Joe Biden visits Vietnam, where he assures the world he has no interest in containing the Chinese.

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It's very easy to get caught up in the horse race.

And because, again, we are in a presidential pre-year.

The presidential year used to start in like 2024, but now it stretches the full year

beforehand.

It's only September of the prior year.

And we are already in full horse race mode.

But it's easy to forget

that the presidency actually matters. It's not just about all of the lights and the whistles.

It's also about can you be the president of the United States and do a good job. And Joe Biden

continues to prove that he is not capable of this. So over the weekend, Joe Biden went to

Hanoi, Vietnam. His strategy in Vietnam

was to apparently attempt to create some sort of division between Vietnam and China. It was

essentially a containment strategy. And this is a strategy that has been pursued in bipartisan

fashion by every president for the last 10 or 15 years. The basic idea is you get Japan and South Korea and Vietnam and all of the countries that surround

China to basically create a counterweight to China and box them in such that America has

allies surrounding China in pretty much every direction.

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