Pushed into a tight economic and military alliance by 80-year-old President Joe Biden, U.S. foreign policy has been handicapped, abandoning decades of détente with two American adversaries. Since taking office, Biden has had the most aggressive and provocative foreign policy, pushing Russia and China into a close economic and military alliance. White House officials act dumbfounded why they face a go-it-alone foreign policy, no longer relying on Russia and China to help manage crises around the planet. Biden decided to put all his eggs in the Ukraine basket, selling out Russia, to adopt Ukraine as a new proxy state, ending decades of hard-fought diplomatic relations with the former Soviet Union and now Russian Federation. Funding a proxy war against the Kremlin using Ukrainian troops, Biden has all but killed U.S.-Russian relations, leaving the United States isolated.
Biden boasts about his coalition against the Russian Federation but, in supporting Ukraine’s right to sovereignty and territorial integrity, Biden decided to take the U.S. into war with the Kremlin. Biden’s approach to the Ukraine War, seeking to degrade the Russian military to the point it can no longer wage war, sets the U.S. back for generations, leaving U.S. national security severely compromised. White House officials, knowing their egregious blunders, now say Russia has grown dependent on China. “We are not creating any military alliance with China,” Putin told Russian TV. “Yes, we have cooperation in the sphere of military-technical interaction. We are not hiding this,” responding to reports from the White House that China supplies Russia with military hardware or at least considers it. Putin said Western critics of Russia’s ties with China come from “jealous people.”
Biden touts his coalition of European Union and NATO countries backing the Ukraine War but failing to get Chinese President Xi Jinping to denounce the Russian Invasion. China put out a White Paper on peace Feb. 24, requiring an immediate ceasefire, with both sides moving to peace talks to negotiate an end to the conflict. U.S. and Ukrainian officials say China’s plan favors Russia, something said about every peace plan offered other than Kiev’s 10-point plan. Biden says the whole world is with him in condemning Russia’s invasion but can’t break the BRICS economic alliance, including Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, all refused to denounce the Russian Federation. Biden hoped his harsh economic sanctions, including a Russian oil embargo, would break the Russian Federation, only to find out that Russia sells more oil and natural gas than ever.
Biden couldn’t get half the world’s population contained in China and India to denounce Putin’s Feb. 24, 2022 Ukraine invasion. China and India want the Ukraine War to end but continue to do business with Moscow. If there’s any closer ties between Russia and China, Biden can thank himself for trying to make enemies out of the two most prosperous and well-armed nuclear states. Funding the proxy war against the Kremlin, Biden has all but killed relations with China. Xi looks at Biden’s proxy war against the Kremlin and only sees the same thing happening in China with Taiwan. Biden pledged military support to Taiwan to stop Xi’s effort to unify Taiwan with Beijing. Pledging U.S. troops to defend Taiwan Sept. 23, 2022, Biden violated the 1979 Tiawan Relations Act, signed by former President Jimmy Carter, pledging U.S. diplomatic recognition of one China, the one in Beijing.
Biden’s public statements about defending Taiwan told Beijing that the U.S., under Biden, would create a military coalition in the Pacific Rim to battle Communist China. Xi looks at U.S. efforts to meddle in the South China Sea as analogous to what’s happening to Russia in Eastern Europe. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, 60, criticized Xi’s trip to Moscow last week after 70-year-old President Vladimir Putin was charged with war crimes by the Hague’s International Criminal Court. Blinken forgets that Beijing rejects the Hague’s jurisdiction on matters involving the South China Sea, after 2015 ruling against Beijing for building out military installations. After their March 23 summit, Putin and Xi pledged their friendship and cooperation, slapping Biden in the face. Biden’s relations with Russia and China have been the worst of any president since the end of WW II.
Biden’s abysmal relations with Russia and China has undermined U.S. national security, handcuffing the State Department in their primary job of maintaining diplomacy with American’s adversaries. Going to war against the Kremlin was the worst possible way to settle a border dispute with Ukraine or, for that matter, containing what the White House sees as Russian expansionism. When Biden said March 26, 2022 that Putin should be removed from power, it opened up a can of worms. U.S. foreign policy should not meddle in regional disputes in Eastern Europe. Whether Ukraine prevails against Russia or not, NATO protects European democracy from outside threats. EU countries prefer cooperative relations with the Russian Federation. Biden forced Brussels to pick between the U.S. and Russia. Instead of arming Ukraine, Biden should work with the U.N. to end the Ukraine War, whatever the outcome.
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John M. Curtis writes politically neutral commentary analyzing spin in national and global news. He’s editor of OnlineColumnist.com and author of Dodging the Bullet and Operation Charisma.
