Considering recent events, I think it’s safe to say that President Biden’s tough talk towards Russian President Vladimir Putin regarding threats he made to invade Ukraine was not the brilliant strategy the White House thought it was. This despite the fact that Biden assured us prior to the 2020 presidential election that Putin “doesn’t want me to be president… because I’m the only person in this field who’s ever gone toe-to-toe with him.”
As it turns out, it appears Putin very much wanted Biden to be president. Perhaps he deliberately planned for the military incursion to officially start nearly two years to the day Biden first made the statement:
As it became more and more clear in recent days that Biden throwing out warnings to Putin would do little to nothing to deter him from going forward with an attack that was months in the making, the Usual Suspects in the media and on the left began to trot out the “but Trump!” card in an effort to blame the former president for Joe Biden’s woes in trying and failing to manage the Russia beast.
Here are a few examples:
When one considers the inconvenient facts regarding the differing policies of the last three presidents towards Russia, Harwood’s response in particular understandably rubbed people all kinds of the wrong way:
Once one remembers how the Wikileaks documents proved that Harwood – who we’re supposed to believe is a “neutral” political correspondent for CNN – was little more than a mouthpiece for Hillary Clinton’s failed 2016 presidential campaign, the reason for his position becomes quite obvious:
The good news here is that at least the “adults are back in charge,” right?
It is from that June 2021 piece that CNN editor-at-large Chris Cillizza shared this thought-provoking “analysis:”
Even in Biden’s tone, he appeared to be making a concerted effort to be dispassionate — rarely showing off the animation that he regularly displays when jousting with the American press corps stateside. He was also far briefer in his remarks (and the questions he took after them) than Putin who held court for the better part of an hour in the immediate wake of the world leaders’ meeting.While Biden never mentioned his presidential predecessor, the 2018 summit in Helsinki, Finland, between Trump and Putin hung over the proceedings like a stale fart — with both sides utterly aware of it but neither willing to acknowledge it directly.
Also, there are no more mean tweets to contend with, either. Silver linings and all that, I guess?
— Stacey Matthews has also written under the pseudonym “Sister Toldjah” and can be reached via Twitter. —
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