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“When Putin decided to go into Russia—I mean, he’s gonna go from Russia into Ukraine,” Biden told Time. “Trump—what he never understood—which is that Russia, he wasn’t just going into Moscow, I mean from Russia into Ukraine.”
If you understood that gibberish, you too are qualified to serve as leader of the free world.
What’s left of it.
In a wide ranging interview showcasing Biden’s foreign policy accomplishments, he confused Iran and Iraq, Russia and Ukraine, South Korea and Taiwan, Putin and Xi, and blamed his misspeaking on a cold, his voice and then claimed that the magazine thought he was crazy.
The Time transcript is notable for its incomprehensibility. The same party that used to mock ‘Bushisms’ has given us a president whom even his own supporters can’t actually understand. At times the Time transcript has no choice but to mark sections ‘unintelligible’ while other sentences just make no sense. And that’s a problem when speaking on a world stage.
Whether or not we end up in a war with China might depend on this sentence about Taiwan.
Ready? Get set, go! “It would depend on the circumstances. You know, by the way, I’ve made clear to Xi Jinping that we agree with—we signed on to previous presidents going way back—to the policy of, that, it is we are not seeking independence for Taiwan nor will we in fact, not defend Taiwan if they if, if China unilaterally tries to change the status.”
Trump was accused of using chaos to confuse and deter foreign adversaries while Biden unintentionally uses chaos to confuse them so that they don’t know what he’s talking about.
Biden promised to defend Taiwan in 2021, then claimed in 2022 that he would only do so if there was “an unprecedented attack” (echoing his warning to Putin that a “minor incursion” into Ukraine would be okay) and all the way to now with “nor will we in fact, not defend Taiwan”.
How well China interprets Biden’s double negatives could determine if it invades Taiwan. And whether we go to war with China. And whether thousands of American soldiers die in combat.
And yet with national misery reaching new heights, Biden’s only reelection arguments are that democratically electing Trump threatens democracy, abortion and foreign policy.
Trump doesn’t understand Russia, Biden insists, even while confusing Russia and Ukraine. And warning that Russia shouldn’t go into Moscow. He suggests that China is “rooting” for Trump even while accusing Trump of wanting to put “10% tariffs on everything”. Biden insists that “Trump wants to eviscerate NATO” and wouldn’t cut a deal to control North Korea’s nukes.
Not only is much of this untrue or backward, but what has Joe Biden done for foreign policy?
If Biden’s closing argument is Ukraine, Putin invaded other countries under Obama and Biden, not Trump. Likewise, China and Iran amped up their aggressive tactics under Biden. The madman theory of geopolitical deterrence works better with Trump than with Biden’s ambiguity.
Biden’s fixation on NATO impresses globalist elites, but Trump understood correctly that NATO was useless without the United States. Biden’s big idea of having Europeans handle the Ukraine war was a disaster. “We spent a lot of money in Ukraine, but Europe has spent more money than the United States has, collectively,” Biden brags. But that’s nothing to brag about.
America and Europe have spent a lot of money and prestige on Ukraine with little result except a lot of dead Russians. And while any Cold War general would have appreciated the (likely vastly overstated) number of Russian casualties, the war didn’t need to happen in the first place.
Biden adopted Obama’s strategy of leading from behind. Rather than bolstering American military credibility, he undermined it in Afghanistan and around the world. Putin accurately read Biden’s unwillingness to fight as an opening and he took it. When it did happen, he kept on leading from behind, providing weapons that slowly escalated the war rather than ending it.
The United States could have either averted or quickly ended the war by signaling clearly what its position was and what it intended to do. Instead, Biden slowly allowed the war to escalate until American weapons are being used to strike targets in Russia and Ukraine is up for NATO membership without actually having any idea of what the next step is. That’s not how you win.
China’s growing threats to Taiwan and Iran’s drone strikes on Israel are both a response to lessons learned from the Ukraine war. If Xi attacks, it’s because he will be betting that a rapid invasion can be accomplished in a matter of days or weeks while Biden is convening international conferences and waiting months or years to provide meaningful military support.
Biden would like us to believe that he is on top of foreign affairs. “I did it. And we’re now the strongest nation. We have the strongest alliance in all of America,” he brags. But then why is the world such a mess? Unable to take credit for actual accomplishments, he instead boasts about all the international organizations he helped set up. Even the ones he didn’t set up.
At one point, Biden argued that “NATO is considerably stronger than it was when I took office. I put it together” and also and claimed credit for having “put together a Quad that never existed before” which was actually put together by George W. Bush twenty years ago.
Biden wants to make it seem like he’s in control. What does that look like?
“When Putin decided to go into Russia,” Biden postures. “The reason why I cleared the intelligence so we can release the information we knew that he was going to attack, was to let the world know we were still in charge.”
Did the United States releasing intelligence about a planned Russian attack really “let the world know we were still in charge?” Is releasing intelligence what countries that are in charge do?
Being in charge means taking decisive steps, not issuing a press release.
And Biden issues press releases. He talks and boasts, and then he reacts to what someone else does, whether it’s Russia, China, Iran or any of the other players on the board. The final tragic summary of Biden’s foreign policy isn’t that he sold out allies or wasted American lives, it’s that he never does take charge because he reacts, rather than acts. Whatever position he takes can be reversed by a forceful enough foreign or domestic campaign because he’s weak.
Biden got into a war in Ukraine that he initially opposed because he’s weak. And he betrayed Israel after his initial support because he’s weak. Given a chance, he’ll betray Taiwan too.
“We are, we are the world power. And what I inherited, as a consequence of the mistake that we made in Afghanistan is a—was not a loss in Afghanistan, excuse my cold,” Biden tremulously opened the interview.
This is not how a world power acts or talks. The Ottoman Empire used to be called the Sick Man of Europe. Under Biden, America is the Sick Man of the World. But hopefully it’s only a cold.
Mo de Profit says
NATO would not be needed if Russia was not the bad guy, think about it.
Sword of The Spirit says
Biden is the bad guy. Biden and his moo slim handlers are the bad guys. You my friend are believing the lies of the DemoCraps and the MSM.
Phronk Burrito says
Between NATO, Russia, and Ukraine, their are NO good guys too be found.
Michael Harris says
How hard is it to say Ukraine will never join NATO? How many people died and how much money. Was wasted and stolen because Biden and Obama did not say it?
TruthLaser says
How hard is it for Putin to not attack other nations causing people to die and forcing the reinvigoration of collective security?
Daniel Greenfield says
I think we’re all aware of that. (Or these days, most of us, some folks ignore history and vocally deny that Russia would ever want to invade and annex other countries.)
Obviously Eastern European countries that have had a history of being gobbled up by Russia, don’t want a repeat.
And that’s what keeps NATO going. Whether we should keep NATO going for that reason may be another matter.
john cheshire says
And that’s why Russia has to be the eternal bad guy. But I think you know that. NATO is way past its sell by date, unfortunately, warmongers will always be in our midst and from time to time will rise to positions where their malevolence can take effect.
NATO and the countries that comprise NATO are full of such creatures.
John Anderson says
The Democrats led by Hussein Obama must steal the election again. Democrats have everything to gain by stealing the election, nothing to fear from the corrupt DOJ and FBI, and everything to lose if the election is not stolen. Proof that the 2024 election was stolen would be if Biden wins.
If the Democrats steal the 2024 election, confidence in the stability of the dollar will be questioned. Ultimately, implosion of the US economy and the unravelling of the civil society become inevitable. Who benefits from the “fundamental transformation” (read destruction) of America?
In a dictatorship, the dictator benefits. To the current list of dictators benefiting from tyranny include Putin, Xi, Kim Jong Un, Ali Khomeini, Erdogan, Madero, Lula, and Hussein Obama to name a few. Another beneficiary of the demise of the US and its dollar, would be China and its yuan.
Xi may control 1.4 billion Chinese. But controlling the world’s reserve currency by having the yuan replace the dollar makes Xi live up to his official title of “Emperor of the Universe”. Buying the Biden Crime Family for $30 million seems like a good investment for China and its policies of “elite capture” and “disintegration warfare”. (For further details about China see the explosive book “Blood Money” by Peter Schweizer.)
Murphy’s Law says that what can go wrong, will go wrong. My corollary to Murphy’s Law is Murphy was an optimist.
BLSinSC says
And yet his “memory” and AGE would make him such a PATHETIC figure that no jury would convict! So if he’s THAT INCOMPETENT MENTALLY why should he be allowed to issue EO’s and BUY VOTES?? He’s NEVER been competent – always an IDIOT who just got lucky and was elected in a state where NITWITS seems to flourish! I’ve never actually met anyone from Delaware and I know there must be good, decent people there but come on!!!
Daniel Greenfield says
Delaware is comfortably run by a small political mafia.
TruthLaser says
Vote for the candidate competent to stand trial.
Steve Chavez says
TRACE most Democrats in Congress, White House, all the departments, to the ’60s thru ’80s, and you will find they were in, or supported, COMMUNIST PARTY USA FRONTS which were directed and funded ultimately by THE SOVIET KGB, one of which was their master, PUTIN! He’s laughing!
Him thinking while shaking Biden’s hand: “IT WORKED! But our proudest moment came when our main recruit became PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA and this dummy is the icing on the cake that is creating the conditions for their downfall!”
HEY… the Democrats conspired against Trump blaming him of RUSSIAN COLLUSION… and here it is, THE DEMOCRAT’S have been colluding with the Russians for DECADES!
Sword of The Spirit says
Biden makes no decisions. Remember that. He is just the old white guy face. He’s the the wizard of Oz that is seen, Behind the curtain is the real wizard and it is a vicous, insidious, murderous monster that wants the people of USA dead. The name of that monster is Shia Islam and it’s vector into USA is Iran, Hamas and Muslim Brotherhood. And emerging in USA now is another monster; Sunnis Islam. Coming via the south border. Keep your guns and your faith in Christ
Kasandra says
How can this miserable wretch claim, ““NATO is considerably stronger than it was when I took office. I put it together” when he is the one that criticized Trump for demanding that NATO members increase their military spending to the agreed levels which is the only thing that allowed them to contribute anything to Ukraine and when his permission to Putin to invade Ukraine a little bit resulted in him invading a big bit, which is what caused the NATO countries to coalesce.
Daniel Greenfield says
He can claim whatever the talking points on his cards and his confused brain, which have convinced him that he’s FDR, JFK and LBJ, tell him.
TruthLaser says
If Biden and Trump debate and both have prepared cards, and the cards are together dropped on the floor., after they are picked up, Biden would not know which cards were his. Trump would not need the cards and could offer all of them to Biden.
David Elstrom says
Biden quit being “leader of the free world” with the Afghan Rout. Now all he is is laughingstock of the entire world.
Roark says
Biden has known Putin since he was born. Hamas Joe actually attended Vladimir’s graduation from the KGB academy and they even took karate lessons together and rode horses together.
Biden would even read War and Peace to Putin in Russian when he was a teenager.. Biden has spent more time with Putin than anyone else ever. He even advised him on tactics to be used in invading Crimea.
Beijing Biden knows Putin better than his own family.
TruthLaser says
Biden and Putin shared the same shirt when they rode shirtless.
KenPF says
Biden’s gibberish now “spills the banks of English” … although he’s not speaking in a foreign tongue or even a “divine” tongue; it’s still just gibberish. But … does that mean he’s really not in charge? I’m no longer so sure. Joe Biden is exactly the kind of leader the Democrats want. They need an endless flow if nonsensical ideas to fulfill their promise. Biden didn’t come up with the idea that men can be women and have abortions. But the “saner” Democrats have a limited supply of these crackpot theses precisely because they aren’t completely insane. But Biden is.
If the Democrats really wanted to get rid of Biden they could do it. He’s already suffering from dementia which is a terminal condition. A bout or two of even mild pneumonia would seal it for him. But they’re trying desperately to keep him alive … and in office. For their purposes Biden is the ideal leader. They need his lunatic intellect to write their platform.
And if they want a war … and they nay … he’s the perfect buffoon to get us into it.
saltbush bill says
GEE WIZ BEING A BIT HARD ON OLD SNIFFY INCONTINENT BEFUDDLED JOE BUT BY HELL I AGREE 100%,,SADLY THERE IS WITHIN THE RANKS OF THAT GROUP/PARTY CALL WHAT YOU WISH MANY WITH THE SAME PROBLEMS , NO NEED TO NAME THEM THEIR FACES AND IDIOTIC REMARKS ARE ENOUGH TO PIN POINT THEM, AND THEY GET 1000S A YEAR FOR WHAT ZERO FOR ANYTHING THAT FAINTLY APPEARS SANE GOVERNMENT OF A NATION .
LEECH,S BLOOD SUCKING REPROBATES.
“”LIKE WILL THE ISLAND TIP OVER WHEN TOO MANY PEOPLE LIVE THERE AND STILL VOTED IN “” THERE IN COULOR ON SCREEN FOR ALL TO SEE , TIME FOR INTELLIGENCE TESTS TO THOSE RUNNING AND THOSE VOTEING
AND I AM NOT AN AMERICAN AND SEE THIS HAPPENING YOU POOR BUGGARS
Domenic Pepe says
Biden is corrupt and depraved and berserk.
As the elected president of America, he actually is a fitting representative of a nation
where half the population is as nuts as Biden is.
Trump and the GOP have near zero chance of being supported and voted for by the half of America who have permanently lost their minds.
Rob A says
It’s for that reason that I insist things have to get far more economically painful and desperate than what they are right now.
The fact that Biden is president is proof that the economic hurt & pain hasn’t spread far and wide enough to get the overwhelming majority of Americans to notice that in every way that matters, the country is getting worse and cannot continue on this way for much longer.
Among this country’s myriad of growing problems are:
Debt & deficits, inflation, the cost of living, crime, illegal immigration, the rise of the alphabet mafia, defining deviancy down, the across the board lowering of standards, brazenly corrupt politicians who lie & cheat while enriching themselves at the expense of the American people, poor military leadership, a federal bureaucracy that increasingly regards law abiding American citizens as a terrorist threat while known foreign terrorist groups with very bad intentions lurks among us with impunity, etc., etc.. The list is long.
Charley says
When Putin first invaded Ukraine in 2014, Obama very clearly stated that the USA was going to do exactly nothing, and, in effect, Obama clearly implied that Russia was welcome to take over Ukraine. In 2022, when Putin invaded again, Biden closed the Kiev embassy, withdrew all diplomatic personnel, and all military support from Ukraine, again signaling to Russia that as far as Biden and the USA were concerned, Russia was welcome to Ukraine. After Ukraine demonstrated their strong resistance to Russia, Biden decided finally to send some very limited and inadequate support, but he has never sent enough support to actually expel Russia from Ukraine, only for Ukraine to keep fighting and losing. Meanwhile, Ukraine is being decimated, because their supply of manpower and weapons is decidedly limited, while Russia has virtually unlimited manpower and weapons (from their oil revenues). If Ukraine was admitted to NATO, the US along with NATO could definitely, if not easily, expel Russia from Ukraine. And the Budapest agreement, along with common sense political lessons learned from WWII, not to mention moral concerns, dictates the defeat of Russia as the most prudent plan of action. The truth is that Putin would hardly dare to use a nuclear weapon because the result would be the complete destruction of Russia, in one way or another, and Putin realizes this very well. Putin and Russia understand one thing and one thing only, that is force. The less force we demonstrate, the more we encourage them. If we abandon Ukraine, only then would Putin dare to use a nuclear weapon against Ukraine. If we let Russia take over Ukraine, even partly, we have in effect legitimated nuclear blackmail as an acceptable justification for invasion for all nuclear nations everywhere, which would indeed lead soon to a nuclear holocaust.
TruthLaser says
When Russia invaded Finland in 1939, the Finns had effective artillery protecting the border capably stopping the Russian attack. The problem was the lack of enough artillery shells. That resulted in selective firing amounting to a small percent of what the target rich front needed. Finland lost, but, as many non-Russian nationalities in the Soviet Union did, attacked Russia when the Germans did in 1941. Ukraine needs more weapons, The policies of Obama and Biden provided at least $200 billion to Iran, which like Russia is a revisionist power opposed to limits on its international power.
Rob A says
In the millenniums of human history, humankind has learned two things that are beyond dispute: life is cheap and war is a very profitable business.
saltbush bill says
WHO DID YOU SAY STARTED THE STOUSH IN UKRAINE,?? DO SOME RESEARCH PLEASE AS TH O WHAT WAS HAPPENING FOR YEARS PRIOR TO RUSSIA BEING ASKED PLEASE HELP US BY THOSE THAT VOTED TO RETURN AS PART OF RUSSIA AND WON THE REFERENDAM, AND WERE BEING SHELLED BOMBED ROCKETED DAILY, LANGUAGE SPOKEN RUSSIAN DO SOME RESEARCH PLEASE,
AND WHILST AT IT FIND OUT HOW A FAILED ACTOR COMEDIAN WHO HAD ZERO BEHIND HIM MONEY WISE IS NOW A MUTI MILLIONAIRE WITH LUXURY HOUSE SPREAD AROUND THE WORLD, .LIKE MANY YOU POINT THE ACCUSING FINGER AT RUSSIA SADLY THIS TIME WRONGLY I SAID THIS TIME. OTHER TIMES AND OTHER PLACES WHO KNOWS .
Keith Reese says
Dear God…..please don’t let a democrat lead this country into another war. No more Vietnams, Koreas, and even WWII was botched by allowing the Soviet Union to enslave half of Germany and Eastern Europe.
Whiskey Jack says
“There she blows.” — Captain Ahab, Moby Dick —
The sociopolitical situation has gotten so bad down here in the earthly terrestrial realm under Pinocchio Joe and his Punch and Judy Show DEI. cabal that even the Moon is moving farther away! The Moon-ski knows that Joe has access to the Nuclear Football launch codes, and don’t think for one minute that in Joe’s state of mind he hasn’t fantasized about wiping that refusenik Valdmir Putin off the face of the earth. After all, unlike everyone else, Joe knows he simply gets turned into firewood.
Whiskey Jack says
In the continuing geostrategic saga of the “Adventures of Pinocchio (Joe) who, if his nose actually did grow every time he told a lie, should have reached the Ukraine by now. There’s nothing like the thrill of Joe and NATO playing nuclear Russian Roulette with Putin…with all the chambers loaded! After all, they can be the big players while the game is running until the defining moment arrives and the house calls in their bets. If Joe loses, unlike the potentially millions who get incinerated, he simply becomes firewood.