JOHN RATCLIFFE: Why the U.S. isn’t more involved as the world’s superpower is because the world’s expectations, certainly our allies expectations for Joe Biden and his administration, have been lowered as a result of what they’ve seen for the past years. I’ve talked to my former counterparts, intelligence counterparts, and some of our strongest allies. And what they relay is the problem is, it’s no longer a perception that Joe Biden be seen as weak. It’s the fact that Joe Biden has proven that he is weak through his decisions, as people have seen in Afghanistan and now in the lead-up to this crisis that became an invasion in the Ukraine. So, our allies have seen what the American people have seen, that Joe Biden makes promises that he doesn’t keep, that he makes promises that he doesn’t remember. He makes promises that he walks back. And as a result, that’s why you’re seeing things like Volodymyr Zelenskyy tomorrow, you know, bypassing Biden and going directly to Congress. It’s why leaders of foreign countries like those, like the Saudi prince and the sheikh of the UAE last week not taking Biden’s phone calls even to talk about the oil crisis worldwide. So, you know, the rest of the world is rising to meet the challenge of Vladimir Putin, but unfortunately, they don’t see Joe Biden as particularly relevant to coming to meet that challenge.
– Republikken står sammen mot en morderisk diktator, en ren kjeltring som fører en umoralsk krig mot det ukrainske folk, sa Biden torsdag.
– Putin betaler en høy pris for sin aggresjon, la han til.
Onsdag kalte Biden den russiske presidenten for «krigsforbryter», en karakteristikk statsminister Jonas Gahr Støre ikke vil benytte med henvisning til at dette må være opp til domstolen i Haag å avgjøre. (NTB-DPA)
USAs president Joe Biden kommer til å advare Kina mot å gi militær bistand til Russland når han snakker med Xi Jinping, ifølge utenriksminister Antony Blinken.
– President Biden skal snakke med president Xi i morgen, og han vil gjøre det klart at Kina vil bære ansvaret for enhver handling det foretar til støtte for Russlands aggresjon. Og vi vil ikke nøle med å påføre kostnader, sa Blinken torsdag. (NTB-AFP)
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