Biden’s hour

A year after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the President of the United States, Joe Biden, must recognize that his actions and the decisions he made in the face of this aggression were impeccable. Biden has gone West and has been very successful from the start.

Unlike the Nobel Peace Prize that Obama received without doing anything, today Biden, for this effort to safeguard the values ​​of democracy and freedom and lead a grand coalition to preserve them, deserves to be the recipient. of this symbol which is losing more and more value.

I am neither a follower nor an admirer of this president, and I have huge disagreements regarding his foreign policy with Latin America, but in the most transcendental foreign policy event he has faced so far present, he acted like the great leaders of this country who lived through similar challenges, both during the first and second world wars; These leaders did not hesitate to face the threat of European military powers and to defend values ​​that endure to this day. It is perhaps ironic that the end of this moment in history is precisely another war on the European continent, which we hope will end like the first two, with the defeat of the invader.

Europe will no longer be the same, and the world is rapidly returning to a cold war, between an authoritarian axis, which has China, Russia and Iran as its referents, and an axis of freedom, led by the United States. United, Europe, Japan and Canada.

This new global scenario will affect the rest of the countries, and we will see how some democracies subvert, which is already happening, and others seek to defend them, albeit timidly, at least so far. Citizens and leaders of the rest of the world, who believe in democracy, justice and freedom, cannot be indifferent to the fate of these values ​​in our own country or in our region.

Going back to the terrible war in Europe, from the very beginning the United States assumed leadership. Unlike his predecessor, Obama, who allowed the invasion of Crimea at zero cost, Biden authorized public disclosure, weeks before the event, of all intelligence information showing how the invasion was being prepared.

Despite the evidence, many European leaders did not believe the invasion was going to happen. For the Germans, the relationship with Russia and its energy dependence made it impossible to think that this was possible; in France, Macron argued that NATO was a brainless patient; while England, in a state of great political instability, was a weakened ally.

The war drums that the Baltics, and some of the former Iron Curtain, beat to warn of the danger posed by Putin and Russia have not been heard in Europe; hence the importance of Biden’s decision to allow all of this information to be released openly in the media. It generated great credibility which, without a doubt, served to take over the leadership of NATO and to be able to create this great coalition which today fights to defend freedom and democracy in Ukraine; the first of the great battles that are going to take place in this new Cold War 2.0.

In any case, we must not ignore the gigantic effort of the Ukrainians and this marvelous leader that Zelensky has become. This country has set an example to the world of what it is to defend its borders against an armed giant. To see teachers leaving their life’s work, one example among many, to join the army and defend their country is a sign of heroism that everyone in the world must recognize.

Undoubtedly, the United States has been tasked with bearing the brunt of the transfer of arms and technology to Ukraine to fight invasions, but Europe has also stood firm, delivering more and more weapons. and, finally, understanding that the economy of sanctions is a fundamental element of this policy against the aggressor.

Under the leadership of President Biden, NATO has been revived and expanded. Seeing Finland and Sweden apply to join this organization was unthinkable a few years ago. Europe has begun to realize that doing business with dictatorships has a cost and feeding the monster has consequences.

Biden’s final act was his trip to Kyiv. Faced with Putin’s paranoid speech, with an audience far from people who know how to avoid what, where the participants seemed more kidnapped than the listeners, the image of Biden walking calmly with his dark glasses next to Zelensky through the center of the capital Ukrainian it was a masterful propaganda stunt.

The task is not finished, for isolationism in the United States is growing and the war is not yet defined. China has already clearly taken sides, which consolidates this axis and, unfortunately, the memory of the West is short. Biden’s reindustrialization policy is starting to generate serious problems with the Europeans, his natural allies, and I hope that the next election campaign will not leave Ukraine as a collateral victim, it should be noted.

And what about Latin America? Thanks very much. Forget. Well, not really, since Biden is implementing an even more aggressive immigration policy than Trump. Here we are.