Biden

Summary

Dominique Pagani discusses Joe Biden in his comments on political events between 2020 and 2024. He nearly always links him with Trump, in what he calls "the Biden-Trump couple"1: two presidents who quarrel between right and far right, the first simply being more skilful while pursuing the same policy23. In his view, sending two aircraft carriers off the coast of Israel does not make Biden any more left-wing than Trump4. He returns several times to the account Biden gave before the CFR: he supposedly obtained the dismissal of a Ukrainian prosecutor by threatening to withhold a billion. He sees in it an obscene confession56. He also describes him as having always been surrounded by warmongers. He notes that Biden admitted to over-arming Ukraine and that his team made a fatal mistake by demonising all Russians78. In 2024 he speaks of a weakened president who can nevertheless press the nuclear button, then of a withdrawal that reshuffles the cards.

1. 1#7 Answers to questions (continued)3 Dec 2020 · 1:18:30
2. 2#10 Ukraine: from the problem of “edges” to the unleashing of war24 Feb 2022 · 1:53:12
3. 3Aragon, “The Paris Peasant Sings”5 Aug 2023 · 16:00
4. 4Neither left nor right? Islamo-leftism?17 Oct 2023 · 1:31:58
5. 5#8 Philosophising under threat27 Jan 2022 · 10:29
6. 6Worldliness in Clouscard: Aragon and the positivity of the negative29 Jun 2023 · 1:33:57
7. 7#11 Ukraine: mathematics unites men, politics divides them (Aristotle)24 Mar 2022 · 18:04
8. 8#11 Ukraine: mathematics unites men, politics divides them (Aristotle)24 Mar 2022 · 1:03:57

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