Posted on 02/23/2022 9:19:58 AM PST by Kaslin
Under three of the last four presidents, including now Joe Biden, Vladimir Putin has chosen to take military action against Russia’s neighbors. There has been only one exception, namely Donald Trump.
A big part of Biden’s pitch to voters in 2020 was that he would bring a return to foreign relation norms. America would be back, the adults would be in charge, etc., etc. Well, here we are, norms and all, and yet Putin is still on the verge of an incursion into a U.S. ally, Ukraine.
Another way of saying normal is predictable. Norms are after all a set of tried and tested approaches to a problem. For the past several months this predictability has been at the core of the Biden administration’s approach to Putin. Biden has made clear that U.S. troops will not fight in Ukraine. He has also laid out the basic parameters of sanctions he will use to punish Russia.
As a result, Putin has a clear blueprint of the consequences of invading Ukraine, and unfortunately, he seems fine with them.
Contrast this with the foreign policy approach of Donald Trump. In January 2020, for example, Trump ordered an attack on Iranian terrorist Qasem Soleimani, which killed him. The world was shocked. Warnings flew that Trump may have just started another Middle East war or at least a greater conflict. In fact, none of that happened. Trump didn’t spend months talking about what he might do, he just did it.
There is good reason to believe that this unpredictability from Trump was a big part of the reason Putin did not engage in any invasions under his presidency. Some of Trump’s own citizens thought he was a crazy man who wasn’t afraid of nuclear war; why would Putin be any different?
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Biden surprises himself all the time.
I’d be afraid of a Biden surprise.
maybe he can surprise everyone by uttering 3 consecutive complete, coherent sentences without a teleprompter.
Crapping himself and farting is no longer a suprise.
Fake news media lied about Trump and Russia for four years.
“ maybe he can surprise everyone by uttering 3 consecutive complete, coherent sentences without a teleprompter.”
Even Obama was 100% incapable of performing that feat
Bttt.
5.56mm
Mommy Jill, I made a surprise!
Mommy Jill, did I really get 81 million votes?
Ukraine is not now, nor has ever been in the past, or will be in the future our “ally”. If the Euros are worried about Ukraine, then they can deal with it. Ukraine is simply not our circus and not our monkey.
Ukraine is a U. S. ally?
“It’s time for Biden to surprise Putin”
Yes, it is. Biden needs to surprise Putin with a total trade embargo.
Maybe Biden will leave his dirty depends and a quart of ice cream out for Vlad.
Oh, please. Biden would be outmaneuvered by a pet rock.
If we know Russia wants all of Ukraine cut a deal and give him some. Don’t want to use NATO armies
No , it is a Hunter and US criminal money laundering ally
Biden WILL surprise Putin, by being far dumber than Pootypoot ever imagined.
Not gonna work. Russia has military superiority and is bullying around. Others want Biden to look bad too.
If Putin had wanted all of Ukraine, he would have probably done it in the last year while Joey was talking covid covid covid.
Russia can’t eat oil and gas. Neither can their troops.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1006520/russia-foodstuffs-and-agricultural-imports/
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