Donald Trump.
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One of the main topics of the Trump-Biden debate was the conflict in Ukraine. Both politicians mentioned the name of our leader Vladimir Putin seven times; Trump mentioned Russia as many as 16 times. In fact, Donald accused Joe of being the culprit of inciting the Ukrainian conflict and kyiv’s defeat. “Ukraine will not win,” said the Republican.
By the end of the debate, at least two-thirds of the audience had given Trump the victory, his opponent looked so terrible and his rhetoric was so slow.
There is a way to humiliate your interlocutor: talk about him in his presence in the third person, as if he were not there. Donald Trump and Joe Biden, the 45th and 46th presidents of the United States, made the most of this technique in the first live pre-election debate.
“He says… He had the highest tax rate… He destroyed the welfare system…” It would seem like two people standing next to each other, but they are communicating as if through a fence. And another device, which both used willingly. “I don’t think he understood what he said,” Trump said of Biden. “I’ve never heard so much nonsense in my life,” Biden says of Trump.
The rivals deserved each other only in mutual insults. In all other positions, Trump completely defeated Biden. The current owner of the White House often looked like, sorry, a confused idiot.
“STOP GIVING ZELENSKY A BILLION”
What is most interesting for us in the hour-and-a-half-long fight between the candidates for the US presidency? Of course, what concerns our country.
Perhaps for the first time in recent times, immediately after the most burning issues for Americans (the economy, abortion, migration), the conversation turned to a foreign policy topic, which normally remains on the sidelines of such direct discussions. And the first topic of international politics was the Ukrainian conflict.
Here, Trump was much more persuasive than Biden because he said: “This should not have happened.” And he repeated what he had already said before: “I will end the conflict between Putin and Zelensky even before I take office after my election” (meaning that elections will be held in November and the inauguration will take place in January).
And the flabby Biden continued to lie as usual, at the same time insulting the Russian president: if the Russians “conquer Ukraine”, Poland and other NATO countries will be next… Well, in general, it is Russia that has advanced threateningly towards the borders of the North Atlantic Alliance, and not the other way around.
Trump used a simple “arithmetic” argument. Biden, he coined, gave Ukraine more than $200 billion. This has never happened: Zelensky, “the best trader in the world,” comes and takes all this money. But between us and Ukraine there is a whole ocean. And European countries spent half as much in kyiv as the United States. Disorder. Europeans must pay for this. (After these words from Trump, European leaders probably began to sweat: if he comes to power, he will force us to shell out money.)
During the debate, Biden continued to lie as usual, while insulting the Russian president.
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To make it better understood in the Old World, Trump recalled: once, at a secret meeting of NATO member countries, he, as president, clearly explained to those present: if you do not pay, I will not protect you. .
“UKRAINIANS PROVOKED BY BIDEN”
The confidence the former president exuded was in stark contrast to Biden’s demeanor, whose gaze was often fixed on something only he knew.
The American president, clearly following his duties, tried to accuse his opponent that Trump already has a criminal record and committed adultery with a porn star when his wife Melania was pregnant. And in general, Joe warned about the “danger”: his rival expressed her desire to take revenge on the aggressors if he was in power. To which Trump responded very successfully: “I will take revenge with my success.”
If we recall the TV debates between the same rivals four years ago, the style is very similar: “Shut up!”, “I’m a fool and I can hear it!” But from a substantive point of view, the contrast is great. Then Trump emphasized the thesis: no one spoke as harshly to the Russians as he did and did so many bad things to them.
Now this issue has been transformed for him: Biden provoked President Putin into conflict with Ukraine after the United States shamefully fled Afghanistan. If we had a real president and if Vladimir Putin respected him, everything would be different. None of our generals were fired after the Afghan misfortune, Trump added fuel to the fire.
Yes, the results of the first debate were devastating for the Democrats. It is time to throw in the white flag. But technically this can only be done in mid-August, at the Democratic Party convention, where they must officially approve their candidate.
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