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breba wrote: ↑27/02/2022 02:55 Sada se već uzima zdravo za gotovo, ali inicijalni pristup Bidenove administracije da javno kroz medije i konstantno dijeli bitne i detaljne obavještajne podatke o prijetecem napadu na Ukrajinu je bio izuzetno efektan, sa puno rizika. Mnogo toga bi danas drugačije bilo da je to samo išlo standardnim kanalima sluzbi.

sinuhe wrote: ↑27/02/2022 06:35

breba wrote: ↑27/02/2022 02:55 Sada se već uzima zdravo za gotovo, ali inicijalni pristup Bidenove administracije da javno kroz medije i konstantno dijeli bitne i detaljne obavještajne podatke o prijetecem napadu na Ukrajinu je bio izuzetno efektan, sa puno rizika. Mnogo toga bi danas drugačije bilo da je to samo išlo standardnim kanalima sluzbi.

Kako je to pomoglo Ukrajini? Razvaljena drzava.

GOP Sens. Rubio, Daines face backlash for sharing photos of Zelensky on social media after being asked to protect his safety

ultima_palabra wrote: ↑05/03/2022 22:54

GOP Sens. Rubio, Daines face backlash for sharing photos of Zelensky on social media after being asked to protect his safety

Koliki debil treba biti pa misliti da ovim imbecilima treba dati da upravljaju drzavom...

HarTar wrote: ↑06/03/2022 14:33



https://www.b92.net/info/vesti/index.ph ... id=2116921

Biden Answered the 3 a.m. Call

When Hillary Clinton sought to sow doubts about Barack Obama, her rival for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination, she ran an attack ad tarnishing him as dangerously inexperienced. As the screen shows images from a suburban house, a husky-voiced narrator intones: “It’s 3 a.m. and your children are safe and asleep, but there’s a phone in the White House and it’s ringing.” There’s clearly been a terrible international incident. The narrator asks, “Who do you want answering the phone?”

As the Russian invasion of Ukraine has unfolded, the narrator’s question has rattled around my head. The invasion is a moral test, because Putin has committed atrocities that demand the strongest possible response. And it is a strategic test, because the strongest possible response could very plausibly escalate into a nuclear conflict.

Joe Biden hasn’t received the full credit he deserves for his statecraft during this crisis, because he has pursued a policy of self-effacement. Rather than touting his accomplishments in mobilizing a unified global response to the invasion, he has portrayed the stringent sanctions as the triumph of an alliance. By carefully limiting his own public role—and letting France’s Emmanuel Macron and Germany’s Olaf Scholz take turns as the lead faces of NATO—he has left Vladimir Putin with little opportunity to portray the conflict as a standoff with the United States, a narrative that the Russian leader would clearly prefer. He’s shown how to wield American leadership in the face of deep European ambivalence about its exercise.

His handling of the domestic politics of the crisis has been just as savvy. Although he could justifiably have portrayed Republicans as the party of Putin apologists, he refrained from dinging his political enemies. During his State of the Union address, he actively encouraged Republicans to feel as if they were his partners in a popular front.

This is surely redolent of the bipartisan foreign policy that Biden nostalgically yearns to revive. But it’s also an important tactic. By depoliticizing the issue, he has made it likely that Congress will quickly fund aid and arms for the Ukrainian military. And as gas prices spike, it will be rhetorically harder for Republicans to effectively pin the blame on him, because they have been fully supportive of sanctions.

Even as Biden has built a bipartisan consensus, he’s resisted pressure to pursue a more hawkish course. As a Democrat who lived through the 9/11 era, he remembers well how he and other leaders of his party adopted chest-thumping policies to defuse accusations of weakness. For decades, Democratic aspirants attempted to demonstrate their own steel in order to avoid evoking the politically fatal image of Michael Dukakis in a tank.

The same dynamic could have easily transpired with Ukraine. But Biden’s faith in his own foreign-policy chops leaves him unconcerned about proving his bona fides. He knows the dangers of bluster and has steadfastly avoided them. When Putin announced that he was putting his nuclear arsenal into “special combat readiness,” Biden quickly made clear that he wouldn’t reciprocate. He has brushed off calls to impose a no-fly zone over Ukraine. From the start of his administration, he has tried to telegraph his thinking to Putin, so that the Russian leader could never misunderstand his intentions, and would never mistakenly assume that an American strike against Russia was imminent.

After Afghanistan revealed a failure to imagine the worst-case scenario, Biden’s response to Russia’s war has been marked by its creativity. In advance of the invasion, the administration surreptitiously hastened its shipments of arms to Ukraine, bestowing on it an armament well suited to the eventuality of urban combat. By preparing a suite of unconventional sanctions long before Putin’s troops crossed the border, the administration avoided the need to cobble together policy and the scramble to inform allies of its plans. The legwork was already done. Most impressively, it broadcast its intelligence about Russia to the world in anticipation of an invasion. (Having a veteran diplomat as CIA chief helps.) Because its assessment of Russian intentions proved to be painfully accurate, the maneuver has helped reclaim the lost trust of allies and the global public.

It’s a quietly bravura performance—and it’s hard to imagine that any of Biden’s rivals from the last election, not just Donald Trump but also the Democrats, could have come close to matching it. If anything, it is reminiscent of how George H. W. Bush led the world through the end of the Cold War, a similarly chaotic moment that could have easily exploded into nuclear conflict. In the middle of Joe Biden’s 3 a.m. call, I find myself grateful that he’s the one answering the phone.

toska wrote: ↑09/03/2022 02:12 Dosta samouvjereno

Cijena nafte u svijetu neočekivano pala za 13 posto uprkos tome što su SAD blokirale uvoz iz Rusije

Rob_Atl wrote: ↑11/03/2022 03:01 Bilo ko da je predsjednik u ova doba isti krc bi bio. Ako nista bar ima posla koliko hoces. Prosli mjesec 11.8 miliona otvorenih poslova je u americi bilo. Jebi ga izaslo se iz pandemije kao da je nikad nije ni bilo. Kompanije koje su otpustile radnike ili smanjile produkciju se jos nisu vratile na 100%. Cista matematika, manja proizvodnja a veca potraznja zato je i otislo u krc sve. Ako ima neko pametniji da objasni sta Biden moze da uradi da spusti cijene, ili sta je uradio pa je poskupilo sve?