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United States Biden administration policies and actions - megathread

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49ersfootball

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Earlier this morning on ABC's "This Week" United States Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR) said the Biden administration needs to stop pussyfooting around.
 
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Urabrask Revealed said:
Dear God. These bastards are seriously planning to start a nuclear holocaust just to stay in power.
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That would be the stupid thing to do. Seriously this is how you treat Ukraine, you expect the government to fall but you arm and supply the anti russian resitance. Russias demographics are already terminal the more you make them bleed the less ability they have to do any other offensives.

They have a population of about 145 million people Ukraine has 45 million people, so that's only a 3 to 1 advantage when Russia is also stuck trying to matain order in Kazckatstan and has other fronts to worry about. You make sure the war lasts as long as possible and make this into a proxy war against russia forcing them to spend blood and treasure.

Neither of which Russia can afford to give much of, if you bleed them enough in this conflict and stir shit up in Kazakastan you pretty much knock them out of the great power game for a couple generations. At no point do you actually get directly involved thats retarded instead you have your proxy fighters bleed for you.

Same thing the russians did to us in vietnam.
 
prinCZess

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The Whispering Monk said:
Found this little tidbit earlier:

Ukrainian official: 'If Democrats weren’t such p***ies in foreign policy, this might not have happened' (bizpacreview.com)
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You know, I was prepared to criticize the unnamed official* for calling on the US to do something nutty (like institute a no-fly zone or actually deploy troops/trainers in-country or one of the other such harebrained schemes running around) but they actually point out some of the issues pretty well. The lifted sanctions on Nordstream 2 (and general anti-oil stuff), the longtime delay on 'lethal aid', and Biden's poor rhetorical approach to things where he came out and SAID a 'minor incursion' might just be excused...It's all shit that doesn't play well in foreign policy when you're dealing with foreign countries that aren't as docile as EU countries and the like.

*I am also compelled to point out and call attention to this 'Unnamed official' source business being skeevy. It's unreliable and should be doubted on basic principle--perhaps especially when it's saying something that lines up so well with the biases of the reporting paper.
 
strunkenwhite

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I actually felt that, in retrospect, NS2 being allowed to move forward was a good thing because when the situation began to deteriorate it meant that we could threaten to kill it again, more cooperatively. Obviously Russia was in no mood to be dissuaded, though. I'm not sure what if any effect it has on our relations with Germany to be able to say "we were gonna let it happen but then Russia went nuts" vs. "we never let up in the first place".
 
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Biden Admin Relies on Russia To Finalize Iran Nuclear Deal as Putin Invades Ukraine
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Biden Admin Relies on Russia to Finalize Iran Nuclear Deal as Putin Invades Ukraine

Even as Moscow invades Ukraine, the Biden administration is relying on Russia to solidify a revamped nuclear agreement with Iran, a deal that senior Republican foreign policy leaders say will be approved in the coming days without any input from Congress.
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Even as Moscow invades Ukraine, the Biden administration is relying on Russia to solidify a revamped nuclear agreement with Iran, a deal that senior Republican foreign policy leaders say will be approved in the coming days without any input from Congress.

As Russian forces press further into Ukraine, threatening to spark a world war, the Biden administration is rushing to finalize a Russia-brokered nuclear deal with Iran, Rep. Michael McCaul (R., Texas), the lead Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, told the Washington Free Beacon.

"Russia's further invasion of Ukraine is reprehensible, but we can't lose sight of the next national security crisis as it forms before our eyes: The Biden administration is reportedly rushing to finalize a deal with Iran, brokered by Russia, that it does not want Congress to review, in violation of U.S. law," McCaul said.

Throughout the conflict, the Biden administration has kept diplomatic channels with Moscow open in the hopes it can push Iran into accepting a deal that will provide the world's leading sponsor of terrorism with billions of dollars in cash windfalls.

McCaul and other Republican foreign policy leaders who spoke to the Free Beacon about the situation warned that this reliance on Moscow is undermining American and European efforts to isolate Russian president Vladimir Putin for his unprovoked invasion of Ukraine. These lawmakers say the conflict threatens to distract attention from negotiations surrounding a new nuclear deal, providing the Biden administration with an opportunity to skirt congressional review of any deal.

"Congressional review of any Iran nuclear deal was enacted with broad bipartisan support to ensure legislative oversight of any dealings regarding the nuclear program of the world's leading state sponsor of terrorism," McCaul said. "If the administration circumvents Congress, that is a blinking red light for the American people that this is a bad deal."

Congressional Republicans stand mostly united in opposition to a new deal and have warned the Biden administration that if it signs an agreement without first consulting Congress, as required by law, that deal—and sanctions relief included within it—will be dead on arrival.

"This is a Reagan moment for our country, but we have a Carter president in the White House," Rep. Darrell Issa (R., Calif.), also a House Foreign Affairs Committee member, told the Free Beacon. "The Biden Doctrine for foreign policy is acquiesce to our enemies and hope for the best. It's bound to fail everywhere it's been tried."

While President Joe Biden has vowed to break relations with Russia as a result of its Ukraine invasion, the reliance on Moscow in Iran talks signals that these promises will not be enforced.

"It's obvious that Russia should no longer serve as one of the key intermediaries brokering an Iran deal," said one senior congressional official who works on foreign policy matters. "We need to be isolating Russia not just economically, but also diplomatically. There is absolutely no chance that Russia has U.S. national security interests in mind when it comes to Iran's nuclear program."

Reports in the Iranian state-controlled press indicate that the United States is inching closer to giving the regime everything it wants, including full-scale sanctions relief in exchange for minimal restrictions on the country's nuclear program.

In one major concession, the United States is reportedly allowing Iran to keep its advanced nuclear centrifuges, which are capable of quickly enriching uranium, the key component in an atomic bomb, to levels needed to power a weapon. Initially, the West was pressing for Iran to destroy these centrifuges to prevent Tehran from getting within reach of a bomb.

The Biden administration earlier this month also preemptively waived some sanctions on Iran as part of its bid to generate good will in the talks. These sanction waivers allow countries like Russia and China to legally build out portions of Iran's civilian nuclear program.

Still, Iranian diplomats want more. "Negotiations are not over yet, and the United States has to make tough political decisions that it has not yet made," Iranian foreign minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian was quoted as saying Monday in the country's state-controlled press.

These concessions, which show that the United States has moved much further toward Iran's negotiating position in the year since diplomacy started, highlight the need for Congress to legally review the deal.

"Congress needs be involved in any potential Iran nuclear deal to prevent President Biden from blundering his way into yet another foreign policy screw up," Rep. Tim Burchett (R., Tenn.), another House Foreign Affairs Committee member, told the Free Beacon. "This administration's track record handling our adversaries isn't exactly great."

Rep. Lee Zeldin (R., N.Y.) expressed similar concerns and told the Free Beacon he is certain that Biden will employ President Barack Obama's playbook—which included circumventing Congress to ink a deal with Iran that was ultimately non-binding.

"If Biden rejoins the Iran Deal without submitting it to Congress as a treaty and receiving two-thirds approval from the Senate, this agreement will be just as non-binding as the JCPOA was originally in 2015," Zeldin said, using the Obama-era Iran deal's formal acronym. "Between greenlighting Russia's Nord Stream 2 pipeline, failing to level sanctions on China for importing Iranian oil, and his desperation to rejoin the JCPOA, despite Iran possibly closing in on nuclear capabilities, Biden has repeatedly let down our allies and kowtowed to our adversaries on the world stage."
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