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    @Forward Observer: Let's' agree to disagree.
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    President Biden has talked tough about Vladimir Putin, but his policy response has been mixed. This week’s sanctions decision on the Nord Stream 2 natural gas pipeline provides more reason for concern.

    Axios reported Tuesday that the State Department will send a report to Congress listing entities that should face sanctions over their association with the $11 billion gas pipeline. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said at his confirmation hearing that he was “determined to do whatever we can” to stop the project. Turns out that’s not entirely true.

    As one of his first official acts, Mr. Biden shut down the Keystone XL pipeline that would improve U.S. energy security. He is treating a pipeline that increases Russian influence and income better than one that enhances America’s.

    https://www.wsj.com/articles/bidens-...-2-11621452707
    Self-destructing domestic and neighboring energy suppliers to cater to the base is just part of Democrat politics. Even so, if Biden has chosen to be ambivalent about the Kremlin’s ambitions to return Eastern Europe to a collection of Russian satellites, one wonders what the point was of pressing Trump to be more hawkish lest anything less be considered evidence of undue deference to Putin. Giving ground on Nord Stream 2 is an unforced error, with no offsetting benefits to US/German relations, and certainly not the end of Putin’s ambitions.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Lord Thesaurian View Post
    Self-destructing domestic and neighboring energy suppliers to cater to the base is just part of Democrat politics. Even so, if Biden has chosen to be ambivalent about the Kremlin’s ambitions to return Eastern Europe to a collection of Russian satellites, one wonders what the point was of pressing Trump to be more hawkish lest anything less be considered evidence of undue deference to Putin. Giving ground on Nord Stream 2 is an unforced error, with no offsetting benefits to US/German relations, and certainly not the end of Putin’s ambitions.
    The Kremlin has no serious "ambitions to return Eastern Europe to a collection of Russian satellites". Almost all of the countries in the former Soviet Bloc are either EU members or EU applicants. Russia has the capacity to frustrate US interests, but the Democrats have wildly exaggerated the threat it poses as well as its intentions.



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    Quote Originally Posted by Cope View Post
    The Kremlin has no serious "ambitions to return Eastern Europe to a collection of Russian satellites". Almost all of the countries in the former Soviet Bloc are either EU members or EU applicants. Russia has the capacity to frustrate US interests, but the Democrats have wildly exaggerated the threat it poses as well as its intentions.
    Russia has for centuries competed for influence and territory in Eastern Europe while positioning herself in opposition to western liberalism as the “Gendarme of Europe.” It would be foolish to presume the desire to frustrate US policy is an end in itself when the designs predate the existence of that policy. Whether or not the Kremlin will be successful in this is anyone’s guess.

    Russia, like China, combines public and private resources to create corporate conglomerates that can compete with western companies and advance the Kremlin’s geopolitical interests. Gazprom is a prime example of this strategy, akin to Huawei or the National Iranian Oil Company. Lifting sanctions on the firm as it relates to Nord Stream 2 categorically presents greater costs to the US than benefits.
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    The Arizona "audit" is now claiming that ballots for Trump were fed to chickens and then the chickens were incinerated so there would be no evidence. Of course. Everyone knows you can't just DIRECTLY burn ballots. Chickens have to eat them first.

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    Chairman Xiden quotes Chairman Mao in address to Coast Guard cadets:

    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2...cement-speech/

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    This is Xiden from 2017. Isn't he too young to be a chairman?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cope View Post
    The Kremlin has no serious "ambitions to return Eastern Europe to a collection of Russian satellites". Almost all of the countries in the former Soviet Bloc are either EU members or EU applicants. Russia has the capacity to frustrate US interests, but the Democrats have wildly exaggerated the threat it poses as well as its intentions.
    He's been meddling politics in those countries. Regardless of his intention, challenges like this should not be unanswered.

    These days dictators like him and Erdogan think they can just annoy free countries and foreign democracies publicly without consequence, rather than the other way around. It'd be nice if we restore Cold War level preparedness and imperialism to actively protect our interests (basically, just think and act the way he does).
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    https://thehill.com/homenews/adminis...ent-poll-finds

    You can tell it's fact because the comments are crawling with Russians, and MAGAs so angry their red hats are spinning.

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    Well, why wouldn't Biden's approval ratings NOT be raising?
    The Pandemic restrictions are easing. With that, the economy of USA (I haven't checked) is probably already going up. Trump's ratings would also increase around now.
    And on top of the "Whomever the president was, his ratings would be going up nowdays" we also have the: "And Biden is not actively going out of his way to pick fights" which of course means he would be more popular than Trump.

    You may think he was good, bad or mediocre. But there's no question that Trump was picking fights. Which many people like in him BTW and you may think that Trump is right to pick fights with the "Swamp" or the illegal Immigrants or China or the CoVID experts or his own party. I am not trolling here. I respect your opinion in thinking that Trump is right to fight X and applaud it.
    Biden is not starting fights. He may fight if he has to but he's not actively looking to start a fight. Which many people like in him BTW and you may think that Biden is right to avoid fighting the radicals in his own party or Russia or China while all of them kinda try to provoke him.

    But to get to the point: Many people like a PotUS that is actively looking for fights with the "bad people" as his side defines them. More people like a PotUS that is NOT actively looking for fights and it is too early to call Biden a coward or that he lacks spirit to fight all-together even where his supports think he should be fighting.

    So we have: Biden is PotUS during the recovery and healing of a bad pandemic + Biden is not starting fights.
    Of course his ratings would go up.
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    American nationalism will kill us all, and probably soon. I honestly can't say which one of you guys are more bloodthirsty.
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    I wouldn't get too excited yet since the poll reported by The Hill appears to be an outlier. The same poll (Harvard Harris) showed Biden up at 61% back in February while no other polls showed him that high.

    The Gallup poll released last week shows him at 54% almost unchanged from a month ago.

    https://news.gallup.com/poll/329384/...joe-biden.aspx

    Fivethirtyeight, which averages all polls shows Biden at 54.7% favorable--up about 1.5 points from his 100 day mark. The Harvard Harris poll quoted in "The Hill" article is part of the Fivethirtyeight's averages and they are fully almost 7 or 8 points higher than any other poll--hence my statement about presently being an outlier. Of course all this could change rather quickly if other polls start to reflect this sort of increase. The Gallup poll is part of the averages also.

    https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com...proval-rating/

    However, there is one thing that is rising faster on the graph presented by Fivethirtyeight

    Notice that while his favorability line is relatively flat, his unfavorability line is rising. This would represent independents or people who declined to take a stance on earlier polls. Once again it is important to say that the poll quoted by "The Hill" is averaged into the number below. It is one of those green dots that is way above the mean line.

    Note: The averaging data is updated almost on a daily basis and has changed since I took this screenshot. Both percentages have dropped by a tenth of a percent.






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    Quote Originally Posted by Coughdrop addict View Post
    https://thehill.com/homenews/adminis...ent-poll-finds

    You can tell it's fact because the comments are crawling with Russians, and MAGAs so angry their red hats are spinning.
    So Xiden's poll numbers are through the roof, but his number one supporting news site is tanking?

    https://www.americanthinker.com/blog...arrassing.html

    I view that as very suspicious. When you factor in rising food and gas prices I don't see how it is possible. And don't forget about the border problem.

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    Quote Originally Posted by B. W. View Post
    So Xiden's poll numbers are through the roof, but his number one supporting news site is tanking?

    https://www.americanthinker.com/blog...arrassing.html

    I view that as very suspicious. When you factor in rising food and gas prices I don't see how it is possible. And don't forget about the border problem.
    What border problem, Ben?
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    As alhoon said, Biden's popularity is down to his own personal competency and a willingness to hire people based on their competency rather than their ability to tickle his ego. The difference speaks for itself.

    The US lost 9 million jobs and over 500,000 lives to a coronavirus pandemic the previous administration failed to respond to. The US economy lost 5% in the first quarter of 2020. And Trump was the laughing stock of world leaders because of his infantile behavior.

    Biden, in just over 100 days, saw 1.9 million jobs created, over 160 million people vaccinated, and the economy grew by more than 4% in Q1 2021.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Gromovnik View Post
    What border problem, Ben?
    I know left-wing media is trying to hide the problem by not covering it, but "come on man" you can't really be that far in the dark:

    https://www.breitbart.com/border/202...gs-says-chief/

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    The Taliban have negotiated Afghan troop surrenders in the past, but never at the scale and pace of the base collapses this month in the four provinces extending east, north and west of Kabul. The tactic has removed hundreds of government forces from the battlefield, secured strategic territory and reaped weapons, ammunition and vehicles for the Taliban — often without firing a shot.

    https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/27/w...r-taliban.html
    The Afghan government appears to be losing the country as quickly as the US can withdraw from it, with Sec Def noting the latter is ahead of schedule. Trump may be remembered as the most scandalous POTUS in living memory, but Biden deserves plenty of credit for continuing this farce, leaving our allies to die while we surrender to the terrorists who harbored bin Laden even more quickly than planned. This from the guy who pledged to bolster and reaffirm US commitments to our allies around the world. In the face of this self-inflicted, modern day Saigon scenario, why should our allies believe US commitments to their defense against China or Russia? We can’t even commit to protecting the Afghans from sickly peasants armed with scavenged weapons. Shame and disgust.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Lord Thesaurian View Post
    The Afghan government appears to be losing the country as quickly as the US can withdraw from it, with Sec Def noting the latter is ahead of schedule. Trump may be remembered as the most scandalous POTUS in living memory, but Biden deserves plenty of credit for continuing this farce, leaving our allies to die while we surrender to the terrorists who harbored bin Laden even more quickly than planned. This from the guy who pledged to bolster and reaffirm US commitments to our allies around the world. In the face of this self-inflicted, modern day Saigon scenario, why should our allies believe US commitments to their defense against China or Russia? We can’t even commit to protecting the Afghans from sickly peasants armed with scavenged weapons. Shame and disgust.
    It's been twenty years. Twenty years. The longest war the US ever fought. Over 2000 American soldiers dead. Trillions of dollars spent. And what do we have to show for it? Nothing.

    The very fact you call the Taliban sickly peasants with scavenged weapons shows we've learned nothing from this. These sickly peasants have no problem taking on American trained and equipped Afghan soldiers and beating them soundly. Underestimating them is and was a mistake. Too late now though. This war isn't winnable and it's time to go.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Vanoi View Post
    It's been twenty years. Twenty years. The longest war the US ever fought. Over 2000 American soldiers dead. Trillions of dollars spent. And what do we have to show for it? Nothing.

    The very fact you call the Taliban sickly peasants with scavenged weapons shows we've learned nothing from this. These sickly peasants have no problem taking on American trained and equipped Afghan soldiers and beating them soundly. Underestimating them is and was a mistake. Too late now though. This war isn't winnable and it's time to go.
    Alot of rhetoric here, but your talking points are out of date.

    A. The US has stationed troops abroad for decades, currently in 150 or so countries. Trillions of dollars spent, and what do we have to show for it? The answer can be virtually anything you want it to be.

    Most Republicans and nearly half of all Americans - an increasing number - support a permanent presence in Iraq and Afghanistan, even though most don’t think the wars there were worth it.



    Most Americans also believe military spending should be maintained or increased overall.



    B. The US’ combat role ended in 2013-2014. If you’re going to bemoan the NATO/coalition presence in the country as a “war,” you might as well oppose all USM and allied military activities abroad on principle.
    C. The Taliban are sickly peasants armed with scavenged weapons. Literally. The US may have underestimated their resilience for some duration in the past, but in the end, supporting the Afghan government with equipment, funding, training, and military assistance was always the only long term solution. The USG has simply abandoned the mission for domestic political reasons, throwing away what little gains were made and leaving our allies to be butchered.
    D. By 2020, the US had more troops stationed throughout the Persian Gulf region than in Afghanistan. Servicing the national debt costs hundreds of billions a year. More US soldiers have died by suicide since 2001 than in combat in Afghanistan. Most Americans probably don’t know or care. The idea that Americans are legitimately war weary is a matter of individual political preference at best.
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