I tend to agree that keeping the response in line with their allies is the right position to take, though I tend to think its the intel community and the military chiefs keeping the reins a little drawn.
I'm not currently impressed at all with Biden, any more than I was about his handling of Afghanistan. The right actions made horribly wrong by poor execution.
I do wish he was able to keep his mouth shut regarding the fear-mongering stuff; I'm starting to feel the same trepidation each morning as I felt with his predecessor, "Oh dear God, what did he say?" He never has been known to engage brain before putting mouth in gear. Things like, "Putin is getting ready to escalate" seem to be more of stating the obvious loudly so he can say, "I told you so! See? I can do this." It does nothing but stir everyone's stomach acid and, to me at least, makes him look like that know-it-all kid we all grew up with. We don't need Chicken Little right now, especially followed by that dreadful uncaring performance of his in Fort Worth.
I also wish he was a bit more reactive to the domestic situation instead of watching things like fuel pricing go through the roof like a deer in the headlamps. He's much more a Carter or Johnson rather than an FDR, Truman, or Reagan; so fixated on his strategy book no matter what events might unfold and totally unable to react tactically to current reality. The economy will be in a far worse state than necessary come midterm elections and the Dems will go down in flames in favour of the fascists.
When I look back (for example) at how Truman handled the Berlin crisis without a lot of hand-wringing, giving the appearance of quiet capability whilst having the situation in hand with a proactive plan, it really illustrates how out of his depth the current POTUS is, and how insane the last one was.
Enough of that, anyway.
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