Is bungling Biden sealing his own fate?

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The Ukraine war is not the end of Donald Trump

The idea that America needs a tough guy in charge will have more takers than it did before.

The Ukraine crisis is not the end of Donald Trump.

Liberals are right to bring up his past flirtations with the Kremlin, but they overrate the harm it will do to his electoral viability.

For one thing, few western leaders this century have a proud record on Russia. Biden belonged to a White House that “reset” relations with Moscow after its invasion of Georgia in 2008.

His former boss, Barack Obama, laughed away the notion of the Kremlin as America’s principal threat. The best that can be said about that administration’s Russia policy is that it has aged better than Angela Merkel’s.

Trump is damaged by his record, yes, but not uniquely or even especially so.

The other problem with invoking his past is selective quotation. Yes, Trump flattered foreign strongmen. But he also threatened them.

His world view has always been a dog’s breakfast of contradictions: praise for tyrants, but also a sense of macho competition with them; avoidance of foreign military burdens, but also a horror of anything that smells of weakness or retreat.

His handling of North Korea’s Kim Jong Un alternated between fatherly affection and impatience to nuke him off the planet.

In 2017, he enforced Obama’s red line against the use of chemical weapons in Syria — unlike Obama.

Trump, in short, meets the definition of strategic “madness”. He believes a US leader must be pugnacious and even reckless to keep the global peace. It is a belief that lacks nuance. It is likely a rationalization of what are just his own uncontrollable instincts. But it also has a surface plausibility now that it didn’t just a few months ago.

Were he taking Biden on in an election now, imagine the lines of attack at his disposal.

Should a US president really wait for Russia to invade a country before imposing sanctions?

Should he state up front (via tweet, no less) what he is not willing to do for Ukraine? What happened to strategic ambiguity?

And why is Trump the only US leader elected this century on whose watch Vladimir Putin has not attacked a neighbor?





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https://www.ft.com/content/047803e1-0785-4b8e-87be-46a99b42438e
 
I think we need to solve our own problems. In my opinion, the democrats should not condone the Judicature condoning unequal protection of our own Laws. Solving simple poverty through equal protection of our own laws in our own at-will employment States is a market friendly means of getting the homeless off the streets.
 
putin needed trump in the white house to fuck up our alliances with NATO and the EU. to defend him from murdering political opponents and journalists. and to blow him from time to time.
 
Bungling Biden to invoke war powers to make sure his investment in EV batteries pays

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BIDEN CRIME FAMILY PAYDIRT​

His son is part owner of a venture involved in the $3.8 billion purchase by a Chinese conglomerate of one of the world’s largest cobalt deposits. The metal is a key ingredient in batteries for electric vehicles.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/20/world/hunter-biden-china-cobalt.html


https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-03-30/biden-poised-to-invoke-cold-war-powers-to-boost-battery-metals


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Legion said:
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BIDEN CRIME FAMILY PAYDIRT​

His son is part owner of a venture involved in the $3.8 billion purchase by a Chinese conglomerate of one of the world’s largest cobalt deposits. The metal is a key ingredient in batteries for electric vehicles.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/20/world/hunter-biden-china-cobalt.html


https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-03-30/biden-poised-to-invoke-cold-war-powers-to-boost-battery-metals


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yeah, only hunter has any money in any chinese companies. is it against the law, even if true? then fuck you.
 
Better technologies at lower cost can make it more feasible to extract resources in a more environmentally friendly manner. New Cities in more optimum locations may be able to make use of the existing (proof of) work.
 
Putin didn’t invade another country while Trump was in charge cause he didn’t have to, pretty much got anything he wanted without actually invading, ie, eliminate rivals, move troops into the Middle East, interfere in others elections, befriend autocratic adversaries of US, etc., Putin realized the gravy train was over when Donnie lost
 
Biden’s firm helped China gain control of electric-car mineral

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Hunter Biden’s investment firm helped broker a deal that gave a Communist Chinese state-backed company control of a massive African mine rich in cobalt — a mineral essential for the production of electric car batteries.

The deal, first reported by the Washington Free Beacon during the 2020 presidential campaign, was spotlighted by the failing New York Times Saturday.

The investment firm founded by Hunter Biden with several Chinese partners was cut into a complex $3.8 billion transaction that transferred 80 percent of Congo’s Tenke Fungurum mine from an American company to Beijing-backed China Molybdenum.

Crime boss Joe Biden, Hunter’s father, was the vice president when the deal was struck.

The mine is one of the world’s largest sources of cobalt — and Red China’s control of the mineral “presents a critical vulnerability to the future of the U.S. domestic auto industry,” boss Biden’s White Louse admitted in June.

A White Louse spokesman said that Joe Biden had no knowledge of his son’s involvement with the sale, the Times reported.








https://nypost.com/2021/11/20/hunter-bidens-firm-helped-china-get-electric-car-mineral-report/
 
Federal investigation of Biden heats up

Washington (CNN)

A Justice Department investigation into Biden business activities has gained steam in recent months, with a flurry of witnesses providing testimony to federal investigators and more expected to provide interviews in the coming weeks, according to multiple sources familiar with the matter.

The probe, led by the US Attorney in Wilmington, Delaware, began as early as 2018 and concerns multiple financial and business activities in foreign countries dating to when Biden was vice president. Investigators have examined whether Biden and some of his associates violated money laundering, tax and foreign lobbying laws, as well as firearm and other regulations, multiple sources said.

To do so, law enforcement has gathered information from lobbyists connected to Biden, from his business partners, and from others who've observed his financial engagements.


https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/30/politics/hunter-biden-federal-investigation-heats-up/index.html
 
Wild spending to blame for Bidenflation spike, San Francisco Fed study says

Researchers at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco are weighing in – and they say that massive government spending during the coronavirus plandemic has caused U.S. inflation to surge more than in other developed economies.

"Fiscal support measures designed to counteract the severity of the pandemic’s economic effect may have contributed to this divergence by raising inflation about 3 percentage points by the end of 2021," wrote Òscar Jordà, Celeste Liu, Fernanda Nechio and Fabián Rivera-Reyes in the San Francisco Fed's weekly Economic Letter.


https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/government-spending-inflation-spike-san-francisco-federal-reserve
 
Legion said:
Researchers at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco are weighing in – and they say that massive government spending during the coronavirus plandemic has caused U.S. inflation to surge more than in other developed economies.

"Fiscal support measures designed to counteract the severity of the pandemic’s economic effect may have contributed to this divergence by raising inflation about 3 percentage points by the end of 2021," wrote Òscar Jordà, Celeste Liu, Fernanda Nechio and Fabián Rivera-Reyes in the San Francisco Fed's weekly Economic Letter.


https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/government-spending-inflation-spike-san-francisco-federal-reserve
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Can we get studies showing the scale economy effects on inflationary pressures with infrastructure upgrades accounting for that with scale economy solutions, please?
 
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