Joe Biden Starts Levying Mindless Threats Against Russia After Getting Thoroughly Outmaneuvered – Opinion

Russia is continuing to build an invasion force on its border with Ukraine, and what happens next is anyone’s guess. While tensions are being tried to be downplayed by the Ukrainians, the Biden administration is promoting the imminence war since weeks.

Logistically, it does seem like Russia is doing more than rattling its saber, and that’s leaving Biden in a very awkward position. How will the United States respond if Vladimir Putin actually pulls the trigger? How will the United States react? What will Europe do?

Biden answered that question today, insisting that the U.S. would end Nordstream 2, a Russia-to-Germany pipeline, as a central part of the diplomatic negotiations.

BIDEN – “There won’t be a Nord Stream 2 anymore.” It will be ended.

REPORTER – “How do you achieve that?” Because Germany has control over the project and its control,

BIDEN: I promise that we will be able do it. pic.twitter.com/xczO8eqhcS

— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) February 7, 2022

That’s a very good-sounding threat for the sycophants, but to be frank, such mindless bluster is likely unhelpful at this point. It was 2021 at the earliest, when Biden became president. He then gave Putin an enormous gift: he lifted all the Trump-era sanctions. You don’t hand a despot everything they were demanding with no concessions and then think you can use the threat of taking it away late as leverage. That’s especially true when the United States doesn’t even have the ability to follow through on Biden’s threat.

Let’s recall that the White House’s initial excuse for lifting sanctions on the pipeline and its parent company was that it was essentially complete. While it is possible to interpret this line as true or false, Biden and his staff insist that Nordstream 2’s prior progress made any opposition non-sensible and ineffective.

Yet, here we are almost a year later, and now Biden wants to pretend like he’s got a killswitch ready and waiting? He doesn’t, and it’s obvious he doesn’t, otherwise we wouldn’t be where we are right now. If any actual leverage existed over Nordstream 2 at this point, it would have been exercised before the first 50,000 men made it to Ukraine’s border.

We are seeing a president completely outmanoeuvred. You can blame that on Biden’s senility or the general incapability he’s shown throughout his career. Putin, whatever the reason may be has been able to keep Russia safe from any potential retaliation over the past year.

Couple that with NATO’s weakness and Germany’s outright hostility, and the United States is left with few options. Once Biden idiotically green-lit Nordstream 2, major parts of Europe were effectively delivered into Putin’s hands. Nuclear plants have already been shuttered, and the “green-energy” revolution has meant more and more reliance on natural gas and oil coming from Russia. That was Putin’s masterstroke. Putin has seized power in Europe, without firing a gun. This is all thanks to Biden.

Now, even if Putin doesn’t invade Ukraine, he’s already gotten what he wants. Nordstream 2 is safe, his control over Europe is solidified, and he’s securing military concessions from NATO. In the end, Russia comes out much stronger while the United States continues to look weak and pathetic under Biden’s complete lack of leadership.

Things won’t stop there, either. China is eager to make a move on Taiwan, and it’s just a matter of time at this point before that happens. With Biden being schooled by Putin, there’s no doubt Xi Jinping is ready to extract his pound of flesh as well. The consequences of elections are evident right now.