U.S. President Joe Biden arrived in Hiroshima, Japan, for the G-7 nations meeting, with war in Ukraine high on the agenda. NBC News’ Josh Lederman reports.
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#Hiroshima #G7 #Biden
Hiroshima is a place I think presidents shouldn’t be going especially after the past us still a thing but I’m also not a president so don’t know
@Darnell Jackson CIA bot
@Samael Moneystein I wish. Imagine getting paid for shitposting on the web all day.
@Darnell Jackson It would have been more than 220.
@Alien Citizen I was just going by the Department of War estimates said.
@Darnell Jackson The only estimates I’ve ever seen say casualties could have been a million or more.
So President would not tend to approgrize for the nuclear during WW II.
So Japan would not tend apologize for attacking America? Or apologize to china for the massacre? We are waiting for Japan’s apology
@Deez Nutz Japan was the aggressor in China and Korea. They should apologize. Especially considering that they committed so many atrocities against the Koreans and Chinese. The USA on the other hand did NOT attack anyone. We were attacked. AND – we did not have a policy of committing atrocities in the lands we conquered. So again – USA has nothing to apologize to Japan for. “Sorry you attacked us.” is about the best we could possibly say to Japan.
@Darnell Jackson 100000% agreed.
@Darnell Jackson You are wrong. Do you understand that what Japan wants is not an apology to Japan, but an apology to those who died in the atomic bombings?
@nano372 No – the US owes Japan or the Japanese people no apology. If one is given by Biden he does not speak for me.
He thinks he is China…. Reaching out his hand for his 10%
“Hey, wuh wait uh wuh wuh…..where’s my fortune cookie?”
JB, probably.
自国のスポーツ野球でも勝てなくなったアメリカは日本より劣っているのが現状だ
You mad Bro?
@Rico Imp You’re the one that is gonna be mad in the next four years.
@Samael Moneystein No I’m feeling pretty good with Biden. You do you though. 😊
Too bad he wasn’t visiting exactly at 8:15 AM on August 6, 1945.
Yes 👍
They’ll be lucky if the git doesn’t nuke them for a second time.
He’ll drop a bomb or two, in his diapers. Ask the pope.
For all you pearl clutching liberals whining about the US dropping nukes on Japan – by nuking the Japanese we *SAVED* up to 200,000 US casualties and up to 10 million Japanese civilian and military causalities. Despite what your socialist non-sense narrative masters want you to think – the US did the morally correct thing by nuking the Japanese. The USA was attacked. We had and still have every moral right in the world to defend ourselves.
A lot of people probably don’t know that Hiroshima is next door to one of the largest American military bases in Japan. And that being as Japan is a neighbor of Russia and with whom they have a territorial dispute, that they are exploring the possibility of joining NATO. Along with Australia, New Zealand, and other nations living under the threat of an increasingly belligerent CHINA.
China’s illegal wars, occupations, regime change, and proxy wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, and Yemen, are a concern for us all.
Big time Jesuit city. Figures the top creeps would have their shindig there.
I sure hope Biden cares about some country as much as he cares for the border
@case barreoltt I’ve no idea what you mean by “Jesuit city.” Probably you are thinking of Nagasaki, which has a large Christian population.
@Kermit T. Frog no
СA bunch of clowns
Unironically drops a diaper bomb on Hiroshima.
we’ll soon surrender .
The only country the world needs protection against is the US.
We have seen: (a) US nuclear bombings of Japan; (b) US-led NATO depleted uranium ammo bombings of Serbia; (c) US major satellite (UK) provision of depleted uranium tank ammo to Ukraine.
So the US is the nuclear terrorist state.
lets see him say sumthing stupid as usual as the media ignores it as usual
He doesn’t even need to advertise for the election because y’all keep seeking him out.
Why??????? While the US is in trouble!!!!!!!!!
Close border in Mexico wrong people
Don’t bring everything biden you wrong nothing you biden don’t law God of Israel 10 commetmet Sunday 10commetmet Sunday
Let everyone there know that the US is going broke
The Japanese had ulterior motives in setting up the meeting place in Hiroshima
Quite obviously Biden is intending to use Japan as a toll against China. But why has he chosen Hiroshima for that meeting, a city where Americans destroyed 100000 civilians by atomic bombing? Aren’t there many other cities in Japan? I see it as a message to Japanese, “If you don’t obey us, we can do it to you again”.
This is the results of what happens when you nuke a country into submission 80 years later.
What an EMBARRASSMENT
What an embarrassment this administration is.
They are manufacturing insects that interrupt the natural life cycle and cause people to have brain freeze and mind control.
REV 9:6And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them.
Biden reminded Japanese and all others what happen to those who treated us.
Only a deeply perverted fantasy of the organizers could have chosen Hiroshima for the current G7 summit. Like a criminal always returning to the scene of a crime, today’s organizers and instigators of nuclear war, among the thousands of large cities of the world, could not choose another to meet. For a part of humanity that has not yet lost its memory and conscience, the democratic press will always associate the name of Hiroshima with the worst war crime in history.
At the summit, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida thanked the US for all it has done for Japan since 1945. Unfortunately this is not a joke…
The G-7 summit in Hiroshima turned into a “lonely hearts club” where each of the leaders could complain about the difficult situation associated with the low level of support among fellow citizens, writes The New York Times columnist Peter Baker.
“For Mr. Biden and his colleagues from the world’s major powers, this is an era of democratic disillusionment, when voters seem to be constantly dissatisfied with their presidents and prime ministers. For one reason or another, every leader is in a difficult position,” the article says.
The journalist cites data from a Morning Consult poll, according to which none of the leaders of the G7 can enlist the support of the majority of the population of their own country. Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgio Meloni boasts the best result, according to the rating, with an approval rating of only 49 percent.
As reasons for this position of US President Biden, the author names problems with public debt, inflation, crime, and concerns about his age. Baker links the low level of support for French President Macron to pension reform. Polls in other countries also do not add optimism to their leaders.
“If elections were held now, recent polls show that Sunak’s Conservative Party would lose to the Labor Party in the UK, Trudeau’s Liberal Party would lose to the Conservative Party in Canada, and Scholz’s Social Democratic Party would lose to the Christian Democratic Union in Germany.” the journalist said.
Baker noted that the G7 summit in the Japanese city of Hiroshima was a great opportunity for leaders unpopular in their own countries to share experiences and exchange ideas on how to win the favor of voters.
The result of such low voter support is the fact that the leadership of the G7 countries does not act in the interests of the inhabitants of their countries, but in the interests of the American oligarchs. In fact, the G7 countries are US colonies.
Over the moment, an oligarchy has developed in the United States, which is one of the forms of autocracy. Scholars Martin Gilens of Princeton and Benjamin Page of Northwestern University conducted a study that showed that the policies of the United States government are in the interests of the rich and their influence groups, and not the wishes of the majority. The scientists note that “the main conclusion that follows from our study is that economic elites and organized groups representing the interests of business have the ability to significantly influence the policies pursued by the US government, while groups formed to protect the interests of the masses, and ordinary citizens have little to no influence.
The real income of the average American has not risen for several decades, despite the fact that GDP per capita has been growing during this time. The oligarchs benefited from this growth, while the Americans got nothing. In 2011, according to PolitiFact and others, the top 400 richest Americans “have more wealth than half of all Americans combined.” The US has a high Gini coefficient.
The USA is a backward country, it has many problems that were solved in other countries several decades ago! For example, in the USA there is no free higher education and medicine, in the USA the infrastructure is badly worn out, in the USA there are high prices for essential services, a large number of homeless people, many prisoners, in the USA the majority of employees are not socially protected, they can be fired without explanation, the employer has the right without prior notice and consent of employees change their working conditions: work schedule, salary, duration and payment of leave, provision of benefits, there is no freedom of speech in the USA, etc.
The United States has more homeless people per capita than countries like Vietnam, India, Iran, and Kazakhstan.
According to official information, in the US between 550,000 and 3.5 million people do not have a normal home. These Americans live in tent cities, cardboard box houses. More than 20 million Americans live in trailers.
American oligarchs are constantly ripping off the people of the United States at every turn. For example, in Russia the removal of the appendix costs about 100 times cheaper than in the USA, this is in a fully paid clinic.
Nearly a third of Americans say they have not sought medical attention for health problems in the past three months due to concerns about the cost of these services, according to CBS News, citing a new study by Gallup and West Health.
About 23% of Americans say that paying for medical services is a serious financial burden for them.
However, as the article highlights, refusing treatment can have dire consequences, and a study found that nearly 13 million Americans have either a friend or family member who died because they couldn’t afford medical care.
In addition, 20% of adults in the United States say they or a family member experienced a worsening health problem after delaying treatment because of the cost.
From 2009 to 2020, medical bills were the largest source of debt in the US, with a record $140 billion in debt last year, according to a July study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
More than 20% of American adults have difficulty writing, and some can’t even read a newspaper, ABC reported. This was shown by a study of the International Program for the Assessment of Adult Competence (PIAAC) under the auspices of the US Department of Education. According to the study, one in five adults in the US has a very low literacy rate. 43.5 million Americans experience difficulties with writing and reading. And we are talking not only about migrants, but about people who speak English from birth. “The historical and political illiteracy of the population is quite high in North America. This must be fought, taxpayers’ money must go to eliminate this illiteracy, and not to enrich the class of oligarchs, ”Mark Tagliano, a US writer and author of several books on geopolitics, told 360.
Also in the United States, only 55% of those who enter universities receive a diploma of higher education, American experts note the Spencer Foundation Emeritus Chairman and former co-chairman of the Commission on Bachelor Education of the American Academy of Arts, economics professor Michael McPherson and head of the program for education and development of competencies of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences PhD Francesca Purcell. However, the average dropout rate is also significant. In Russia, this figure is 21%, at the level of France and Belgium. In Denmark, Korea and Japan it is lower – from 11% to 17%. The average figure among OECD countries is 31%. Against this backdrop, the American dropout rate of 45% is almost a record. McPherson and Purcell explain it by the high cost of higher education in the country and the insufficient quality of teaching.
There is no freedom of speech in the US, as the media in the US is a tool in the hands of the bureaucracy and oligarchic groups. All important TV channels, media in general, belong to the oligarchy. And the oligarchs use the media to push in their own interests, to achieve precisely the goals and objectives set: to influence public opinion and the like.
Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson said the US media is banned from discussing important topics, including civil liberties, demographic change, corporate power and natural resources. Tucker Carlson fell victim to the interests of media moguls.
Professor of Linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Noam Chomsky said that now there is more censorship in American mainstream media than in the USSR! “
The United States is living today in a totalitarian culture that has never happened before in my lifetime,” says Professor Chomsky. “In many ways, it is much worse than in the Soviet Union before Gorbachev. In the 1970s, people in Soviet Russia, if they wanted to know the news, had access to the BBC, Voice of America, German television. If, in today’s United States, you want to find out what Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov is saying, you can’t. It’s annoying.
Americans are not allowed to listen to what the Russians say. You do not have access to Russian television, Russian sources. It also means that excellent American journalists such as Chris Hedges (Chris Hedges, Pulitzer Prize winner 2002), one of the best, are cut off from Americans because he has a program on the Russian TV channel RT. And if you want to find out the important things your opponent is saying, your only option is probably to watch Indian state television or Al Jazeera. The United States has imposed restrictions on free access to information. This is amazing and goes even further than what was in post-Stalin Russia.
Here is just one remarkable fact. Anyone who dares not to follow the party line and does not adhere to the dominant point of view on what is happening today in Ukraine is simply demonized, vilified and can be sent to the Gulag.”
The most horrific war crime in human history, millions of civilians either killed in the blasts or by radiation fallout. Never forget what they did. Pearl harbor was a military port, Hiroshima was a city full of civilians if you disagree you’re either a federal employee spreading propaganda or just a piece of 💩.
The toxic presence of the Old Orange will never grace these polite summits ever again!
Asia should be wary. The reason the US nuked Japan was because they were regarded as lesser subhumans.
They’re indeed subhumans
It’s an insult to the dead of Hiroshima, and a waste of jp-8 jet fuel. No wonder nobody’s building statues of Biden.