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Shy Boy's avatar

So Poland shut down Yamal pipeline and gave up the revenue. OK. But Ukraine, despite all the saber-rattling, continues to transport Russian gas and take rubles from Gazprom!

https://edwardslavsquat.substack.com/p/the-ones-we-should-be-fighting-will

So hard to keep one's hypocrisometer calibrated these days.

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Pepe's avatar

President Trump's Cabinet choices were severely impacted by the Traitor McConnell not putting the Senate into recess. To judge President Trump's choices without taking this fact into account gives a very distorted view of the President's judgment.

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SMH's avatar

Does no one in DC recognize how incompetent, impotent and inept we look on the world stage right now? Our threats appear as what they are, empty and foolish gestures. We have become the Barney Fife and Inspector Cleuseau of geopolitical endeavors!

“Nobody f@&ks with a Biden”, give me a break!! When I was growing up in Kansas, we had a saying about blowhards like Joe Biden,”he’s nuthin but hot air and horseshit”.

A jerk, a joke and a jack wagon all rolled into one.

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huskercr's avatar

My fear is that the elite in DC actually see themselves as extremely competent, able to not just impact but perhaps even direct world events, and intellectually a cut above leaders in other countries as well as those on the other side of the aisle. They do not seem to let reality intrude on their self-delusions.

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SMH's avatar

No argument here. These people are, like the old joke goes, legends in their own minds…..

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Ray-SoCa's avatar

Biden’s administration only modus operandi / toolbox with non hostile states, is using threats / pressure / sanctions, verbal pressure, social media, etc. Basically force.

Saudis have the options to reduce the petroleum dollar, and reduce assets in the West. I expect this to happen, which will hurt the us Follar as the worlds reserve currency.

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Chuck's avatar

So how did Bolton get to be Trump's NSA, however briefly? Was he a Pence recommendation, or Trump's son-in-law, or ...?

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Ray-SoCa's avatar

He replaced H.R. McMaster that watered down Trumps agenda of America First over his 18 month, after Flynn got railroaded. Bolton lasted over a year.

Trump was probably attracted by their similar views on nato, un, etc. the dissimilarities were on the use of force and negotiations.

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Ray-SoCa's avatar

With so many people betraying and lying to Trump, sounds right.

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ML's avatar

Tx for the roundup Mark. Looks like the Euro energy chickens are coming home to roost. Trump called out the Germans on their hypocrisy, that of paying Russia billions for energy while the American taxpayer picks up the bill defending them from same energy supplier! That alone was enough for the DS to get rid of T - what? then there’d be no more wars?!

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