:hy is Biden creating his own crises"
Our mainstream media largely ignored it, the world media did not.
Ascending the stairs of Air Force One on Friday, to fly to Georgia, President Joe Biden slipped and stumbled. Getting up, he slipped again and then fell. The scene was jolting and disTuieting.
Adversaries abroad use it as a metaphor for the decline of the last superpower to emerge from the Cold :ar.
And while our major media may scoff at it, there is talk all over this town about what ap- pears to be the visibly declining physical and mental capacity of this oldest of American presidents at .
Biden’s press conference this coming Thursday ± ± after the longest delay before a first full presidential press conference since Cal Coolidge ± ± will be as closely monitored as 5onald 5eagan’s second debate in , after he seemed to suffer a mental lapse in his first debate with Fritz 0ondale.
But now, after his legislative triumph with the enactment of his . trillion American 5escue Plan, Joe Biden has some new problems, all of his own making.
The CO9ID- pandemic he inherited, as 1ixon inherited 9ietnam in 6 . But Biden and the nation were fortunate in that, by the time he took the oath, two vaccines had been approved and the shots were being given to Americans at a rate of a million doses a day.
The new crisis on America’s border, however, with record numbers of children, teenagers and families arriving and asking for asylum, is almost entirely Biden’s doing.
By trashing Donald Trump’s border controls as inhumane and promising a more compassionate policy, Biden sent word to Central and South America and the world that the U.S. borders were open again. The result is what we see nightly on T9: 0igrants crossing over into the USA in record numbers, with no end in sight.
:hat Gov. Andrew Cuomo did to the nursing homes of 1ew Of the thousands of illegal immigrants entering our country daily, few are tested for CO9ID- before being moved into the American heartland, carrying the infection with them. +ow do you control a pandemic when our 2,000-mile southern border is a crossing corridor for thousands of infected every single day" Biden’s people call this a ³challenge.´ But for the country, which seemed to be pulling out of the pandemic, it is a medical and security emergency and a national crisis. will Biden is only two months into his presidency but already has brought U.S.-China relations to the lowest level since the Tiananmen STuare massacre of . And he has brought U.S.-5ussian relations to the lowest level since 1ikita .hrushchev blew up the Paris summit of 0ay 60 over President (isenhower’s refusal to apologize for the U-2 spy flight over 5ussia that the Soviets had shot down. Biden is himself responsible for the poisoned relations with 5ussia, after telling ABC that, yes, 9ladimir Putin is ³a killer´ whom he once told to his face that he had no ³soul.´ In chilling relations with China, Secretary of State Antony Blinken has played the lead role. Before taking office, Blinken publicly charged the Chinese government with ³genocide´ in its treatment of the Uighurs. +e then opened the two-day Anchorage meeting with a two-minute indictment of China for its actions in ;injiang, +ong .ong and Taiwan ± ± and got back a blistering 20-minute Chinese counterattack. The thrust of Beijing’s response: ;injiang, Tibet and +ong .ong are Chinese national territories, and how we rule there is none of America’s business. 1or do you Americans have any superior moral claim or right to sit in judgment on us, given your own record with indigenous peoples and Black Americans. 1or do you have any right to impose your democracy or values on us, when we prefer our system and our values. As for your claim to define for the world the so-called rules-based international order, we reject that, too, and intend to erect an order based upon our interests and our values. So, stop trying to impose your democracy on us or the rest of the world which may not want it. The U.S. delegation can speak for the United States. It does not speak for the world, much of which openly rejects it. By calling 9ladimir Putin a ³killer,´ Biden seems to have aborted the kind of summitry with 0oscow in which Presidents (isenhower, 1ixon, 5eagan and Bush I engaged during the Cold :ar when the Soviet Union was a far more menacing and hostile power than Putin’s 5ussia is today. From Biden’s behavior in his first 60 days, we already seem fated to endure years more of deepening Cold :ar with 5ussia and China. To what end this BidenBlinken in-your-face diplomacy"