Three days before his Geneva summit with 68-year-old Russian President Vladimir Putin, 78-year-old President Joe Biden shows why he’s never made a good diplomat, continuing the insults and threats. Calling Putin an “autocrat,” Biden shows who’s the weak one heading into Geneva. Since becoming president, Biden has insulted Putin calling him a “soulless killer” March 16, pushing U.S.-Russian relations to the brink. What Biden doesn’t get is that no one in Europe accepts him as the “leader of the Freed world,” preferring to let the U.S. continue its futile Cold War with the Kremlin. Biden said that “autocrats would define the 21st century,” something without any insight but rehashing old warn out slogans. Biden thought the G7 meeting in Carbis Bay, Corwall would generate interest in taking on Biden’s antagonistic attitude toward Russia and China.
Biden’s limited cognitive capacity puts the burden on State Department bureaucrats and intel officials, telling Biden that Putin interfered with U.S. and elections and democracy, leaving him to make the cardinal mistake of insulting Putin. Putin calls the shots all over Europe and the Middle East, something the U.S. should use as leverage for U.S. national security. Biden says he wants to help Ukraine but NATO has turned a cold shoulder on 43-uyyear-old Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Zenensky has practically stood on his head trying to get a NATO membership. NATO wants no part of any country currently involved in military conflict with the Russian Federation. Biden’s best shot of helping Ukraine, especially in the Donbass region of eastern Ukraine, is to get along with Putin, not threatening more sanctions or, worse yet, potential military intervention.
No one in Europe wants Biden’s fight with Putin, telling him at the G7 that the European Union will proceed with its own relationship with Russia and China. “Autocrats have enormous power and they don’t have to answer to a public and the fact is that it may very well be if I respond, as I will, that its doesn’t dissuade him—he wants to keep going,” Biden said, sounding incoherent. Biden found out March 18 what happened in the Anchorage summit with China where his 58-year-old Secretary of State Tony Blinken and 44-year-old National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan insulted Beijing. Biden’s on a collision course with antiquated hubris that the U.S. can threaten the Russian Federation with more sanctions. Biden doesn’t get that Putin has the clout where it counts, not the U.S. Putin isn’t going to react well to Biden’s accusations about interfering in U.S. elections or democracy.
Biden was former President Barack Obama’s Vice President when Putin invaded Crimea March 1, 2021. Biden’s, or Western leaders for that matter, don’t admit that a CIA-backed coup ousted the Kremlin-backed government of former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych Feb. 22, 2014. Biden knows that the Crimean Peninsula houses Russia’s warm water fleet in Sevastopol. Putin hosted the Sochi Winter Olympics watching the coup take place in Kiev. Yet Biden condemns Putin as the aggressor, ignoring the CIA-backed Kiev coup that prompted Putin to annex Crimea. “Russia has its own dilemmas, dealing with its economy, dealing with Covid and deal with not only the United States and Europe writ large, and in the Middle East,” Biden said, continuing his incoherent analysis.
Biden keeps insisting that Russia has violated international norms, referring to recent hacking of SolarWinds software, Colonial Pipeline, and, more recently, JBS meatpacking. “Russia has engaged in activities which we believe are contrary to international norms, but they have also bitten off some real problems, that they’re going to trouble chewing on,” Biden said, raising concerns about his fitness to summit with Putin. U.S. government has a lot to be concerned about letting Biden continue to influence U.S. foreign policy. Putin will watch Biden at the Geneva summit say things he regrets, largely because he’s too old to deal with complex events like U.S. foreign policy and national security. Going into the summit accusing Putin of hacking and violating human rights of 44-year-old Russian dissident Alexi Navalny won’t help improve U.S.-Russian relations.
Biden’s in a defensive mode dealing with Putin because he’s not in a place to find common ground on issues that affect world stability. Biden wants to accuse Putin of being an “autocrat” because he doesn’t comprehend how the two nations can coexist without continuing to make threats. Putin won’t react well to Biden’s threats, largely brushing them off as inconsequential or a bluff. Biden has zero support from NATO allies to start a confrontational Cold War approach toward the Russian Federation. Biden was told clearly at the G7 that the U.S. is on its own trying to confront the Kremlin. Europe buys some 40% of its energy from Russia, just completing a $12 billion Nord Stream 2 Pipeline to transport natural gas from Russia to Germany. Biden doesn’t see that his confrontational approach to Russia and China isn’t backed by the EU, NATO or any major Asian country.
