Thursday, 11 July 2024

i’m in this to complete the job i started (11. 682)

At the conclusion of the NATO summit, held on the trans-Atlantic organisation’s seventy-fifth anniversary—overshadowed to an extent publicly and privately by speculation about the host’s health and ability to
retain high office and counter-measures to Trump-proof the alliance which detracted from business at hand including including containment of Russia and China and Ukraine’s membership question, a defiant Joe Biden participated in a rare solo press-conference, re-affirming his commitment to remaining in the presidential race, not for his own legacy, but for America and to beat his opponent. This crucial and closely scrutinised event was a strong showing, despite some gaffes including referring to Harris as vice-president Trump and Zelenskyy as Putin (Macron and Scholtz were quick to defend Biden’s address saying one could always detect such slips of the tongue with such close monitoring, and probably would not have elicited gasps from the audience were it not for the poor debate performance that intensified calls for him to bow out from his party’s nomination) but may not convince his supporters or quiet the chaos within the party.