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Biden’s Russia-Ukraine diplomacy is
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Posted By: Magnante, 3/9/2022 4:49:04 AM

Far from rallying the free world as its leader in reacting to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, President Biden’s diplomatic team has been publicly snubbed and humiliated by even putative allies. Rather than “restoring respect” for the US, as Biden promised to do, his administration has severely damaged America’s standing as a country to be heeded. (snip) Poland, a vital and well-armed ally, humiliated Secretary of State Blinken after he tried to force it to provide Soviet-era Mig fighters to Ukrainian pilots who were trained in them. (snip) Serious as is Poland’s mockery, the rebuke suffered from our key Middle east Arab allies is perhaps even more devastating.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: Trigger2 3/9/2022 4:51:40 AM (No. 1094418)
It's expected when Joey himself is a spectacle.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: Toby Ten Bears 3/9/2022 5:21:54 AM (No. 1094444)
NATO wants to put missiles in Ukraine and point them at Russia. NATO wants access to Ukraine's natural resources. NATO wants to keep having access to the bio-chem labs they helped build. NATO wants Ukraine to be part of the Great Reset. The media wants us to support Ukraine. Russia wants NATO to NOT do any of that. It's the US and NATO's war... Stop believing the media's lies. (Like we all swore we would do).
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Reply 3 - Posted by: 5 handicap 3/9/2022 5:25:12 AM (No. 1094448)
Debacle, You expected something else?
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Reply 4 - Posted by: PChristopher 3/9/2022 5:32:45 AM (No. 1094455)
Everything this administration touches is a debacle. This is what happens when you let a bunch of high school level progressive fools, led by an incompetent vindictive doddering grifter steal an election. We might never recover from this and they should not be allowed to get off scot free!!
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Reply 5 - Posted by: F15 Gork 3/9/2022 6:40:22 AM (No. 1094494)
Send in the clowns....oh wait a minute, Winkin, Blinkin and Kamalalala are already there.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: Grateful 3/9/2022 7:17:11 AM (No. 1094511)
Joe Btfsplk occupies OUR Oval Office and everything that he touches turns to crap! The black cloud is over his head wherever he goes. Search for the name Btfsplk to find out about the Al Capp cartoon character that best describes Sleepy Joe.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: Strike3 3/9/2022 8:16:49 AM (No. 1094594)
We don't respect or listen to our illegal and disabled president, why should we expect any other country to do so? Through Obongo and Brandon we have lost a lot of standing in the world because they are both pussilanimous pansies and are still working together.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: bigfatslob 3/9/2022 8:27:44 AM (No. 1094611)
We have no leadership at this time in history. A low IQ demented fraud who stole an election with a dimwit POC ditz standing by him as a fraud vice president along with a fraud first lady. An unelected cabal of nitwits pose in front of us making decisions on dangerous situations like the Ukraine debacle. This is not my government or president as the misery stacks up on all of us because of these low intelligence grade school morons. Debacle is too nice a word for this bunch of morons.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: mean Gene 3/9/2022 8:46:04 AM (No. 1094635)
Since joe can no longer buy oil from Russia as hush money, he's doing the next best thing: he's impoverishing the USA. It comes out to the same thing.
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Reply 10 - Posted by: stablemoney 3/9/2022 9:17:35 AM (No. 1094671)
Biden and Blinken have never talked to Putin. There was never any diplomacy. Biden and Blinken both knew the Russians were assembling an invasion force for over a year, and sat and did nothing.
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Reply 11 - Posted by: DVC 3/9/2022 9:48:16 AM (No. 1094724)
EVERYTHING that these idiots are doing is a total debacle. Top to bottom, front to back, every single thing is completely dysfunctional. 100% broken.
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Reply 12 - Posted by: MDConservative 3/9/2022 10:03:14 AM (No. 1094745)
Many liberals posting here, all emotional about Ukraine and Joe and all that, ignoring the simple facts that #2 points out clearly and succinctly. Why do we want war? Why does anyone? That's where these posts promoting American/NATO involvement take the US, Europe and perhaps the world? What is the vital national interest of the United States in Ukraine? There is none that is obvious, except to protect the secrets Ukraine may hold, such as those labs. That liberal President George Washington advied us 220 years ago to avoid permanent alliances and stay away from foreign intrigues. NATO and Ukraine fit those to a tee. Washington envisioned a nation based on commerce to sustain prosperity, largely a neutral, not the "Leader of the Free World" thrashing about on behalf of its pusillanimous and weak "allies" around the world. Democracy is being threatened daily at home. Prosperity is being destroyed by our government. Where should we defend them?
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Reply 13 - Posted by: bpl40 3/9/2022 10:55:24 AM (No. 1094846)
Just freeze the words "is a debacle" and fill in the preceding blanks. Save a lot of work.
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Reply 14 - Posted by: skacmar 3/9/2022 5:31:32 PM (No. 1095159)
You think the diplomacy is bad now, wait until Kamala Harris goes to Poland and Hungary and spews some incomprehensible word salad about Russia, Ukraine, War, Bad. Someone will ask her about the dispute over Poland and the MIG jets and she will give her cackling laugh response with some nonsensical answer. If there was any doubt left in the world about the US's diminished ability to lead in the world, Kamala Harris will remove that doubt and put the final nails in our leadership coffin.
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