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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Because the Dems control both houses of Congress.
Does europe miss Trump yet?
Dr. Samuel Mudd can rest easy now
He has been replaced as the back ggest U.S. villain in history.
President Joseph Mudd
this has damaged American credibility, along with that of the intelligence services
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You know stuff is fubar when this is seen as a silver lining.
And considering the global intelligence 7 ways till Sunday slander of trump for 4 + years that’s what I think.
Time for not only a house cleaning but a full scale forensic and RICO level spring cleaning.
Good point, Europe’s leaders are steeped in global warming, massive refugee input and failing socialist health care. They must pull the beams out of their own eyes before pointing at “Creepy” Joe Biden’s massive eye logs. They are all bursting with ignorance.
Dear Europe: why in God’s name did you think Biden was a foreign policy expert?
Stupidity kills...
“Until Sunday, Europe thought Joe Biden was an expert on foreign policy.”
What kind of an expert on anything blurts out “my butt’s been wiped” to reporters? Did they miss where he wandered off onto the White House lawn? Did they miss the last 5 decades of Biden being a corrupt clown?
Because the Uniparty and their media extension declared him to be so, of course.
He'll do the same thing when the CCP's army lands on Taiwan next week.
Do what you want and blame it on Trump..
Anyone who has ever played a few hours of Sim Civilization could have averted this foreign policy disaster.
The West is dead. It’s rotting corpse is nothing but fertilizer for the next ascendant civilization.
Unfortunately, if the GOP controlled both house there would be talk of impeachment, hearings, etc. but nothing would ever come of it.
GOP = DNC JV team!
And Biden hasn’t talked to a single foreign leader since the collapse began seven days ago .....
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Actually, it’s being reported on the evening ‘news’ that he just got off the phone with a foreign leader .... Boris Johnson. I’d laugh, but it’s not funny.
Hardly. They assumed he was back to normal, not that he had any great skills at foreign policy or anything else. They just thought he wasn't Trump. And that was good enough for them.
I pretty certain he would have messed this up just as badly 30 years ago. He is Stupid, He is Arrogant, he is Corrupt, and he is evil. He has always been.
“I know what I think, he’s senile.”
I think he would have messed it up just as bad 20 years ago.
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