Posted on 11/07/2021 1:43:54 PM PST by elpadre
So far no American ally has felt a need to react to the election debacles President Joe Biden suffered this week, notably in the state of Virginia, which his party controlled but then lost, and also in lesser votes elsewhere across the country.
Usually, there is no reason for, say, a German leader, to comment on a vote in a middle-sized American state. But in this case, cables sent out from foreign allies’ embassies in Washington will likely need to grapple with this question:
Is Biden already so wounded that, in just over three years, he’ll be replaced in 2024 elections and have his foreign policy initiatives overturned by a nationalistic populist in the image of Donald Trump or even by Trump himself?
His ratings in political surveys are as bad as Trump’s at their worst. Voters have begun to wonder if, with the spectacle of Biden’s occasional incoherent babbling, he is up to the job of the presidency.
Part of allied nations’ worry centers on the growing habit of US presidents to hang foreign initiatives on their own signature instead of gaining wider political consensus. In America’s volatile political landscape, this trend throws the staying power of US policy into doubt.
If a president believes he can’t get consent for a treaty from two-thirds of the US Senate, as constitutionally required, he forges ahead anyway and calls it something else.
For example, the Paris climate accord signed with dozens of other countries in 2015, was not labeled a treaty but an “executive agreement, binding only President Barack Obama’s administration,” wrote Anne-Marie Slaughter, a former diplomat who runs New America, a Washington think tank.
The same was true of Obama’s complex deal with Iran to curb its nuclear weapons program, known as the JCPOA. He called it a - (continued)
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Judging by his present comportment and physical appearance, I would guess that he will be completely disabled or deceased by then.
“....Biden insisted his election last year represented a clear return to US leadership in world affairs. At G-7 and NATO summits last summer, he announced—boasted, really– that “America is back.” Allies understood that he meant that the mercuric Trump and his “America First” attitudes had been pushed offstage. They publicly welcomed Biden with satisfaction.
But Western joy was tempered by an underlying fear that some version of Trump’s nationalistic populism, an ideology with a two-century history in the US, might in fact live on, analysts said.
“After Biden, it may be Trump again,” commented Gerard Araud, a former French ambassador to the United States. “We Europeans, we have to learn to be grown up, we have to learn to defend or to handle our interests by ourselves.....””
“....“We Europeans, we have to learn to be grown up, we have to learn to defend or to handle our interests by ourselves.....””
That is the Trump foreign policy in a nut shell. Friendly countries can certainly be supportive of one another but each country must “learn to defend or to handle our interests by ourselves”
I cannot believe the full-court GOPe propaganda trying to gaslight us into abandoning Trump when They’ve never delivered on a single promise.
The GOPe is dead to most Republican voters.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Biden’s emissions are not in control now. that needs to be a discussion for the Green Summit.
This is a writer for Asia Times and probably a liberal, but not GOPe. To me the jist of the story is that Biden has no foreign policy and won’t be able to have one because he isn’t up to being a president and has no support at home or abroad..
Yes but he is the best farter and sleeper of all the world leaders.
The significant difference being that Biden enjoys a totally adoring press willing even to ignore his decline into full blown dementia. In contrast, Trump was forced to battle the combined forces of the Democrat-controlled media teaming up with a corrupt intelligence community that colluded with the Clinton campaign and the Obama administration. The other significant difference being, despite the enormous opposition, Trump was still able to put America back on track while Biden, in a mere 10 months, has only managed to wreck the country.
I totally agree with your summary. Republicans have to fight back on every front while Democrats receive little scrutiny. Thus the public is in the dark about what’s actually going on. It’s up to the patriots in this country to educate them.
They don't have to handle their interests by themselves, all that Trump and conservatives asked was that they contribute what they previously promised to contribute.
President Poopy-pants!
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