"One Painful Debate Is Not Evidence of America’s Decline

Russia and China have seized on last week’s painful presidential debate to push their narrative that America is in terminal decline."

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  • Ideology [she/her]@hexbear.netOP
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    5 months ago

    Russia’s state-owned Channel One covered the debate in depth, describing President Biden and Donald Trump as “small children from the nursery.” As Russian viewers were treated to replays of the candidates bickering over who was the better golfer, the presenter predicted that life itself in America would become “one never-ending game of golf,” with the United States lurching “from one big hole to the next.”