Russian President Vladimir Putin loves to mock the United States and everything we do. His poker-faced announcement that he has endorsed Joe Biden in the 2024 election was more than just mockery. Putin’s statement was a factual condemnation of Biden’s presidency.

Putin said he prefers Old Joe over former president Trump because Joe is an old school politician with more experience than Trump.

Remember, please that Obama’s first Secretary of Defense, Robert Gates, said in his 2014 memoir that Biden had been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue for the past forty years. In the decade since, Biden has only maintained that record. Remember, too, that when Obama was deciding on the Navy SEAL raid that culminated in the killing of Usama bin Laden, Biden was the only person in the room who tried to talk him out of it. (READ MORE from Jed Babbin: Biden Blackmails Israel)

That, of course, is the foundation of the real reason Putin endorsed Joe. He did so, in Putin’s word, because Biden is more “predictable.” He certainly is, but only in the ways our enemies find advantageous. Consider Joe’s major accomplishments.

Biden said in his last campaign that he wanted to end our “forever wars.” When Biden created a debacle by suddenly withdrawing from Afghanistan in August 2021 he — predictably — left behind dozens (hundreds?) of Americans and our Afghan allies to the Taliban’s mercies. And he abandoned several billions of dollars in U.S. military equipment that the Taliban found immediately useful. Putin and the Taliban — not to mention the ayatollahs in Iran — must have found that action quite amusing.

As Fox News and others have reported over and over, Biden’s predictable action in opening our southern border has let approximately eight million illegal aliens into our country. Among them are the about 1.5 million “getaways” — people who have evaded the Border Patrol — many of whom have the intention of spying, committing acts of terrorism, and otherwise damaging our nation.

The illegals now charged with beating up New York City police officers are allegedly members of the hyper-violent Venezuelan “Tren de Araugua” gang.  And they are only the latest example. Fox News’ Griff Jenkins and Bill Melugin have reported that hundreds of Chinese illegals have come in. It’s obvious to all but Biden and his border chieftain Alejandro Mayorkas that many must be members of the Peoples’ Liberation Army or employees of the Chinese Ministry of State Security, their principle spy agency.

Putin must be chuckling at the “wokeness” that Biden has imposed on the U.S. military. He promotes generals who are deeply invested in wokeness and the military academies are teaching it. Don’t forget the Navy’s initiative last year — following the success of Bud Light — when it was recruiting enlisted people — unsuccessfully — using a transgender sailor. (READ MORE: Foreseeable Consequences)

Last week, the Navy announced, in what passes for a major initiative these days, that sailors will henceforth be allowed to keep their hands in their pockets and wear false eyelashes. Old Vladimir must have really enjoyed that one.

As this column has said — repeatedly — our generals and admirals should be concerned only with the lethality and readiness of our forces. All of Biden’s actions detract from both. And there’s not a whisper of concern from the people Biden has put in charge of our military. (Don’t forget that when Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin went missing for several days that no one — including Biden — missed him. If Donald Rumsfeld or Bill Perry or Frank Carlucci or Dick Cheney went missing for more than ten minutes, their presidents would have noticed.)

Putin’s mind never wanders far from his goal of re-establishing the Soviet empire. As I’ve written elsewhere, Putin is a disciple of Alexandr Dugin. As Dugin wrote in his seminal work, “The Foundations of Geopolitics,” if Ukraine isn’t brought under Russian dominance, he may as well not bother with the other countries that made up the Soviet empire.

As the late Abba Eban wrote about the Palestinians, Biden never misses an opportunity to miss an opportunity. When the Polish government asked his permission to send about a dozen MiG-29 fighters to Ukraine in March 2022, Biden — predictably — objected and the aircraft weren’t sent. They could have, possibly, made the difference between victory for Ukraine and defeat. We’ll never know.

Biden has never articulated the need to help Ukraine, so the American public is left to wonder and Republicans are, for reasons known only to them, blocking further aid. If Biden were a leader he would have made at least a few major speeches setting out the case for aid to Ukraine, but he hasn’t and what he has said has fallen on deaf ears.

Russia is making progress in its effort to conquer. In the latest attack, Ukrainian forces have withdrawn from the city of Avdiivka. That, in all likelihood, isn’t the result of the U.S. aid withheld so far, but our failure to help the Ukrainians will only help Putin.

Biden’s predictability is factored into all our enemies’ calculations. Perhaps the worst proof of that is his pressure on Israel to accept a “peace” deal that would leave the Hamas terrorists in power in the Gaza Strip. He reportedly called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu an a**hole in a recent conversation when Netanyahu refused to accept Biden’s terms.

For Israel to accept Biden’s terms, it would have to agree not only to leaving Hamas in power in Gaza but also to accept a Palestinian state, the so-called “two-state” solution. Netanyahu said that giving the Palestinians their own state would be a “grand prize” for terrorism. (READ MORE: Biden’s Random Bombings)

Biden has gone so far as to make further aid to Israel dependent on its obeying all U.S. humanitarian laws. Those aspects of the existential war Israel is fighting are beyond reason but Biden’s insistence is proof positive that, as Putin said, Biden is an old school pol.

Iran is close to developing nuclear weapons. How will Biden prevent that? He won’t and at this stage he can’t. Will he defend Taiwan against a likely Chinese invasion? He has said he would four times and his minions have each time backed away from his promise.

Biden is, as Putin said, predictable. In the olden days of the Reagan administration, our enemies knew there were boundaries to acceptable actions and they never knew how strongly the Old Cowboy would react.

Predictability is not a characteristic that a president should be known for. Biden’s predictability and his “old school” approach to defense and national security makes this nation less safe.