This whole article makes Biden and his administration sound cool as fuck. Why isn't this the stuff we're seeing in the news? When Russia was considering using tactical nukes in Ukraine:
The book recounts a tense phone call between Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and his Russian counterpart in October 2022.
“If you did this, all the restraints that we have been operating under in Ukraine would be reconsidered,” Austin said to Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, according to Woodward. “This would isolate Russia on the world stage to a degree you Russians cannot fully appreciate.”
“I don’t take kindly to being threatened,” Shoigu responded.
“Mr. Minister,” Austin said, according to Woodward, “I am the leader of the most powerful military in the history of the world. I don’t make threats.”
I mean it also shows that the Biden approach to getting a ceasefire is asking Netanyahu "please stop escalating the situation over there and start negotiating" and then getting promptly ignored.
The next step, where we stop supporting Israel militarily, is a broken alliance. Dang straight we should be doing everything we can to avoid that. It would be a disaster both home and abroad.
You saw what Mossad is capable of. The CIA will lose much of its presence in the region without them. And the Middle East is way way too important and hot region to ignore
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u/Broad_Procedure Oct 08 '24
‘That son of a bitch’: New Woodward book reveals candid behind-the-scenes conversations of Biden, Trump, Harris and Putin | CNN Politics