{"id":475566,"date":"2022-07-19T05:01:15","date_gmt":"2022-07-19T02:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/he-and-the-presidency-are-declining\/"},"modified":"2022-07-19T05:01:15","modified_gmt":"2022-07-19T02:01:15","slug":"he-and-the-presidency-are-declining","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/he-and-the-presidency-are-declining\/","title":{"rendered":"#He and the presidency are declining"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2a7a9f30fc9\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2a7a9f30fc9\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/he-and-the-presidency-are-declining\/#%E2%80%9CHe_and_the_presidency_are_declining%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;He and the presidency are declining&#8221;<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-2' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/he-and-the-presidency-are-declining\/#White_House_down\" >White House down<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/he-and-the-presidency-are-declining\/#Joe_vs_Donald\" >Joe vs. Donald<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/he-and-the-presidency-are-declining\/#Loose_lips\" >Loose lips<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/he-and-the-presidency-are-declining\/#Empty_words\" >Empty words<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-6\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/he-and-the-presidency-are-declining\/#Mixed_messages\" >Mixed messages<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CHe_and_the_presidency_are_declining%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;He and the presidency are declining&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>\u201cEnd of the quote. Repeat the line.\u201d Such is the senescence of the 46th president of the United States that when he is not flat-out misspeaking, it is because he is reading the cues as he stumbles through the see-Jane-run prose of White House speechwriters. Like life at 79, the teleprompts come at you fast.<\/p>\n<p>We must bear this in mind when assessing how consequential it may be when the putative leader of the free world misspeaks. We gasp, yes, but it is probably not as damaging as one might fear.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Alas, that realization induces as much pang of regret as sigh of relief. The bully pulpit is among the American presidency\u2019s greatest assets when exploited with competent confidence. There was a time, not so long ago, when a president of such gravity called for the Berlin Wall to be razed, and it actually did come down in due course, along with the evil empire whose crumbling he\u2019d had the vision to see coming.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Nowadays, though, presidential rhetoric is as apt to trigger eye-rolling as execution of a coherent plan.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/Biden-Confused-v1.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Biden looking uncomfortable.\" class=\"wp-image-23107419\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/Biden-Confused-v1.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/Biden-Confused-v1.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/Biden-Confused-v1.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>President Joe Biden was famous for his gaffes before he was elected, and has been slipping up more frequently in recent months.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/AP22198152528126.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"President Joe Biden speaks to reporters as he arrives at the White House in Washington, Saturday, July 16, 2022, after returning from a trip to Israel and Saudi Arabia.\" class=\"wp-image-23107425\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/AP22198152528126.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2048 2048w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/AP22198152528126.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/AP22198152528126.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/AP22198152528126.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Biden recently read his cue card directions instead of his speech.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP\/Andrew Harnik<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"White_House_down\"><\/span>White House down<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>As with nearly everything befalling his train wreck of a term (which has \u201cjust\u201d 30 months to go!), Joe Biden is guilty more of accelerating a corrosive trend than of causing it. He entered office notorious for his gift of the gaffe, a thin-skinned lemming so dull that when one of his presidential bids was torpedoed by a plagiarism scandal, it turned out he had chosen another mediocrity \u2014 former British Labour leader Neil Kinnock \u2014 to steal from.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Through a half-century of rhetorical misadventure, Biden has never been taken seriously \u2014 including by President Barack Obama, who, confoundingly, plucked Biden from the scrap heap to be his running mate after serving with him in the Senate .\u2009.\u2009. and famously slipped an aide a \u201cShoot. Me. Now.\u201d note he\u2019d scribbled during one of Biden\u2019s logorrheic discourses. (Obama discouraged Biden\u2019s yen to succeed him in 2016 and did not back the 2020 presidential bid until Biden had the nomination sewn up, even then cautioning Democrats, \u201cDon\u2019t underestimate Joe\u2019s ability to f-\u200a-k things up.\u201d)<\/p>\n<p>It is not just Biden but the presidency itself whose power to persuade, and just as important to instill fear in rogue regimes, has suffered diminution. Trump supporters concede that their man is not to be taken \u201cliterally,\u201d an epithet etched in stone even before two fraudulent months of post-election \u201cstop the steal\u201d claptrap triggered a riot at the Capitol \u2014 and it should not be ignored that Trump\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>arently imminent third bid for the presidency is premised not merely on maintaining the fiction but on making adherence to it a litmus test of loyalty.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"663\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/AP22146538947539.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Vice President Joe Biden, left, listens as President Barack Obama announces that Biden will lead an administration-wide effort to curb gun violence in response to the Connecticut school shooting, during a news conference in the briefing room of the White House on Dec. 19, 2012 in Washington.\" class=\"wp-image-23107437\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/AP22146538947539.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2048 2048w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/AP22146538947539.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/AP22146538947539.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/AP22146538947539.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Former President Barack Obama once slipped an aide a \u201cShoot. Me. Now.\u201d note while Biden was droning through a speech.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP\/Evan Vucci<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Still, the former president\u2019s apologists maintain that foreign powers had to take him \u201cseriously,\u201d despite the innate mendacity and numbing effects of his unhinged Twitter tirades. There is something to this. Candidate Trump might have ripped Obama on <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social media<\/a> for dispatching American troops to Syria without congressional authorization, but that hardly meant President Trump would not bomb Syria without congressional authorization as a warning to Assad and Russia that his \u201cred lines\u201d against the use of chemical and biological weapons, unlike Obama\u2019s, were not just vapid <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a> copy.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignright\">\n    <\/aside>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Joe_vs_Donald\"><\/span>Joe vs. Donald<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>This contrast, more than his incoherence, explains Biden\u2019s problem. Enemy regimes proceeded cautiously with Trump not only because his instability and tendency to dissemble made him unpredictable, but because he was just aggressive enough, and just dismissive enough of the progressive international order, that the rogues figured he (and the hawks around him) might just take out an Iranian terror master, such as Gen. Qasem Soleimani.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s words might not have carried much weight, but his populist preference for lightning displays of might over long-term entanglements did.<\/p>\n<p>Biden, by contrast, is a captive of transnational progressivism, where red lines are just preliminaries to new red lines, and talking (and talking, and talking) is an end in and of itself. The international media are in thrall to the urbanity and nuance of these \u201ccitizens of the world,\u201d but the hard men can\u2019t help but notice that when they take Crimea, nothing of real consequence follows the preening recriminations unless you count the West\u2019s lining up to buy more Russian oil and gas while strangling its own energy producers.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/AP22194001757778.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\" Former President Donald Trump speaks at the Road to Majority conference June 17, 2022, in Nashville, Tenn. \" class=\"wp-image-23107449\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/AP22194001757778.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2048 2048w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/AP22194001757778.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/AP22194001757778.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/AP22194001757778.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Former President Donald Trump was an aggressive and unpredictable speaker.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP\/Mark Humphrey<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Loose_lips\"><\/span>Loose lips<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>This default position against acting in America\u2019s vital interests, this insistence on being perceived as a team player on a dysfunctional team, rather than as the essential nation willing and able to lead, is what makes Biden\u2019s verbal missteps and the paralysis they signal such a vulnerability.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>During a press conference, with Russian divisions encircling Ukraine, Biden \u2014 making like a pundit instead of a president \u2014 jaw-droppingly observed that Moscow would face limited risk if it proceeded with a \u201cminor incursion,\u201d since the United States and its allies would inevitably \u201cend up having a fight about what to do and not do, et cetera.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Did the president\u2019s insouciant display of fecklessness provoke Vladimir Putin\u2019s invasion? Unlikely. Biden, with eyes to see and access to the best intelligence, had also cavalierly noted that Russia \u201cprobably\u201d would attack, and that\u2019s because Putin was patently poised to do so after very costly preparations.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/AP22199455496044.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Russian President Vladimir Putin chairs a meeting of the Council for Strategic Development and National Projects via videoconference at the Novo-Ogaryovo residence outside Moscow, Russia, Monday, July 18, 2022.\" class=\"wp-image-23107456\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/AP22199455496044.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2048 2048w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/AP22199455496044.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/AP22199455496044.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/AP22199455496044.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Biden called Russian President Vladimir Putin a war criminal on more than one occasion.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Mikhail Klimentyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Yet the Kremlin still had to decide whether to go big or go small. After Biden\u2019s gaffe, Putin went big: trying to swallow Ukraine whole rather than merely securing the grip he already held on the eastern border territories. Putin, it is fair to surmise, calculated that if Biden would not even play the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">game<\/a> of feigning opposition to any incursion and warning vaguely about retribution, he could afford to indulge his grand ambitions.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n    <\/aside>\n<p>Putin may have been more swayed, months earlier, by Biden\u2019s shameful surrender of Afghanistan to the Taliban. The president withdrew a modest commitment of forces in a manner that obviously endangered Americans, rendered the US-backed government in Kabul unsustainable, and ensured that the Taliban and its allied jihadists would overrun the country. Yet in July, with the collapse imminent and obvious, Biden took to a podium and laughably insisted that Kabul would hold and a Taliban takeover was \u201cunlikely.\u201d This was followed by an embarrassing administration campaign to portray the new Taliban regime as reformed and pragmatic, even as it executed Afghans suspected of collaborating with Americans and reimposed suffocating sharia strictures.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Empty_words\"><\/span>Empty words<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>In themselves, Biden\u2019s words are meaningless. Of that, there is no better testament than the soles of his advisers\u2019 shoes, worn away by the speed and regularity with which those words are walked back.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Well, yes, the president did say Putin is a \u201cwar criminal,\u201d but we are not seeking to prosecute him as if he were, you know, an actual war criminal. Well, yes, the president did say Putin \u201ccannot remain in power,\u201d but, no, we are not seeking regime change and wouldn\u2019t think of meddling in Moscow\u2019s internal affairs. Well, yes, the president did say he would abide by the \u201cTaiwan agreement\u201d with China\u2019s president, Xi Jinping, but, no, there is actually no such thing as a \u201cTaiwan agreement\u201d \u2014 there is just the same old \u201cone China\u201d policy under which we ambiguously acknowledge that China claims Taiwan as its own but we do not recognize its claim. And OK, yes, the president did say he was committing the US to defending Taiwan militarily, but, no, that does not actually mean we\u2019re committing to, um, defending Taiwan militarily \u2014 our policy of strategic ambiguity has not been altered by the president\u2019s habit of strategic vacuity.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/AP22196747834423.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"President Joe Biden speaks to reporters after meetings\u00a0with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman at the Waldorf Astoria Jeddah Qasr Al Sharq hotel, Friday, July 15, 2022, in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. \" class=\"wp-image-23107548\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/AP22196747834423.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2048 2048w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/AP22196747834423.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/AP22196747834423.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/AP22196747834423.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Biden once noted that Putin would \u201cprobably\u201d attack Ukraine.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP\/Evan Vucci<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Mixed_messages\"><\/span>Mixed messages<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Of course a government\u2019s failure to speak clearly and credibly in defense of its interests can do harm. The mutual misconstruals by the Japanese and American governments of their counterparts\u2019 words and intentions in the weeks before Tokyo\u2019s attack on Pearl Harbor are legendary.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Did the British \u201cinvite\u201d Hitler to invade Poland by expressly guaranteeing only its \u201csovereignty\u201d rather than its \u201cterritorial integrity\u201d? Did the Truman administration \u201cgreenlight\u201d North Korea\u2019s invasion of the South when Secretary of State Dean Acheson\u2019s Press Club speech omitted Korea from its description of Truman\u2019s \u201cdefensive perimeter\u201d in the Pacific? It is easy to overstate the effects of seeming rhetorical missteps. History and its revelation of previously secret intelligence files <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/general\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"General\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">general<\/a>ly show a multitude of factors and interests in play when regimes make momentous decisions.<\/p>\n<p>It should matter when an American president speaks. But more than in words, credibility lies in a president\u2019s demonstrated commitment \u2014 by behavior, by policy \u2014 to America\u2019s vital interests. Even if there\u2019s no hope for Biden, that means the bully pulpit can recover .\u2009.\u2009. with the right president.<\/p>\n<p><em>From National Review.<\/em>\n                        <\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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Repeat the line.\u201d Such is the senescence of the 46th president of the United States that when he is not flat-out misspeaking, it is because he is reading the cues as he stumbles through the see-Jane-run prose of White House speechwriters. 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