President Joe Biden, 79, has demonstrated he’s overmatched trying to deal with 69-year-old Russian President Vladimir Putin when it comes to the Ukraine situation. Biden has huffed-and-puffed, threatening Putin with crippling economic sanctions, sending the 59-year-old Secretary of State Antony Blinken to reinforce the message. But the message doesn’t work with Putin, who’s been around the block and not intimidated by the U.S. and its media-driven message. Biden has been accusing Putin for weeks of plotting to invade Ukraine, going so far Wednesday, Jan. 19 press conference to say Putin’s invasion was imminent. Biden rattled the nerves of Ukrainians thinking that the U.S. president knows something other than the profusion of propaganda and disinformation in the U.S. press. Biden’s statements were pure conjecture, something no head of state should do.
So what’s really going on with Biden, making him incapable of managing U.S. national security? Whether admitted by Democrats or their friends in the press, Biden suffers from age-related cognitive decline, leaving him at a distinct disadvantage when it comes to solving real problems. Today’s situation in Ukraine could be solved overnight. Putin simply wants the U.S. and NATO to agree to stop funneling offensive weapons into countries that border the Russian Federation. Biden has turned the entire mess into a vendetta with Putin, when, in fact, the Russian president has bent over backwards to ignore the U.S. disinformation campaign against his regime. Biden sees the issue in terms of the Free World against Putin. Putin simply wants security guarantees that NATO will refrain from encroaching on the Russian Federation, a reasonable request given all the NATO military assistance to Ukraine.
Biden told a nearly two-hour rambling press conference that he doesn’t know why the public gives him such low approval ratings. With aggregate approval ratings of 40.5%, the public no longer has the confidence in Biden’s decision-making domestically or in foreign policy. Biden said he has no clue why polls would show that public thinks he has cognitive impairments. But Biden’s handling of the economy and foreign policy give the public the best look at what’s wrong with the Biden White House. Biden keeps pushing for his $2 trillion Build Back Better [BBB] plan, despite the worst inflation seen in 40 years. All of Biden’s trillions in pandemic relief have already fueled an inflationary cycle reminiscent of the late 1970s, early 1980s, when inflation was eating the country alive. Former President Jimmy Carter was delivered a loud message in the 1980 presidential election.
President Ronald Reagan beat Carter in a historic landslide, all because Carter had no clue how to deal with the nation’s runaway inflation. Biden’s economy could get much worse if he follows his big spending ways, looking for another $2 trillion spending bill, when inflation has reared its ugly head. Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.V.) has told Biden that his vast spending plans must be curtailed for now until inflation gets back under control. Manchin’s courage in the face of the Democrat mob has been met with the most vicious public attacks. Biden’s approval ratings, whether on the economy or foreign policy, tell the real story of what the public thinks of him. Biden said at his press conference he didn’t believe the polls. So when it comes to Ukraine, what does Biden belive? Looks like he thinks that Putin is to blame for everything happening in Ukraine and Eastern Europe.
Putin invaded the Crimean Peninsula March 1, 2014 because a CIA-backed coup toppled the duly elected, Kremlin-backed Kiev government of Viktor Yanukovych, threatening Putin Sevastopol naval base. Putin annexed Crimea only after the CIA-backed coup chased Yanukovych out of Kiev. Western leaders and the press don’t like to admit what happened in 2014, because, without the Feb. 22, 2014 coup, Crimea would still be in Ukraine’s hands. But to Biden and other Western officials Putin’s responsible for naked aggression against Ukraine. “We have nowhere to retreat,” Putin said about NATO involvement in Ukraine. “They [NATO] have taken it to the point where we simply must tell them: Stop!” Putin said. Any two-way negotiation would consider Putin’s position. Biden has show no flexibility in his thinking of how to settle what looks like an easy negotiation.
Biden’s has showed limited capacity to handle domestic and foreign policy challenges, including inflation and Ukraine to name a few. But with the U.S. historically having a pragmatic working relationship with Russia and China, Biden, for whatever reason, has burnt those bridges. Choosing Ukraine over the Russian Federation, Biden has shown he doesn’t understand the concept of linkage in U.S. foreign policy, certainly not the value of having working relations with U.S. adversaries. When it comes to Ukraine, the hype coming from the White House and press has made it impossible to decipher reality from fantasy. Putin has said repeatedly he has no intent of invading Ukraine. Unlike March 1, 2024, there’s no threat coming from the Ukrainian government to his Sevastopol naval base. Biden showed he’s shooting from the hip when he says a Putin invasion of Ukraine is imminent.
