The word “inspiring” does not come to mind as a way of describing President Biden’s afternoon speech following the Russian invasion of Ukraine. “Dispiriting” comes closer.
The best Biden could do rhetorically was to declare that “America stands up to bullies” — as though the most dangerous moment in the past 20 years on the planet Earth were some kind of remake of the old movie “My Bodyguard.”
Come on, man. Putin isn’t a bully. He’s either a lunatic pursuing a nation-murdering delusion or a man possessed of a world-historical ambition to make himself an equal in Russian history to the Greats, Peter and Catherine, and Lenin and Stalin. Meanwhile, Biden thinks the country he leads is Adam Baldwin protecting poor Chris Makepeace against goonish Matt Dillon.
Does this seem unfair? The “bullies” line is the only thing anyone is going to remember from Biden’s remarks. The portrait he painted of the era Putin’s aggression is creating featured a curiously passive vision of the United States and its role in the future.
In Biden’s telling, it won’t be the U.S. or NATO that will reverse this world-changing infamy. No, somehow it will happen because of . . . history.
STOOG Biden is controlled by PUTIN , his Boss !!!!
Brandon has to ask Jill if he can go out to play