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Dispatches
1) Gareth Davies, Josh White, Grace Millimaci, and Berny Torre, “Live Ukraine-Russia war latest: Ukrainian forces ‘shoot down four Russian helicopters in 18 minutes,'” The Telegraph, October 12, 2022 (6:54 pm);
2) George F. Will, “The nuclear threat may be graver now than in the Cuban missile crisis,” Washington Post, October 12, 2022 (7:00 a.m. EDT);
Analysis
We have argued that Biden and other Western leaders should not participate in the Bali summit or other G-20 activities so long as Russia does, and should consider withdrawing from the organization and founding another comprised of civilized countries dedicated to expanding trade within the framework of the U.N. Charter.1
I don’t see how Biden or any democratic leader can sit down and talk to, much less shake hands with, a ruthless war criminal with blood dripping from his hands, who has killed 20 innocent civilians that very day.
One would hope that as soon as someone in the White House has time to think about it, staffers will walk back Joe Biden’s statement about possibly meeting with Vladimir Putin at the G-20 in Bali, Indonesia, to discuss the Brittney Griner case.!
CNN reported:
Asked whether he would meet Putin at next month’s Group of 20 summit in Indonesia, Biden said he didn’t see a good reason for a sit-down.
“It would depend on specifically what he wanted to talk about,” Biden said, adding if Putin wanted to discuss the jailed American basketball star Brittney Griner then he would be open to talking.
“But look, he’s acted brutally, he’s acted brutally,” Biden said. “I think he’s committed war crimes. And so I don’t, I don’t see any rationale to meet with him now.”
Welcome to the era of “Biden unchained”.
Before Biden’s statement to CNN is clarified by staffers, if it is, let us take a glimpse into the frighteningly undisciplined mind of President Joe Biden.
The world at this moment is witnessing a nuclear confrontation between Russia and the United States, between Vladimir Putin and Joe Biden.
George F, Will underlines the fact that the risk of nuclear war today may be graver than it was in the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962.
This idea of a nuclear confrontation is floating around in Biden’s brain, as is the case of WBA basketball star Britney Griner, and a thousand other ideas.
What does he do?
The harebrained president of the United States floats the idea of meeting with Putin at the G-20 to seek the release from prison of Brittney Griner!
Think about that for a minute.
We have anticipated that Biden would cave in to Putin’s nuclear threats. This is how it happens.
The Telegraph reports:
Biden says Putin hasn’t changed position over jailed Brittney Griner (3:02 pm)
There has been no movement with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Moscow’s detention of American basketball player Brittney Griner, Joe Biden has told CNN.
She was jailed on drugs charges for nine years after cartridges containing less than a gram of hashish oil were found in her luggage.
The US President said he would meet with Putin at the G20 meeting next month if the Russian leader wanted to discuss the detained WNBA star, but that he generally had no intention of meeting with Putin although it would depend on the circumstances.
In an interview with Jake Tapper on CNN on Tuesday, October 12, Biden said he didn’t see much reason to meet with Putin in Bali, unless it was to discuss the Griner case.
CNN reported:
Asked whether he would meet Putin at next month’s Group of 20 summit in Indonesia, Biden said he didn’t see a good reason for a sit-down.
“It would depend on specifically what he wanted to talk about,” Biden said, adding if Putin wanted to discuss the jailed American basketball star Brittney Griner then he would be open to talking.
“But look, he’s acted brutally, he’s acted brutally,” Biden said. “I think he’s committed war crimes. And so I don’t, I don’t see any rationale to meet with him now.”
Joe Biden, the president who gave us the Afghanistan withdrawal decision, the man who told the world and Putin NATO would not respond with force if Russia invaded Ukraine, has once again revealed his sheer incompetence in the realm of foreign affairs.
Biden is full of himself right now.
When asked in an interview if age should be a factor in his decision whether or not to run for reelection in 2024, his response was to say that no other recent president had accomplished as much as he had in his first two years.
Biden is unchained right now.
He may be caving in to Putin’s nuclear threats. As he does so he is likely to declare, as he did in Afghanistan, that doing so is a great success.
Just as Neville Chamberlain touted his success when he returned to London from meeting with Adolf Hitler and signing the Munich Pact in October 1938.
Biden is exposed to many ideas and his head if full of them. The only problem he has is in arranging them in any kind of logical order.
God help us all!
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