Biden had a beyond-friendly interview with ABC's George Stephanopoulos, former press secretary to President Bill Clinton, on March 16 in which he allowed Stephanopoulos to lure him into calling Russian President Vladimir Putin a "Killer" with "No soul." It would be one thing if there were some purpose behind Biden's hostile utterance about his Russian counterpart, but it didn't appear tied to any strategic foreign policy goal.
After vintage philosophical musings about how Biden may be projecting his own inadequacies, he said the United States has a dark history.
The Biden team, which has largely maintained the Trump administration's economic policies, including controversial tariffs, against China, went into the meeting thinking they could easily dunk on the prior administration and show how much better they were at diplomacy.
Putin challenged Biden to a debate about U.S. history and the White House scurried.
What's more, Biden had gone out of his way to mock President Trump for walking gingerly down a slippery ramp last year.
"Look at how he steps, and look at how I step. Watch how I run up ramps and he stumbles down ramps. OK. Come on!" the 78-year-old Biden said.
Last week, Trump's Secretary of State Mike Pompeo tweeted, "When it came to securing American freedom abroad, we treated the world as it was, not as we wished it to be. When the time came, we led and were TOUGH. Strength deters bad guys, weakness begets war." Instead of trying to manage American decline for the benefit of corporate America, Biden's team should actually fight to secure America's interests, to disassociate the U.S. economy from China's, to recover critical supply chains, build back the military and U.S. economy, and to provide counterweights to China in the world.
https://thefederalist.com/2021/03/30/bidens-weakness-on-the-world-stage-is-dangerous/
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