The idealism of Joe Biden: between support for Ukraine and his re-election in 2024

After the first year of the start of the invasion of Ukraine by Russian forces, the American President Joe Biden recalled the anniversary of the military aggression ordered by Vladimir Poutine with a discourse imbued with idealism although far from political realism, which suggests that the war will last a long time with the dangers it embodies.

The Biden administration maintains the same idea as last year when the president addressed the world holding – since Poland– His belief in President Putin, emphasizing that he cannot stay in power. On the anniversary of the invasion, Biden ratified his position and those close to him told the press that the president stands by his position that there will be no dialogue until Russia withdraws its troops from Ukrainian territory, this is the message that Biden sent to Moscow by ratifying the continuity of his support for President Zelensky.

In the same way, the tenant of the oval room endorsed American support for its partners in the I WILL TAKE compared to Ukraine with a billion-dollar economic package approved by the United States Congress a few months ago. At the same address, he spoke personally and for the second time with the Ukrainian president whom he had already received at the White House.

However, the first anniversary of the invasion shows situations that have pitfalls for Biden to overcome. The president knows there are divisions in Congress in Republican sectors that threaten his economic relief plan if the war lasts any longer. He also knows that it will not be easy for him to get through this second year of the war supporting Zelensky as he has done until today; however, he reiterated that the assistance would be thorough.

The position adopted until today by the American president has generated a clear dependence of Europe vis-à-vis the United States, this position will raise more and more questions as the fighting escalates. continue and the war deepens. The question most frequently heard in Congress is how long and how should the United States cover Ukrainian military needs without evaluating the gains and losses with this position? In this sense, a statement from the White House press secretary reports that the President sent a clear message of solidarity and support to Zelensky and his people in his recent speech.

According to press statements by John Kirby, As a national security spokesman, the president made it clear that his administration would support Kyiv for as long as it takes to permanently neutralize Moscow’s aggression, and that it will do so until Putin’s troops retrace their steps and return to Russia. .

Spokesperson Kirby also indicated that securing aid to Kyiv is extremely necessary and a very important goal. However, the main objective of the Biden administration is to prevent the conflict from escalating and also to neutralize its possible spread to other countries in the region. The United States agrees with NATO that the war in Ukraine is an unwanted tragedy for Ukrainians. However, if the war were to spread to other European countries, it would be a major disaster for the world.

During his previous trip last March, Biden’s meeting with Ukrainian refugees exiled to Poland by the Russian invasion took on a more realistic and forceful tone than his last remarks. He was also harsh in his speech but idealistic at the White House when he received Zelensky and sharply criticized Putin, although he did not hold up later statements in which his spokesmen attempted to reinterpret the remarks. Of the president ; In these clarifications, the press took these messages as an attempt to tone down Biden’s remarks and present them more watered down, even retracting some of these comments. However, the lack of realism and the dangerous political and security implications of the president’s remarks suggest that there will be no virtual cessation of hostilities.

What the American president said about Ukraine made it clear that for his administration it is a matter of security, but it is also a political gesture with which he demonstrated that despite his age he has aspirations to run in the presidential elections of 2024. ., something that will surely be announced in a few weeks when his plans for a second term are confirmed.

The President’s last visit to Eastern Europe (Poland) took place the month after the Russian invasion. Biden’s current speech continues in line with this trip, Biden stressed that Putin cannot continue in power, in his words this year he also confirmed that the United States will continue its support for Ukraine until whatever is necessary. It became clear when I said: Es por eso que vine a Europa nuevamente esta semana, traigo un mensaje claro también para la NATO y los integrantes del Grupo de los 7 (G7), lo mismo para la Unión Europea (UE) y para todas las sociedades y sus gobiernos que apoyen freedom. Biden added that his country is committed to the fight against Ukraine and that his administration will continue to support it for the long term. We must stand together today, tomorrow and in the days to come for years and decades to come, the president said. However, the scenario and the internal political struggle with a divided Congress on a downward slope in favor of Ukraine, could generate less strong actions and speeches from the President this year.

Biden knows the Democratic bloc’s position in Congress must come up with balanced proposals for economic aid to Kyiv if he doesn’t want to elicit rejection and antipathy from millions of American voters ahead of the 2024 election. Oksana Markarova, Ukraine’s ambassador to Washington, noting that Putin “has already lost Ukraine” and dismissing criticism that Kiev is getting too much aid, prospects for Biden’s 2024 presidential race will find pitfalls to overcome s he wishes to present his re-election as planned. In this sense, he sent a message through the press to the republican sectors that oppose his plan on Ukraine, stating that If they don’t want to help Ukraine, I understand that they don’t, but what will they do when Russia takes Ukraine, Belarus and decides to move towards Western Europe.

The serious problem of Biden’s intransigent position is rightly and precisely pointed out by the analyst Ron Aledo In one of his latest writings, Aledo is a retired CIA officer and CEO of the Miami Intelligence Agency in the field of risk reduction strategies and argues that the origin of the crisis that caused the war has was the insistence of the United States. and NATO with Ukraine, something that took place after the Cold War and to which was added the Obama administration’s contempt for the neutrality of the Ukrainian government, which has been made clear with the current administration of Joe Biden with the signing of the Military Accord and Political Pact that Ukraine signed with the Biden government in November 2021.

In conclusion, Aledo indicates that for Moscow: “this war must be won by Russia or it will not be won by anyone”. In Putin’s mind mutual destruction is assured and for the Kremlin this option is better than defeat. In other words, for Russia, mutual annihilation is better than the humiliation of being defeated. Just as Washington was ready for anything during the crisis of 1962, today Russia is ready for anything to win. Retirement or defeat is not an option for Putin.

The analyst points out that Biden’s globalist ideology and his fuzzy advisers endanger the lives of millions of American and European citizens and that with every weapon that Biden sends to Ukraine and every Russian soldier killed by these weapons, the president press more and more and more and leading the world to the danger of a mutual and assured destruction which can cause the death of more than 60% of the humans on our planet.