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Written by Ahmed Adel, Cairo-based geopolitics and political economy researcher
More than half of United States citizens negatively evaluate the presidency of Joe Biden, according to a survey carried out by the television network CNN between April 18 and 23. The survey, which enquired 1,212 people of legal age, also found that the majority of voters viewed the previous presidency of Donald Trump favourably, whilst only a minority found it to be a “failure.”
“In the new poll, 60% disapprove of his handling of the job and 40% approve,” the outlet reported, highlighting that the results about Biden are almost the same as last year.
When it comes to Biden’s policy for managing the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, only 28% of respondents support it, compared to 71% who expressed an opposite opinion.
Support rates also remain low when it comes to the economy: only 34% approve of Biden’s economic policy, while 70% say that “economic conditions in the US are poor.”
In relation to former president Trump, the survey showed that 55% of respondents see his presidency as a “success,” while 44% consider it a “failure.”
According to a Bloomberg report, Biden’s approval rating could fall in the coming weeks, especially among younger people, after the country approved the suspension of TikTok. Earlier this month, the president signed a law that would force the app’s parent company, Beijing-based ByteDance Ltd, to sell its stake by the end of the year or be banned from the US app store.
The report points out that the new law will likely alienate younger voters, who are often key to Democratic electoral victories.
“Many are already not excited about Biden’s re-election,” noted the US agency.
Although the CNN poll quizzed Americans on their opinion of Biden’s handling of health care policy, student loan debt, the economy, migration, crime, abortion and the war between Israel and Hamas, notably missing from the conversation was the president’s unrelenting support for Ukraine, arguably the pinnacle failure of his administration. It is especially curious that the Ukraine question was omitted from the survey, considering Biden recently approved a $61 billion aid package to Ukraine instead of prioritising the myriad of economic issues in the US.
According to George Beebe, a contributor to the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft and a former analyst at the CIA, the new aid package for Ukraine is an invitation to disaster, resulting in both a waste of money and, even more worryingly, will only sustain Kiev’s military needs for a few more months, not prevent Ukraine’s ultimate defeat, and lead to a waste of Ukrainian lives.
The analyst pointed out that of the announced total, only $14 billion of the aid package will be spent on acquiring weapons for Ukraine, while $8 billion in financial support will be used to keep the Ukrainian government afloat.
“The bulk of the package, however, will go toward replenishing America’s own diminished military stockpiles — which will take years to accomplish — and funding its broader operations in the region. Some of Ukraine’s more sober-minded supporters concede as much,” according to Beebe.
“The package will not bridge the enormous gap between Russia’s artillery, bomb, and missile production and that of Ukraine and its Western supporters, because the West simply lacks the manufacturing capacity to meet Ukraine’s massive needs, and this will be the case for many years to come,” he added.
Given that Biden’s policies towards Russia and Ukraine have been his greatest failure during his administration, while Trump has retained his long-held position of ending the conflict as quickly as possible, unlike the current president, it raises questions about why CNN omitted this issue from their survey.
November’s US presidential election is a turning point in international relations and will have major consequences for the projection of American power in the world. Trump’s foreign policy positions have not changed much since he left the White House in 2021, but the current global situation has drastically changed, with major wars in Eastern Europe and the Middle East.
The two political opponents have different views regarding the US’ international insertion strategy, with Trump being more isolationist and Biden being more interventionist. Therefore, all countries, whether allies or adversaries of the Americans, seek to prepare themselves for what may happen in November, given that the results of the elections will serve as a compass for the expected behaviour of American foreign policy since when the White House undergoes an administration transition, the effects on the international system are evident given Washington’s privileged position and its power to influence institutions.
As the polls point out, Americans are unsatisfied with Biden since the domestic situation dramatically declined when he became president. Instead of dealing with the declining economic situation, ordinary Americans are angered by Biden throwing away tens upon billions of dollars to Ukraine in a war that has wide consensus, even in the West now, that Ukraine has no chance of emerging victorious.
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trump said : if i am prezident, i am leaving from nato.. i think england or france will administrate nato after usa exit
then england will go to war with france again. lol
trump informed european commission president ursula von der leyen, “you need to understand that if europe is under attack, we will never come to help you and to support you”
they are both the same shit. trump called himself a zionist dog at aipac and biden said he is a zionist. btw biden got over 5 million from aipac over the years.
trump agree to leave afghanistan so did biden, trump start building the wall and biden is finishing it, trump made rich people richer…guess what biden doing?
you can tell who is different and really pro-american, that person wouldn’t support zionists… blindly.
zionists have their hooks buried so deep in america that any thrashing around will just bury them deeper.
yes, it is crazy… i saw many videos of neo-nazis march in the us, guess what the police did to them? nothing.
at the same time you can just watch how different it is when uni students protesting against israel’s gaza genocide and settler-colonial apartheid.
the us don’t care about anti-semitism, they care about anti-zionism.
yeah, well what trump will do with ukraine’s a crap shoot but biden is just crap.
image says alien vs predator?
anyone who believes that trump is a success is an idiot and brain-dead. who goes bankrupt with a f’ing casino? 5 times? a money launderer for the kosher nostra, that’s who. who sent 1,000s of atgms and manpads to ukraine? ask iranians what they think of him. he’s a fraud and never did have money, just paper. as for biden, we know what he is…the same pos as trump and the rest.
trump, the guy who died in a helicopter crash arranged by the mayor of new york in 1986, played by 2 body doubles, or biden, the pedo who died in 2019 played by his bro, the mask guy, or a fucking robot. the country is run by the jewish mafia on behalf of the british crown, it’s a joke to even play the game called ‘democracy’ no such thing in a slave plantation.
trump has undergone sea change on ukraine. the spirit of ronald reagan still rules the american attitude toward russia, china and iran. trump knows this and will take over this policy position and infuse it with his win win win war cry. putin has nothing on trump and trump will lose the election if he fails to channel reagan and vociferously oppose the axis of evil.
very good display of media brainwashing. mossad and the cia run the us for the british crown, the clowns parading around as presidents are either body doubles of dead men or a faggot and his tranny with kid props borrowed from their coke head buddy’s family. even when the us had real presidents, they were trust fund babies of drug trafficking cartels and masons, like delano roosevelt or kennedy. it’s window dressing on a slave plantation.
trump was a success at bullshitting people back into engaging the american dream, that slaves are somehow in charge of their own destiny. which fakeass puppet pretending to be the dead president do you like more? you have to be fucking kidding, people still believe their bullshit vote means shit in a slave plantation run by the jewish mafia for the british crown.
you’d think they learn by now. us is toast.
looks like the highly rated comment chain got deleted. it mentioned the left vs right lets fight paradigm being a farce, believing in it is like believing wwe is real and that trump brags about the warp speed death jabs. this is an article about russian wishful thinking. which is more stupid than americans wishful thinking about trump being a good guy, hes a rabid zionist eugenicist globalist.