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Maybe Biden will do rope-a-dope and knock out Russia with enormous penalties and sanctions this week....

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I believe he will. With lots of unilateral support

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Agree on all counts. Joe is definitely smart and experienced and I suspect rightly or wrongly he will get to his fault line and then do most of what you have suggested. At home he has given pocket Democrats like Manchin just enough rope to hang himself while moving the left to the Center. As for Putin who I believe is probably the wealthiest man on the planet Joe will move from rope a dope to heavy sanctions soon. Lastly I still believe Trumps mission to destroy democracy is fuelled by his outstanding debt to the Russians who lent him billions for his spending spree ( in cash)

Let’s hope America survives all the craziness that prevails .

While I am at it let’s hope we find a leader in Canada who does not use crayons to help him design policy

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I was with you all the way on this well written piece until the stated the following. "Joe Biden is a smart man and surely he must realize who he’s dealing with..........."

I would suggest that most of his actions since taking office have been anything but "smart".

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Biden is having an Alzheimer's flash, its lucky that aducanumab has just been approved by the FDA. What with his gaff calling the RAF the RFA in the UK he has a problem keeping it

all straight. Now he thinks Putin is playing checkers when Vlad the Impaler is actually playing

Russian chess. Just agree with everyone about everything and we will all get along

while Putin invades Ukraine. Biden is becoming too much like Trudeau who never accepts

anything, placates by offering dollars, and always shoots himself in the foot or in fact both feet.

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Can you name some people who have had the personality, experience, and skill set to make the responses recommended here?

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Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher.

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No. Recent pew research in Washington post article very revealing

Facts matter.

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Norman......are you messing with us?

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Joe has assembled one of the best teams in my lifetime. I always hired smarter people than me to run the companies. So, yes he is smart by virtue of building a great team to get it done

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The mental acuity is nonsense right wing BS

And Aducanumab only is maybe effective at highest dose with a significant propensity to cranial oedema which can lead to death in 24 hours. The same is happening on the planet.

There is no quick fix!! The Trump shit show left an even bigger gap in the worlds trust in the USA as the leader of the free democratic world. Joe cannot fix that in 90 days or 4 years

It’s going to take much more and much longer.

I cannot imagine dealing with the challenges that Biden et al are facing. The good news is we are not seeing any knee jerk let’s pretend we are at the Alamo behaviour. And the “ lie machine “ has been silenced significantly

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Things aren’t looking good. Where is Kamala ?

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She is super smart but not ready yet and I am not sure the USA is ready for a woman of colour married to a Jewish lawyer to become president. Great if it happened!

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