You gotta hand it to him, he, his hair follicles, certainly have staying power, or at least, like Trump, have an illusion of clinging on despite what the rest of the world might think is naturally possible.
I don’t pretend to know Russia and the Russians. But I read its history. Two things seem to be constant throughout time, from the time of Vikings to the time of Putin, the autocrat as their preferred mode of ruling and deep paranoia about their neighbours. They are very different from western Europe I even add that they aren’t Europeans at all.
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Katharine Eyre
2 years ago
Since the “was-it-or-wasn’t-it-a-demarche” episode in the UK which basically achieved the exact thing it purported to warn against, I have lost faith in the Biden administration’s geopolitical nous.
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Lennon Ó Náraigh
2 years ago
The snide comments about President Biden’s age are not so helpful. There are some advantages in having older (and maybe wiser) leaders. In recent years, with the growing number of childless leaders on the world stage, some commentators have mentioned the importance of leaders who have raised children – it helps a person to understand just how unmalleable the human personality is, and serves as a warning to the dangers of large-scale social engineering. Indeed, who would want a 35-year old woke hothead in charge of the free world?
Biden is daft.
You gotta hand it to him, he, his hair follicles, certainly have staying power, or at least, like Trump, have an illusion of clinging on despite what the rest of the world might think is naturally possible.
Exactly my first thoughts!
I don’t pretend to know Russia and the Russians. But I read its history. Two things seem to be constant throughout time, from the time of Vikings to the time of Putin, the autocrat as their preferred mode of ruling and deep paranoia about their neighbours. They are very different from western Europe I even add that they aren’t Europeans at all.
Since the “was-it-or-wasn’t-it-a-demarche” episode in the UK which basically achieved the exact thing it purported to warn against, I have lost faith in the Biden administration’s geopolitical nous.
The snide comments about President Biden’s age are not so helpful. There are some advantages in having older (and maybe wiser) leaders. In recent years, with the growing number of childless leaders on the world stage, some commentators have mentioned the importance of leaders who have raised children – it helps a person to understand just how unmalleable the human personality is, and serves as a warning to the dangers of large-scale social engineering. Indeed, who would want a 35-year old woke hothead in charge of the free world?
The US has a 78 year old man (who sadly seems to have dementia), who is managed by 35-year old woke hotheads.
I stopped reading when the the author starting talking about Biden’s advancing hairline