i think it was the way it was done, stephen, more than anything, and trump would have had conditions on the ground. i don't think he would have had an unconditional surrender to the taliban, or given up bagram air base. i was in favour of the residual force to, you know, protect the region and the homeland. having said that, it did project weakness and, irrespective of afghanistan, this waiver of the nord stream ii pipeline — no european country that agrees with this other than germany, whose former chancellor schroeder, is the lobbyist for putin for gazprom... right, right, well, you know... sure, so you've got a problem with germany, and we can talk more about the europeans in a second. but ijust want to come back to this extremely important and serious charge that you are putting at biden�*s door, that putin "smells weakness around the biden administration". let us look at what joe biden has done.