Our mail order president has decided to cancel the ministry of truth

https://www.washingtonpost.com/techn...ina-jankowicz/

The public outcry was just too good. (glad to see it still works) Now this Jankowicz chick can crawl back to where it came from

You mean, like, back to Ukraine?

The legend of the foto in your link reads:
Certainly that's fake news. Certainly the Dems have learned from the Hunter Biden bribe debacle at Burisma Holdings. Just like it must be pure coincidence that Nina went in the opposite direction and was appointed, by Hunter's dear and completely non-corrupt daddy, as head of an entire Department despite (according to Wiki) having zero experience in administration let alone a supervising position.

She must be an ultrabright spark, there's no other possibility.

Good eyes, she was a stooge for him.

Biden has the lowest approval ratings of the presidency. Only 39% of dems think country is going in right direction, only 73% approval with dems

https://apnews.com/article/biden-app...a32908b2affa65

Biden is the best US president in 30 years.

Tom

Ms. Jankowicz managed democracy assistance programs to Russia and Belarus at the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs.
She sits on the advisory boards of the Centre for Information Resilience and Zinc Network's Open Information Partnership.
She has testified before Congress on multiple occasions and regularly briefs and advises Members of Congress and representatives of allied governments.

She received her MA in Russian, Eurasian, and East European Studies from Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service, and her BA from Bryn Mawr College.

People just don't know what's good for em.

In short you agree that she has zero experience in the administration.

Now that you lay out her educational background, I do realise that her education can indeed be seen as useful in the disinformation department. In a 1984 sense, that is.

Agitating for war with one nuclear power is so going so well that doing it with 2 is even better.

Now he is saying that the us would have a military intervention if China invaded Taiwan.

LINK

This man is bat-dung insane....and we thought Trump would start WWIII

You think China has a big appetite for a global armed conflict where it will be significantly outgunned when it comes to conventional warfare, even if it faced only the US, never mind a mobilized US + West? Come on man, at least try and be realistic.

China has one of the most vulnerable populations in the world... 1.3 billion people, many living in rural areas with few amenities and little access to any really sturdy shelter and with a food supply that is heavily dependent on imports. The last thing China wants and needs are sanctions and/or a war of significance with the West that would not only shatter its military power for decades, but would also result in it losing vast swathes of population to warfare and/or starvation. China's workforce engine is its key asset and any serious war with the West would completely screw that. Not to mention its key ally Russia is now looking like it will be heavily militarily weakened and reliant on Chinese financial and economic support to help build back its military and get its economy back on track after this war.

I would say if there is ever a time to tell China that invading Taiwan is not acceptable then is now, while the West is politically mobilized and on the same page due to the conflict in Ukraine. If China is smart it will nod and smile and wait until a future time when the Western heat is off and Russia has re-stabilized before risking actions that cause any kind of significant conflict.

Except China has Russia which would be more than eager to form a stronger alliance with them. For what exactly, to save some basically Chinese people who we don’t have an alliance with and who we have stated is part of china for decades?

The sabres might be rattling in the NATO offices but if they try to sell their people on this, they will have a problem.

And if there is no war, do we want to anger one of the only countries that can navigate us out of the supply chain nightmare we are in. No food, no oil, no electronics or cheap amazon junk…..the citizens of the west will not be happy with that

Russia and China are already strongly allied, and Russia will be weakened and in need of support after this conflict, they are in no enviable position to wage any kind of war against the West without seriously messing themselves up. As for angering China, yeah, pretty hard to avoid at the best of times really, and China stopping the flow of goods to the West would basically be shooting itself in the foot due to the billions lost to its own economy. At the moment the US and West are in a far better position of solidarity with an inordinately more powerful combined military might that will get stronger as military budgets increase and I don't blame them for using that political leverage while they can.

The official US policy on Taiwan is to be purposely ambiguous. That is why even the reporter asking the question is stunned by the answer. His handlers walked back the remark as they have done so before when he has gone of the rails. At the same time as he is saying this, the US entered into an info-pacific trade deal that does not include Taiwan.

I am sure that behind closed doors the US has made its real intentions clear. But you don't say something like that to China to paint it into a corner on an international stage as it is trying to project its image to its people and neighboring countries that it is a superpower......it's just bad, bad diplomacy. Not really an example of the "adults" being in charge

Personally, I think it’s a brilliant way of clearing up the “will they or won’t they” question, regarding US defense of Taiwan. I doubt that it was a genuine gaff.

From someone a bit more clever than either of us:

“This accidentally-on-purpose rhetorical strategy has its merits. It reduces any chance that China might attack Taiwan on the basis of a misperception that the US would stay out of the fracas, without triggering the diplomatic confrontation a formal shift would bring. Unfortunately, the administration’s “clarifications” have sometimes made the situation less clear, by implying that the US would not defend Taiwan.

More important, we shouldn’t exaggerate the effect that any shift in declaratory policy will have.

The root of the problem in the Taiwan Strait is not uncertainty about America’s strategic interest in preserving a free Taiwan. If Beijing did not believe there was a strong likelihood of the US defending the island, it would not be investing so heavily in antiship missiles, advanced air defenses and other capabilities meant to defeat the American military. The problem, rather, is the shifting balance of power.

People’s Liberation Army officials are reportedly growing more confident that Beijing could prevail in conflict with Washington over Taiwan. A lethal combination of geography (Taiwan is close to China and far from the US) and American lethargy (China has been modernizing its forces far faster than the US has responded) has made the situation dire.”

It makes sense for Biden to say this. More than anything the previous administration did.

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You mean Obama, Bush, or Clinton or do you think Trump invented it?

Invented what? I wasn't aware that foreign policy was "invented."

US foreign policy has generally been shaped by folks in the State Department, from both parties. POTUS could push policy in directions that they wanted, but all generally realised that they didn't not know more than the "experts." Whether it was Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush I, Clinton, Bush II, or Obama. The moron, I mean the criminal, I mean the grifting conman, you understand who, decimated the State Department, by not filling positions, by forcing career folks into choosing between his abhorrent personal goals or their own reputations, by making it a shit stigma to work under his administration, by always claiming that he knew more than the experts - he didn't. This has set US foreign policy back more than any administration (which is amazing, considering how poorly Bush II did). Biden, while far from perfect, at least has the good sense to listen to advisors.

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That just doesn't appear to be the case any longer, see here for a bit of a longer post.

Taiwan's TSMC produces half of all fundry chips produced globally ("neighbouring" South Korea's Samsung another 1/6 or so), you'll have heard of the global chip shortage. Intel's building production capacity in the US and Europe, that'll lessen the threat but not remove it. And it takes a couple years still to get production started.

Meanwhile inflation continuing its drumbeat

https://www.ft.com/content/91b9c081-...6-f6fffb68dcec

Amazing how tje party in power managed to drive the economy in the ground so fast. I expect in a few weeks we will find out that US is in a recession

You understand that the increasing inflation is not a US phenomenon and is driven by much more than what the Fed is doing?

I think he does very well. His posts are intelligent. He just decides to spend it on trolling, in my view.