{"id":422209,"date":"2022-03-27T04:42:51","date_gmt":"2022-03-27T01:42:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/president-bidens-putin-speech-in-poland-is-a-catastrophe\/"},"modified":"2022-03-27T04:42:51","modified_gmt":"2022-03-27T01:42:51","slug":"president-bidens-putin-speech-in-poland-is-a-catastrophe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/president-bidens-putin-speech-in-poland-is-a-catastrophe\/","title":{"rendered":"#President Biden\u2019s Putin speech in Poland is a catastrophe"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3df41d3767e\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3df41d3767e\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/president-bidens-putin-speech-in-poland-is-a-catastrophe\/#%E2%80%9CPresident_Bidens_Putin_speech_in_Poland_is_a_catastrophe%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;President Biden\u2019s Putin speech in Poland is a catastrophe&#8221;<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-2' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/president-bidens-putin-speech-in-poland-is-a-catastrophe\/#Slip-up_on_world_stage\" >Slip-up on world stage\u00a0<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/president-bidens-putin-speech-in-poland-is-a-catastrophe\/#So_much_for_smooth_trip\" >So much for smooth trip\u00a0<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/president-bidens-putin-speech-in-poland-is-a-catastrophe\/#US_wants_real_leadership\" >US wants real leadership\u00a0<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/president-bidens-putin-speech-in-poland-is-a-catastrophe\/#Do-nothing_Blasio_vs_can-do_Eric\" >Do-nothing Blasio vs. can-do Eric<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-6\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/president-bidens-putin-speech-in-poland-is-a-catastrophe\/#Biden_shows_hes_friends_with_foe\" >Biden shows he\u2019s friends with foe<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CPresident_Bidens_Putin_speech_in_Poland_is_a_catastrophe%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;President Biden\u2019s Putin speech in Poland is a catastrophe&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<div class=\"inline-module inline-module--columnist inline-module--author\">\n<div class=\"inline-module--author__img\">\n            <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"76\" height=\"69\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/michael-goodwin1.png?w=76&amp;h=69&amp;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-nyp_columnist size-nyp_columnist\" alt=\"Michael Goodwin\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/michael-goodwin1.png 76w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/michael-goodwin1.png?w=38 38w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 76px) 100vw, 76px\"\/>       <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>He came, he saw, he confused.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Joe Biden\u2019s call-to-arms speech in Poland was long on soaring rhetoric about the virtues of democracy but woefully short on what more the West will do to help Ukraine defeat the Russian invasion. But by the time he got to the finish, most of that was forgotten.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>What mattered most and what will be remembered for a long time was a single line the president of the United States said about the president of Russia: \u201cFor God\u2019s sake, this man cannot remain in power.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In the context of the speech and the slaughter of Ukrainian civilians, it\u2019s impossible to understand that line as anything other than a call for regime change, a move that would dramatically raise the stakes with Russia at a time when Biden has been at pains to lower them.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It also raises the question of whether toppling Putin, a subject never before mentioned by the White House, is suddenly the new policy of the United States and NATO.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ah, no.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after the speech, a Biden aide told pool reporters that \u201cthe president\u2019s point was that Putin cannot be allowed to exercise power over his neighbors or the region. He was not discussing Putin\u2019s power in Russia, or regime change.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Slip-up_on_world_stage\"><\/span>Slip-up on world stage\u00a0<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/ruszsia-vlad.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during a news conference in Moscow.\" class=\"wp-image-21674315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/ruszsia-vlad.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/ruszsia-vlad.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/ruszsia-vlad.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during a <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a> conference in Moscow.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Yuri Kochetkov\/AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Unbelievable. So what Biden so clearly said is not at all what he meant.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>How in the hell can a line like that, so explicit that it could potentially lead to World War III, get into a presidential address if the plain meaning wasn\u2019t the intent? Even if the speech writers screwed up, didn\u2019t anybody in the White House, State Department or Pentagon read the final draft?\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignright\">\n    <\/aside>\n<p>Was it Russian disinformation, like Hunter Biden\u2019s emails? Or maybe the dramatic line just walked into the speech by itself?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Then again, maybe it wasn\u2019t in there at all. Maybe the idea just popped into Biden\u2019s addled brain and he added it on the fly.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>However the White House eventually explains itself, it won\u2019t be good enough. Not by a long shot.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This was at least the fourth time on the three-day <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trip<\/a> that something Biden said had to be walked back, cleaned up, clarified or refuted.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>No, there will not be food shortages in America, despite what he suggested.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>No, American troops in Poland are not headed to Ukraine, despite what Biden told them.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/biden-goodwin-5.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Crowds of people gathered in Warsaw to listen to President Biden's speech.\" class=\"wp-image-21674293\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/biden-goodwin-5.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/biden-goodwin-5.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/biden-goodwin-5.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Crowds of people gathered in Warsaw to listen to President Biden\u2019s speech.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Marcin Wziontek\/Shutterstock<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>No, the United States will not use chemical weapons, even if Russia does, despite the president seeming to threaten it would.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And now no, we\u2019re not pushing for regime change in Russia.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a helluva way to end a trip that is the most important of Biden\u2019s presidency. He\u2019s underwater with voters on almost every domestic issue, some by lopsided margins, and his party could be facing a midterm wipeout, which would largely neuter his term.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"So_much_for_smooth_trip\"><\/span>So much for smooth trip\u00a0<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Presidents in trouble at home often turn to foreign policy, where they command the stage alone and have far more power. In a sense, Biden had little choice because the televised brutality of the war in Ukraine overshadowed everything in Washington, including the confirmation hearings of his Supreme Court nominee, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, who would become the court\u2019s first black woman.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/biden-goodwin-4.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"President Joe Biden participates in an arrival ceremony with Polish President Andrzej Duda at the Presidential Palace.\" class=\"wp-image-21674292\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/biden-goodwin-4.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/biden-goodwin-4.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/biden-goodwin-4.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Biden arrived in Warsaw, Poland on March 26, 2022.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Marcin Wziontek\/Shutterstock<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>While the White House initially tried to keep the focus on the home front, it more recently embraced the opportunity to show Biden leading the free world against Russia. The trip to Brussels to meet with NATO leaders and then go to the edge of NATO\u2019s boundaries in Poland to meet with Ukrainian refugees seemed crafted to give the president a political boost at home.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n    <\/aside>\n<p>The photo ops were great: holding a refugee child, eating pizza with troops dispatched to Poland, huddling with the other members of the world\u2019s most powerful military alliance.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>All of it would come together Saturday, with National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan promising the speech would capture \u201cthe urgency of the challenge that lies ahead, what the conflict in Ukraine means for the world.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It had some success toward those goals, but even before the botched finish, the big picture Biden painted was hollow. He spoke as if his job was to persuade people at home and in Europe of the stakes involved, but they already know that.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The vast majority of American and European publics have seen the cruel Russian bombardments of hospitals, schools and apartment houses and don\u2019t need to be convinced Putin is the bad guy. They are beyond that and want their governments to boost the considerable military and humanitarian aid already given to the heroic Ukrainians.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps more than their leaders, the public believes Ukraine can actually win the war, and wants the defenders to have the tools to do it. It\u2019s what the Ukrainians want, too.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"US_wants_real_leadership\"><\/span>US wants real leadership\u00a0<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/biden-speech.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Biden called Putin a &quot;butcher&quot; during his speech in Poland. \" class=\"wp-image-21674444\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/biden-speech.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/biden-speech.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/biden-speech.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Biden called Putin a \u201cbutcher\u201d during his trip in Poland. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP Photo\/Evan Vucci<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>As for Biden, a recent Fox poll showed that by a whopping 63-32% margin, Americans think the US should be doing more to help defeat Russia.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>His trip was supposed to answer that demand and be a clarion call for a united front. Instead, he offered another drip-drip-drip assistance package that won\u2019t change the facts on the ground now or maybe ever.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Predictably, it was all wr<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ed in his usual cringe-worthy incoherence.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Given the stakes, an uncertain trumpet is worse than ineffective, it is dangerous.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>To Putin, the garbled message means he has nothing new to worry about.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Do-nothing_Blasio_vs_can-do_Eric\"><\/span>Do-nothing Blasio vs. can-do Eric<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Say what you will about Eric Adams, but he\u2019s not running from the city\u2019s biggest problems.<\/p>\n<p>On top of his vow to tackle violent crime and get the homeless off the subways, the new mayor says he will remove homeless encampments scattered around the city.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re going to rid the encampments off our street and we\u2019re going to place people in healthy living conditions with wraparound services,\u201d he told the New York Times. As to when it would happen, he added, \u201cI\u2019m looking to do it within a two weeks\u2019 period.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Adams\u2019 willingness to take on the problems at the heart of New York\u2019s sharp decline marks a reversal from his awful predecessor. Bill de Blasio earned the dishonor of being regarded as the Worst Mayor Ever precisely because he did nothing about either crime or homeless.<\/p>\n<p>Actually, that\u2019s not quite accurate. His policies made those problems worse.<\/p>\n<p>Although Adams has yet to prove he can deliver results as big as the problems, his can-do approach has done more good for New York in three months than Mayor Putz did in eight years.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Biden_shows_hes_friends_with_foe\"><\/span>Biden shows he\u2019s friends with foe<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Reader Carole Campolo offers a reminder of another presidential nightmare. She writes: \u201cJoe Biden\u2019s irrational decision to cede authority to the Butcher of Ukraine to negotiate a nuclear deal with the Iranian terrorist regime shows that in his administration the unthinkable is routine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDon\u2019t be surprised if next week\u2019s headline is: \u2018Biden nominates Vladimir Putin for the Nobel Peace Prize, for Putin\u2019s execution of the US-Iranian Deal.\u2019 \u201d\n                        <\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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