What are Biden's foreign policies?
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Fogdog
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Being a Trumptard or Putin shill is getting harder these days. As time goes by, more and more evidence becomes available that shows how corrupt and oppressive they are. (or were)
Choco8
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Oh, so they DID find collusion?
Mueller Report Doesn't Find Russian Collusion, But Can't 'Exonerate' On Obstruction
Attorney General William Barr and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein prepared a summary of the special counsel's findings after learning on Friday from Robert Mueller that his work was complete.
www.npr.org
Yes, that along with the "Skripal Poisoning". 100% bullshit for gullible liberals who are obsessed with Putin and watch Rachel Maddow.
BTW. Have fun when the Republicans sweep the midterms after Biden's continuing failure to deliver the goods and backtrack on his promises. Maybe he'll finally achieve his dream of cutting Social Security where Obama failed.
Also: Did you get your "$2000 check" yet?
Fogdog
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Can Biden Finally Put the Middle East in Check and Pivot Already?
The new administration, like previous ones, has a Middle East quagmire. But it’s trying some nuanced moves to break free.
The first test came in mid-February, when Iranian-backed Shiite militias fired rockets at a U.S. air base in northern Iraq, killing a Filipino contractor and injuring a U.S. service member. Since Biden’s inauguration, Iran has targeted not only U.S. forces in Iraq, as it has for years, but also launched attacks against Saudi oil fields, airports, and other facilities.
Biden took time to respond, but there were no unenforced red lines, angry tweets, or saber-rattling rhetoric—just a carefully targeted strike on a Syrian crossing used by Iranian-backed militias to launch attacks across the border on U.S. forces and a muted U.S. Defense Department statement saying, “President Biden will act to protect American and Coalition personnel.”
If Obama was all carrot and Trump was all stick, then Biden seems to favor a healthier mix of engagement and dialogue.
It was a deliberate pawn advance in the administration’s chess game, not a reckless charge. The attack was a warning that the United States was not to be trifled with but was not so severe that it closed the door to diplomacy. Indeed, Biden launched the strikes at the same time that his administration offered to relaunch talks with Iran over salvaging the 2015 nuclear deal, sending a clear message to Tehran that attacks on U.S. personnel or its allies would not be tolerated but that dialogue remained the endgame.
foreignpolicy.com
In an earlier post, I transcribed the eight top policy objectives listed by the head of the US State department. The middle east did not make this list. Confronting China was number eight.
But it's not as if the US isn't still in the mix of things. Biden's recent actions (Gabbard called it "unconstitutional", lol) were pretty much the same as before, so, is anything different? Not on the surface. It doesn't seem all that different. Perhaps because the same people and the same problems are still there. Still, though, we went from dumbass Shrub to Obama, both of whom failed to extricate the US, to Trump who -- achieved nothing.
Repeating one's actions and expecting a different result seems to be US policy in the Middle East.
The new administration, like previous ones, has a Middle East quagmire. But it’s trying some nuanced moves to break free.
The first test came in mid-February, when Iranian-backed Shiite militias fired rockets at a U.S. air base in northern Iraq, killing a Filipino contractor and injuring a U.S. service member. Since Biden’s inauguration, Iran has targeted not only U.S. forces in Iraq, as it has for years, but also launched attacks against Saudi oil fields, airports, and other facilities.
Biden took time to respond, but there were no unenforced red lines, angry tweets, or saber-rattling rhetoric—just a carefully targeted strike on a Syrian crossing used by Iranian-backed militias to launch attacks across the border on U.S. forces and a muted U.S. Defense Department statement saying, “President Biden will act to protect American and Coalition personnel.”
If Obama was all carrot and Trump was all stick, then Biden seems to favor a healthier mix of engagement and dialogue.
It was a deliberate pawn advance in the administration’s chess game, not a reckless charge. The attack was a warning that the United States was not to be trifled with but was not so severe that it closed the door to diplomacy. Indeed, Biden launched the strikes at the same time that his administration offered to relaunch talks with Iran over salvaging the 2015 nuclear deal, sending a clear message to Tehran that attacks on U.S. personnel or its allies would not be tolerated but that dialogue remained the endgame.
Can Biden Finally Put the Middle East in Check and Pivot Already?
The new administration, like previous ones, has a Middle East quagmire. But it’s trying some nuanced moves to break free.
foreignpolicy.com
In an earlier post, I transcribed the eight top policy objectives listed by the head of the US State department. The middle east did not make this list. Confronting China was number eight.
But it's not as if the US isn't still in the mix of things. Biden's recent actions (Gabbard called it "unconstitutional", lol) were pretty much the same as before, so, is anything different? Not on the surface. It doesn't seem all that different. Perhaps because the same people and the same problems are still there. Still, though, we went from dumbass Shrub to Obama, both of whom failed to extricate the US, to Trump who -- achieved nothing.
Repeating one's actions and expecting a different result seems to be US policy in the Middle East.
Fogdog
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Reported as spam.
Fogdog
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Actually, this is exactly what the US government needs to do right now. Tell us why we shouldn't?
Choco8
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lmao. I guess that makes me a "Putin Follower", right? I love this kind of simple-minded amateur-hour McCarthyism.
Again...there is no actual evidence, only "assertions" pointing to more "assertions".
Hey have you heard about Biden's point man for Iran? Pretty much like the ghouls crowing about the "sanctions crushing the economy".
Biden Iran envoy boasted of depriving civilians of food, driving up Iranian inequality in sadistic sanctions manual - The Grayzone
Richard Nephew has taken personal credit for depriving Iranians of food and driving up their unemployment rates, celebrating the economic destruction he caused as "a tremendous success." Under Biden, he will help direct policy on Iran. (Aquí puedes leer este artículo en español.) The Joseph...
thegrayzone.com
Choco8
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It's a fact. One that makes Obama look bad.
Military-Age Males in Counterinsurgency and Drone Warfare | Sarah Shoker | Palgrave Macmillan
This book documents the political ecosystem that legitimized violent military action against military-age males in US military operations after September 11, 2001, and argues that the military-age male category contributed to the deterioration of civilian protection...
www.palgrave.com
Fogdog
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lulz at the biden hobgoblin shooting drone missiles at brown children.
Does that kind of Pravda-propaganda poster-shit work any more?
Choco8
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I think you misunderstood that post. Maybe read it again? I am saying that the WaPo is characterizing the reduced payments from Biden as generous when they are in fact NOT.
Choco8
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It's a political cartoon. One that is anti-war. Biden just killed people in Syria, did he not? Did he consult congress?
THIS is America:
Fogdog
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Nobody but a Putin follower would believe him, so, I guess you are one.lmao. I guess that makes me a "Putin Follower", right? I love this kind of simple-minded amateur-hour McCarthyism.
Again...there is no actual evidence, only "assertions" pointing to more "assertions".
Hey have you heard about Biden's point man for Iran? Pretty much like the ghouls crowing about the "sanctions crushing the economy".
Biden Iran envoy boasted of depriving civilians of food, driving up Iranian inequality in sadistic sanctions manual - The Grayzone
Richard Nephew has taken personal credit for depriving Iranians of food and driving up their unemployment rates, celebrating the economic destruction he caused as "a tremendous success." Under Biden, he will help direct policy on Iran. (Aquí puedes leer este artículo en español.) The Joseph...
Don't go near any windows. People who are close to Putin tend to get sucked out of them when they are 9 stories up.
Fogdog
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Biden and Democratic Congress will be judged according to how well they handle the end days of this epidemic and how well the economy recovers. I think the bill goes a long way to supporting both. If successful, it will cause many GOP tears in 2022.
You: I want a bigger check
Take your complaint to West Virginia.
Fogdog
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Choco8
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Ladies and Gentlemen : Presenting the McCarthyism Revival Resistance! Mindlessly insinuating that people are "Putin followers" ( whatever the fuck that is) because you are sick of US imperialism and military adventurism and question the narrative presented by the war-machine-backing US media. It's the perfect solution when you don't actually have any facts on your side.
Super Savvy Liberal BidenStans: "Yeah sure we have been lied into every war before, but THIS ONE"S DIFFERENT"
Choco8
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True or False:
"The United States has been involved in numerous foreign interventions throughout its history."
Fogdog
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Hey, you are the one who is mindlessly repeating his lies. Skripal was poisoned by Putin's agents and that's a fact. Assad used Sarin gas on civilians and that was the least of his war crimes. Fact
Don't go near any windows. I'm sure it's all just "coincidence" but politifact has a nice write-up about Putin's murders.
Chris Wallace asked why Vladimir Putin’s critics end up dead. Here are the details
PolitiFact - Chris Wallace asked why Vladimir Putin’s critics end up dead. Here are the details
Fox News host Chris Wallace pressed Russian President Vladimir Putin on the subjects President Donald Trump failed to br/> <meta name=
Wallace mentioned Sergei Skripal, a former Russian spy who doubled as a spy for the British government. Skripal and his daughter were the victims of a nerve agent attack in England in March. The British government blames Russia for the attack, which Russia denies.
Wallace also mentioned Boris Nemtsov, a political star with presidential aspirations in the 1990s. Nemtsov supported Putin’s victory in 2000, but became an anti-Putin activist as his fellow young reformer increasingly curbed civil liberties. He was shot in 2015 the day before a march he organized to protest Russia’s economy and military involvement in Ukraine.
Alexander Litvinenko was a former Russian secret service agent. In November 1998, Litvinenko and other FSB officers accused their superiors of assassinating a Russian tycoon. Litvinenko was arrested and eventually had charges dismissed in 2000. Litvinenko was granted asylum in London, where he wrote two books accusing Putin of staging a terrorist attack linked to his rise to power and ordering journalist Anna Politkovskaya’s murder. He subsequently fell ill and died of radioactive polonium poisoning.
Journalists
In January 2016, we tallied journalists whose deaths were classified as homicides by authorities or watchdog groups since Putin assumed office in 2000. The updated count is 38.
(The tally only includes deaths confirmed or likely to be work-related homicides committed in Russia. It doesn’t include murders where the motives are unclear, or journalists killed in war and on other dangerous assignments, like covering the mob or riots.)
Here are some of the most famous cases.
Politkovskaya, who covered human rights abuses by the Russian military in Chechnya, was shot outside her apartment. While five men were convicted of her murder, the judge found it was a contract killing by an unknown person. The European Court of Human Rights determined the court "failed to take adequate investigatory steps to find the person or persons who had commissioned the murder."
Natalia Estemirova, who sometimes worked with Politkovskaya, covered abductions and murders in Chechnya until she became a victim herself. She was kidnapped on her way to work, shot and found in the woods near her home.
Anastasiya Baburova, another journalist, was shot and killed within walking distance of the Kremlin alongside Stanislav Markelov, a human rights lawyer representing Politkovskaya and other journalists critical of Putin.
Yuri Shchekochikhin, an investigative journalist and liberal lawmaker, investigated the Three Whales affair, a corruption scandal that implicated officers across Russia’s secret service. Days before his scheduled meeting with FBI investigators in 2003, Shchekochikhin died in his apartment from an unknown allergen. His medical documents were classified by Russian authorities
Not to mention the poisoning of Novalny.
Fogdog
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I asked first. Answer my question.
Never liked the "it's not a war if you're going after individuals not connected to the government" angle. Bush Jr. didn't exactly help the world getting lawyers to weasel that loophole. Have some other country come here and bomb Antifa or the Proud Boys and see how that goes over. It'd be stamped as an act of war in two seconds.
Choco8
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No, actually. My position is that there is no proof that Russia was behind either "poisoning", because to date there is no actual EVIDENCE, only "assertions". I don't even know or care what Putin has to say about it. THOSE are the facts.