In the run-up to the 2020 Democratic primaries, then-candidate Joe Biden took to Twitter to boast about his tough-guy image and to remind voters of his foreign policy bona fides. He wrote: “Vladimir Putin doesn’t want me to be President. He doesn’t want me to be our nominee. If you’re wondering why — it’s because I’m the only person in this field who’s ever gone toe-to-toe with him.”
Two years later, to the very day, President Joe Biden’s pronouncement came back to bite him. After months of massing troops and weapons of war on all sides of the Ukrainian border, Russian President Vladimir Putin made his move. The Wall Street Journal reported that, after recognizing the independence of the Donetsk People’s Republic and Luhansk People’s Republic regions in eastern Ukraine, Putin ordered troops into the country.
Vladimir Putin doesn’t want me to be President. He doesn’t want me to be our nominee. If you’re wondering why — it’s because I’m the only person in this field who’s ever gone toe-to-toe with him.
— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) February 21, 2020
Biden has woefully failed to check or contain the Russian threat. He has fumbled this latest round with Putin completely. He capped it off with his decision last week to send his inept Vice President Kamala Harris to work with our allies in Munich to stop Russia from invading Ukraine. Why would he do that? Because she’s done such a great job handling the crisis on our southern border?
He campaigned on his promise to restore America’s position of leadership in the world after the damage he claimed that former President Donald Trump had caused. But the question must be asked? Would Putin have amassed 190,000 troops at the Ukraine border if Trump were the president?
Is it a coincidence that Putin’s annexation of Crimea occurred during the Obama-Biden Administration? Biden was serving as then-President Barack Obama’s point man in Ukraine at the time.
Toe-to-toe? As the same time he was working to kill the fossil fuel industry in the U.S., he gave Putin the green light to build Nord Stream 2.
His foreign policy credentials are abysmal. Considering how the current situation is playing out, his unfortunate tweet is looking worse by the day.
Biden tries so hard to project the image of a formidable and shrewd leader, but it was precisely his weakness and poor judgment that handed control of Afghanistan back to the Taliban last August. His orders were directly responsible for America’s greatest military humiliation in memory. Even the legacy media held Biden responsible — which is remarkable.
None of this was lost on our newly emboldened enemies who quickly realized that now was the time to act.
At the time, pundits predicted that Biden’s disgraceful display of weakness on the world stage would prompt one of our foes to commit a provocative act within six months. They were right.
The decline in Biden’s mental sharpness, discernible to some when he launched his presidential campaign in April 2019, is now, nearly three years later, clear to all.
As he stumbles and bumbles through his appearances, our enemies are watching. In their wildest dreams, leaders like Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping never imagined America would elect a senile president.
But, even in his prime, Biden projected weakness.
Former White House stenographer Mike McCormick spent six years (2011-2017) at then-Vice President Joe Biden’s side as he met with world leaders, delivered speeches and interacted with members of the news media.
In September, McCormick was interviewed by The Washington Free Beacon’s Alana Goodman to discuss his recently published book, “Joe Biden Unauthorized.”
McCormick recounted a March 2011 incident that occurred in Moscow during Biden’s first visit with Putin.
McCormick said that during a joint news conference, Biden “launched into a soliloquy about his visits to Russia during the Cold War.” Suddenly, the vice president’s microphone was cut off. Then “the press lighting was switched off, and Putin’s aides ushered the media out of the room.”
Putin had “publicly humiliated” him.
“He basically got body-slammed by Putin, really. I mean, I don’t know how else to describe it,” McCormick told Goodman. “To me it was like, here’s our great foreign policy expert and he just got punk’d. And Vladimir Putin just had no fear or respect for him.”
Unsurprisingly, news of this very public, very deliberate indignity “never made it into media coverage of the trip.”
McCormick offered some background. Ahead of the meeting, Biden’s staffers had “made a big deal about how Putin really dominated the conversation [with] Obama” during his visit to Russia. They were sure that Biden, because of his “decades of Senate foreign policy experience,” would never allow that to happen.
Describing this moment in his book, McCormick wrote: “[Putin’s] message was unmistakable: I’m in charge of the room, I’m in charge of my country, and I’m in charge of the reset. As you might imagine, the vice president’s staffers were furious with the Russians. I was instructed to have the transcript reflect how the vice president had been cut off in mid sentence.”
The official White House transcript reads: “VICE PRESIDENT BIDEN: There’s a reason, Mr. Prime Minister. Mr. Prime Minister, I’ve been around a long time. The first time I was here — the second time I was here, I was meeting with President Brezhnev. We were trying to pass SALT II — END”
Two months after Biden took office, he sat for an interview with ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos. Biden shifted into his familiar “tough guy” mode when the conversation turned to Putin.
According to ABC’s transcript of the interview, Stephanopoulos noted, “You said you know he doesn’t have a soul.”
Biden answered, “I said, ‘Looked in your eyes and I don’t think you have a soul.’ And looked back and he said, ‘We understand each other.’”
Biden continued: “Look, most important thing dealing with foreign leaders in my experience, and I’ve dealt with an awful lot of ’em over my career, is just know the other guy. Don’t expect somethin’ that you’re — that — don’t expect him to — or her to — voluntarily appear in the second editions of Profiles in Courage.”
“So you know Vladimir Putin. You think he’s a killer?” asked the ABC host, referring to Putin’s treatment of opponents.
“Uh-huh. I do.”
“So what price must he pay?”
Biden responded, “The price he’s gonna pay, we’ll — you’ll see shortly. I’m not gonna — there’s — by the way, we oughta be able that ol’ — that trite expression ‘walk and chew gum at the same time,’ there’re places where it’s in our mutual interest to work together.”
Following the interview, Putin wasted no time in immediately ordering Russian Ambassador Anatoly Antonov to leave the U.S. He then set out to publicly humiliate Biden in the media with some carefully chosen comments of his own.
The Russian leader came out on top in that exchange.
Biden has a well-founded reputation for embellishing stories to make himself look heroic, regardless of the truth of the matter, or the consequences of his words.
Notwithstanding his long career of public service, Biden has never been well-respected for his strength or his intellect. And now that his failing cognitive ability has become obvious to all, he is feared by no one. Biden is all bluster and our adversaries know it.
Despite his silly claim on the campaign trail that he’s gone toe-to-toe with Putin, the only people he’s ever gone toe-to-toe with are the unvaccinated and our enemies know that too.
A version of this article was previously published by The Western Journal.
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America did NOT elect Joe Pedo Biden for President.
The only way that Joe Biden would go “toe to toe” with Putin is if they were dancing, and Vlad is definitely taking the lead.
The interview with George Stephanopolous left George wondering what the narrative was going to morph into, when Joe tried to look strong. The Democrat narrative, coming from all their use of “Russia” against Donald Trump, put them in an iffy position. Now, Joe shows how his “Toe to Toe” statement really is: a joke.
All it does is confirm to the masses the fraud that was placed in the White House, when he turned everything on end, within days of his inauguration. There is no way for Biden to dig his way out of the mess he and his handlers have ruined things. Makes me believe all of the carnage was intended.
Compare Biden to the boy king, in Canada. One thing that sticks out, whenever either says something. You can be sure something different will be said, the very next time either opens his mouth.
There is nothing for Vladimir Putin to respect about Joe Biden. That is why Biden will fail on every bit of his foreign policy with Ukraine. Expect the same with Xi Jinping and China, as well.
Remember Joe saying something about “Taking Trump behind the bleachers and punching him”? Expect more of the same, maybe even as an extension of his dealings with heads of state.