LOS ANGELES.–President Joe Biden, 81, continues to insult foreign leaders, saying 60-year-old Hungarian Prime Minster Viktor Orban sought “dictatorship” in Hungary. Biden had his past run-ins with Orban when he was Vice President under former President Barack Obama. Obama and Biden waged proxy war against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, causing more than 500,000 deaths, displacing 15 million Syrians to neighboring countries and Europe. Orban resisted calls at the time from German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron to take more Syrian refuges in the European Union. Obama and Bidenh did everything possible with Turkey to get rid of al-Assad, working with various Syrian rebel groups to topple the Damacus regime. Obama and Biden’s proxy war against al-Assad nearly broke the European Union [EU] and drove the U.K. from Brussels.
When Russian President Vladimir Putin intervened to defend al-Assad in 2015, Obama and Biden’s proxy war was upended with lingering effects from Biden’s vendetta against Putin today. Biden finds himself in the same boat today, as he was in Syria, supporting a losing cause against the Russian Federation. Biden funds proxy war in Ukraine against the Kremlin, all but destroying U.S.-Russian relations, certainly ending any attempt at arms control. Sponsoring proxy war against the Krelin, Biden has pushed Moscow and Beijing into a close economic, military and strategic alliance, pitting the world’s biggest nuclear armed superpowers against Washington. White House officials, backed by the U.S. press, refuse to acknowledge how Biden has destroyed U.S.-Russian relations for the foreseeable future, leaving U.S. foreign policy and national security in shambles.
Biden called Orban a dictator for having visited former President Donald Trump at his Mar-a-Lago estate to discuss U.S. border problems and the Ukraine War. Biden can’t control his mouth, only last year Nov. 15, 2023 calling Chinese President Xi Jinping a “dictator,” only hours after meeting with him in a Organization of Southeast Asian Nations [ASEAN] summit near San Francisco. Biden called Putin a “murderous thug” in 2021 shortly before accusing China March 18, 2021 in the first U.S.-Chinese summit in Anchorage, Alaska, where he accused China of genocide against Muslim Uyghurs in Western China. So, when it comes to Biden, he’s prone toward insulting U.S. adversaries and now EU and NATO member-in-good-standing Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban. Orban met with Trump because he thinks Trump is the only global leader that can end the Ukraine War.
Trump whose administration [2017-2021] worked hard at shoring up the leaky U.S. border where millions of illegal aliens have crossed the Mexican border in recent years. Orban took the bull-by-the-horns in 2016 to complete a fence around Hungary to keep out Muslim immigrants from Syria and other Mideast countries. Orban knows that Trump gave him his full support to resist pressure from Brussels to take more Syrian refugees into Hungary, leaving it to Germany to take over one million refugees exiled from Obama and Biden’s Syrian proxy war. Biden thought he was scoring points against Trump saying at a campaign stop that Orban “stated flatly he doesn’t think democracy works and is looking for dictatorship,” an outrageous distortion of Orban’s position as a member-in-good-standing in the EU and NATO. Biden doesn’t think about what he says.
Hungary’s Foreign Minister Peter Sjizzarto recalled the U.S. ambassador for consultations for Biden’s insulting remarks. If Orban was anti-Democracy he wouldn’t be part of the European Union or NATO. Biden conflated his campaign rhetoric against Trump with offensive remarks to foreign officials. White House talking points paint Trump as trying to destroy U.S. democracy, replacing it with Fascist dictatorship. Biden gets confused about the difference between a campaign talking points and insulting foreign leaders. “This way of thinking by the president and the Democratic administration is a heavy burden on our bilateral relationship,” Sjizzarto said a press conference. Orban shouldn’t take it personally with all the horrible things Biden has called Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping. Biden has a hard time with diplomacy, often insulting foreign leaders.
Biden’s insulting remarks about a foreign head-of-state, member of the EU and NATO, shows that he can’t contain his insults from leaking beyond the campaign trail to foreign relations. Trump has said for some time that Biden insults foreign leaders, accusing Trump of colluding with the Kremlin to win the 2016 relations. Orban is acutely aware that Biden funds proxy war against the Kremlin, something he disagrees with in the strongest possible way. Orban thinks that Putin and Ukraine’s 46-year-old President Volodymyr Zelensky should move the conflict to the peace table for negotiation and compromise. Biden and Zelensky have refused all peace overtures preferring instead to wage proxy war against the Kremlin. Insulting foreign leaders just because they doesn’t agreee with Biden is a dangerous practice, backing war over global diplomacy.
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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.
