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OSUgradndad85 said:
And before he took the next piss, the WH mop crew walked it back………………..
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This one actually has me wondering. Was it your garden variety Biden gaffe, or was it more choreographed? If strategic ambiguity on steroids is your goal, having a gaffe prone senile president "accidentally" telegraph a new policy could be considered a brilliant maneuver.
 
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teachum said:
This one actually has me wondering. Was it your garden variety Biden gaffe, or was it more choreographed? If strategic ambiguity on steroids is your goal, having a gaffe prone senile president "accidentally" telegraph a new policy could be considered a brilliant maneuver.
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It was a clear case of Biden simply opening his mouth without first giving a reasonable thought to what he was about to say.
 
Cimarron

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teachum said:
This one actually has me wondering. Was it your garden variety Biden gaffe, or was it more choreographed? If strategic ambiguity on steroids is your goal, having a gaffe prone senile president "accidentally" telegraph a new policy could be considered a brilliant maneuver.
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What new policy?

See the Taiwan Relations Act (1979).

And, China Joe, brilliant? lol
 
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teachum said:
This one actually has me wondering. Was it your garden variety Biden gaffe, or was it more choreographed? If strategic ambiguity on steroids is your goal, having a gaffe prone senile president "accidentally" telegraph a new policy could be considered a brilliant maneuver.
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When Trump went off the rails publicly, Trumpets called it "4D chess".

In both situations, I think it was probably the same thing....a President that's not actually "all there".
 
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Given their repeating a policy that is 43 years old it's hardly brilliant on their part.
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Nowhere in that official policy is it stated the the US would intervene militarily, at least not that I could fine. Otherwise, this wouldn't be a big deal. Having said that, I tend to think this was probably just Biden being Biden, but it's worth consideration I think that it could have been planned.
 
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teachum said:
Nowhere in that official policy is it stated the the US would intervene militarily, at least not that I could fine. Otherwise, this wouldn't be a big deal. Having said that, I tend to think this was probably just Biden being Biden, but it's worth consideration I think that it could have been planned.
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  • to provide Taiwan with arms of a defensive character; and
  • to maintain the capacity of the United States to resist any resort to force or other forms of coercion that would jeopardize the security, or the social or economic system, of the people on Taiwan
 
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Cimarron said:
  • to provide Taiwan with arms of a defensive character; and
  • to maintain the capacity of the United States to resist any resort to force or other forms of coercion that would jeopardize the security, or the social or economic system, of the people on Taiwan
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Yea, I read that, Biden's comment went way further. Thus, the stink.
 
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Yea, I read that, Biden's comment went way further. Thus, the stink.
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Then why did you say "Nowhere in that official policy is it stated the the US would intervene militarily" when that is clearly military intervention.
 
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Then why did you say "Nowhere in that official policy is it stated the the US would intervene militarily" when that is clearly military intervention.
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Clearly, I don't define the word clearly the same as you. And evidently, no one else does either, thus the consensus description of our policy as "strategic ambiguity.
 
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Clearly, I don't define the word clearly the same as you. And evidently, no one else does either, thus the consensus description of our policy as "strategic ambiguity.
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Maintaining capacity to intervene militarily in defense of Taiwan is definitely much more ambiguous than "yes the US will intervene militarily....".

Clearly. :D
 
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