Announcing his 2024 presidential run, 76-year-old President Donald Trump talked about his close relationship to North Korean dictator Kim Jong-up, making Trump the first U.S. president to walk across the DMZ into North Korea. Trump had a rocky start with Kim, both threatening nuclear war but later came to like each other in a kind of mutual admiration society. Democrats and the press dismissed Trump’s relations with Kim as just one dictator to another, a common refrain from the fake news. Can you imagine the fake news says nothing about 80-year-old President Joe Biden’s sour relations with Russia and China, forget about North Korea? Since taking office, Biden has trashed decades of relations with Russia and Communist China. Today, the U.S. has never been closer to WW III with Russia and China, knowing Biden’s Sept. 23 explicit promise to send U.S. troops to defend Taiwan.
All through Trump’s presidency, Democrats and the press criticized him for making secret deals with tyrants around the globe. “China, Russia, Iran and North Korea were all in check and . . . they respected the United States and quite honestly, they respected me,” Trump said during his 2024 announcement yesterday. Liberal press organizations take Trump’s words as an egregious boast, attacking him for having inappropriate relations. Nothing could be more fake news than Trump’s press coverage with U.S. adversaries. What can the press say now that Biden has killed U.S.-Russian and U.S. Chinese relations? Talking with Chinese President Xi Jinping at the sidelines of the Bali, Indonesia G20, Biden got little done with Xi. Agreeing to work on climate change is utterly meaningless compared with Biden’s Sept. 23 statement that he would defend Taiwan with U.S. troops.
When it came Trump, he couldn’t do nothing right, just like today’s reporting on his 2024 announcement. Not one member of the press agreed that Trump had far better relations with Russia, China and North Korea than Biden. Biden started off on the wrong foot with China accusing them March 18, 2021 at an Anchorage, Alaska summit of committing genocide against Muslim Uyghurs. Biden said a day earlier that Putin was a “soulless killer,” wrecking U.S. diplomatic relations with the Kremlin. Today’s relations under Biden are so bad, Russia considers breaking off diplomatic relations with Washington. Trump had regular conversations and meetings with Putin, all in the name of finding better ways to get along with U.S. adversaries. Biden chooses to go to war with Russia to defend Ukraine, something that’s created dire consequences for the U.S. and its allies overseas.
Trump had strong relations with U.S. adversaries while president, working to improve U.S. national security. When he talks of his strong relations to Kim, it’s not a boast, but a factual statement that benefited the U.S. “[I] knew them all well . . . North Korea had not launched a single long-range missile since my summit with Chairman Kim Jong –un near three years before we developed a relationship, and that is good thing. Not a band thing. It’s a good thing. Very good thing actually, Trump said, in his typical colloquianl speech. Yet the fake news found everything Trump did objectionable. Does the fake news find anything Biden does objectionable? When it comes to relations with Russia, China and North Korea, it’s at a low point not seen since the end of WW II. Biden has trashed relations with Russia, China and North Korea, to show his phony obsession with human rights.
When it comes to today’s U.S. relations with Russia, China and North Korea, things could not get worse unless WW III or nuclear war broke out. How’s Biden supposed to restore diplomatic relations with Putin when he’s in the middle of a bloody proxy war, using Ukrainian troop to degrade the Russian military. Biden spilled the beans March 26 in Warsaw, Poland when he said Putin cannot possibly remain in power. Then four weeks later April 26, Biden’s madness was confirmed by Defense Minister Lloyd Austin when he said April 26 in Ramstein, Germany that the aim of the Ukraine War was to degrade the Russian military to the point it could no longer wage war. If that’s no a declaration of war, then what is? Biden has gone over the deep end backing Kiev’s unrealistic bid to take down the Russian Federation. Biden must do more to end the Ukraine War.
Trump’s relations with foreign leaders were far better than Biden, leaving the U.S. in the worse national security space since WW II. Decades of practical relations with Russia and China have been trashed by Biden. If Biden wants to switch things around, he needs to start by ending the U.S. proxy war against the Russian Federation. All U.S.-Russian diplomacy, including getting WNBA star Brittney Griner out of Russian prison, require a concerted peace effort by Biden. To accomplish that, he needs to inform Zelensky that the war can’t go on indefinitely and must shift to the peace table. No matter how onerous Zelensky thinks of the Kremlin, he must find a way to end the conflict and get along in the future. Trump did his part to keep the U.S. economy prosperous and world at peace. What has Bidien done other that push the world closer to WW III and nuclear war?
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John M. Curtis writes politically neutral commentary analyzing spin in national and global news. He’d editor of OnlineColumnist.com and author of Dodging the Bullet and Operation Charisma.
