Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Back in 1979, while negotiating a nuclear arms treaty with the Soviets, Biden allegedly told the Soviets his talk of human rights was just a show to satisfy voters back home.
From 2015;
Joe Biden’s Rights Talk
He tells Chinese leaders the same thing he told the Soviets.
April 13, 2015 12:51 pm ET
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It turns out Mr. Biden has a long record of playing down human rights in private diplomatic meetings while mouthing support in public. His message to China’s Mr. Xi—that U.S. human-rights talk is meant to satisfy a “political imperative” from voters at home—is almost identical to what he told Soviet leaders as a Senator visiting Moscow in 1979.
“The delegation did not officially raise the issue of human rights during the negotiations. Biden said they did not want ‘to spoil the atmosphere with problems which are bound to cause distrust in our relations.’” So recorded Vadim Zagladin, deputy head of the Soviet Communist Party Central Committee’s International Department, in an internal memo after meeting U.S. Senators in Moscow in April 1979. The memo, archived after the Cold War at the Gorbachev Foundation, was translated in 2008 by former Soviet political prisoner Vladimir Bukovsky and author Pavel Stroilov.
The memo continued: “During the breaks between the sessions the Senators passed to us several letters concerning these or those ‘refuseniks,’” Jewish activists who were refused the right to emigrate from the Soviet Union. “Unofficially, Biden and [Senator Richard] Lugar said that, in the end of the day, they were not so much concerned with having a problem of this or that citizen solved as with showing to the American public that they do care for ‘human rights.’ They must prove to their voters that they are ‘effective in fulfilling their wishes.’”
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Read more: https://www.wsj.com/articles/joe-bidens-rights-talk-1428943902
The Soviet communists of course treated the arms treaty and peace accords Biden helped negotiate like a piece of toilet paper. In December 1979 Brezhnev ordered the Soviet 40th Army to cross the border and occupy the Afghan capital Kabul, the opening move of the Soviet Afghan war.
I admit it is possible the Wall Street Journal got their facts wrong. I have not seen the original documents allegedly sourced from archives recovered after the fall of the Soviet Union. Or maybe Biden has learned his lesson, 1979 was a long time ago.
But given all the Biden and Kerry rhetoric about climate change being an existential crisis, and Biden’s claimed track record of expediency on human rights during Soviet times, his alleged willingness to sell out Soviet dissidents and his alleged willingness to mislead the American public, I don’t think China interning entire ethnic groups into alleged rape camps is likely to stand in the path of Biden’s efforts to negotiate a comprehensive Sino-US climate deal.
The saddest part is that Sleepy Joe Senility is a puppet. It is the leadership of the Democrat Party that has abandoned the Uyghurs and human rights victims around the world.
The Dems were the party of slavery, the KKK, and Jim Crow. They have always been soft on Marxism, Fascism, and foreign dictators and autocrats. They have destroyed the American cities where they have ruled with rampant corruption for decades.
The fading away of Traitor Joe will change nothing. The wolves are in the henhouse. The trashing of America is well underway.
Just wondering whether the usa should get involved in an internal matter over there. What if china decides that the usa doesn’t take enough latin american migrants and does not take good care of the ones that do get in? Should that be a consideration in setting US immigration policy?
Chicom persecution of the Uyghurs is not the equivalent of the problems the U.S. is having on the southern U.S. border.
If the Chicoms voice an opinion about the U.S. southern border we will take it as an effort to distract from their horrendous treatment of the Uyghurs. We won’t be taking their advice.
So, just how long should moderation take?
I don’t know if you are complaining or just asking, but the moderators of this website do a fantastic job and they do it in a timely manner. Keep in mind that they are all volunteers who are doing it for the greater good, not for the money.
I wrote a reply to Chaamjamal over 24 hours ago. I simply need to know if the upload failed, or if moderation has taken issue with what I said, or if there is something else going on.
Is there a message sitting in moderation or not?
” Oh, the Dead wood stage is coming on over the Hill”.
“With corruption, and bribin making a heavy load, so”.
” Usual day”
“What can we say”?
“Silly old Joe, silly old Joe silly old Joe”
But, realistically, I bet most Americans don’t really care about the Uyghurs. We all have our own problems. Maybe we should stay out of the problems of other countries and only talk about issues that we need to resolve so we can get along, avoid war, and have trade in items we can’t produce ourselves. Telling other countries how to solve their internal problems only has those nations telling America about its own internal problems which are many.
I see nothing wrong with speaking out against a regime that murders and tortures innocent people. Mind my own business? Denouncing the murder of innocents *is* my business. It should be everyone’s business.
The world ought to be treating the Chicom leadership like the murderous barbarians they are.
The Chicoms won’t stop with just murdering the Uyghurs. How many people have been murdered by their deliberate Wuhan virus biological attack. Millions of people with many more to follow. The Chicom beligerence threatens many more lives.
Don’t speak about these things? That only encourages murderous dictators.
Doing business with the Chicoms is the equivalent of doing business with Adolf Hitler after having learned about the mass murders he committed.
Unfortunately, our glorious leadership seems to lean toward ignoring mass murder and doing business with Hitler. Hitler/Xi will be pleased with the Western appeasement.
If you don’t discourage bad behavior, then you get more of it. That applies to dictators and thugs tearing up the streets.
TIME: “The Free Market is Dead: What Will Replace It?”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/the-free-market-is-dead-what-will-replace-it/ar-BB1g3Sfc?ocid=Peregrine
“We are on the cusp of a new era of broad-based prosperity in which our leaders are poised to more actively manage the American market.”
Something of a long and rambling article you linked to there, Joe. The basic principles of life always prevail no matter how long winded the explanation for a change in the paradigm is.
Normal people remain the most efficient at spending their own money. They do not want or need state control of that expenditure.
While that remains the case, all this blather about a state mandating spending and controlling incomes is just a new name for socialism.
Cultural Marxism is alive and active in politics, never let them forget we know they are there.
Does 10 lbs of dough make a big muffin?
Biden is going to sell-out the American people. What do you think he cares about the Uyghurs?
Hear no slaves, see no slaves.
Speaking of selling . . . would you buy a used car from the man picture above the title of the above article . . . just looking at his photo, that is?
If forced, at the point of a gun, to buy a used car from Biden or Trump, knowing that they both needed the sale to make a month …
I think I would buy, from Trump, the cheapest car on the lot and walk away without the car (to save the title and registration costs). Trump would use the money to improve the car lot. Biden would use the money to ‘put sawdust in the transmissions’ in the hopes of selling more crap.
Will Bai-den sell out (fill in the blank)?
Of course that’s all he as ever done. He is a professional sell out.