Biden’s Pale Red Lines
Russian-sponsored cyberattacks are just beginning.
by Jed Babbin
June 20, 2021, 11:29 PM
President Biden returned from his meetings with G7 and NATO leaders and his summit meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin to near-universal praise from the media and adulatory comments from his staff. National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan said, “I really do not believe that it is hyperbole to say that Joe Biden returns from this trip as the clear and the consensus leader of the free world.”
Sullivan’s statement isn’t only hyperbole. It’s the sort of self-adulation that emanates from self-doubt.
Biden’s performance, if we grade him kindly, could have been worse. Somehow.
Biden began by again demonstrating his declining mental acuity. He confused Syria with Libya three times and forgot that he had been introduced to South Africa’s president until the UK’s Boris Johnson reminded him.
Biden’s comments to NATO were interesting only for the weakness he displayed. He told the assembled leaders of NATO nations that they need not fear another riot at the Capitol like the one that occurred on Jan. 6 because the Republican Party is vastly diminished in numbers, its leadership is fractured, and the Trump wing of the party, while in control, was merely a significant minority.
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