You are giving too much credit to Biden with regards to how “clean” his hands are in making those decisions.

There is obviously a Biden faction that comprises his team of advisors and Biden works closely with them to formulate his policies.

You’re trying to say that Biden is a mere puppet with no free will in this entire decision making process. Just look at the guy’s 5 decades of history in politics: from being the chief architect of the Crime Bill, to the champion of the Iraq War for the Democratic Party, to giving endless concessions to the Delaware-based financial corporations, to his anti-student loan forgiveness policy and his anti-labor policies that go back decades, this guy knows what he’s doing as a true ideologue of neoliberalism and clearly not just a puppet.

Even with a heavily degraded mental capacity, it simply removes his ability to put on a human mask when making those decisions. He’s not completely paralyzed, you know, he can still consciously say “we need to destroy the Russians with whatever we have. Give me the most hard-hitting plan against Russia no matter what the costs are” and “we need to punish China with the harshest possible manner. Give me a plan that will damage China’s trade with the world”

Many Chinese people do have a bit of prejudice against black people (and non-white foreigners) but most of it came from ignorance rather than a deep seated institutionalized racism.

Although I have to say that white people do easily get a pass in China, because of decades of looking up to the West as the more “superior” culture though that is slowly changing with Trump shattering the illusion.

If anything the casual racism against Indians is far worse and you see that all over social media and streaming platforms due to the long-standing animosity between the two countries.

Clearly the libs see this as an “epic dunk” against Trump. People who are already critical of Biden obviously won’t see it that way, but you’re not the audience here. The Dems know how to play to their core audience, and to them this feels like an “epic own” that energizes their base to VOTE in November.

Wait until you learn about the CPC amending its constitution during the 16th CPC Congress (in 2002) to allow bourgeois capitalist class to join the party and serve as representatives on party committees (under the guise of 私营业主 lit. private enterprise owners to substitute for the word 资本家 lit. capitalists but both essentially meant the same thing)

You may not like it but China is still the closest thing we have to socialism in today’s world (and to be clear, I still see the Soviet Union as leaps and bounds beyond today’s China in terms of workers rights and forging a humanistic society for the future, but in its absence China is the best we have today, as imperfect as it is).

He’s clearly dunking on Trump, by calling him “Donald Dumb” or “Donald whatever”.

He’s showing that Trump is so insignificant that he couldn’t even be bothered to remember the name. A huge blow to Trump’s ego.

You’re attempting to see this from a Western perspective. This is not so different from some people I’ve seen here saying “why don’t China push the communism button already? what’s taking them so long?”

China will do its own thing and at its own pace. No Westerners or countries get to impose their will upon them.

Remember, it’s socialism with Chinese characteristics.

The whole point of Ukraine is to dollarize Europe.

Russia is a nice secondary goal if they could defeat it but it doesn’t matter in the grand scheme of things. As long as the war can be dragged on for another 5-10 years, even with Ukraine completely collapsing by the end of it, the US would still have achieved its strategic goals and reaped huge profits out of it.

Biden already gave Ukraine $175 billion in foreign aid in just two years - legally and with full public approval. Imagine how much more money the bourgeoisie can make if they can sacrifice more Ukrainian lives for profit over the next 5 years. Ukraine is a cash cow, and it is intended to be milked dry.

This is not “great man theory”. Every president is presented with a range of scenarios/options that spans from the most dovish to the hawkish. Biden simply chooses the options with the highest risks of blowback.

It could be ideological, it could be a means to reap high risk high reward profit while betting your opponents won’t dare to respond in kind. But every US president has to make those decisions. JFK was given the option to blow up the world during the Cuban Missile Crisis, he chose not to move forward with that and went with a more level headed one instead.

We’ve come close to the brink of nuclear destruction before where such orders could be decided in the hands of a single person.

A “great man theory” would be that Biden making decisions so out of field of the contemporary American supremacist ideology like “Biden turning America into a socialist state while bypassing every known principles of materialism”. “Biden choosing the most right wing option” is not great man theory because it fits precisely within America’s ideological framework of our time.

Incredible that all criticisms against Biden’s policies have evaporated in less than a month, which means that he has the free rein to do whatever he wants for the next 6 months.

I am convinced that the condition in exchange for Biden to step down is Kamala or whoever his successor is cannot touch Biden’s foreign policy.

However, if you think a little deeper than this, you’d notice that Biden has effectively set in motion an irreversible course for the United States. There is no way that the US can regain the trusts of China and Russia again, at least not for the next 20 years, and that means the declining empire only has one path forward - to maximize the destruction of the world to slow its own downfall, given that rapprochement has now become an impossibility.

Biden may be gone for good, but the next two decades of history (if not longer) have already been determined by his actions. Truly, we live in the Age of Biden.

Can’t blame them. Whatever legit criticism there is of Harris, she cannot be worse than a Trump presidency for trans people. This is the political reality we have to accept.

They’re just following US orders at this point. This little incursion probably just ensured the next billion dollar foreign aid bill to be passed through the House and the Senate.

That is just the excuse I believe. There is no way that the Deep State would ever allow him to jeopardize Project Ukraine. Whatever happened during his assassination attempt, the Deep State sure have taken the opportunity to remind him that either he retires, or live in fear for the rest of his tenure as president (if he even succeeds).