Pirate's Cove

That’s how this works, right, at least according to the Credentialed Media and Democrats during the Trump years

U.S. eyes more stable, predictable ties with Russia, Blinken tells paper

The United States hopes for more stable and predictable relations with Russia but if the latter continues to “be aggressive”, then Washington will respond, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a newspaper interview published on Tuesday.

“But if Russia is going to continue to take reckless or aggressive actions, we’ll respond — not for purposes of conflict, not to escalate, but because we will defend our interests and values,” he told Italian daily La Repubblica.

Blinken – who was in Rome for a meeting on international efforts to combat Islamist militia – referred to the SolarWind cyberattacks and the attempt to poison jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny.

During the Trump years the media would have said that this meant that Trump was doing the bidding of Putin. No, no, no, don’t deny it, Liberals, we were there, we all saw this in action. Despite putting way more sanctions on Russia than the Obama admin, with Joe as VP, ever did, it was “Trump is Putin’s puppet!” Hey, it was Trump who did his best to block the Nord Stream pipeline, while Joe gave in quickly to Russia.

China was “the most complicated” when it came to relations Blinken added, but said the United States respected the different relations countries had with China and that it would not ask any of them to choose between the two countries.

“I think we see adversarial aspects to the relationship, competitive aspects of the relationship, and cooperative ones. There’s no single word that can define it,” he said

And China’s puppet. Because Joe needs to keep that money flowing to his kids, which then flows into the pockets of Joe and Jill.