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Politics : The Trump Presidency
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To: i-node who wrote (344021)8/10/2025 12:48:14 AM
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Biden definitely created a disaster in Afg


Trump left him with very poor choices. Perhaps he could have made better choices than he did, perhaps not. Afghanisan was a divided country in terms of who had military power. Trump left the government weak by effectively handing the country over to the Taliban with the only choices being sending far more US soldiers into the country or doing at least some version of what he did. It could have been done better but that is more on the military execution than on Biden himself.

The war Putin started, the war Biden helped start,

Finally(!) you admit that Putin started the war. But no, Biden didn't help start it. Obama and Trump helped to start it by allowing Putin to take Crimea without any interference.

Biden made into a much longer war than it needed to have been

I do agree with you about that--IMO, Biden should have followed Michael McFaul's and Tim Snyder's opinion that Biden should have been more forceful and sent far more military aid to Ukraine. Biden allowed himself to be spooked by Putin's bluff about starting a nuclear WWIII. BS.

That is now sunk cost. At this point, we're talking about how to end it and stop the fucking killing.

Yes, it is a sunk cost. But it can still be reversed if Trump actually wants to do that. But instead, he will give Putin much of what he wants, he will effectively disarm Ukraine, allow Putin to declare that the Donbass is Russia, help Russia recover economically and set the stage for another invasion in a few years to take the rest of Ukraine when Russia gets stronger militarily and economically.

This is nuts. Putin's invasion should not be rewarded.
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