President Joe Biden has been wrong on matters of foreign policy for his entire career.
He was wrong on the Soviet Union, wrong on the first Iraq war, and wrong on the second Iraq war. He oversaw the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan. He emboldened the world’s largest funder of terrorism, Iran. He built Hamas a delivery port and handed terrorists hundreds of millions of dollars worth of supposed aid in food and medical supplies.
And, under his watch, Russia invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022, an escalation of the war between the two nations that began in 2014 under Biden’s brother from another mother, President Barack Obama.
It’s no coincidence that Russian President Vladimir Putin invaded under one Democratic president, did nothing under a Republican president, and then invaded again once a Democrat was back in control.
The problem isn’t just that Biden is inept on the world stage, however. It’s also that he has no idea how to prevent conflict and no desire to reduce tensions after conflict has broken out.
Ukraine is the perfect example.
Consider how the Biden administration is bending over backward to forge a “ceasefire” deal between Israel and Hamas despite absurd conditions including the rebuilding of Gaza for Hamas and the continued survival of a group that is openly motivated by the destruction of Israel.
For Biden, peace is supposedly the ultimate goal, whatever the cost. So, why is the same not true in Ukraine? Why did Biden’s secretary of state, Antony Blinken, dismiss the idea of a ceasefire — or even peace talks — to end the war in Ukraine until Ukrainian forces were sufficiently empowered, saying that the end result would be a false “Potemkin peace”? Such a Potemkin peace is Biden’s goal for Israel, after all.
This desire to avoid any path to peace was cemented in place last week after Biden signed an unbelievable 10-year agreement with Ukraine at the G7 summit in Italy. Aside from expanding intelligence sharing, training Ukrainian troops, and investing in Ukrainian infrastructure, the agreement included a whopping $50 billion annual check from G7 members.
But it gets worse: In true Bidenomics fashion, the annual $50 billion isn’t cash we actually have. Of course not! It’s a loan taken out on international markets, and the interest payments will be paid using the interest being garnered from $325 billion of frozen Russian assets.
This is simply an accountant’s workaround, robbing Petyr to pay Pavel.
The new agreement comes on top of the $61 billion in military aid that was agreed to just last month and the F-16s we’ll be sending to Ukraine, too.
And don’t forget the cherry on this cake of impending disaster: Blinken’s promise that “Ukraine will be a member of NATO,” which would not only place another NATO nation along Russia’s border, but open the door to U.S. troops fighting on behalf of Ukraine against Russia.
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Again, this is the same Biden administration that is hellbent on achieving so-called peace between Israel and Hamas, no matter the concessions that have to be made to the aggressor, Hamas.
Why aren’t the same concessions being made when it comes to Russia and Ukraine?
Ian Haworth is a columnist, speaker, and podcast host. You can find him on Substack and follow him on X at @ighaworth.