Ethan Mark
@ethanmark.bsky.social
Historian of modern Japan and Indonesia at Leiden University. Author, Japan's Occupation of Java in the Second World War: A Transnational History; translator, Grassroots Fascism (吉見義明の「草の根のファシズム:日本民衆の戦争体験」の英訳). Lover and player of funky music
And that, my friends, is a pretty damning commentary on how truly fucked up Biden's foreign policy actually was. To the point that we may get something better from Trump by default. Such as a nuclear deal with Iran.
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June 8, 2025 at 3:58 PM
And that, my friends, is a pretty damning commentary on how truly fucked up Biden's foreign policy actually was. To the point that we may get something better from Trump by default. Such as a nuclear deal with Iran.
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The problem for Trump is that Biden copied, extended and elaborated so many of Trump's own policies in his first term, particularly with regard to the middle east, that destroying Biden's legacy means undermining his OWN.
June 8, 2025 at 3:57 PM
The problem for Trump is that Biden copied, extended and elaborated so many of Trump's own policies in his first term, particularly with regard to the middle east, that destroying Biden's legacy means undermining his OWN.
Trump's instinct and desire is to do the opposite of Biden just as his previous instinct in his first term was to do the opposite of Obama. And thereby to destroy his predecessors' legacy.
June 8, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Trump's instinct and desire is to do the opposite of Biden just as his previous instinct in his first term was to do the opposite of Obama. And thereby to destroy his predecessors' legacy.
That makes sense as far as it goes, but there's another explanation which is more ironic, humorous and revealing. And that is that Biden copied and continued so many of Trump's policies that I think Trump is confused.
June 8, 2025 at 3:57 PM
That makes sense as far as it goes, but there's another explanation which is more ironic, humorous and revealing. And that is that Biden copied and continued so many of Trump's policies that I think Trump is confused.
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heavyweight tires, and requires lots of extra energy to get around.
Thus entirely defeating the environmental point of buying an electric car.
But that's probably not why you're buying a BMW anyway
Thus entirely defeating the environmental point of buying an electric car.
But that's probably not why you're buying a BMW anyway
April 2, 2025 at 6:24 AM
heavyweight tires, and requires lots of extra energy to get around.
Thus entirely defeating the environmental point of buying an electric car.
But that's probably not why you're buying a BMW anyway
Thus entirely defeating the environmental point of buying an electric car.
But that's probably not why you're buying a BMW anyway