President Joe Biden, 79, started off his presidency with a bang, attacking Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping, declaring that his White House would advance the cause of “human rights.” Instead of advancing human rights, Biden has brought the world closer to WW III, pitting the U.S. against Russia and China, driving both nuclear superpowers into a new military alliance. Biden’s underlings, 59-year-old Secretary of State Antony Blinken and 45-year-old National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan joined Biden in insulting Russia and China to the point of blows, with the once unthinkable now a growing probability. No one understands Biden’s fixation on Ukraine, recently joining Congress to spend $14 billion, supplying unlimited numbers of offensive and defensive weapons to battle the Russian Federation. No one, on either side the Atlantic, knows what Biden hopes to gain.
Biden is the only world leader that Putin has threatened to break off diplomatic relations for his March 17 insulting remarks, calling Putin a “war criminal.” Biden’s used to hurling insults, calling Putin as “soulless killer” March 18, 2021, on the eve of a disastrous summit with Beijing in Anchorage, Alaska. But Putin, better than most, knows that he funded Ukraine to fight a proxy war with the Russian Federation, making clear he would not put U.S. boots on the g round in Ukraine. Ukraine’s 44-year-old President Volodymyr Zelensky would gladly take U.S. and NATO troops in Ukraine, only to be told that they’re not coming anytime soon. Zelensky cajoled, prodded and begged Western countries to set-up a no-fly-zone to shoot down Russian fighter jets. Biden rejected the idea of “direct” U.S. involvement in the Ukraine War but not an indirect, covert proxy war.
Biden’s former boss, former President Barack Obama, spent eight years funding a proxy war in Syria trying to topple Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Now Biden has openly funded the Ukrainian War against Putin, hoping, that a protracted bloody conflict would end Putin’s reign at the Kremlin. Biden has never explained why Ukraine holds national security significance to the United States. Zelensky has told the U.S. Congress that enforcing a no-fly-zone would help stop Putin from overtaking free countries in Europe. Zelensky said WW III already started in Ukraine, begging the U.S. and NATO to commit troops and resources to stop Putin. But as much as Zelensky has give every excuse for U.S. or NATO direct involvement in the Ukraine War, Biden has never explained why Ukraine is worth sacrificing the U.S. treasury and possibly the military to defend Ukraine against Russia.
When Biden spoke on Zoom with 68-year-old Chinese President Xi Jinping March 18, he asked him to publicly condemn Putin. He warned Xi that if he provided Putin with any military or humanitarian aid there would be consequences, possibly U.S. sanctions. So Biden’s approach to any foreign leader that doesn’t see it his way, they’ll be hit with sanctions. Xi emphatically said he does not support war but said that the answer must be diplomacy on both sides, since all conflicts have two sides. China’s Vice Foreign Minister Le Yucheng called NATO a “Cold War vestige,” warning about “repercussions to dreadful to contemplate,” referring to a possible nuclear war. Yucheng blamed NATO for encroaching on Russian national security, causing the Ukraine War and global crisis. Yucheng mirrored Xi Jinping, deploring war but at the same time refusing to take sides.
Biden’s created a hostile foreign policy with U.S. adversaries, making normal relations next to impossible. If Biden wanted a favor from Xi, he should not have boycotted the Beijing Winter Olympics, only making a bad situation worse. If Biden wants to improve U.S.-China relations, he shouldn’t accuse Beijing of genocide against Muslim Uyghurs in Western China. If Biden wants favors from Xi, he shouldn’t tell Taiwan that he has their back, when the official U.S. position recognizes only one China, the one in Beijing. So right out of the gate, Biden’s hostile relations toward Russia and China made pragmatic relations impossible. Now Biden finds himself running a proxy war in Ukraine out of the White House, where Russia and China both recognize the highest priority must be ending the war, not watching the U.S. fund another proxy war that could escalate into WW III.
Whatever currently happens in the Ukraine War, U.S. foreign policy cannot afford for a total breakdown in U.S.-Russian relations. Biden has pushed the world closer to WW III in Ukraine but now threatens to see Russia break off diplomatic relations. Without the benefit of pragmatic relations with Russia and China, the world is a more dangerous place. Wall Street and world financial markets can’t afford such global uncertainty, hurting growth for the foreseeable future. “China has not publicly condemned or defended Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, but Chinese officials and state media have largely put the blame on the U.S. and the West,” Lucheng said, letting Biden and the world know where China stands. Biden can’t got to war against Russia and China without disastrous consequences for the U.S. and the world. Biden must understand there are two sides to every conflict.
