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Did Joe Biden really get this much wrong during his presidency?


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19 hours ago, Rimmer said:

Ukraine Conflict:

  • While Biden received praise for rallying NATO support against Russia's invasion of Ukraine...

What was the use of all that? Ukraine, NATO, and by extension the USA have lost this war, as bloody as it was pointless.

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2 minutes ago, Phillip9 said:

 

Without the war I'm sure several other countries would be Russian territory by now.  A dictator like Vlad will never stop unless someone stands up to him.  The Russian army is now just a shadow of its former self and no longer a serious threat to other free countries. 

 

Thanks Ukraine

 

Consider that under Biden as VP and Pres Russia took Crimea and possibly a large part of Ukraine.  

Also NK ramped up its nuclear arsenal  China has made huge statement in the Pacific Ocean and the U.s has done nothing.

 

A stronger U.S. that did not just walk out and show how weak it was in Afghanistan created the doubt tht the U.S. military and leaders were clueless.

 

Jpe did nothing in the Ukraine war except coninually putting money into it.  There were no talks there were no actioned threats.  

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His biggest mistake was to make the timid Merrick Garland AĢ.

With a braver man Trump might well have been disqualified to run again and possibly in prison for all his crimes.

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1 hour ago, Justanotherone said:

son brought the family millions of dollars with daddy's aid... clinton did the same... bush also...

 

But not Trump or his immediate family.....??

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25 minutes ago, kingstonkid said:

Jpe did nothing in the Ukraine war except coninually putting money into it.

 

You don't know much of anything about the war if that's what you believe.  The equipment, ammunition, training and intelligence sharing has far surpassed any money given to Ukraine.

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58 minutes ago, kingstonkid said:

 

Consider that under Biden as VP and Pres Russia took Crimea and possibly a large part of Ukraine.  

Also NK ramped up its nuclear arsenal  China has made huge statement in the Pacific Ocean and the U.s has done nothing.

 

A stronger U.S. that did not just walk out and show how weak it was in Afghanistan created the doubt tht the U.S. military and leaders were clueless.

 

Jpe did nothing in the Ukraine war except coninually putting money into it.  There were no talks there were no actioned threats.  

"A stronger U.S. that did not just walk out and show how weak it was in Afghanistan created the doubt tht the U.S. military and leaders were clueless."

 

Do you think a final and lasting "victory" in Afghanistan was right around the corner ?

I'm not convinced that staying longer was the answer.

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35 minutes ago, Phillip9 said:

 

You don't know much of anything about the war if that's what you believe.  The equipment, ammunition, training and intelligence sharing has far surpassed any money given to Ukraine.

 

Simple who paid for the equipment Ammunition training and intelligence.  It was all paid for by the American taxpayer

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4 minutes ago, cdemundo said:

"A stronger U.S. that did not just walk out and show how weak it was in Afghanistan created the doubt tht the U.S. military and leaders were clueless."

 

Do you think a final and lasting "victory" in Afghanistan was right around the corner ?

I'm not convinced that staying longer was the answer.

God no it was a no win war.

 

The difference is in how they pulled out.  There is the panic withdrawl that leaves everything behind and leaves people confused.

 

Then there is planned and organized withdrawl that gets all the equipment and people out of the country safely.

 

Biden just said leave all the equipment behind and run.

 

Not the way to do it.  

 

Trump for all his faults was correct you want to withdraw but you want to do it in a way that you get as much and as many out safely.  

 

There was no plan as to how to suport the government or sfeguard those that helped the Forces.

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I see 3 on the list he got wrong.

In no particular order...

 

1. Afghanistan withdrawal should have been better executed

2. Student loans...should have left that alone completely 

3. Immigration

 

The others are mostly party driven/subjective. They would have been questioned/opposed regardless how they were handled. Especially by The Republicans...The Party of "No". They oppose everything the Dems do...even if it's exactly what they want.

 

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1 hour ago, Patong2021 said:

 

Garland followed the law. You call him timid. I call him responsible and professional. The bravery is not  succumbing to the pressure of rushing to pursue Trump without  credible evidence. The MAGA collective also attacks him, but should be grateful that he  was unwilling to pursue a case without evidence.

I call him a bully for his memo instructing the DOJ to target and investigate concerned parents for harassment and intimidation.  Three years later the parent-silencing order has not been rescinded.

 

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8 hours ago, Phillip9 said:

 

Without the war I'm sure several other countries would be Russian territory by now.  A dictator like Vlad will never stop unless someone stands up to him.  The Russian army is now just a shadow of its former self and no longer a serious threat to other free countries. 

 

Thanks Ukraine

 

I doubt the Russian army was ever what it was made out to be. It proved to be pretty useless from the very beginning. They failed to take the strategically essential airfields due to Ukrainian tactics and stunning bravery and patriotism. And look at all those unfortunate tankies cooped up in their metal boxes on the road to Kyiv - willing Javelin bait. Having to beg N.Korean troops two years later for your stumbling meat grinder isn't a sign of military prowess either. 

 

One thing is for certain, Russia won't even cast a sideways glance at the Baltic states or any other NATO state for the foreseeable future after the Ukraine debacle. That even though  Ukraine's forces are not even fully fledged NATO forces. They've merely had a modicum of NATO training and been given a few of our less potent weapons systems, backed presumably by some intelligence but limited in range. They've completely humiliated the Russians in every single aspect of warfare from the high command right the way down to the trenches.

 

Besides that the Baltics are now backed by 'tripwire' NATO brigades and more importantly Finland close by and Sweden - now both full NATO members. Talk about the law of unintended consequences. The 'Special Military Operation' ('the troops'll be home by Christmas folks' - just like Kaiser Wilhelm's boys in 1914) has been a complete failure on all fronts.

 

Russia can barely make incremental gains and then only by gratuitously sacrificing tens of thousands of its young mens' lives. The burden of caring for hundreds of thousands of disabled and invalid men and women will be incalculable. They will also be lost to reconstruction as much as those who had the nous and means to flee are gone.


The land Russia's acquired while drenching it in its soldiers' blood is basically a burden. Former coal mining territory largely populated by pensioners and laid ruin to by war. Crimea has been  neutralized as a naval asset. Add to that the prospect of years of well equipped, motivated and financed guerrilla warfare resistance in any further territorial gains.

 

The Russian economy was about the size of the Italian economy at the start of the SMO. It's  been ramped up to something larger now, but in reality purely because Putin's had to transform it into a war economy which is not sustainable. The numbers (GDP, productivity etc.) might look good, but you can't eat bullets and it all goes at the cost of the civilian sectors including consumers.

 

No-one outside of Russia would even consider buying a ruble - the exchange rate exists by Putin's decree and is even so at an all time low. Interest rates hover at around 20% to counter raging inflation.

 

The shadow tankers and forcing the country's companies to onshore foreign currency revenues are signs of weakness not vitality.

 

Globally Russia has become China's vassal and Beijing isn't overly happy with it nowadays.

 

I suspect the only reason Putin is still in office has less to do with his fabled powers as a spy and ruthless gangster, and much more to do with noone else in Moscow being willing to pick up the poison chalice he's leaving behind.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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