Posted on 08/17/2021 3:53:04 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Until Sunday, Europe thought Joe Biden was an expert on foreign policy.
Now, the American president’s decision to allow Afghanistan to collapse into the arms of the Taliban has European officials worried he has unwittingly accelerated what his predecessor Donald Trump started: the degradation of the Western alliance and everything it is supposed to stand for in the world.
Across Europe, officials have reacted with a mix of disbelief and a sense of betrayal. Even those who cheered Biden’s election and believed he could ease the recent tensions in the transatlantic relationship said they regarded the withdrawal from Afghanistan as nothing short of a mistake of historic magnitude.
“I say this with a heavy heart and with horror over what is happening, but the early withdrawal was a serious and far-reaching miscalculation by the current administration,” said Norbert Röttgen, chairman of the German parliament’s foreign relations committee. “This does fundamental damage to the political and moral credibility of the West.” […]
At a time when some European leaders, including French President Emmanuel Macron, have been pushing for the bloc to pursue a security policy less dependent on America, Afghanistan is bound to be used as evidence for why “strategic autonomy” is necessary.
“Naturally this has damaged American credibility, along with that of the intelligence services and of the military,” said Rüdiger Lentz, the former head of the Aspen Institute in Berlin. “One can only hope that the damage to America’s foreign policy leadership can be quickly contained.” …
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This might be petty, but when Xiden called President Trump a clown during the debates, I hated him with 100,000 suns. One that one line he affirmed everything I thought of him, disrectful, arrogant, stupid, evil, arrogant, lying and incompetent; among other things.
Mother Russia will freeze them to death by withholding their LNG when there is a break in the global warming process.
Why are not impeachment hearings already in progress or the Cabinet convening to exercise the 25th Amendment?
. . . fifty years ago.
They’re currently allied with Russia. Don’t let their rhetoric fool you.
Exactly right.
America doesn’t need or want a ‘miscalculation’ president!
Demolish the D. We need smart people, not grifters.
Supposedly the 82nd Airborne Division Commander is en route.
Biden says he was constrained by what Trump did. Funny how he is not constrained by anything else Trump did.
How could anyone with even a modicum of intelligence ever believe that a third rate politician like Biden could be an expert on anything? He can't even extort bribes without blabbing it to the world. Were the Europeans not listening when Obama famously said "Don't underestimate Joe's ability to f*** things up."?
The Constitution is senile not to have an amendment to immediately replace a national disaster like we have now.
GOP = Gutless Old Party.
An Afghan Horse.
The European high and mighty were scathing in their condemnations of Trump, laughed in his face, and clung to Obama’s smoke, mirrors, and apparently his VP. Now look.
A pox on their houses.
Afghan horses***
Big bump.
Intentional...
EU is a zombie, searching for some brains.
Europeans have never understood the American political scene. Lost in their wretched pasts, they do not see the present with any clarity. Any competent pol should have read Obama’s statement about Joe F*ing things up. He also should have read Robert Gates’s observation, which he reiterated just this morning, that Biden has been wrong on every important foreign policy issue in the last 40 years..
Everything feels like it’s falling apart :(
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