U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, 58, is trying to put together a coalition against Russia and China, a dangerous strategy since many other sovereign states depend on China or Russia for manufacturing and energy. Under 68-year-old Russian President Vladimir Putin, the Russian Federation has become the European Union’s biggest supplier of natural gas and petroleum, some 40% of its supplies. Blinken has partnered with 47-year-old British Foreign Secretary Dominique Raab, already reeling from a shrinkage in global clout since exiting the European Union Jan. 31. Since taking office, President Joe Biden, 78, and Blinker have antagonized Russia and China, accusing the two communist superpowers of breaking the “rules based” international system, especially when it comes to maritime shipping. Neither China nor Russia want the West meddling in its territorial waters.
Speaking in London at the G7 today, Raab said he saw “an increasing demand and need for an agile cluster of countries that share the same values and want to protect the multilateral system,” buying into Blinken’s antagonistic relationship with Russia and China. When Blinken and 44-year-old National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan met with China’s chief diplomats in a get-to-know you summit in Anchorage, Alaska March 18, they both insulted the Chinese delegation. Blinken and Sullivan started from the get-go lecturing China about human alleged human rights abuses with Muslim Uyghurs in Xinjiang province, pro-Democracy protesters in Hong Kong and global ties with Taiwan. Raab invited Australia, South Korea, India and South Africa, “a sign that we can see a shift to a pattern of like-minded countries working together. No one in those countries wants to get on China or Russia’s bad side.
Blinken’s feud with Russia and China stems from the Biden administration’s over-arching foreign policy of moral superiority of the U.S. and Western alliance. From Day One, Biden and Blinken drove a wedge with Russia and China over human rights, now repeated by Raab. Blinken and Raab think they’re putting together a coalition against Russia and China, something preposterous. Blinken has already drive U.S.-Russian and U.S.-Chinese relations to the worst level since the 1962 Cuban Missile crisis or before former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger opened the door to diplomatic relations with China in 1971. China and Russia observe closely Blinken and Raab’s scheming to turn other countries against them. Raab exposed his real feelings about Russia, a carryover from the March 4, 2018 Novichok poisoning of Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in Salisbury, U.K.
Raab didn’t hold back his ire with Russian President Vladimir Putin, accusing him over every human rights abuse imaginable. Raab sees Putin as playing “brinkmanship, saber rattling on the border of Ukraine, the cyber-attacks and misinformation and the poisoning of Alexi Navalny, that was not just a human rights abuse but a use of chemical weapons on Russian soil,” Raab said, letting it all hang out. Blinken has a real ally in London but has zero clout to improve U.S.-Russian relations. Blinken’s now using Raab to burn more bridges with Russia and China, exposing a litany of complaints. Raab talks about a creating a G7 rapid disinformation response team, showing how little he knows about what he calls misinformation. Blinken and Rob act like only Russia and China use disinformation, ignoring the Western press, notorious for advancing its agenda regardless of the facts.
Blinken mistakenly thinks that a multilateral approach diplomacy involves building coalition against U.S. enemies. Biden and Blinken want to drag other countries, especially the U.K., into the U.S. feud with Russia and China. No one in the EU wants to take on Biden’s challenge to allow the U.S. to lead the “Free World” against Russia and China. Biden and Blinken’s diplomacy is so atavistic, it prompted are rare rebuke by the EU when it said we don’t need the U.S. to “lead the Free World.” Biden and Blinker rejected an “American First” foreign policy of former President Donald Trump. Trump didn’t antagonize competing superpowers, just wanted better trade agreements that favored the U.S. economy. Biden and Blinken accused Russia and China of egregious human rights abuses, trying, through multilateral diplomacy, to put pressure of the communist states to conform to international rules.
Blinker tried to clarify at the G7 his belligerent attitude toward Russia and China. “What we are trying to do is to uphold the international rules-based order, that our countries have invested so much in or so many decades to the benefit, I would argue not just of our own citizens but the people around the world, including by the way, China, Blinken said, in one of the twisted statements imaginable. If Blinken seeks cooperation from Russia and China, he shouldn’t try to form coalitions to apply pressure on the communist states to adopt U.S. values. Neither China nor Russia shares in U.S. or Western values when it comes to open societies, free dissent and a free press. Blinken and Raab need to stop blaming Russia and China for a monopoly on propaganda when there’s plenty of disinformation coming from the Western press. Blinken needs to stop slamming Russia and China before it’s too late.
