(John Ransom, Headline USA) President Joe Biden, the head of the political party that for six years has been obsessed with the hoax of Russia-Trump collusion in the 2016 US presidential election, which defeated Hillary Clinton, called in a speech in Warsaw for Russian president Vladimir Putin to be overthrown, reported multiple wire services.
In words that the White House said were ad-libbed during the speech, Biden exclaimed about Putin: “For God’s sake, this man cannot remain in power,” according to US News and World Report.
And the result, say experts, will be for it to be more difficult to bring about a negotiated end to the war in Ukraine, as if the White House isn’t even considering a negotiated end.
If Biden had planned this all along, he wouldn’t be getting stories like this. But sure, maybe it was 37-dimensional chess or something. Because remember, *our* guy never makes mistakes and supporting him means never criticizing him.https://t.co/ZjT6ckDVH1 pic.twitter.com/b8au32QzZR
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) March 27, 2022
“What it tells me, and worries me, is that the top team is not thinking about plausible war termination,” said Michael O’Hanlon, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution according to the Washington Post.
It also underscores how personal the animosity has been for years between the Democrats and Putin, animosity that eventually lead to charges of collusion between Russia and Trump by Democrats under Hillary Clinton. And it underscores the lack of personal responsibility with which the Democrats have approached relations with Russia for years.
According to accounts by CNN, Biden, in addition to his comments about ousting Putin, has, during this trip, hinted that US troops would soon be deployed to Ukraine to interceded in the war, and has said that a chemical attack by Russia would be met by a chemical attack in retaliation by America.
Tom Nichols at The Atlantic called the comments about a Putin ouster a “gaffe” and an “unforced error.”
Biden’s words also comes dangerously close to calling Putin’s bluff on nuclear war, coming on the heels of a Russian announcement that they would in fact use nuclear weapons in the case of “an existential threat for our country.”
What could be a bigger existential threat to Putin, than his overthrow?
Biden’s gaffes show that Putin, to an unrealistic and irresponsible degree, lives inside the head of every Democrat.
“When you say this guy must go you’ve essentially declared you’re not going to do business with him,” O’Hanlon told the Washington Post. “However appealing at an emotional level, it’s not going to happen. We can’t control it, and it probably won’t take place anytime soon.”
