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Today. In praise of Joe Biden – an unfashionable opinion.

Yeah. We’ve all gotta agree. Joe Biden is silly, demented, – blah blah.

Well, I don’t agree. I watched that famous debate, after which everyone affirmed that Biden was a disaster.

The thing is – Biden made a couple of obvious glitches – mixing up names – during this debate (something that could happen to anybody, in the stress of the moment).

So the media, and the rest of the world, blindly agreed on how badly Biden debated. Never mind the fact that he gave a clear and lucid discussion on the achievements and policies of his government.

Meanwhile – the media coverage of the more colourful Trump was much more fun. There was definite disagreement about it between media outlets. The big question was exactly how many lies did Trump tell? Was it 32? No – some argued that it was only 28.

So – now that we’re all convinced that Biden doesn’t matter -we can ignore what he says and does about current urgent issues?

On the present Israeli military crisis – how will Israel punish Iran for its attacks on Israel? There’s this great idea that I’m sure that Netanyahu would love – to attack Iran’s nuclear site. But the Israelis do need the USA’s blessing to do that. But President Biden has said that while he is working with Israel  he wouldn’t support strikes on Iran’s nuclear facility.

On the present Ukraine military crisis, the Western media seems to be in complacent agreement that Ukraine can defeat Russia, and all that Ukraine needs is long-range missiles – supplied by USA/NATO. These missiles could strike deep inside Russia, could potentially strike Moscow. Russia’s President Putin has repeatedly warned against this. Now Putn has changed Russia’s doctrine on using nuclear weapons, making it clear that he is prepared to use them, in the event of Ukrainian attacks deep within Russia.

President Biden, while allowing Ukraine some use of long-range missiles in areas near Ukraine, continues to rule out strikes deep within Russia.

For this attitude, Biden gets criticism, near to ridicule, from the media, almost universally – summed up by the Washington Post editorial board –  “Mr. Biden needs to give permission and set the ground rules quickly.”

Donald Trump has come out with a very sensible-sounding policy on Ukraine. Trouble is – (a) you cannot trust a word that this man says, and (b) Trump’s record as president promotes nuclear war – undoing the Iran nuclear deal and the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces treaty with Russia.

It is now perhaps only President Joe Biden who is stalling and preventing the rush to nuclear Armageddon.

I can only conclude that the Western media in general (some exceptions):

 *doesn’t do its homework – check on the facts. 

*likes to please its nuclear-military-industrial-complex sponsors

 *finds Trump much more entertaining to write  about.

I am grateful to Julie Hollar, who clearly set out the case for questioning the corporate media’s judgement in covering this issue of the risk of Ukraine using long-range missiles.

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October 5, 2024 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Christina's notes