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I was very surprised to run across this video. This is a YouTube psychiatrist I have watched before but on topics of psychology and psychiatry. He has or had is private practice from what I know, but I guess Covid made him branch out more into pop culture topics for his personal income.
I think he makes a good case in using his neutral psychiatrist objectivity in analyzing Biden in terms of the Afghanistan debacle, and points out the many ways Biden failed even in spite of campaigning on foreign policy as a strength. Even still the notion of him being a "failed president" might seem premature, but isn't when you consider how Biden has handled all the other areas he's managed this last year (the border, our relations with other countries, Covid, the Economy and Inflation, the Supply Chain problem).
Transcript courtesy of @SkyWriting I inserted some paragraph breaks and a few minor edits to the rough text import.
Hello this is dr grande today's question is can i analyze the situation with joe biden and they withdraw from afghanistan another question here is is joe biden a good leader just a reminder i'm not diagnosing anybody in this video only speculating about what could be happening in a situation like this if you enjoyed this video please like it subscribe to my channel consider supporting me on patreon and check out my podcast bellagrande media i will put the relevant links in the description for this video at the time of making this video.
In august of united states armed forces are withdrawing from afghanistan in what has been a hectic disorganized mess the taliban seized power at a staggering rate probably even surprising themselves as the afghan security forces collapsed and the president of afghanistan fled the country the airport in kabul has become the scene of surreal images of people crowding onto the runway desperate to escape the terror of the taliban there are grave concerns about more people dying and about the rights of women which almost certainly will be functionally eliminated by the taliban as the commander-in-chief joe biden is responsible for what happened he has received appropriate bipartisan backlash many people do agree that the united states needed to get out of afghanistan and that biden was in a tough spot because he had to honor agreements of the past there's a lot of blame to go around as far as how the situation in afghanistan has been handled every president involved has made mistakes
I don't think the withdrawal of military forces is what is making people so upset with joe biden rather it's really about how he handled the withdrawal his strategy of having people running to the airport in danger of losing their lives did not seem to be well thought out this brings me to the question was joe biden demonstrating leadership there are few items that speak to leadership that i will review here one instead of taking ownership of the problem biden has blamed just about everyone else he said his advisers did not warn him of the situation when in fact they did although it may be true that there was some disagreement among the advisers biden blamed the president of afghanistan for fleeing biden portrayed the afghan security forces as incompetent one could argue that he implied they were cowards biden seemed more fascinated with blaming the people of afghanistan than helping them
He abandoned people who helped the united states basically just telling them tough luck a key part of leadership is accepting responsibility it is the only way to instill confidence biden simply can't view himself as the problem he believes no one has the right to doubt his superior leadership qualities two during the election joe biden represented himself as a master of foreign policy ostensibly this was one of the key reasons to select him over donald trump biden understood the complexities of the world like trade warfare terrorism finance and other areas it appears as though he tragically overestimated his own abilities even to the point where he was on vacation as the military withdrawal was going on he was so good at foreign policy he didn't have to oversee a complex evacuation of afghanistan he's like the bond movie villain that puts a lethal contraption in motion and doesn't even bother to see if james bond was actually killed if foreign policy is joe biden's strength i wonder how he will perform in an area where he is weak.
I think biden equates hearing about foreign policy as being able to develop and implement it like competence is acquired magically he can just get it by standing around and hearing people talk about various situations in different countries i guess he attended the sarah palin school of foreign policy like when she claimed to be proficient because she could see russia from alaska three biden has made some terrible inaccurate predictions just weeks before the situation happened biden said quote there's going to be no circumstance where you see people being lifted off the roof of an embassy of the united states and afghanistan unquote this is an obvious reference to saigon in . well i guess in one way biden was right instead of people being lifted off the roof of an embassy they were lifted from the landing pad next to the embassy.
As if those words coming back at biden aren't devastating enough biden said something else at that time quote the likelihood there's going to be the taliban overrunning everything and owning the whole country is highly unlikely unquote he should have just said the likelihood is low and so the likelihood is highly unlikely but that aside there's a clear problem with his statement in that it was completely inaccurate maybe he can argue that the taliban already owned the whole country so they didn't have to take it over they already had it there is the sense with joe biden that he believes he has control over situations more than he actually does he makes these bold predictions based on his imaginary power or abilities four biden seems to be dodging questions when he does answer questions he's either blaming somebody else or not making sense there is this sense that he's indignant when somebody questions his authority or actions how dare they want to report something about him and the media
Five biden has made it clear that completing the withdrawal depends on the cooperation of the taliban a group of extremists who regularly torture and murder people this is the group that he's trusting next he's going to be congratulating them for defeating the afghan security forces it makes no sense to consider the taliban trustworthy they are not on the side of the united states . biden appears to process information dichotomously that is in two distinct categories not on a continuum from his perspective either the united states stayed in afghanistan and spent hundreds of millions of dollars on a prolonged military conflict or conducted a disastrous poorly planned ill-advised retreat that is an embarrassment the united states and erodes its credibility planning a proper withdrawal from the country while protecting human rights was an option he didn't have to go to one extreme or the other
Seven biden does not appear to be empathic he represents himself as someone who has empathy he cares about human rights he cares about people no matter who they are or where they are from what about the people of afghanistan they are human beings biden doesn't seem to understand or care about that almost like they are to blame for their own situation like he's mad at them for failing to resist the taliban not long ago biden said quote look let's put this thing in perspective here what interest do we have in afghanistan at this point with al qaeda gone unquote so a really cold and distant statement he's talking about human beings that the united states is going to turn their back on as a side note he's wrong about al qaeda being eliminated although their strength has been reduced i'm not sure that biden really understands how other people feel he seems to be kind of in this tough guy moment where he wants to prove that he can put his foot down with all these factors in mind
What are my thoughts on joe biden's leadership ability i can appreciate that joe biden has trouble adjusting to being president he doesn't like questions from reporters probably because he doesn't have good answers he doesn't like being held accountable foreign and domestic policy are more complicated than he originally imagined even still he promoted himself as a leader unfortunately the evidence doesn't support his assertion leadership is not arrogant condescending evasive quick tempered hypersensitive criticism or defensive i think the reality is that joe biden is simply the person who is in charge that's different than being a leader many presidents who were poor leaders still did an okay job so there is some hope i just think it would be nice if someday the united states could actually have a quality leader someone who truly pushes the politics to the side and tries to make good decisions based on logic reason and empathy a president who can truly implement the will of the people.
To biden's credit i think he does a much better job at hiding obvious flaws than some other presidents but a hidden flaw is a flaw nonetheless in a way it's a little scarier it's a hidden danger you never know what's going to happen you never know where the weakness is i think the lesson learned here is to simply be aware of biden's shortcomings to know that he's not living up to all the self-promotion the people of afghanistan probably cannot count on joe biden to render any meaningful assistance or to genuinely care about their welfare there's something worrisome about a person who is a poor leader who knows they are a poor leader there's something terrifying about a poor leader who believes they are actually a good leader.
Moving to the last question will joe biden's behavior hurt him politically? humanitarian issues rarely hurt u.s presence economic issues do biden will likely be able to move on from this catastrophe and continue to find new opportunities to wreak havoc those are my thoughts on joe biden's lack of leadership through the afghanistan situation please put any opinions and thoughts in the comments section they always generate an interesting dialogue as always i hope you found my analysis of this topic to be informative thanks for watching
I think he makes a good case in using his neutral psychiatrist objectivity in analyzing Biden in terms of the Afghanistan debacle, and points out the many ways Biden failed even in spite of campaigning on foreign policy as a strength. Even still the notion of him being a "failed president" might seem premature, but isn't when you consider how Biden has handled all the other areas he's managed this last year (the border, our relations with other countries, Covid, the Economy and Inflation, the Supply Chain problem).
Transcript courtesy of @SkyWriting I inserted some paragraph breaks and a few minor edits to the rough text import.
Hello this is dr grande today's question is can i analyze the situation with joe biden and they withdraw from afghanistan another question here is is joe biden a good leader just a reminder i'm not diagnosing anybody in this video only speculating about what could be happening in a situation like this if you enjoyed this video please like it subscribe to my channel consider supporting me on patreon and check out my podcast bellagrande media i will put the relevant links in the description for this video at the time of making this video.
In august of united states armed forces are withdrawing from afghanistan in what has been a hectic disorganized mess the taliban seized power at a staggering rate probably even surprising themselves as the afghan security forces collapsed and the president of afghanistan fled the country the airport in kabul has become the scene of surreal images of people crowding onto the runway desperate to escape the terror of the taliban there are grave concerns about more people dying and about the rights of women which almost certainly will be functionally eliminated by the taliban as the commander-in-chief joe biden is responsible for what happened he has received appropriate bipartisan backlash many people do agree that the united states needed to get out of afghanistan and that biden was in a tough spot because he had to honor agreements of the past there's a lot of blame to go around as far as how the situation in afghanistan has been handled every president involved has made mistakes
I don't think the withdrawal of military forces is what is making people so upset with joe biden rather it's really about how he handled the withdrawal his strategy of having people running to the airport in danger of losing their lives did not seem to be well thought out this brings me to the question was joe biden demonstrating leadership there are few items that speak to leadership that i will review here one instead of taking ownership of the problem biden has blamed just about everyone else he said his advisers did not warn him of the situation when in fact they did although it may be true that there was some disagreement among the advisers biden blamed the president of afghanistan for fleeing biden portrayed the afghan security forces as incompetent one could argue that he implied they were cowards biden seemed more fascinated with blaming the people of afghanistan than helping them
He abandoned people who helped the united states basically just telling them tough luck a key part of leadership is accepting responsibility it is the only way to instill confidence biden simply can't view himself as the problem he believes no one has the right to doubt his superior leadership qualities two during the election joe biden represented himself as a master of foreign policy ostensibly this was one of the key reasons to select him over donald trump biden understood the complexities of the world like trade warfare terrorism finance and other areas it appears as though he tragically overestimated his own abilities even to the point where he was on vacation as the military withdrawal was going on he was so good at foreign policy he didn't have to oversee a complex evacuation of afghanistan he's like the bond movie villain that puts a lethal contraption in motion and doesn't even bother to see if james bond was actually killed if foreign policy is joe biden's strength i wonder how he will perform in an area where he is weak.
I think biden equates hearing about foreign policy as being able to develop and implement it like competence is acquired magically he can just get it by standing around and hearing people talk about various situations in different countries i guess he attended the sarah palin school of foreign policy like when she claimed to be proficient because she could see russia from alaska three biden has made some terrible inaccurate predictions just weeks before the situation happened biden said quote there's going to be no circumstance where you see people being lifted off the roof of an embassy of the united states and afghanistan unquote this is an obvious reference to saigon in . well i guess in one way biden was right instead of people being lifted off the roof of an embassy they were lifted from the landing pad next to the embassy.
As if those words coming back at biden aren't devastating enough biden said something else at that time quote the likelihood there's going to be the taliban overrunning everything and owning the whole country is highly unlikely unquote he should have just said the likelihood is low and so the likelihood is highly unlikely but that aside there's a clear problem with his statement in that it was completely inaccurate maybe he can argue that the taliban already owned the whole country so they didn't have to take it over they already had it there is the sense with joe biden that he believes he has control over situations more than he actually does he makes these bold predictions based on his imaginary power or abilities four biden seems to be dodging questions when he does answer questions he's either blaming somebody else or not making sense there is this sense that he's indignant when somebody questions his authority or actions how dare they want to report something about him and the media
Five biden has made it clear that completing the withdrawal depends on the cooperation of the taliban a group of extremists who regularly torture and murder people this is the group that he's trusting next he's going to be congratulating them for defeating the afghan security forces it makes no sense to consider the taliban trustworthy they are not on the side of the united states . biden appears to process information dichotomously that is in two distinct categories not on a continuum from his perspective either the united states stayed in afghanistan and spent hundreds of millions of dollars on a prolonged military conflict or conducted a disastrous poorly planned ill-advised retreat that is an embarrassment the united states and erodes its credibility planning a proper withdrawal from the country while protecting human rights was an option he didn't have to go to one extreme or the other
Seven biden does not appear to be empathic he represents himself as someone who has empathy he cares about human rights he cares about people no matter who they are or where they are from what about the people of afghanistan they are human beings biden doesn't seem to understand or care about that almost like they are to blame for their own situation like he's mad at them for failing to resist the taliban not long ago biden said quote look let's put this thing in perspective here what interest do we have in afghanistan at this point with al qaeda gone unquote so a really cold and distant statement he's talking about human beings that the united states is going to turn their back on as a side note he's wrong about al qaeda being eliminated although their strength has been reduced i'm not sure that biden really understands how other people feel he seems to be kind of in this tough guy moment where he wants to prove that he can put his foot down with all these factors in mind
What are my thoughts on joe biden's leadership ability i can appreciate that joe biden has trouble adjusting to being president he doesn't like questions from reporters probably because he doesn't have good answers he doesn't like being held accountable foreign and domestic policy are more complicated than he originally imagined even still he promoted himself as a leader unfortunately the evidence doesn't support his assertion leadership is not arrogant condescending evasive quick tempered hypersensitive criticism or defensive i think the reality is that joe biden is simply the person who is in charge that's different than being a leader many presidents who were poor leaders still did an okay job so there is some hope i just think it would be nice if someday the united states could actually have a quality leader someone who truly pushes the politics to the side and tries to make good decisions based on logic reason and empathy a president who can truly implement the will of the people.
To biden's credit i think he does a much better job at hiding obvious flaws than some other presidents but a hidden flaw is a flaw nonetheless in a way it's a little scarier it's a hidden danger you never know what's going to happen you never know where the weakness is i think the lesson learned here is to simply be aware of biden's shortcomings to know that he's not living up to all the self-promotion the people of afghanistan probably cannot count on joe biden to render any meaningful assistance or to genuinely care about their welfare there's something worrisome about a person who is a poor leader who knows they are a poor leader there's something terrifying about a poor leader who believes they are actually a good leader.
Moving to the last question will joe biden's behavior hurt him politically? humanitarian issues rarely hurt u.s presence economic issues do biden will likely be able to move on from this catastrophe and continue to find new opportunities to wreak havoc those are my thoughts on joe biden's lack of leadership through the afghanistan situation please put any opinions and thoughts in the comments section they always generate an interesting dialogue as always i hope you found my analysis of this topic to be informative thanks for watching
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