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3 points

1: Biden has always lied profusely

2: Xi knows Biden is senile and doesn’t have serious talks with him

3: Biden has nothing to do with any of these military decisions.

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This is an especially important artkcle, in light of the American public's appaling lack of geo-literacy.

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I had to stop listening: virtually everything out of Biden's mouth is either a lie, fact free spin, or the delusions of a declining US empire. It is so revealing of the US media's role that reporters simply sit there are let him spout this crap unchallenged.

Even his face is a fraud - the White House plastic surgeon must be a busy man. And that Gatsby hairdo?

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“…. President Biden had a recent interview with CNN’s Fareed Zakaria during which he defended his controversial decision to send cluster munitions to Ukraine….”

The use of indiscriminate weapons is a breach of human rights conventions and a war crime. Unquestionably.

So we have reached the point where the U.S. president is openly committing war crimes….while calling other people “war criminals”…….and claiming to be defending “freedom” a “rules-based order”

What rules? And what freedom ?

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Watch John Pilger's documentary film, "The Coming War With China ". He's been warning us for years about this insanity!

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Of course Biden is lying. What is anyone going to do about it?

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Thank you Caitlin🙏

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The outcomes of the Ukraine debacle were; strengthening Putin, BRI, trade, BRICS, accelerating de-dollarisation, NATO falling apart, the increase in the likely hood of the US defaulting on debt. This will all be further exacerbated by any hostile interaction with China, leading to the fall of the US and Western economy (can we join BRICS please Sunak?) It does make is plausible that someone is somehow manipulating Biden for just these reasons!

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It's that ever-so-carefully constructed "Monopoly of Power" that sits in most people's heads. It's "OK" for police to shoot unarmed civilians with their hands up. Literally, this is a murder with a badge and impunity. Yet folk barely question the "right" of violence from the social hierarchy downwards.

I'm sure any cop who shot Oligarch Bezos at a random traffic stop would walk away scot-free..... not.

Bezos' black cleaner at one of his palaces?

"Very unfortunate, but the police unions...."

Implicit "Monopoly of Violence".

But it goes wider. Your average lamestream Westerner (A number apparently dwindling as the rather-too-obvious psyops keep rolling in), will assume that America/NATO/West, has some "moral Authority" to do their violence, whereas "Dictators" in Russia and China do not.

In the main, these would be unself-examined beliefs in most. "Common sense, innit like?".

For me, it was a Chomsky book in the late 80s that opened the door to let some light in and blow the cobwebs away.

But most people accept it as easily as they do that adults have the "right" to beat kids up for "Misbehaving".

But would have an absolute fit if they heard about the kid striking back too.

"Monopoly of Violence".

A nasty little homunculi carefully embedded by hierarchical, Class society, and one of the best mental traps you can expunge with effort.

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Fundamentally, Biden spoke ONE truth, since 1971 (and I'm betting he was reciting what his hearing-aid told him to say to his multinational billionaire, oligarch bosses?

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Funny how everyone keeps saying "Biden ..." in terms of being responsible for everything.

If nothing else this is the perfect clinic on how the POTUS is massively overrated and how our nation is really controlled by the "Deep State" and Global Power Elite (Globalists), aka the Bolsheviks/Babylonian Talmudists.

The US is today little more than Israel's armed branch, a global psychotic cop.

LOL, Biden's not even capable of scooping his own ice cream much less all the things being attributed to him.

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A concept for Kindergartners: If you want to go east, head east; if you want to go west, head west. Corollary for politicians: If you want Armageddon, prepare for it.

Bonus for morons and the rest of us: There is no way to peace; PEACE IS THE WAY.

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FJB is a POS and lying sack of 💩.

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It is to be feared that there is a majority of drooling idiots in the American empire.

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Pos then and now

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"... the US empire has been actively amassing military threats in the immediate surroundings of its top two rivals — China and Russia — that it would never tolerate anyone else amassing anywhere near the United States." Yep. https://open.substack.com/pub/ourimperialpress/p/a-simple-analogy-for-the-war-in-ukraine?r=nv5i&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

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