Putin: Washington Watch: Amid Trump bombing, Biden wins praise for leadership, doesn’t rush into war – Times of India

us President Joe Biden Its handling of the Russia-Ukraine crisis is winning rare praise at home, albeit harshly right in the US, some of them admirers of Russia and its president. Vladimir PutinAlmost never loses any opportunity to degrade Ashtadhyayi (he will turn 80 on 20th November).
For a man who has been referred to as “Sleepy Joe” by his predecessor Donald Trump and his allies, it turns out Biden Quite awake and alert – despite the occasional omission. “It’s hard to imagine that any of his opponents from the last election would have matched the president’s performance in this crisis,” Atlantic magazine called the 3 p.m. phone call metaphor this week.
Of course, Biden stands in contrast to Trump, whose gravitas, calmness and lack of reason come through through the bombastic words and bizarre ideas he throws every few days on his journey to oblivion. Among them, suggestions that the US should put Chinese flags on F-22 jets and “throw bombs from Russia” so that Moscow blames Beijing and Washington can sit back and enjoy the fight.
Apparently, this was only said as a joke, but duh, even in joke it has to be one of the stupidest ideas. Trump also told his golfing friend in a phone call that he once warned Putin that he would bomb Moscow (the context was not clear) “and he believed me, like five percent, 10 percent. You just have to.” That’s all it needs.”
The former president also reiterated his claim that Putin did not invade Ukraine while he was president because “he knew he couldn’t” – which Trump critics say is only partially true. Putin didn’t invade because he didn’t have – Trump would have given him on a platter in exchange for some real estate in Moscow. Putin probably wishes Trump had attacked when he was president.
Anyway, to return to Biden and the Ukraine crisis, here’s The Atlantic’s take on it: that Biden has not received the full credit he deserves during this crisis, as he has pursued a policy of self-destruction. Rather than tout his achievements in mobilizing a unified global response to the invasion, he has portrayed the tighter sanctions as a coalition victory. By carefully limiting his public role—and allowing France’s Emmanuel Macron and Germany’s Olaf Scholz to replace NATO’s leading faces—he has urged Vladimir Putin to portray the conflict with the United States as a standoff. Given very little opportunity, there is a narrative that the Russian leader would clearly like. He has shown how the American leadership is faced with deep European ambition regarding its practice.
magazine writer franklin foyer He also praised Biden for not responding to a nuclear attack when Putin put his arsenal on alert, said not reciprocally and for brushing off calls to impose a no-fly zone on Ukraine, the US president said. has “tried to telegraph its thinking” Putinso that Russian leaders would never misunderstand their intentions, and would never mistakenly assume that an American attack against Russia was imminent.” This again contrasts Trump’s bomb-away detonation, which occurred in the current crisis. Yes, there may have been untold consequences.
But then again, it would never have come to that as Ukraine would have been gift-wrapped and given to the Kremlin. Which in turn provides Foer’s relief (“In the middle of Joe Biden’s 3 a.m. call, I find myself grateful that he’s answering the phone”) mute because the 3 a.m. phone call doesn’t happen.