Why Did Americans Elect Such a Weak President?

            Many Americans had their eyes wide open before the 2020 presidential election and saw that Joe Biden would be a weak president. Some dared to speak the truth aloud and were chastised for saying it. Now all the world can see that he is a weak president, and America’s enemies are taking advantage of his weakness.

Ben Shapiro quoted Vladimir Lenin as supposedly saying that he preferred to “probe with bayonets: If you find mush, you push. If you find steel, you withdraw.” According to Shapiro, it is obvious that Russian President Vladimir Putin has the same strategy. 

This week, as his forces shell Kyiv and batter Kharkiv, Putin has been upping the ante. He has unleashed strikes against Ukrainian targets near the Polish border, tacitly threatening to attack a NATO member. He continues to leverage his natural gas and oil supply to hold Europe hostage. His foreign policy apparatus continues to threaten the possibility of wider war should the West send in further armaments, including MIGs sufficient to repel the Russian invasion. He has reached out to China for support. And he has utilized America’s overweening desire for some sort of Iranian nuclear deal to press for American concessions on evading sanctions.

All of Putin’s pressure has met with mixed response. The West has continued shipments of certain types of materiel, including Javelin and Stinger missiles. But this week, the Biden administration signaled first that it would allow shipment of MIGs to Ukraine, then backed off, claiming that such shipments might amount to escalation.

Meanwhile, the West’s economic sanctions are being maintained – but Russia announced this week that the United States had made written concessions that would exempt Russia’s ability to trade with Iran, despite Iran firing missiles at a U.S. consulate in Erbil, Iraq.

What’s the chief message from all of this waffling? That the West’s threats are, at best, sporadically credible. Russia believes that if it ramps up the pressure harshly enough on Ukraine and threatens the West enough with nuclear war, it will be able to pry out of Ukraine diplomatically what it has been unable to pry out of Ukraine militarily – and Russia may well succeed. After all, Germans can’t continue to pay $8.25 per gallon for gas forever.

            Shapiro reminded his readers that Russia is not the only tough man on the block because China is flexing its muscles. China “has been playing both sides against the middle” and “is watching.” In fact, “China has been offering itself out as a ‘neutral mediator’ between Russia and the West, despite the fact that China is an out-and-out Putin ally.”

            China wants Taiwan and is watching what happens with Russia. Besides, it is becoming stronger by “buying up troubled Russian assets at bargain-basement prices, strengthening both its connections with Russia and its portfolio.”

            Today the Ukrainian President told Biden that the world needs him (Biden) to be strong and to act like the leader of the free world. Joe Biden is weak, and all the world knows it. We need a strong POTUS to stand up to the bullies of the world to protect the freedoms and safety of Americans and people all over the world.