Putting the United States and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO] on notice, 69-year-old Russian President Vladimir Putin said he will respond to the U.S. deploying missile defense over Western and Eastern Europe. Putin sees missile defense, which is a direct result of Russian strategic nuclear arms forces, as a threat to Mutual Assured Destruction [MAD], where tit-of-tat Interncontinental and intermediate rage ballistic missile create a deterrent to any country to get adventurous with respect to its borders. Since 78-year-old President Joe Biden took office, Jan. 20, the U.S. and Moscow hit new post-Cold War lows. Biden’s summit with Putin in Geneva June 16 was cut short because Biden couldn’t figure out what to talk about. After a few hours of pro-forma platitudes, both leaders headed out of town, now dealing with any substantive global issues affecting both countries.
Biden’s track record on diplomacy with China and Russia has been abysmal. When he sent 58-year-old Secretary of State Tony Blinken and 44-year-old National Securrity Adviser Jake Sullivan to Anchorage, Alaska March 18 to summit with China, the two accused China of genocide against Muslim Uyghurs in Western China. Two days before March 16, Biden called Putin a “soulless killer.” By the time they met in Geneva, the two couldn’t look each other in the eyes. “We know very well that some of our foreign counterparts will not stop trying to break this parity, including by means of deploying elements of global missile defense in close proximity to our borders,” Putin said. Putin doesn’t want Poland, for instance, deploying Aegis Ashore missile defense at Redzikowo base in Poland. Putin plans to respond by deploying more ICBMs and intermediate range missiles at Poland.
Putin watches while the world GOP26 climate summit goes on in Glasgow, as world leaders preach to the choir about the existential threat of global climate change. Putin’s Russia has more coal-fired power plants that any other country, with the exception of India, where electricity shortages are more concern than whether or not they emit greenhouse gasses. World leaders like Biden and French President Emmanuel Macron are right in their element lecturing about the evils of climate change, blaming every climate-related mishap on global warming. Biden wants to spend some $500 billion out of the new $1.75 trillion infrastructure and welfare bill on climate change, promising, like he Democrat predecessors going back to President Jimmy Carter, a booming clean energy industry to boost the U.S. economy. Fossil fuels still drive the U.S. economy in 2021.
Biden’s promises of a net-zero carbon emissions by 2050 is pure pie-in-the-sky, the same empty promises made by generations of Democrat leaders all without any fidelity to reality. To achieve his plan for zero emission by 2050, Biden would have to shut down the entire transportation sector, including all trains, planes and automobiles. Biden knows that methane gas-fired power plants don’t solve the zero admission conundrum, despite promising to replace the internal combustion engine by 2030. Shifting carbon pollution away from tailpipes into methane-fired power plants to accommodate the new demand for electricity to power cars and trucks will actually cause more carbon emissions. What climate scientists aren’t telling politicians is that there little the world can do to stop the adverse effects of climate change, even with spending trillions on clean energy alternatives.
No one believes that burning tons of jet fuel into the atmosphere for air travel is going to stop anytime soon. Speaking in Glasgow, environmental zealots like preaching to the choir and talking about doomsday but all their efforts to reduce the earth’s greenhouse gasses come late in the game. While there’s nothing wrong in reducing pollution, there’s something very wrong about duping people into believing they can reduce the effect of carbon-driven climate change by promising to develop green fuels. Putin, Chinese President Xi Jinping and India Prime Minister Narenda Modi aren’t going to paralyze their countries economic development by banning fossil fuels. Transition to electric cars-and-trucks isn’t going to reduce carbon emissions enough when more methane-fired power plants come online to supply enough electricity for the new clear-air technologies.
Unlike Biden that can only do one thing at a time, Putin’s out-maneuvering the U.S. and NATO, already looking for ways to neutralize U.S. global missile defense systems. Instead of viewing Putin as the U.S. mortal enemy, Biden should be looking at more obvious threats coming from radical Islam, likely to continue into the indefinite future. “We cannot ignore those threats to Russia’s security and will adequately react to them,” Putin said, more concerned about countering missile defense than climate change. “We can catch a glimpse of it through binoculars, or through the crosshairs of matching defense systems,” Putin said, warning Biden and NATO to pay attention to more than climate change. Biden thinks he makes the world safer spending billions on climate change but ignores U.S.-Russian relations makeing things worse.
