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Biden and anti-Russia warmongers: Play it again Bush, Clinton, and Obama

Noriko Watanabe and Lee Jay Walker

Modern Tokyo Times

During the administration of Donald Trump, he did a rare thing in recent American history. Yes, he didnt start or instigate a war. Only recently, the Barack Obama administration destabilized Libya and Syria along with the usual NATO and Middle Eastern powers. The administrations of Bill Clinton and George Bush junior also spread death and misery to several continents. Therefore, the bi-partisan anti-Russian Federation angle in the United States is once more inciting another war under the administration of President Joe Biden.

The late Stephen F. Cohen (1938-2020) said in 2019, For centuries and still today, Russia and large parts of Ukraine have had much in commona long territorial border; a shared history; ethnic, linguistic, and other cultural affinities; intimate personal relations; substantial economic trade; and more. Even after the years of escalating conflict between Kiev and Moscow since 2014, many Russians and Ukrainians still think of themselves in familial ways. The United States has almost none of these commonalities with Ukraine.

Biden is laying the foundation for further mistrust with the Russian Federation despite America recently pulling out of Afghanistan. Also, the Biden administration is increasingly antagonizing China with endless rhetoric aimed at containing this nation. Therefore, the geopolitical backyard of America applies to European NATO powers to Japan aimed at the Russian Federation and from Japan to Asia Pacific nations who are anti-China via the useful and manipulated humanitarian angle.

America ironically is currently blighted by 100,000 opioid deaths in the last 12 months, Covid-19 deaths that will reach 900,00 in the next week, growing internal cultural differences being incited by the Democrats (race-baiting to gender confusion), inflation concerns, and several cities are fraying because of homelessness, criminality, and the defund the police agenda of wealthy Democrats who play the race card. Therefore, why isnt Biden focused on these issues and the border of America rather than seeking a new Cold War with China and the Russian Federation?

Robert Menendez and other anti-Russian Federation warmongers irrespective of whether Democrat or Republican are inflaming the situation with endless rhetoric. Voice of America reports, In addition, Menendez said he expects the Senate to approve additional lethal assistance to Ukraine in the form of weapons, as well as economic sanctions on key sectors of the Russian economy, and a bar on Russias ability to sell its sovereign debt in international markets.

Vasily Nebenzya, the Russian Federation Ambassador to the United Nations, uttered that America is provoking escalation. The ambassador continued by implying that America is whipping up hysteria aimed at the Russian Federation.

President Vladimir Putin of the Russian Federation concerning the responses obtained by America and NATO regarding the geopolitical concerns of the Russian Federation is despondent. He said, Let me note that we are closely analyzing the written responses received from the US and NATO on January 26. However, it is already clear, and I informed Mr. Prime Minister about it, that the fundamental Russian concerns were ignored.

TASS News reports, Putin explained that Moscow had seen no adequate response to three key demands preventing NATOs expansion, non-deployment of strike weapons systems near Russian borders and returning the military infrastructure of NATO in Europe to the positions existing in 1997 when the Russia-NATO Founding Act was signed.

The highly respected Stephen F. Cohen blamed Bill Clinton for starting to expand NATO further eastwards toward the Russian Federation. He said, The short but essential answer is Washingtons decision, taken by President Bill Clinton in the 1990s, to expand NATO eastward from Germany and eventually to Ukraine itself. Ever since, both Democrats and Republicans have insisted that Ukraine is a vital US national interest. Those of us who opposed that folly warned it would lead to dangerous conflicts with Moscow, conceivably even war. Imagine Washingtons reaction, we pointed out, if Russian military bases began to appear on Canadas or Mexicos borders with America. We were not wrong: An estimated 13,000 souls have already died in the Ukrainian-Russian war in the Donbass and some 2 million people have been displaced.

The Guardian (Simon Jenkins), concerning the late Boris Yeltsin pleading with NATO powers not to move to the borders of Russia, takes a similar view to the late Stephen F. Cohen. He reports,The west blatantly derided the advice. Nato leaders feasted on victory, recruiting members eastwards through Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary and the Baltic states. Pleas from Russian moderates were ignored, while London opened its doors to Russias stolen wealth. The result was predictable. In 1999, Vladimir Putin took power on a populist, patriotic ticket. To Britains former Moscow ambassador, Rodric Braithwaite, Putin was a master of articulatingthe sense of humiliationRussians felt after the collapse of the Soviet Union. He exploited Natos aggressive expansionism for all it was worth. When in 2008 Americas George W Bushbacked extending Nato membershipto Georgia and Ukraine (a move that was vetoed by Germany and France) Putin seized land in both.

It is time for America and to a lesser degree the United Kingdom to focus on internal issues that need addressing. Political elites in Washington and London have meddled and spread international chaos by endlessly interfering with countless nations in recent decades. This concerns instigating conflicts far from the shores of both nations.

Modern Tokyo Times recently said, The United States (US) and the United Kingdom (UK) have involved themselves in the destabilization of many nations along with other NATO powers(France concerning Libya and Turkey in Syria) for many decades. Hence, from supporting the dismemberment of Yugoslavia and then Serbia (Kosovo) to intrigues in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, and other conflicts mass immigration took place. This relates to failed states, chaos, terrorism, ethnic persecution, and other negative factors.

The world needs a break from constant conflicts that emanate from the same corridors of power. America, France, the United States, Turkey, and other nations continue to meddle internationally all are NATO powers. Hence, it is time for NATO and the Russian Federation to have proper dialogue that addresses the natural concerns of the Russian Federation and to calm the current crisis that is being whipped up in Washington and London.

The flow of bloodshed continues in several nations that are blighted by the deeds of NATO powers. This concerns the further destabilization of the Sahel region after the war against Libya left this nation a failed state, ongoing convulsions in Iraq and Syria, the continuing occupation of Northern Cyprus by Turkey, the meddling of Turkey in the Nagorno-Karabakh region that witnessed Islamists being transported to the war zone to kill Armenian Christians, and other convulsions related to Afghanistan to mass immigration to Europe and the cleansing of religious minorities (Christians and Yazidis in parts of Iraq and Syria). Therefore, this collective chaos is responsible for vast numbers of deaths alongside creating millions of refugees and unleashing mass immigration.

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Biden and anti-Russia warmongers: Play it again Bush, Clinton, and Obama - Modern Tokyo Times

Regulations issued by President Biden during his first year in office will cost $201 billion and add 131 million hours in annual paperwork, far exceeding the first-year outcomes of Presidents Barack Obama and Donald Trump, according to an analysis released Thursday.

The American Action Forum, a center-right policy institute that has tracked regulatory costs since 2005, said a vehicle emissions rule issued by the Environmental Protection Agency was by far the most costly rule, at $180 billion.

It nudged Mr. Bidens total regulatory costs to three times that of Mr. Obamas first-year total of $65 billion and 40 times that of Mr. Trump, who made cutting red tape a signature part of his first-year agenda by requiring two rules to be rescinded for every new one implemented.

Fundamentally, were looking at a Republican administration that sought to reduce the size and scope of government, and Democrat administrations that grow it, said Michael Bars, a former senior communications adviser in the Trump White House. Trump wasted no time undoing the heavy-handed rulemaking of the Obama administration, and Biden predictably came ready to put it right back.

The deluge of paperwork hours under Mr. Biden is largely due to a pair of COVID-19 rules issued by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, the forum said.

The Supreme Court stayed the second of those rules, which would have required large companies to test unvaccinated workers, meaning the burden might ease after the litigation is resolved.

For now, Mr. Bidens first-year paperwork total of 131 million additional hours outstrips the Obama total of 26 million hours and the Trump total of 8 million hours.

The span of January 21, 2021, through January 20, 2022, represented a historically prodigious year in the realm of regulatory activity. Federal agencies under the Biden administration produced regulatory costs and paperwork burdens that exceeded the Year One totals produced under the past two administrations many times over, wrote the forums Dan Goldbeck, a senior regulatory policy analyst, and Dan Bosch, director of regulatory policy.

Democrats are likely to cheer Mr. Bidens pivot from Trump-era deregulation, but the GOP held up the analysis as a sign the new administration is bad for business and the economy.

Members of the Senate Finance Committee said Thursday they are particularly concerned about drug price controls as written in Mr. Bidens social welfare bill, which is stuck in Congress but might be passed in smaller pieces.

The tax-and-spending proposal currently under consideration would double down on this concerning trend toward over-regulation and advance a series of sweeping new government mandates for stakeholders across the health care system, the senators wrote in a letter to colleagues.

Also Thursday, the forum said Mr. Biden signed the most executive orders of any president in his first year since Gerald Ford 77 placing him slightly ahead of Mr. Obamas first year total and Mr. Trump, who issued fewer than 60 in his first year, according to the forum.

More than a third of Mr. Bidens orders were related to COVID-19 or mentioned the pandemic, researchers said.

Other topics included climate change, efforts to reverse Trump administration regulatory policies, Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act, and equity advancements for several historically disadvantaged and marginalized communities, the forum said.

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First lady Jill BidenJill BidenThe Hill's Morning Report - Presented by Facebook - Biden talks, Senate balks Jill Biden adds to communications team in lead-up to midterm elections Harris invokes MLK in voting rights push, urges Senate to 'do its job' MORE is adding to her communications team as the East Wing prepares for Novembers midterm elections.

Michael LaRosa, the first ladys spokesperson, confirmed to The Hill early Thursday that Kelsey Donohue will join the first ladys communications team in February.

An alum of the Obama administration, Donohue worked as then-first lady Michelle ObamaMichelle LeVaughn Robinson ObamaJill Biden adds to communications team in lead-up to midterm elections Michelle Obama: 'Treat fear as a challenge' Barack Obama wishes a happy 58th birthday to 'best friend' Michelle MOREs assistant press secretary between January 2015 and January 2017, according to her LinkedIn profile.

Donohue will oversee Bidens digital media efforts and help bolster her issue portfolio and public engagement communications,according toAxios, which first reported on the new hire.

The official White House website saysBiden"continues her work for education, military families, and fighting cancer" as first lady. Biden is also a writing professor at Northern Virginia Community College.

We are excited for Kelsey to join our small but nimble team! LaRosa told Axios. There are three members on the first ladys communications team, according to Axios.

Donohue is currently employed by social media company Snap Inc., and previously served as the director of communications at the Harvard Kennedy Schools Institute of Politics.

Afteralmost a year in the White House, and with midterms 10 months away, Biden has already spent plenty of time on the road on behalf of the White House.

Bidenstumped for Democrat Terry McAuliffe in October during his campaign for Virginia governor, a race he ultimately lost to Republican Glenn YoungkinGlenn YoungkinVirginia exits multi-state coalition backing EPA in climate lawsuit Virginia universities lift vaccine mandates after Youngkin's order Jill Biden adds to communications team in lead-up to midterm elections MORE.

Biden has thus far traveled to 35 states, more than 60 cities and a total of three countries, according to Axios.

Updated at 9:17 a.m.

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As many people now know, Barack Obama was born in Hawaii on August 4, 1961. As shared by the Miller Center, his parents, Ann Dunham and Barack Obama, Sr., met as students at the University of Hawaii. However, his father didn't live with the young family for long following his son's birth; the elder Obama left Hawaii when his son was only 2 years old and eventually moved back to his native Kenya.

Barack Obama has been open about the questions he wrestled with after his father left; he opened up about those questions in his book with Bruce Springsteen, "Renegades: Born in the USA" (viaThe Guardian). While speaking about men and boys in the United States, Obama said of his generation, "There was never a full reckoning of who our dads were, what they had in them, how we have to understand that and talk about that. What lessons we should learn from it. All that kind of got buried."

Despite his father's absence, Obama was emotionally and physically supported by his mother and her parents, who also lived in Hawaii.

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MSNBC's Chuck Todd said Tuesday that based on past metrics of job approval and the American people's impression of the country's direction, President Biden and Democrats could be heading into the midterm in "shellacking territory," such as what was seen during the 2010 midterms during former President Obama's first term in the White House.

"Basically, there are three poll numbers you can follow nationally that will tell you the likely shape of these midterm elections, its 1) direction of the country, right track [or] wrong track, the 2) presidential job rating and the 3) generic ballot," Todd said.

"And right now, two of the three that we track are sitting there in shellacking territory, so it'll be a lot of fun as we track throughout the year."

Todd cited an NBC poll from October 2021 that showed 71% of respondents didn't approve of the country's direction. "That's in big-time shellacking territory," he said.

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The other metric, Biden's job approval which sat at 42% also puts the Democratic Party in political peril, according to Todd.

President Biden (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Comparatively, in 2010 60% of Americans (compared to Biden's 70%) thought that the country was headed in the wrong direction. The presidential approval was at 45% (compared to Biden's 42%).

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Beyond the NBC poll, a more recent Quinnipiac poll found Biden's approval to be at 33%. In response, Todd said, "Every time I think the WhiteHouse thought theyve hit bottomthere seems to be a new bottom."

The poll found the majority of Americans are disappointed in the president's handling of COVID-19, foreign policy, and the economy. The poll reflects historic inflation, the widely-criticized withdrawal from Afghanistan, and Biden's failure to "shut down the virus" as he promised during the 2020 elections.

Taliban fighters pose in the city of Kabul, Afghanistan, Aug. 18, 2021. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

A Fox Business poll found in December that the majority of Americans said 2021 was a bad year for their families and that they were not hopeful about the country's future.

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