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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSoon on CNN: Biden to announce new actions against Russia.
Apparently hes rescinding their Most Favored Nation status.
https://www.usnews.com/news/business/articles/2022-03-11/us-allies-to-revoke-most-favored-nation-status-for-russia?context=amp
Irish_Dem
(45,657 posts)I am assuming he is going to continue to go all Irish on Putin's ass.
mopinko
(69,809 posts)drinks nor holds grudges. but i got a feeling that is being tested.
Irish_Dem
(45,657 posts)Joe Biden's mother's family comes from a small Irish village quite close to where my grandparents were born and raised. So I am familiar with these male personas, public and personal.
Handsome, charming, affable, intelligent, hail fellow well met. They don't hold grudges.
But there is another side to them.
If someone starts crossing lines, bullying or harming women and children, or starting a fight, they show another side, the dark one. They will take action. They don't shy away. And they will keep fighting until the situation is taken care of.
An example may be illuminating. Four of my cousins are police officers in a large city. Some years back, this city was targeted by terrorists, very high profile with national daily coverage. Some of my cousins had direct involvement, and I do mean direct, in the apprehension of one of the terrorists.
When I first heard of the terrorist bombing, I knew right away they had chosen the wrong city to do their dirty deeds. They would soon be sent to the darkest regions of hell for eternty. It was only by a fluke that one managed to live, if you call his current condition as living.
The Irish are sentimental people, and I am certain that when Joe Biden sees the pictures of children crying hanging on to their stuffed animals and backpacks fleeing all by themselves from danger, and the pregnant women dripping in blood from shrapnel, he is filled with a dark resolve. And cussing in a way I cannot really describe to you.
I confess that I am one of the ones who wishes Biden would take more action. But I also believe that there must be some very serious constraints holding Joe back right now. I have speculated on other threads what I think they might be.
We know that the NATO and corporations were reluctant to take action, but Joe devised a unique and unheard of form of total Armageddon financial warfare. And then he did an unprecedented amount of serious arm twisting to get everyone on board.
Ok there is one difference, my brothers/cousins have been known to kick back beers or Jameson on a regular basis.
BGBD
(3,282 posts)Russia is losing most favored nation status as a trade partner.
mobeau69
(11,079 posts)lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)Biden will announce a new trading partner category.
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)do the actual cancelling of Russia's status in our country, but Biden will request.
Just read that Canada's already done it.
Boomerproud
(7,890 posts)When 45 farted they had special reports, but the world is on eggshells and the won't disrupt Rachael Ray. Unbelievable!
blogslug
(37,955 posts)Forward ahead 22 minutes for Biden's remarks.