This IS a sit down piece that is NOT gonna get much media coverage….
THAT is just too damn bad….
The session , which is mainly focused on Foreign Policy reveals a man as President who IS involved, informed and smart…
A President working on the world stage to help countries and their people’s….
A politician who is trying g to explain dealing with Russia and China and the concept of why tariff’s SHOULD NOT be the reason the American Consumer prices to climb higher…
It is a window on a man who spend decades in Congress doing the small work ….
And yes….
A politician who has a cautious relationship with the media…..
President Biden is NOT Donald Trump…
He’s NOT about the attention Donald Trump craves….
This is a guy who jumps at the question on could do his job at 85…..
Saying…’I can do it better than anybody you know. You’re looking at me…’
Across the world, the leading countries leaders are almost ALL around Biden’s age …
Trump is only 3 years younger and would be lost answering the questions Biden answered in the Time Q & A session…
Biden correctly goes on….
‘Look, name me a president that’s gotten as much done as I’ve gotten done in my first three and a half years. When all of you wrote in Time magazine I couldn’t get any of it done. When you told me there’s no pay, no way, no way he can get a trillion-plus dollar bill done in terms of, to deal with infrastructure, where there’s no way he gets $368 billion for dealing with the environment, where there’s no way I could get the, the, the legislation passed on. ‘
This was serious stuff….
Long on the tooth…..
And NOT headline stuff…..
So?
It will NEVER see the light of day, except for those who see in on line , or here….
How sad….
Joe Biden may not be right always…..
But the guy IS up on his game and eminently qualified to lead the 330 million of America and help the World get stuff do also…Someone HAS to help those suffering in nAmerica and around the World….
That person was and is not Donald Trump a convicted felon, sex abuser and multi million dollar fraudster ….
You’re traveling next week to Normandy for the 80th anniversary of D-Day to commemorate a turning point in America’s leadership with the free world. But the anniversary comes at a time when the US under your leadership has been unable to deter crises. First in Afghanistan, then Ukraine, Israel, and mounting tensions in the Far East. Is America still able to play the role of world power that it played in World War Two, and in the Cold War?
Biden: Yes, we’re planning even more. We are, we are the world power. And what I inherited, as a consequence of the mistake that we made in Afghanistan is a—was not a loss in Afghanistan, excuse my cold. But I think that look, I believe, I have a fundamentally different view than Mr. Trump has on a range of things. Number one: I really believe that we have a values-based as well as practical-based alliances around the world. And he, Trump, wanted to just abandon them. He says he’s practical, one-on-one things he’s doing.
Well, he didn’t get much done. And so we end up in a situation where, when I came into, when I got sworn in, we were in a position where we didn’t have—for example, there’s a quote from Macron at the time saying that, in 2019, that Trump wants to eviscerate NATO. He thinks NATO is useless. And we have to rethink our entire relationship with the United States, they no longer lead the world.
I have that exact quote here. And they no longer lead the world and the transatlantic alliance has to be reexamined. And the interesting piece of that is you now have his former adviser John Bolton saying, he’s certain that the first thing Trump would do if he got reelected is get out of NATO completely.
And so I’ve always believed that there are two elements to American security, and the biggest element and, and our normative example, is our alliances, our alliances….
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Is Russia’s proposal for, to end the war in Ukraine, the best that Ukraine can hope for at this point?
Biden: No, it’s not. And by the way, I don’t know why you skip over all that’s happened in the meantime. The Russian military has been decimated. You don’t write about that. It’s been freaking decimated. Number one.
Number two, NATO is considerably stronger than it was when I took office. I put it together. Not only did I reestablish the fact that it was the strongest alliance in the history of the world, I was able to expand it. While I was in one of the G7 meetings in Europe. when I got back I called on the President of Finland because when I had met earlier in the year with Putin, he said he wanted to see the Finlandization of NATO. I told him, he’s gonna get not the Finlandization, the Natoization of Finland. And everybody thought, including you guys, thought I was crazy.
And guess what? I did it. I did it. And we’re now the strongest nation. We have the strongest alliance in all of America, all of history. In the meantime, what we keep skipping over is what the consequence of the success of Russia in Ukraine would be….
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And whose fault is it that the that deal, the ceasefire for hostages has not been consummated? Is it Hamas or Israel or both?
Biden: Hamas. Hamas could end this tomorrow. Hamas could say (unintelligible) and done period. And, but, and the last offer Israel made was very generous in terms of who they’d be willing to release, what they’d give in return, et cetera. Bibi is under enormous pressure on the hostages, on the hostages, and so he’s prepared to do about anything to get the hostages back.
You mentioned the hunger in Gaza. Some have alleged that Israel is intentionally using starvation of civilians as a method of warfare. Do you think that’s the case?
Biden: No, I don’t think that. I think they’ve engaged in activity that is inappropriate. That is…When I went over immediately after the—Hamas’ brutal attack, I said then, and it became public, I said, don’t make the same mistake we did going after bin Laden. Don’t try—The idea of occupying Afghanistan, the idea that you had nuclear arsenals in Iran, that were being, I mean, in Iraq, that were being generated, simply not true. And it led to endless wars. They were not true. Don’t make the mistakes we made. And they’re making that mistake, I think. Excuse my voice, I apologize….
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Let me ask you one on the…if you do win in November, Mr. President, with a mandate to continue your approach to foreign policy, what would your goals be in the second term?
Biden: To finish what I started in the first term. To continue to make sure that the European continent—I’ll tell you, I got a call from Kissinger about 10 days before he died. And he used the following comment. He said that not since Napoleon has Europe not looked over their shoulder at dread with what Europe—what Russia may do, until now. Until now, you can’t let that change….
image…Photograph by Philip Montgomery for TIME