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American allies fear Biden is finished and can’t beat Trump
Politico ^ | 07/06/2024 | ALEXANDER WARD, ELI STOKOLS, EMILIO CASALICCHIO and BARBARA MOENS

Posted on 07/06/2024 6:48:30 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican

Diplomats and world leaders preparing for next week’s NATO summit are privately expressing acute concern about President Joe Biden’s age, health and ability to win the 2024 presidential election.

These foreign officials largely favor Biden’s reelection and fear that Donald Trump’s return to office would damage the NATO alliance and cripple the war effort in Ukraine. But they have reacted to Biden’s recent debate performance with dismay and fear that Biden may be too frail to defeat Trump and lead a global superpower.

POLITICO spoke with 20 people connected to NATO or the alliance’s upcoming summit over the past month and heard that many allies already had quiet reservations about putting their trust in Biden well before the debate. Now, Biden must convince his counterparts that he’s not only up for the fight but will overcome a political crisis to stay in it.

“It doesn’t take a genius to see that the president is old,” said one official from a European NATO country. “We’re not sure that, even if he wins, he can survive four years more.”

(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections; Ukraine
KEYWORDS: biden; fjb; globohomo; nato; summit
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1 posted on 07/06/2024 6:48:30 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

But he can still throw our money to Ukraine like drunken sailor.


2 posted on 07/06/2024 6:51:10 PM PDT by crusty old prospector
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To: MinorityRepublican

It could be worse if they substituted "Heels Up" Harris.


3 posted on 07/06/2024 6:51:57 PM PDT by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Article is part of the coordinated plan to drive out Biden, obviously.


4 posted on 07/06/2024 6:52:20 PM PDT by BobL
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To: MinorityRepublican

Skid marks will not be allowed. Just imagine the number of cameras pointed at Pedo Pete. They need to capture every second of the meltdown.


5 posted on 07/06/2024 6:53:27 PM PDT by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: MinorityRepublican

How many of our “allies” really allies, or just panhandlers?


6 posted on 07/06/2024 6:56:19 PM PDT by alternatives?
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World leaders = deep state concerned about the status of their gravy train.


7 posted on 07/06/2024 6:59:49 PM PDT by Prince Caspian
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To: MinorityRepublican

Trump will make NATO pay again.


8 posted on 07/06/2024 7:00:48 PM PDT by quantim (Victory is not relative, it is absolute. )
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These foreign officials largely favor Biden’s reelection and fear that Donald Trump’s return to office would damage the NATO alliance and cripple the war effort in Ukraine.

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Chicken Hawks. They WANT the “war effort in Ukraine” to continue. They know Trump getting elected will end the war.


9 posted on 07/06/2024 7:01:32 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (A truth that’s told with bad intent, Beats all the lies you can invent ~ Wm. Blake)
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The DEMs have already prepared to rig up Wisconsin. Just maintain PA and Trump is going to have a problem winning.


10 posted on 07/06/2024 7:01:58 PM PDT by CatOwner (Don't expect anyone, even conservatives, to have your back when the SHTF in 2021 and beyond.)
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The DEMs have already prepared to rig up Wisconsin. Just maintain PA and Trump is going to have a problem winning.

They can do that. But it will be blatant.

Switch horses with Kamala Harris.

Plausible deniability.

11 posted on 07/06/2024 7:04:35 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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“These foreign officials largely favor Biden’s reelection and fear that Donald Trump’s return to office would damage the NATO alliance and cripple the war effort in Ukraine”

hogwash ... their real fear is that they’re gonna have to pay 100% to keep their Ukrainian war going ...


12 posted on 07/06/2024 7:06:27 PM PDT by catnipman ((A Vote For The Lesser Of Two Evils Still Counts As A Vote For Evil))
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To: alternatives?
How many of our “allies” really allies, or just panhandlers?

We should charge each country 1% of their GDP for having the U.S. remain in NATO.

Otherwise, time to pull out.

13 posted on 07/06/2024 7:06:33 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: alternatives?
Excellent point. Start with NATO. We should withdraw and let them spill their own blood and money in their defense. Ukraine, ha ha, no comment needed.

We were once told to not be the “world's policeman.” It came to be and what happened? More money, more graft, more spilled American blood, and to what end? That is the question only each of us can ask—but the answer is obvious. Look at the national debt for one aspect.

14 posted on 07/06/2024 7:07:35 PM PDT by Fungi
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Biden never legally beat President Trump. The Republican Party worked with the Democrat Party to steal the 2020 election for Lying Joe Biden. What they [The Republican Party and Democrat Party] honchos will come up with in the 2024 election to deprive President Trump of the Presidency remains yet to be seen. But you can bet your ass that they will come up with something.


15 posted on 07/06/2024 7:08:27 PM PDT by sport
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“Fear?”

What the hell do our “allies” have to fear? Their foreign aid drying up?


16 posted on 07/06/2024 7:10:58 PM PDT by MCSETots ( )
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“...These foreign officials largely favor Biden’s reelection...”

That’s because they are freeloaders and leaches. No different that all the lazy bums on welfare. These “officials” want the USA to pay for ALL their defense including billions in non-defense spending.

Europeans get 2 months PAID vacation. How much vacation do American workers get? It sure as hell isn’t 2 months unless you are a government employee. /spit


17 posted on 07/06/2024 7:12:59 PM PDT by Flavious_Maximus (Tony Fauci will be put on death row and die of COVID!)
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To: Fungi

We have critical work to do—make the world safe for perverts.

NATO is a part of that sick plan.

:-(


18 posted on 07/06/2024 7:13:24 PM PDT by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
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To: sport

“The Republican Party worked with the Democrat Party to steal the 2020 election”

They had to. Does anybody really think the GOPs aren’t benefiting from Bidens’ crimes in Ukraine, China, etc.?


19 posted on 07/06/2024 7:19:09 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam (Bannon didn't kill himself.)
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Speaking to POLITICO before the U.K.'s change of government on Thursday, a U.K. minister put it most bluntly: “Can the Democrat donors please get their act together and get Biden retired, so we have some chance of a candidate credible for voters?”

There has been regime change in the UK three times since Boris Johnson called for regime change in Russia in June 2022.

20 posted on 07/06/2024 7:21:25 PM PDT by Right_Wing_Madman
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