That’s not it. China is a huge strategic competitor in every realm and Chinese manufacturing capability is directly impacting ours as we off shore more and more capability. Russia is a regional military competitor with nuclear weapons.
That doesn’t explain why Tucker Carlson is pro-Russia at all.
Is there really an “explanation” of Tucker?
That would only be plausible if they couldn’t stand Clarence Thomas and wouldn’t give money to these guys.
As for why they prefer Putin over Xi, I’d first say it’s because Russia can’t remotely plausibly be seen as having taken away American jobs. Their homes are filled with made in China. That’s the obvious one.
Another, I believe smaller, factor is that Putin is openly anti-gay while Xi is disinterested in LGBT.
Putin being a grifter like their idol, as previously mentioned, could be another factor.
And we all know war would mean a prohibitive increase in our Texas…
Tucker Carlson is a fucking traitor who is doing whatever the fuck he’s doing for money.
It’s all about the benjamins, baby!
In one of Tuckers books, he said Larry King once came up to him and said, The secret in this business is to care, but not too much. Give a fuck, but not really.
Looking at the conservatives on my Facebook feed, they seem to be pro-Ukraine and anti-Russia right now. Stuff about how Russia is attacking because Christ has led Ukraine to democracy. How Russia is targeting churches in Ukraine because they’re centers of resistance. Basically the old “Godless Commies coming to take our guns and religion” tropes.
It’ll be interesting to see if they switch to a more Trumpist line, or if Trump adjusts his rhetoric. There’s definitely not a consensus among Republicans yet, which is a good sign for Biden.
This is the strangest thing I have read this week.
Have you been reading a variety of news sites? Or just ones that conform to your pre-conceived notions.
Nothing? Really?
Your “argument” boils down to:
Biden did not make new oil, or stop world trade in oil
Inflation is up, like it is in every other country in the world. Biden’s fault.
Sanctions that have been put in place two days ago are not effective.
Argle bargle press conferences.
Bingle Bangle, nobody likes Kamala
In short, your argument is a load of fetid dingo’s kidneys.
I don’t think US combat troops in Ukraine is a winning idea. Am I wrong?
I think Biden and his administration have actually done a masterful job during this cluster fuck, about as well as a US president could do considering the circumstance. Biden and the US have been at the heart in trying to get Europe and the other NATO powers to hit the Russians with heavy sanctions and to give aid to the Ukrainians. They have walked the minefield of US involvement and put us in a position to do as much as we can, short of war, against the Russians and to position the west to hammer Russia regardless of how this turns out. And US and other allies aid has been instrumental in helping the Ukrainians to fight as effectively as they can. Ukrainians of course get a ton of credit FOR fighting as hard and well as they have, but US and allies aid has really helped them to do so effectively.
I don’t know how that translates into the next election cycle. I see a lot of folks on this board convinced that somehow Trump is going to come back and swipe the presidency back, or that the Republicans will sweep back into power in the house and senate. I think the later has more to do with simple US politics and nothing to do with Ukraine, and the former is, to me, just fantasy, but I’m not in touch with this boards paranoia about Trump so grain of salt.
As to how much the sanctions will hurt the US…I think it will be fairly minimal, as far as it goes. Right now, there are a lot of things impacting our economy, and these sanctions are certainly going to factor in negatively. But most of the things impacting the economy were either already happening or already in motion…these sanctions will simply be another impact. Certainly, that’s going to hurt Biden and the Democrats, because they are in charge, but I don’t think it will be because of the US response to Russia. Maybe in some quarters that will have an impact, but overall I think US citizens are going to be fairly happy with how Biden has handled this…assuming it continues to go well for the Ukrainians and assuming the Europeans stay the course with increasing and impactful sanctions.
As to the second question, I don’t know if there will be a red wave. IMHO, if there is, it will have little to do with Biden’s handling of this situation. YMMV.
Where do you get this nonsense? US oil production dropped 20% in 2020, the final year of the Trump presidency. US oil production has risen 10% since then during Biden’s presidency. Cite
I mean, I googled that up in like 10 seconds while you were writing your second Wall Of Text above. Make an effort please.
(P.S., US oil production went up around 80% under Obama)
My guess is that if anything the current situation will help Biden and the Democrats. There probably won’t be a red wave. Of course, the Republicans don’t need a red wave (either in 2022 or 2024), all they need is a red trickle.
Thankfully most of this can’t be proven and is just your reaction and feelings about Biden and Harris so no cite is needed!
Agreed on the first part…like I said, I think Biden and his administration have done masterfully on this so far. I’ve really been impressed by the coherence of the US strategy on all of this, and by how well we’ve worked with our allies to get a unified position and stance. To me, this whole horrible situation has put NATO into a really good light, and while I understand those who are complaining we should have been more militarily assertive (i.e. put our military into Ukraine to help them), I think that would have been a horrible mistake, not just from our perspective but from Ukraine’s as well. Plus, the whole WWIII thingy isn’t…optimal.
Yep. And it’s much better than the cite I was getting ready to use, as a graph is much easier to view at a glance to see the trend. There is a graph at the top of course, but it’s smaller.
I don’t know enough to say what is masterful and coherent. Maybe after Bob Woodward comes out with his next book, we’ll know more about that. I think the Biden team is competent, but the word masterful doesn’t usually fit with the actual sausage-making process.
This, which Putin couldn’t have expected, is unlikely to have much to do with Biden:
Germany to increase defense spending
I’m skeptical that Biden et al had nothing to do with that, but it’s a good sign that Germany is seeing that increasing its budget and getting its forces back into some semblance of effective is a good thing. I definitely agree that this is yet another thing Putin didn’t expect. There seems to be a lot of that going around lately.
Purest speculation, but I can’t believe Biden asked for anything like a 200 percent German spending increase.
A lot of Europeans are now just plain scared of Putin (and not the way they were scared of Trump).
This invasion seems to me to be having the emotional impact, in much of Europe, that 9/11 had in the United States. Example:
I like Biden, but his importance here is easily overestimated.