Quote (Black XistenZ @ Feb 17 2024 04:51pm)
So the "other Western governments" refers to unnamed EU diplomats, and if there were other governments explicitly pushing for Shokin to be fired, their insistence was so low key that we're barely able to find accounts of that when googling for it. Meh.
What this still boils down to is that Biden was exerting his influence in outright brazen fashion to get a very specific prosecutor in a foreign country fired, a prosecutor who happened to be investigating the company with which Biden's notorious fuckup son was engaged in shady-as-fuck business deals - and we're supposed to believe that this was all just a gigantic, unfortunate coincidence?
I think your conception of what Biden is capable of is uninformed, even many years ago. The idea that he created the need to fire Shokin, created the will to support it with partner governments, and then did it, without any leaks about how he was managing this action, is kind of ridiculous. You would fall into the mindset of the classic American voter who believes government to be incompetent while also believing their political enemies are insanely competent.