Blinken Props Up Biden in European Charade for New Cold War by Finian Cunningham!
(2021-06-09 at 23:07:28 )

Blinken Props Up Biden in European Charade for New Cold War by Finian Cunningham!

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.

It is a big task for a frail 78-year-old United States president to rally the world around a series of myths and falsehoods. President Biden flies to Europe this week to galvanize allies under strong American leadership of supposed shared "democratic values" in a "historic confrontation" with the "autocracies" of China and Russia.

President Joe Bidens 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.

That is why he has his more youthful Secretary of State Antony Blinken (59) tagging along when President 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, Mr. Blinken is "to participate" in the face-to-face meeting between President Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin on June 16 in Geneva, according to the United States State Department.

The latter detail in the busy itinerary - President Bidens first overseas trip since taking office in January - is the most salient. It is unprecedented that the United States foreign secretary should "participate" 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 that Sergei Lavrov - Mr. Blinkens counterpart - is to take part in the Geneva summit.

What this unusual arrangement suggests is that President Biden is not up to the task of dealing with President Putin in an equal setting.

The American presidents health and mental acuity have been under the media spotlight after several public gaffes in which Mr. Biden has forgotten names of his aides and has seemed befuddled in recalling details. The Democrat-supporting United States media have been criticized for giving President Biden an easy time from their soft approach towards the president.

This raises further questions about President Bidens health condition when he has to have his top diplomat at his side during the forthcoming summits, especially the final one with Mr. Putin whom the American president disparaged previously as a "killer".

It is all the more taxing on President 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 United States of American leadership against "autocratic adversaries" 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 is 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.

In an op-ed for the Washington Post before his big tour of Europe, President Biden presented his mission thus: "My trip to Europe is about the United States of America rallying the worlds democracies".

In a familiar mantra of the 46th president, he demarcated the world into two camps: one under "strong American leadership" with "shared democratic values", and the other purportedly represented by rival "autocracies" of China and Russia.

This is nothing but the recreation of a Cold War whereby Washington,D.C. polarizes the world into hostile entities in order to give itself a position of "moral leadership" as a guise for imperialist hegemony.

To accept this mythical framing of the world, then it is necessary to demonize the designated adversaries. Lamentably, the European allies of the United States of America (more accurately, "vassals") are all too credulous in accepting the provocative fantasies.

Nevertheless, sometimes self-interests intrude and the Europeans find the United States of American depiction of the world too much to bear.

Hence, there is pushback from the European Union on President Bidens 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.

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.

Notwithstanding, President Bidens itinerary is purposed to orchestrate an adversarial transatlantic position towards Russia and China.

In his Washington Post op-ed, President Biden pointedly outlines how his first meetings are aimed at drumming up American leadership pitted against Moscow.

The president wrote: "So, 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 Russias 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."

Note the inane assertion as if fact that Russia is threatening Europes security and is aggressing Ukraine, when in reality it is the United States and NATO powers that are weaponizing a rogue regime in Kiev against Russia. The United States has supplied $2 billion in weaponry to Kiev since the Western-backed coup d etat 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.

President Biden threw in a few bromides such as "the United States does not seek conflict" 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 Russias "interference in our democratic elections".

It can be confidently posited that President Putin will demolish the baseless claims that President Biden is attempting to put forward in Geneva.

It will be an intellectual slamming match, not simply due to President Putins formidable command of detail and argumentation, but largely because the American side has an untenable case owing to its fundamental fallacies.

Let us just say, the United States of 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 the United States of Americas bid for global hegemony. It is all the more difficult for an aging president to keep up the performance.

That is why Mr. Blinken is staying close to his boss during the whirlwind tour. Because President Biden is liable to spin out of control and reap an embarrassing collapse.

The State Department said President Biden will be coming from his meeting with allies with "the wind at his back" as he goes on to challenge President Putin.

More accurately, it should be said, with Mr. Blinken propping up the president by reminding him of the dubious script.

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