Yes he's always been a murderous cunt but something has changed, now he's a suicidal murderous cunt. He now actually believes his own propaganda and is unstable, rule a world wide russian empire is fucking insane, maybe he's already had covid and it fried his brain.
Who would've thought that war was good for incumbent leaders....Speaking of, maybe the war is good for some leaders.
Biden's job approval ticks up to 44 percent: poll
Forty-four percent of voters approve of President Biden’s job performance as he faces crises on several fronts, according to a new Bipartisan Policy Center-commissioned survey from Morning Consult.
The poll marks a slight uptick from Biden’s average approval rating, which currently sits at just over 41 percent, according to a compilation of surveys by FiveThirtyEight.
Of registered voters surveyed, 21 percent said they “strongly approve” of the job Biden is doing, while 23 percent said they “somewhat approve.” Another 40 percent said they “strongly disapprove,” and 12 percent said they “somewhat disapprove.”
Four percent of respondents said they don’t know or had no opinion on Biden's performance.
When asked about the general direction of the country, however, 65 percent of voters said it is on the “wrong track,” compared to just 35 percent who said the U.S. is going in the “right direction.”
Biden is currently facing a slew of crises at home and abroad that pushed his approval rating into the low- or mid-40s.
Record-high inflation has fueled grumblings over the economic recovery from the coronavirus pandemic, and fights over mask and vaccine mandates are only now starting to abate after new guidance was released from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on where masks should be worn indoors.
Along with those domestic issues, Biden still faces criticism from last year’s bloody withdrawal from Afghanistan.
The president is now working with European allies to try and blunt Russia’s invasion of Ukraine by imposing crippling sanctions on Moscow and rushing weapons to Kyiv.
Biden’s job approval ticks up to 44 percent: poll
Forty-four percent of voters approve of President Biden’s job performance as he faces crises on several fronts, according to a new Bipartisan Policy Center-commissioned survey from Morning Consult.…thehill.com
Gah?
Sorry for the sarcasm.
It's early. Caffeine had not hit yet.
ahh your from nearly yesterday. Im 1/2 cut and a little stoned and about to crash. Hope you have an awesome day.
Word is he had French president Macron take 3 PCR tests before he would meet him.
And Russia still managed to fuck it up with their latest doping scandal.
www.politico.com
While also further degrading our relationship with China, and maybe even pushing Iran into a war so that Putin had more cover.
I couldn’t wrap my head around it either but this helps explain a lot.I can't leave the question of why did Putin invade Ukraine and does this end? The more I find out on the subject, the more likely it seems that Putin just might push the button.
Spoiler alert,
Putin did not invade because Biden was too weak of an opponent.
Putin has three main policy issues related to Ukraine.
Destabilize NATO
Erode democracy
Restore Ukraine 'status as Russian territory
Trump actively promoted two objectives as his own. The last, restoring Ukraine to Russia, was a big "I don't care" to Trump, although his gambit to coerce Ukraine into giving him personal political favors benefitted Putin by diminishing Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the eyes of Ukraine's voters. The author of the article below makes the case that Putin felt no need for invasion until Biden came along and overturned his apple cart.
It seems likely that Putin will eventually achieve his goal of taking control Ukraine's ground. He's not going to gain favor with the people of Ukraine. But owning the ground is enough to allow him to call it a win. He faces two losses though. NATO, with Trump's corrosive opposition no longer dragging it down and with Biden's active participation and contributions to the alliance seems as healthy as it ever has been. Regarding democracy, well, we'll see. Sanctions are going to diminish Russian influence. Putin has zero degrees of freedom to operate his anti-liberal campaigns at the moment. If the West has the will to stick by them as long as Russia is suffocating Ukrainian democracy and independence from Russia, then his ability to destabilize the democracy of his major opponents is over.
Not only does he face a rejuvenated NATO and large losses in influence worldwide, he's appearing to lose political support or and losses economic strength at home. He just might decide to push the button when he sees the path he's on leads to a failed term as leader of Russia.
Opinion | Why Didn’t Putin Invade Under Trump? It Wasn’t Personal.
Trump wanted to be friends with Putin. But it was his policies, not his friendship, that mattered.
Opinion | Why Didn’t Putin Invade Under Trump? It Wasn’t Personal.
Trump wanted to be friends with Putin. But it was his policies, not his friendship, that mattered.
Opinion by JESSICA PISANO
03/02/2022 04:30 AM EST
Jessica Pisano is an associate professor of politics at the New School for Social Research and an associate of the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University.
Now that Russian President Vladimir Putin has launched a ground war against Ukraine that he apparently has been planning for years, many have wondered why he waited until now. After all, the four years of Donald Trump’s presidency were an ebb tide of American power and influence, and Trump himself frequently went out of his way not to antagonize the Russian leader.
Wouldn’t it have been easier for Putin to invade Ukraine when Trump was president? The United States had abdicated its traditional leadership role in global alliances and left much of the rest of the world open to expanded Chinese and Russian influence. Plus, NATO had already expanded eastward to Russia’s borders, and the Kremlin already controlled Crimea and had proxies in the Donbas.
Some American politicians and commentators on the political right have tried to answer the question by comparing the purported strength or weakness of President Joe Biden with that of Trump, alleging that Putin saw Trump as stronger than Biden, even though Putin’s own description of Trump suggested the opposite. But beyond personality, there’s a far more likely and logical explanation if you look at policy alignment between Russia and America during the two administrations: With Trump in office, Putin was already getting what he wanted. The election changed all that.
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The truth is that during his administration, Trump’s policy alignment with Putin advanced the aims of Russia’s political elites, who could imagine that the United States was on their side. Their comfort with Trump was evident from the start; Americans may remember that Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov was warmly received in the White House and photographed in the Oval Office, while Russian parliament members toasted Trump’s electoral victory in 2016.
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The Biden White House has taken positions opposite those of the Trump administration on NATO. Biden has insisted on principles of state sovereignty, reaffirming and rebuilding the United States’ trans-Atlantic relationships, including strengthening NATO.
Biden took meaningful steps to support Ukraine in defending itself. Far from undermining Ukraine’s democratically elected government, the Biden administration has tried to create roadblocks for the Kremlin by getting inside Putin’s decision cycle, declassifying and broadcasting intelligence about Russia’s plans to attack Ukraine. Biden exhausted diplomatic channels trying to come to a peaceful resolution and worked with allies to prepare a sanctions package in advance of a Russian invasion.
And Biden has worked to protect democracy. Unlike Trump, rather than questioning the integrity of contests his party lost, Biden has spoken forcefully about the close legal scrutiny and fairness of all the 2020 elections. And he has supported congressional efforts to protect the franchise in the United States.
In retrospect,I bet Putin now wishes he had done this under Trump and how frightening pondering that thought is now w/the benefit of hindsight,so Putin did the next best thing trying to capitalize on the damage done to NATO by Trump quickly while Biden had only 1 yr. to repair the damage,but turns out 1yr, of Biden's efforts in addition to the horror of potentially seeing the dickhead back in the WHouse was more than enough for the Europeans to step up and get serious.If you're a Russian in the internal security services your assessment of this is what kind of world Russia finds itself in even if you take over Ukraine,You are facing economic collapse,a seriously disenfranchised civ. population on the verge of rebellion,a devastated Ukraine of 40 million needing complete infrastructure rebuilt,pretty serious attrition on the Russian military in manpower losses and equipment,complete pariah status and war crime accusations on the international stage,and a NATO beefed up on the borders,willing to spend more $ on defense,more unified than ever and unimpressed w/your recent operation showing more weakness than they could possibly contemplate in your forces.Only sane answer is to put Putin out to pasture and try to rehabilitate Russia in the world's eyes,admittedly a task of epic proportions.
I could not get one so I just bought a shitload of iodine from Alex Jones' website.
