Tensions between the U.S. and Russia flickered this week after President Joe Biden referred to Russian President Vladimir Putin as a “killer” during an ABC News interview.
Responding to the comment, Putin invited his American counterpart to a live and online “discussion.” Predictably, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki has stated that no such meeting is planned, appearing to wave the entire thing off as irrelevant.
With the Trump boogeyman narrative effectively a void with Biden in the White House, the media seems unsure of what to do with its narrative on Russia. For four straight years, the mantra was that Donald Trump was a puppet of the Russian government, and that the Kremlin actively worked to sway the election in Trump’s favor in 2016 and again in 2020. To date, no journalist has presented any tangible proof of this, but it remains a general assumption in the establishment press.
Naturally, our first instinct might be to call Biden out, and push him to accept Putin’s challenge. We should really hold off on that, as satisfying as it might be to watch the Placeholder-in-Chief get thrashed around for our amusement. But this is bigger than that.
As former President Donald Trump understood, Russia is indeed a geopolitical adversary, and showing weakness to an enemy is never the way to go. That is what we would be doing by throwing Biden at Putin. It may benefit Republicans politically here at home, but it would likely send a very different message to other countries on a macro level.
All that said, this is a wake up call for Americans. The White House is occupied by a president that is out to lunch, and that has serious geopolitical consequences. America’s adversaries are sensing weakness.
Here is Newsmax TV’s Rob Schmitt with more.
