My opening: IF this was Trump, the media would be all over him. If you disagree, I believe it's because you are disingenuous or lack objectivity.
Ah, the classic "IF YOU DISAGREE WITH ME YOU ARE A MONSTER!!!" proactive attack statement. So since I'm not a monster (or disingenuous, in this case) and don't have intentions of becoming so, I can only wholeheartedly agree with you.
Thanks for letting me know what my opinion should be. This makes browsing forums and discussing politics much easier.
EDIT: okay...now that we've covered the comedy part of your post, let's talk politics.
The first thing I thought of reading your carefully selected screenshot of the part of the article you want to share was "ey! What the hell is Biden thinking he can call the shots in other countries?".
So mission accomplished: I read the article. And if it was a clickbait attempt, you even double-won, as I literally looked up a translation of "to waive", because the writer of the article (and you, apparently) somehow manages to completely miss the meaning of the word. It's really a synonym for words like "defer, forgo, resign, stay" and so on (all depending on context, of course). So this "to waive sanctions" is basically saying "nope...we're not going to put sanctions in place here".
So this whole "But Biden is helping Russia and a German CEO" is complete bullshit. It's very akin to me saying something like, I dunno...
@tabzer is helping me jerking off to lesbian sabertooth tigers vomiting over gobelin tapestries
...when all you really did is
not sanction me to do whatever the fuck I want in the comfort of my own home.
So as to your opening: Trump didn't interfere much (or at all?) in consensual agreements between two foreign countries. I can provide hundreds of photographs of him
not sanctioning two foreign countries and the media not giving him flak about it(1), so...what are you after here, exactly?
I'm not sure what to say on
@AmandaRose 's statement that 90% of this pipeline was built under Donald's watch, but if true, you'll understand that I have to engage in not only considering your opening not only null and void, but in addition have to make the following remark that'll indicate what I think of your ignorance regarding this topic:
EDIT 2: yup...Amanda's right (thanks for that link, btw
). Part of the Reuters article:
A U.S. official conceded that stopping the project would be difficult but that Washington would keep trying. "We inherited a pipeline that was over 90% complete and so stopping it has always been a long shot," the State Department official said.
Soooo...what's this outcry about, really? The westernjournal article's author was already dubious in confusing "waiving sanctions" with "actively helping", and now it turns out the bloody thing's already 95% complete. That really turns the whole thing in an absurd (read: republican propaganda) territory.
I mean...the image thinker in me already sees an incredibly long pipe-line all across Russia and Germany, but just at one end, where workers are about to put the last pipes in place, the article's author is on his knees crying bitter tears and proclaiming something like "it's because of Biden's inaction that the chance this pipeline is complete increases!!!".
I also thought of something else. I live in East Flanders now. Somewhere almost directly between the large port of Antwerp and the German 'Ruhrgebied'. There were plans of a pipeline here as well between Antwerp and Germany (not gas, though). Because it would cross straight through many acres of nature environment, there was (and I presume still is) plenty of local protest.
You know what WASN'T a factor? Someone thinking Biden should intervene somehow. Because we are Belgium, and Germany is Germany. Neither's a fucking colony of the USA. It may be a problem, but it's a local problem. The last thing we want(2) is our local problems becoming some sort of argument in US politics.
(1): Trump made sure he got flak from all other sorts of shenanigans, but ey...it wasn't about him not interfering in foreign trade deals.
(2): okay, okay: I can think of a few other things we want even less. But you get the point