Biden's military were even more woke. That would really put fear into Putin. While put on planned his invasion, our leaders were busy teaching our military to be snowflakes.
Worst president in history.
The former President is a traitor now and again and again until he gets arrested for fraud and tax evasion and end up in prison like Al Capone.
We defeated the worst President in history in the last election cycle.
Scott agrees with Putin
Putin has called the West’s idea of liberalism “obsolete” and its tolerance of multiculturalism and homosexuality.
You are a fascist man Scott Johnson
The lithium is a few minutes late, Alky?
Sure Roger...
if that is what you got from this post, there is no helping you anymore.
A Republican who worked for George W Bush quoted.
Nearly eighty years ago, George Kennan wrote, “The jealous and intolerant eye of the Kremlin can distinguish, in the end, only vassals and enemies, and the neighbors of Russia, if they do not wish to be one, must reconcile themselves to being the other.” While Western attention appropriately remains centered on Ukraine, we must not forget about the region’s other nations, whose democratic aspirations are being crushed by Russian domination.
President Biden is aware of this, and has United NATO allies who will not allow Putin to get any other nations.. those nations will not allow being crushed by Russians again like after World War two.
We will prevail over your fascist philosophy.
You are actually in favor of Putin.
But this certainly doesn't qualify him to outsmart Putin. Expecting Biden would outsmart Putin is like expecting someone who spent a lot of time around MMA gyms to be able to jump in the ring with a world champion and compete. It just won't happen.
Perhaps with the combined forces of NATO under the leadership of someone other than Biden willing to step up, we may be able to end this whole fiasco before Kyiv falls to Russia. But if I had to bet money on this I would have to bet that if Putin wants Kyiv that Putin will take Kyiv and that the rest of the world will wring their hands, make demand, rattle their sabers, and ultimately do nothing but apply sanctions that won't work as designed as long as China and others refuse to follow along.
China has already begun to separate again like under Nixon.
NATO will provide sufficient military actions if he fires one bullet and invades into any other nations in NATO....
Sieg Heil Mr Putin
Yes impose “harsh” sanctions on Pooty, which have never had the slightest impact on Putin's calculations or conduct and won't now -- except of course for cementing the new Russia-China alliance. Brilliant.
Kabuki theatre
President Biden is aware of this, and has United NATO allies who will not allow Putin to get any other nations.. those nations will not allow being crushed by Russians again like after World War two.
Well looks like he already has two new nations under his thumb... are you betting that Biden forces Putin to give that land back to Ukraine?
President Biden is aware of this, and has United NATO allies who will not allow Putin to get any other nations.. "
So One taken by Putin when Obimo was pres.
And now one under Biden.
President Trump Warned Germany and NATO.
Putin delivered.
"On Tuesday, the benchmark price of natural gas for delivery in Europe next month leaped to about €79 ($89.54) per megawatt hour, up from €71.50 ($81.04) at Monday's close, according to data from Independent Commodity Intelligence Services.
Prices have dropped from record highs hit just before Christmas. Still, they remain significantly above where they stood one year ago, when gas traded at €16.30 ($18.47) per megawatt hour."
Until 1984, I was leaving the Democratic party. But I figured this out when Ronald Reagan attacked the flight coordinators union and designed the tax system to favor the rich. I realized this.
The GOP
The epicenter for all these plagues on the American people is the Republican Party, which has, since the 1920s, unabashedly stood for white, wealthy, well-off men and the corporations they run.
Embracing the defiance of flight attendants displayed nearly 100% by white men, eight Republican senators have written to the Attorney General demanding that people who assault flight crews not be put on the "no-fly" list.
Senators Cynthia M. Lummis (WY), Mike Lee (UT), James Lankford (OK), Marco Rubio (FL), Kevin Cramer (ND), Ted Cruz (TX), John Hoeven (ND) and Rick Scott (FL) are all betting it's good politics to pander to aggrieved men who feel having to wear a mask on an airplane is an assault on their sense of agency.
Ted Cruz ranting that it should be illegal for President Biden to announce he's going to put a Black woman on the Supreme Court is just the latest in the GOP's racist and put-women-back-in-their-place hustle.
As I noted last week, when a political party has no real policy plans or core beliefs, they fall back on demagoguery, misogyny and racism. Nixon blazed the trail with his Southern Strategy, Bush the Elder fine-tuned it with Willie Horton, and Donald Trump laid it right out in the open for the world to see.
America's in deep trouble, with our political system hijacked by billionaires; cultural voices like Fox and social media sowing hate and division for profit; toxic masculinity driving hate crimes, murders, and air rage; and more than half the country so desperately hanging on by their fingernails that they can't deal with an unexpected $1000 expense.
Progressive Democrats offer a way for Americans to recover our control of government — our agency — and thus a way towards our becoming a nation that cares for its own and works to heal, rather than tear apart, the American social contract.
They'd accomplish this by getting big money out of politics to put voters back in control of elections, while putting into place policies mentioned earlier and supported by the majority of Americans.
November may well be our last chance to undo much of the damage the GOP has inflicted on us these past 40+ years and build, finally, a nation that truly realizes its founding promise of "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness."
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