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Ray-SoCa's avatar

What is the impact on the perception of the United States by other countries leadership of the Biden Special Counsel Accusation of memory issues?

Especially in the Middle East…

Contrast with Putin’s Tucker Carlson performance.

My guess is there is zero trust and faith in U.S. promises, at a minimum, by any Middle East country.

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SMH's avatar

I think it just confirms what everyone outside of the country already knew, Biden is a bumbling incompetent idiot who is play acting POTUS. Any doubt of that fact were fully dismissed with Thursday night’s press conference. What an outrageous embarrassment and confirmation that Joe Biden is a doddering old fool who is ill tempered, petty and decidedly NOT in charge of anything.

“A well meaning old man with a poor memory”, can’t be prosecuted but he can continue as POTUS!! What an outrageous display of the two-tiered and corrupt DOJ that exists in the country. Anybody think that would have been the conclusion if this was DJT? Yeh, me neither.

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Antipodes's avatar

So far the IOF has used their big bombs prior to advancing on foot.

Big bombs dropped onto the Rafah Refugee camps will take the Civillian Deaths into the 100K range.

This will be bad.

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Meredith Hobbs's avatar

I will not vote for a genocider.

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Steghorn21's avatar

A plague on both political houses. Neither of them gives a damn about ordinary Americans. Meanwhile the hypocrisy over Israel is nauseating. America could end the Gaza genocide in 5 minutes by threatening to cut all funding and weaponry supplies to Israel.

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SMH's avatar

I’ll give you four thumbs up on this comment Steg! I’m am sick to death of these posturing clowns acting like they are all about “the people’s business”, what a crock. They had a chance to impeach that lowlife dirtbag Myorkas and what did they do, the usual “nothing”. I don’t see how we get out of this, I really don’t.

I wish I could get on the “when Trump wins” bandwagon, but I do not see these people giving up the reigns of power, let alone allowing DJT back in the Oval Office. They are so far in at this point that for them it is “do or die” and those kinds of people do not care, as you stated, about the people of the country or even the country itself-WE WILL RETAIN POWER NO MATTER WHAT WE HAVE TO DO!

As many commenters have said, we are in the lull before the storm. And with apologies to Stephen King, it’ll be the storm of the century.

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Mark Wauck's avatar

That's pretty good. What if they're not geniuses, just super evil?

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D F Barr's avatar

Some may use evil to seek power and control to compensate for their incompetence and midwitness. Dangerous to the rest of us nonetheless.

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Cosmo T Kat's avatar

Psychopaths are generally quite intelligent, they simply lack a conscious, feelings of remorse or guilt and they only seek power and the pleasure they get from taking the life blood of others.

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Cosmo T Kat's avatar

I've heard a similar term and it is apt for the people cited in the article however; it only skims the surface of the Philanthropaths that exist and haunt our world.

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Mark Wauck's avatar

It seems clear that Trump is feeling his way on the peace issue, looking for the right way to frame the issue, feeling out support.

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Steghorn21's avatar

True. November is a very long way off in terms of the Gaza conflict. A lot can happen before then to help him make up his mind.

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dissonant1's avatar

Yes. He needs to reconcile his general emphasis on "America First" and staying out of foreign wars (which is popular with the MAGA base) with his repeated boasting of and record of strong support for Israel (which is popular with the MIC, the Neocons, and their benefactors).

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dissonant1's avatar

You might be right in the end, Castelleto. Regardless, I think Trump will have to walk a very fine and delicate line through the election season regarding his positions on Israel and Ukraine. He needs Republican Party support for his campaign - and the Republican Party leaders have shown themselves to be war hawks. Their support of Israel and Ukraine has not, so far, been conditional in any way.

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