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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Is that “Joetato” as in
Mr. Joetato Head?
That wins the internet for today!
In other words, he's a fool.
Because liberals said we are islamophobic and I am sure they watch CNN and realize how awful we are!
Probably.
Exactly and our pilots made the call to take them here. Since it was mostly men I will assume unmarried and since it’s their culture a bunch of pedophiles. I say put them on bush ranch in Crawford, Obama’s Martha vineyard home and hunter Biden Malibu palace and let them have fun. I really believe we are doomed. I feel like there are millions of Americans who would love to live in an Islamic state as we are importing them to be subjugated on a daily basis.
Why, yes, yes it is! :)
Okay. Love it! I shall forever refer to him as Mr.Joetato Head. I can’t believe I haven’t seen that before today. Fantastic name!
What I don’t understand is how Biden’s bizarre and demented corn pop and cockroach speech didn’t not destroy his political future, but Howard Dean’s celebrating his Iowa Causcus win did. At least Dean’s “yahhhh” could be considered “heat of the moment.”
Republicans are assistant Democrats that’s why.
I was under the impression that the Europenises were quite happy with the fact that there are no more mean Tweets. Gee, is something upsetting them, something that might be just a tad more important?
Nah, they’ll be back to their ball-less, appeasing ways in a day or two.
It makes me wonder.
Afghanistan was well known as a CIA source of opiate drug running, and DoD efforts in the area were always stymied by in the Intel and Deep State side.
White hats have probably known for a long time who the bad players were in the community, which always attacked Trump and anything conservative, including the farcical impeachment attempts from Afghanistan housed State Dept employees.
Even now, the public is told we don’t know how many Americans are in this sh***ole country, which is probably better controlled by the Dark Hats than anywhere else around.
Makes me wonder if the entire affair isn’t set up to hoist them on their own petards. If not, it sure looks like a distraction from something much more significant.
What about Harcourt Fenton Mudd?
Good grief! Based on what??? When has Xiden EVER demonstrated any expertise?
“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 . . .”
I think the media’s hatred of Trump and their willingness to conceal and minimize Biden’s bizarre behavior kept a lot of people from being aware of just how far gone Biden was. I’m not sure why the Democrat establishment decided to put him forward. Maybe they were counting on name recognition to carry him through. They could have found someone more competent, for sure.
If Europe elite are expressing their displeasure with Joe Biden, then that explains why our MSM has been complaining about Joe.
It’s all global IMO
I’m still thinking the puppet masters are perfectly happy Biden is incompetent. They can control him easier.
Biden would be remembered as a noble statesman of historical proportion if he would just resign and crawl back in his basement and stay there.
Something amiss with your spell-checker?
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