Quote Originally Posted by JoeD View Post
Either Biden is real good at foreign diplomacy re getting the NATO countries, EU, and others all united in opposition to Putin, or the rest of the world has pretty much figured out that he (Biden) is senile and incompetent and that the US can no longer be relied upon as a world leader. Germany stepping up, Poland stepping up, even Switzerland. What the heck is going on? China is sure taking notes.

I personally feel it's more of the latter (senile/incompetent) which doesn't bode well for the long term, but no doubt Biden will be taking full credit at the State of Union this week.
We are absolutely the followers not the leaders here. I am dumbfounded by Germany’s swift reaction, for example, which was made at great cost to themselves. My cynicism makes it hard to understand or accept but I am full of admiration.

My Ukraine forecast was wrong. A key part was the German Russian relationship. I did not know Putin was unhinged. He’s an idiot and idiots are dangerous.