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Blinken is running it now and he'd be running it after Biden croaks too
Maybe this is liberal brainrot, but Blinken is currently 4th in line for the "throne" after Kamala Harris, Mike Johnson, and Patty Murray. If Biden dies, resigns, or otherwise can't do President stuff, Kamala's next. None of the other three seem to have the kinds of medical problems that Biden has, so they'd probably finish out his term.
American politicians are gateways through which lobbyists hand off legislation. Blinken is the one running US foreign policy (watch him in the audience or behind Biden every time Biden speaks publicly, wincing at every fuck-up Biden does that damages Blinken's ongoing attempts to run the empire) and would continue to run it until the new President replaces the cabinet/staff with their own picks... At which point their own picks would be the ones running the empire.
Are we sure it's Blinken? What if it's Jake Sullivan?
Blinken wrote a paper more than a decade ago about "solving" the Palestinian problem and iirc it's basically a map of what is happening now. I think Sullivan is certainly part of the group making decisions but Blinken is doing most of the foreign policy stuff
Whereas this essay co-written by Sullivan is from a more unrecognizable world where "One does not need to be naive about the nature of the regime in Tehran to believe it is no longer wise or necessary for the United States to remain indefinitely just shy of war with Iran."
I was mostly wondering who does the whispering in Biden's ear while Blinken's off rocking in the free world.
I mean at this point it's probably just immediate family members and one or two advisors that have actual access to Biden, could very well be Sullivan... But the funniest option would be that it's Hunter when Blinken is off begging China to do something China isn't going to do