Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday mocked his US counterpart Joe Biden, escalating a war of words between the two world leaders.
Putin said “it takes one to know one” after Biden, a day earlier, said he thought the Russian leader was a “killer”.
Putin on Thursday retorted: “I remember, in my childhood, when we argued in the courtyard, we used to say: ‘It takes one to know one.’ And that’s not a coincidence, not just a children’s saying or joke.
“We always see our own traits in other people and think they are like how we really are. And, as a result, we assess [a person’s] activities and give assessments.
Following Biden’s interview, Russia said it was recalling its ambassador to the United States for urgent consultations over the future of US-Russia ties.
Joe Biden has been in office for just two months. Has any US president had such a disastrous opening chapter on the world stage?
Other leaders, including China’s Xi and North Korea’s Kim have also made relatively mocking comments about Biden’s propensity for falling up stairs.
This week, in a first meeting, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken sat down to read China the riot act. Blinken spoke of the US ‘deep concern’ over Chinas actions with regard to Hong Kong, Taiwan, its bullying of various European countries, and its campaign of cyber attacks against the US. Said Blinken, these actions threaten ‘the rules-based order that maintains global stability’.
Chines envoy Yang, speaking through a translator, replied: ‘You can’t blame this problem on somebody else.’ The United States, said Yang, slapped down the Biden Administration, saying it does not have the ‘qualifications’ to address China ‘from a position of strength’.
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I would suggest that Tony Blinken is being mocked today because throughout his career with the Obama-ites, he has always been highly mock-worthy:
“Our values need to inform and infuse our policies.”
“Most of the time ideals and interests are one and same, even if some tactical trimming of the sails is also necessary.”
– Tony Blinken as quoted in THE GUARDIAN 4 May 2017
Nearly 50,000 US troops are now in Iraq under an “advise and assist” role, after President Barack Obama on Tuesday declared a formal end to the US combat mission.
The White House, keen to wind down the US role in Iraq, has played down the possibility of a large US force.
Vice President Joe Biden’s national security advisor, Anthony Blinken, has said only “dozens or maybe hundreds” of troops could remain.
– “US ‘likely’ to keep troops in Iraq after 2011” by Dan De Luce, Sept. 4, 2010 (AFP)
Morons who don’t know history, especially Chinese history, and human nature, are A-HOLES and shouldn’t be involved in anything to do with OUR foreign policy with regard to China.
On 19 October 1950, Chinese forces of the People’s Volunteer Army (PVA) crossed the Yalu into Korea and entered the Korean war for the simple reason that on the other side, the Korean side, was the best fighting force in the world at that time, the United States Marine Corps, and Mao Tse-Tung in true Chinese martial arts fashion wanted to “blood” his army against the best, which he did with the Chosin Reservoir campaign.
Martial artists, like those learning chess, don’t mind getting beat by a superior opponent, because that is how you learn to be superior.
After that, the Chinese were no longer afraid of fighting against Americans.
And this is the same Mao Tse-Tung who is said to have told a Yugoslav visitor to Peking in 1957, “We have a very large territory and a big population.”
“Atomic bombs could not kill all of us.”
“What if they killed 300 million of us?”
“We would still have many people left.”
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So here is senile old Joe Biden, who avoided military service during Viet Nam like Bill Clinton and Charley “Chuck” Schumer, in Joe’s case by coming down with the absolutely worst case of asthma you could believe, trying to muscle the Chinese, as if the Chinese somehow would be afraid of Joe, and by extension, Tony Blinken, who is a lightweight.
And then Joe goes and falls up the steps of Air Force One in front of a world audience!
Kind of ****** his tough-guy act is my thought.