Funny that you made it into a left bashing comment? Who'd have thought it
Russia will be lucky to get out of the groups imo
But then again South Korea almost made it to final so who knows :shrug:
In fairness, the POTUS was just responding in kind. Biden has a long-standing sensitivity to charges of cowardice, over his unwillingness to take on Obama and Hillary Clinton for the presidency. In over-compensating and trying to play the tough guy, he threatened the Donald and the Donald merely fired some back.
It isnt a valid historical parallel and is thoroughly irresponsible for a chap who is supposed to oversee our diplomacy. Thoroughly undiplomatic and this is going to be incredibly offensive to Russian people. More **** stirring from a government massively out of its depth.
You and me can say it,a foreign secretary cannot. This is what you get when you give an amiable buffoon a potentially significant job.
I don't think he actually has any really significant core support, at least, certainly not in the pejorative way his critics imply. In fact, the opposite is more likely true; he enjoys fairly broad appeal.
In politics, "base" is a term used to suggest your opponent's support is fully made up of lunatic extremist true believers and is utterly devoid of any wider, mainstream appeal.