Telling the world that the U.S. will not be “rolling over” to 68-year-old Russian President Vladimir Putin, 78-year-old President Joe Biden has returned to the dark Cold War days of the Obama administration, when 35 Russian diplomats were evicted Dec. 31, 2016 from Washington, D.C. Biden’s new get-tough talk with Putin will backfire because he has no European Union [EU] backing because they buy 40% of their natural gas and 30% of their petroleum from Russia. Biden’s 58-year-old Secretary of State Tony Blinken, only 10 days on the job, has alienated Russia, spewing the same kind of Cold War rhetoric seen in the Obama administration. Former President Donald Trump, 74, did everything to mend fences with Moscow, only to watch Democrats and the U.S. press sabotage his efforts. Trump was investigated by the FBI and Special Counsel Robert Mueller for Russian collusion.
U.S.-Russian relations deteriorated during the 2016 president campaign when WkikLeaks released allegedly Russian hacked emails embarrassing former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. Hillary, in turn, paid for her fake opposition research against Trump AKA “Steele Dossier” accusing Trump of Russian collusion. Former President Obama and Vice President Joe Biden joined in the fun, using the Department of Justice, FBI, CIA and National Security Agency [NSA] to sabotage Trump’s 2016 campaign with Hillary’s fake dossier. All falsely accused Trump of covert business ties in Russia, yet proceeded to use Hillary’s rubbish to investigate Trump’s 2016 and most of his presidency. Trump had no chance to improve relations with Russia because Democrats and the media sabotaged him at every turn. Any attempt to get alone was hyped as proof of Trump’s illicit relationship with Russia.
Biden and Blinken have stepped into the global controversy over 44-year-old anti-corruption activist Alexi Navalny, who was sentenced Feb. 3 by a Moscow court to two-years-eight-months in prison. Navalny survived alleged FSB Novichok poisoning in Aug. 2020, airlifted to Germany for emergency treatment, recovered and returned to Russia and then arrested immediately Jan. 18. Touted as a pro-democracy hero in the U.S. and EU, Navanly has called for the overthrow of the Putin government. “I made clear to President Putin, in a manner very different from my predecessor, that the days of the United State rolling over in the face of Russia’s aggressive actions—interfering with out election, cyber attacks, poisoning of its citizens—are over,” Biden said. Biden isn’t helping U.S. national security or world security for taking such an aggressive stance against Putin and the Kremlin.
When Biden served as Vice President, Putin invaded and seized Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula March 1, 2014. A CIA-backed coup ousted Russian-backed Ukraine President Viktor Yanukovych Feb. 22 in Kiev while Putin hosted the Sochi Winter Games. Once Putin was relieved of his Olympic hosting duties, he promptly invaded Crimea, with Obama and Biden doing nothing. What does Joe think has changed since then? When Biden says the U.S. won’t be “rolling over,” he’s not referring to anything Trump did, he must refer to what he and Obama did in 2014. But like 2014, what was Obama supposed to do, start a shooting war with Russia? Biden’s acting like a tough new geriatric rooster, when he knows that a shooting war with Russia would potentially start WW III. “We will not hesitate to raise the cost on Russia and defend our vital interests and our people,” Biden said.
Cheered on by the press, what’s Biden hoping to accomplish, publicly rebuking Putin for everything but the kitchen sink. When he and Obama were at the helm, they did nothing when Putin invaded and annexed Crimea. “America is back. Diplomacy is back,” Biden told the State Department staff today. Threatening Russia doesn’t sound like diplomacy, it sounds like the exact office. America is back to what, driving U.S.-Russian relations to 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis Cold War lows? How could anyone at the State Department be reassured by Biden threatening Putin? “Your are the center of all that I intend to do. You are the head of it. We’re going to rebuild our alliances,” Biden said, talking crazy. No one in the EU—certainly not France and Germany—back Biden threatening Putin. EU does too much business with Russia to rock the boat, let alone move toward confrontation.
Biden and Blinken have gone mad, playing politics with U.S. national security. Publicly condemning Putin and telling him to release dissident Alexi Navalny from prison goes beyond the pale, hurting U.S. national security. State Department career bureaucrats and diplomats know that making threats against foreign governments doesn’t make their worker easier. “I promise I will have your back,” Biden told State Department staff. “And I expect you to have the back of the American people,” sending the most confusing message imaginable. Biden and Blinken have just turned back the clock on U.S.-Russian relations to the icy relations at the end of the Obama presidency. How does that help State Department personnel working in Russia? With the world so tightly linked especially with U.S. adversaries, Biden should do everything possible to improve U.S.-Russian relations, not destroy them.
