{"id":235764,"date":"2021-06-10T06:13:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-10T06:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=235764"},"modified":"2021-06-11T09:12:50","modified_gmt":"2021-06-11T09:12:50","slug":"blinken-props-up-biden-in-european-charade-for-new-cold-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=235764","title":{"rendered":"Blinken Props Up Biden in European Charade for New Cold War"},"content":{"rendered":"

Blinken is staying close to his boss during the whirlwind tour, because Biden is liable to spin out of control and reap an embarrassing collapse. <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Finian Cunningham \u2013 Strategic Review June 8, 2021<\/h1>\n

It\u2019s a big ask for a frail 78-year-old U.S. president to rally the world around a series of myths and falsehoods. Biden flies to Europe this week to galvanize allies under strong American leadership of supposed shared \u201cdemocratic values\u201d in a \u201chistoric confrontation\u201d with the \u201cautocracies\u201d of China and Russia.<\/p>\n

President Joe Biden\u2019s worldview is so disconnected from reality that it is going to prove difficult mentally for him to consistently and coherently make the case over a series of summits in the next week.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s why he has his more youthful Secretary of State Antony Blinken (59) tagging along when Biden meets G7 leaders in England on June 11-13, followed by a NATO summit on June 14 in Brussels as well as top-level discussions with European Union leaders. After all that, Blinken is \u201cto participate\u201d in the face-to-face meeting between Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin on June 16 in Geneva, according to<\/a> the U.S. State Department.<\/p>\n

The latter detail in the busy itinerary \u2013 Biden\u2019s first overseas trip since taking office in January \u2013 is the most salient. It is unprecedented that the U.S. foreign secretary should \u201cparticipate\u201d in what was previously billed as a one-on-one meeting between the American and Russian leaders. There is no indication so far from Russian media reports<\/a> that Sergei Lavrov \u2013 Blinken\u2019s counterpart \u2013 is to take part in the Geneva summit.<\/p>\n

What this unusual arrangement suggests is that Biden is not up to the task of dealing with Putin in an equal setting. The American president\u2019s health and mental acuity have been under the media spotlight after several public gaffes in which Biden has forgotten names of his aides and has seemed befuddled in recalling details. The Democrat-supporting U.S. media have been criticized for giving Biden an easy time from their soft approach towards the president.<\/p>\n

This raises further questions about Biden\u2019s health condition when he has to have his top diplomat at his side during the forthcoming summits, especially the final one with Putin whom the American president disparaged previously as a \u201ckiller\u201d.<\/p>\n

It is all the more taxing on Biden given that his mission is more about contriving a narrative than actually engaging with reality. The contrived narrative is the attempt to rally European and other Western allies under American leadership against \u201cautocratic adversaries\u201d China and Russia. In other words, fabricating a new Cold War. The trouble is the fabrication is based on myths, falsehoods, smears, delusions, and outright lies. All in all, that\u2019s a tall order for a president who tends to get people and names mixed up and who appears to struggle at finishing press conferences with coherent thoughts.<\/p>\n

In an op-ed for the Washington Post before his big tour of Europe, Biden presented<\/a> his mission thus: \u201cMy trip to Europe is about America rallying the world\u2019s democracies\u201d.<\/p>\n

In a familiar mantra of the 46th president, he demarcated the world into two camps: one under \u201cstrong American leadership\u201d with \u201cshared democratic values\u201d, and the other purportedly represented by rival \u201cautocracies\u201d of China and Russia. This is nothing but the recreation of a Cold War whereby Washington polarizes the world into hostile entities in order to give itself a position of \u201cmoral leadership\u201d as a guise for imperialist hegemony.<\/p>\n

To accept this mythical framing of the world, then it is necessary to demonize the designated adversaries. Lamentably, the European allies of America (more accurately, \u201cvassals\u201d) are all too credulous in accepting the provocative fantasies.<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, sometimes self-interests intrude and the Europeans find the American depiction of the world too much to bear. Hence, there is pushback<\/a> from the European Union on Biden\u2019s attempts to sabotage the economic partnership between the 27-member bloc and China. There are limits to which the EU will go in damaging the landmark Comprehensive Investment Agreement it signed with Beijing in December.<\/p>\n

Likewise, Germany is not tolerating any attempts by the Biden administration to scupper the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline with Russia which will be vital for fuelling German industry. Again, self-interest kicks in to bring mundane common sense into conflict with the American mythology of a Cold War.<\/p>\n

Notwithstanding, Biden\u2019s itinerary is purposed to orchestrate an adversarial transatlantic position towards Russia and China.<\/p>\n

In his Washington Post op-ed, Biden pointedly outlines how his first meetings are aimed at drumming up American leadership pitted against Moscow.<\/p>\n

The president wrote: \u201cSo, when I meet with Vladimir Putin in Geneva, it will be after high-level discussions with friends, partners and allies who see the world through the same lens as the United States, and with whom we have renewed our connections and shared purpose. We are standing united to address Russia\u2019s challenges to European security, starting with its aggression in Ukraine, and there will be no doubt about the resolve of the United States to defend our democratic values, which we cannot separate from our interests.\u201d<\/p>\n

Note the inane assertion as if fact that Russia is threatening Europe\u2019s security and is aggressing Ukraine, when in reality it is the U.S. and NATO powers that are weaponizing a rogue regime in Kiev against Russia. The U.S. has supplied $2 billion in weaponry to Kiev since the Western-backed coup d\u2019\u00e9tat in 2014 and NATO forces are on the ground in Ukraine. It is NATO forces building up offensive power around Russia, not the other way around.<\/p>\n

Biden threw in a few bromides such as \u201cthe United States does not seek conflict\u201d with Russia, and he mentioned his extension of the New START treaty back in February (preventing an arms race is hardly a claim to virtue). But these platitudes aside, Biden went on to make lame accusations about Russia\u2019s \u201cinterference in our democratic elections\u201d.<\/p>\n

It can be confidently posited that President Putin will demolish the baseless claims that Biden is attempting to put forward in Geneva. It will be an intellectual slamming match, not simply due to Putin\u2019s formidable command of detail and argumentation, but largely because the American side has an untenable case owing to its fundamental fallacies.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s just say, the American case against Russia and China is a weak charade of myths and lies, full of hypocrisy and contradiction. It would be hard enough for an agile mind to maintain the implausible narrative that underpins America\u2019s bid for global hegemony. It\u2019s all the more difficult for an aging president to keep up the performance.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s why Blinken is staying close to his boss during the whirlwind tour. Because Biden is liable to spin out of control and reap an embarrassing collapse.<\/p>\n

The State Department said Biden will be coming from his meeting with allies with \u201cthe wind at his back\u201d as he goes on to challenge Putin. More accurately, it should be said, with Blinken propping up the president by reminding him of the dubious script.<\/p>\n

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President Biden is about to embark on a whirlwind tour that will include meeting the G7 leaders, a NATO summit and a face-to-face with Putin. Tagging along will be Secretary of State Blinken, ready to step in and takeover, should it all prove too much for the increasingly frail-looking Biden<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153,"featured_media":235761,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-235764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-Commentary"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/153"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=235764"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":235765,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235764\/revisions\/235765"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/235761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=235764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=235764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=235764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}