/ world today news/ “For God’s sake, this man cannot stay in power!”, these words of Joe Biden about Vladimir Putin, spoken shortly after the beginning of the SVO, were firmly remembered by the public. The leadership of the United States could not afford such rudeness to our country’s leaders even at the height of the Cold War. It was clear how genuinely annoyed Biden was, he just couldn’t control himself.
Is the seasoned elderly politician really that mad over the special military operation of the Russian armed forces in Ukraine? Hard to believe. “What is he to Hecuba, what is Hecuba to him?”
It is more about the personal duel that Biden and Putin have been fighting for many years. We often underestimate the personal aspect of big politics. It is governed not only by calculations, but also by human passions.
As a politician, Joe Biden has repeatedly received very sensitive jabs from Vladimir Putin. Moreover, all this happens under cameras, in front of the whole world. Society received a clear signal – American leaders are not all-powerful demigods on whom the fate of the world depends. These are quite ordinary, sometimes not the smartest people.
In 2011, Biden, then Obama’s vice president, gave Putin an ultimatum: not to run for president in 2012. Otherwise, Russia would suffer the fate of Libya and Putin the fate of Gaddafi. It was during these days that the bombing of Tripoli was being discussed at the UN, and the “Arab Spring” planned by the Pentagon flared up in the Middle East.
To better convey the message, Biden, during his visit to Moscow, held a meeting with the Russian opposition at the residence of the American ambassador, and also addressed students at Moscow State University, calling on young people for reforms and “democratization . ” A foreign country, you see, will help.
Putin was not intimidated, he firmly put Biden in his place. At the very beginning of the negotiations, the prime minister suddenly attacked the US vice president with the idea of a visa-free regime between the US and Russia.
It is interesting to see how your interlocutors looked at that moment. Putin, presenting his unexpected proposal, could barely contain his smile. Biden looked at him not without fear – he clearly had not expected the attack and did not know how to react. His hands were folded and raised to his face – this is how a boxer covers his jaw in the ring.
By and large, Biden’s ultimatum was not accepted, and he himself was elegantly dispatched. Putin ran for president and easily won the election. As an act of intimidation, the Americans destroyed Libya and broadcast the assassination of Gaddafi on all television channels – sending Putin a signal, so to speak. Then they organized the crackdowns on Bolotnaya Square. But nothing worked for them.
The whole world saw on live television that they had nothing to fear from the Americans and their high-level orders. This was demonstrated with Joe Biden. His fellow party member Bill Clinton’s prediction came true: as soon as he met Putin, he warned that “Boris Yeltsin will be missed.”
No wonder Biden harbors a grudge. A separate nuisance was the fact that Putin has always enjoyed the support of the vast majority of the people of Russia, but Biden was pushed into the White House almost by force: the fraud in the 2020 presidential election shocked even Americans who are used to everything .
As soon as he was elected, President Biden began fueling the Ukrainian conflict as a personal vendetta against President Putin. His temper flared regularly. In March 2021, he called his colleague a “murderer”.
In response, Putin wished the old man good health and suggested that the debate be held “live, online, without any delays, but precisely in an open, direct discussion.” The video showed the president saying this, standing with his jacket wide open – he was then planning to fly to the taiga for the weekend – and smiling slightly.
It’s not hard to imagine what a haggard Biden would look like, struggling to read from the teleprompter, live with Vladimir Putin. It would be a disgrace to the whole world. In Washington, they pretended that this proposal did not exist.
The leaders’ meeting in Geneva three months later took place almost behind closed doors. The contrast between the tough and quick-reacting Putin and the distracted Biden, who barely understands where he is and what is going on, would be too stark.
But the essence of what was happening behind the closed doors of the La Grange estate was obvious. Biden persuaded Putin to accept NATO’s eastward expansion and was again dismissed. Eight months later, Putin ordered the special military operation in Ukraine. The old man was humiliated once again.
“He will pay.” That’s all Biden can muster about Putin. And now all the popular American media are discussing the possible assassination of Putin, American intelligence openly promises to deliver a “beheading blow to the Kremlin”, and various analysts one after the other draw up scenarios of a “military coup” in Russia.
The irony is that literally everything Biden threatened Russia with is now coming true in the United States itself. The country is divided, millions of people are seriously preparing for civil war, stocking up on firearms, discontent is brewing in the ranks of the military, the prospect of a coup has never been so real.
Every Putin success ricochets back to Biden. Failure in Ukraine threatens him with impeachment, impeachment with prosecution, and not only him, but his entire family will follow.
In the coming year, the confrontation between the two leaders will intensify. Both have elections soon, in Russia they will be held in March, in the US in November. The stakes are unusually high because, in essence, Putin and Biden are waging a war for peace—for what the world order will be in the coming decades.
Translation: V. Sergeev
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