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While tRump is in the sewer with seditious repukes waging war on Democracy and all else of a civilized nature on Earth, Team Biden has demonstrated the real courage of the U.S. and allies at defending humanity against the barbaric atrocities of uncivilized creatures on Earth:
Biden rises to the moment as Ukraine makes battle against autocracy real
A year ago no one foresaw a Russian invasion as the president’s top issue but US approval for his handling of the crisis is rising
When Joe Biden made the struggle between democracy and autocracy the lodestar of his presidency, it was widely assumed that his principal antagonists would be China’s Xi Jinping abroad and America’s own Donald Trump at home.
But it is Vladimir Putin of Russia who has made the contest more immediate and literal than anyone expected, launching a bloody invasion of Ukraine that threatens to bring down a new iron curtain in Europe.
Joe Biden addresses a joint session of Congress in April last year.
State of the Union: Joe Biden pledges to make Putin pay for Ukraine invasion
Biden, who made no mention of Putin, Russia or nuclear weapons in his inaugural address, is discovering a truism of US history: American presidencies are often defined by crises that no one saw coming.
“I am old enough to remember [British prime minister] Harold Macmillan who, when asked what was driving his actions, replied, ‘Events, dear boy, events’,” said Bill Galston, a former policy adviser to President Bill Clinton. “I’m sure when Joe Biden was running for president, the last thing on his mind was a revival of the cold war.
“He was already focused, and has been for years, on the conflict between democracy and autocracy but that was more of a frame for looking at the world than it was an operational manual. Now here we are. It’s truly extraordinary when you think about it.”
Just as Biden’s empathy was seen as ideal for meeting the moment of the coronavirus pandemic, and just as his record of bipartisanship was thought to be well suited to healing America’s divisions, so his storied foreign policy experience and faith in multinational institutions appear to bode well for this test."
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/mar/06/joe-biden-ukraine-autocracy-democracy-approval
Biden rises to the moment as Ukraine makes battle against autocracy real
A year ago no one foresaw a Russian invasion as the president’s top issue but US approval for his handling of the crisis is rising
When Joe Biden made the struggle between democracy and autocracy the lodestar of his presidency, it was widely assumed that his principal antagonists would be China’s Xi Jinping abroad and America’s own Donald Trump at home.
But it is Vladimir Putin of Russia who has made the contest more immediate and literal than anyone expected, launching a bloody invasion of Ukraine that threatens to bring down a new iron curtain in Europe.
Joe Biden addresses a joint session of Congress in April last year.
State of the Union: Joe Biden pledges to make Putin pay for Ukraine invasion
Biden, who made no mention of Putin, Russia or nuclear weapons in his inaugural address, is discovering a truism of US history: American presidencies are often defined by crises that no one saw coming.
“I am old enough to remember [British prime minister] Harold Macmillan who, when asked what was driving his actions, replied, ‘Events, dear boy, events’,” said Bill Galston, a former policy adviser to President Bill Clinton. “I’m sure when Joe Biden was running for president, the last thing on his mind was a revival of the cold war.
“He was already focused, and has been for years, on the conflict between democracy and autocracy but that was more of a frame for looking at the world than it was an operational manual. Now here we are. It’s truly extraordinary when you think about it.”
Just as Biden’s empathy was seen as ideal for meeting the moment of the coronavirus pandemic, and just as his record of bipartisanship was thought to be well suited to healing America’s divisions, so his storied foreign policy experience and faith in multinational institutions appear to bode well for this test."
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/mar/06/joe-biden-ukraine-autocracy-democracy-approval
