Reference News Network reported on March 5 that
the British "Guardian" website published an article titled "Outdated and outdated: Biden's global democratic jihad is doomed to fail" on February 26. The author is Simon Tisdall.
The full text is excerpted as follows:
This has been a big week for US President Joe Biden.
His energetic performances in Kiev and Warsaw brought back memories of his campaign.
The Russian media ridiculed that the US president is warming up for his re-election campaign in 2024.
However, there was another reason for his excitement last week.
Biden portrayed himself as the contemporary "Lionheart King" (the medieval King Richard I of England was known as the "Lionheart King" because of his bravery and skill in war-note to this newspaper), and he is leading what he calls "the test of the times" against A new crusade for "bad guys."
He was in high spirits.
He thought he and the cause of democracy would win handily.
Unfortunately, he was wrong.
The so-called "bad guy", Biden refers to Russian leader Vladimir Putin.
But Biden is also rhetorically targeting anyone around the world who challenges the Western model of democracy.
Biden’s division of the world into “for us or against us” evoked disturbing reminiscences of Putin and then-President George W. Bush circa 2001.
The message that it is America's destiny to defend and promote freedom and democracy everywhere is generally popular with American voters.
At least once, during the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union.
It was during this period that Biden's worldview was formed.
Not anymore.
For all the aggressiveness of Putin's redentarianism, that era is over.
Today's fragmented world is multipolar and complex from a geopolitical perspective.
A generation of politicians like Biden would automatically advocate for American global leadership.
But after Afghanistan and Iraq, many Americans asked why the United States should continue to bear the burden and responsibility of being a global leader.
The next president (whether Democrat or Republican) is likely to take a restrained, less expansive view.
If that is the case, then the bold promises Biden made in Warsaw may only be valid during his own administration.
The New York Times of the United States pointed out: "The war in Ukraine is about the principles of power and territorial sovereignty, and about the global order (led by the United States) designed by the West... Whether it can withstand new challenges from Moscow and Beijing. But this is increasingly becoming two A contest between aging Cold Warriors (a 70-year-old Putin, the other a just-turned-80-year-old Biden)."
Even assuming Biden is healthy enough to fight, many voters still think he should throw in the towel.
Not because they don't like Biden (though many do), but because they think he's just too old.
If re-elected, Biden will be 86 years old by the end of his second term.
Friends pointed out that Biden's 2020 campaign will mainly be fought behind closed doors.
He's stuck in his basement in Delaware because of COVID-19 restrictions.
Next year's heavyweight campaign will be far more physically taxing.
In a recent poll, 78 percent of Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents approve of Biden's performance, but 58 percent of respondents want to see new faces next year.
Analyst Ezra Klein said Biden's ability to limit Republican gains in the November 2022 midterm elections and also defeat extremists of the pro-Trump MAGA ("Make America Great Again") movement is a big challenge. Surprise everyone.
Maybe he can do it again in 2024.
He also managed to step out of the shadow of former President Barack Obama, for whom he served as his deputy for eight years.
Yet while at home Biden may have shed his past, abroad he has not.
Biden's nuclear diplomacy with Iran has failed.
Israel-Palestine is a policy vacuum where bad things happen.
He decided that the US withdrawal from Afghanistan was a shameful disaster.
As for the struggle of all that he sees as the most impactful—the fight for global freedoms, laws, and values—Biden is losing across the board.
But he declared in Warsaw: "The world's democracies are getting stronger."
Is it really?
The whole idea of the West successfully waging a modern, universal democratic jihad, the Second Cold War, is deaf to history, blind to change, and sneaky neo-imperialism.
Rather, it was a doomed proposal.
Biden's gaudy but outdated "us and them" rhetoric is a geopolitical dead end.
The world has moved on.
(Refer to News Network)