That friendly fist bump with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman might not have been such a defining moment — had Biden not first set himself up.

During the 2020 campaign, Biden said that when he encounters the prince, he would treat him like the “pariah” he was for having authorized the murder and dismemberment of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi.

As for Biden’s depiction of how he confronted MBS behind closed doors, the Saudis dispute his rendition, and many of his own countrymen disbelieve Biden.

Why? Because Joe Biden has a history of painting himself as heroic in personal encounters where few contemporaries recall him that way.

The classic is the story Biden has often told of confronting, as a pool security guard in a Black neighborhood, a gang leader named Corn Pop, whom Biden ordered out of the pool for breaking the rules.

When Biden left for the day, Corn Pop was waiting for him, with three gang members, and holding a straight razor. Biden, holding a six-foot length of chain, he says, faced him down, and Corn Pop backed off.

Whatever the reality of that event, 60 years ago, Biden has issued, in his 18 months in office, a remarkable number of warnings and threats as to what he would do as commander in chief if challenged, thereby putting his own and his country’s credibility on the line.

Asked, before his trip to the Middle East, if he would use force to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons, Biden replied, “If that was the last resort, yes.”

During the trip, the U.S. and Israel signed a joint pledge to deny nuclear arms to Iran. We are now committed.

Given that the U.S. has fought in five wars in the Middle East in this century — Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Yemen — one would think this country would be wary of committing itself to a new war with one of the largest powers in the region.

When Russian President Vladimir Putin built up forces outside Ukraine and asked repeatedly for assurances that Ukraine would not be brought into NATO, an alliance aimed at Russia, the Biden administration refused.

The February invasion followed, and among Biden’s subsequent threats, his call for the removal of Putin was virtually declared a war aim.
“For God’s sake, this man cannot remain in power,” thundered Biden in Poland, a declaration that was hastily walked back by White House staff.

In addition to the weaponry we were shipping to Ukraine — long-range artillery and rockets — Biden announced at the NATO summit in Madrid that the U.S. would be strengthening its military presence in Europe.

The permanent headquarters of the U.S. Army’s V Corps is to be moved to Poland. Two additional F-35 fighter jet squadrons are to be moved to the U.K. More air defense capabilities are to be moved into Germany and Italy. Rotational deployments of U.S. troops to the Baltic region are to be increased. U.S. troops are to be moved into Romania.

U.S. forces in Europe are to be increased from about 60,000 to 100,000, and Biden has vowed that Putin’s invasion “will not end with a Russian defeat of Ukraine in Ukraine.”

But how Biden guarantees that the Russian invasion will be rolled back, if Putin rolls up the Donbas, is unexplained.

Since the Russia-Ukraine war began, Biden has also given Article 5 war guarantees to Sweden and Finland by promising to bring them into NATO.

From the Arctic to the Black Sea and from Iceland to Estonia, there are now 30 European nations we are obligated to defend.

In 2021, Biden indicated that the U.S.-Philippines mutual security treaty dating to the 1950s meant the U.S. would come to Manila’s defense should it attempt to reclaim rocks and reefs in the South China Sea, also claimed and now occupied by Chinese military forces.

The U.S. war guarantees in our treaty with Japan extend to the Senkaku Islands, also claimed by China, according to the Biden White House.

In May, in Tokyo, Biden gave a flat “yes” to a reporter’s question as to whether he is willing to “get involved militarily to defend Taiwan.”
“That’s the commitment we made,” the president said.

Not so. The U.S. scrapped its formal commitment to defend Taiwan in 1979, replacing a treaty of alliance with the Taiwan Relations Act, which obligates the U.S. to help equip Taiwan to defend itself.

Again, White House staff sought to walk back Biden’s declaration that we would fight for Taiwan, as U.S. policy since Richard Nixon’s trip to Beijing is that Taiwan “is a part of China.”

We have written dozens of blank checks to nations not only in Europe but also in the Middle East and Asia to come and fight to defend their borders.

Yet, the border most critical to us, the U.S.-Mexican border, is being overrun by a quarter of a million migrants every month, with the worst of them bringing in the fentanyl that killed 100,000 of America’s young last year.

And bellicose Joe has done next to nothing about it.

Patrick J. Buchanan is the author of “Nixon’s White House Wars: The Battles That Made and Broke a President and Divided America Forever.” To find out more about Patrick Buchanan and read features by other Creators writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators website at www.creators.com.
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Cynthia Finch
1 year ago

Biden isn’t fit to be President. He has put our country last and the world see us as weak. We have to get President Trump back in office.

Purple Olive
1 year ago
Reply to  Cynthia Finch

CYNTHIA, DITTO TO EVERYTHING YOU’VE WRITTEN!!!

1 year ago
Reply to  Cynthia Finch

A big, screaming AMEN to that, Cynthia!!

Richard Allen Hennessy
1 year ago

Biden is arrogant due to his many years of privilege in the Senate, where he had many perks and didn’t have to live like an ordinary citizen. He’s not used to being challenged and is worse because he is a Democrat and could rely on a friendly and biased media to protect him.

Judith
1 year ago

We have two unqualified people in office, Joe and Kamala. He, in reality, is a criminal with dementia. She shows her ignorance every time she opens her mouth and it says something about her personality that most of her staff are quitting.

Dan
1 year ago
Reply to  Judith

Bidens ENTIRE administration is UNQUALIFIED. right down to the last roach

Don
1 year ago
Reply to  Dan

That includes all other departments including the Pentagon.

Sammy knows the hypocrites
1 year ago
Reply to  Judith

MORE than just those 2 morons.
If the media loves them and if young woke white Americans love them, then you know they are morons!!

1 year ago
Reply to  Judith

If you believe in God’s WORD, then you must know, And He (God) changeth the times and the seasons: He removeth kings, and setteth up kings: He giveth wisdom unto the wise, and knowledge to them that know understanding (Daniel 2:21).
God gave us Donald J. Trump after the eight disastrous years with the worse of all presidents, BH Obama.
God has had set times for all major events throughout man’s history to bring His plans to fruition… In the Bible we are told God gives wicked leaders the people deserve, and He gives good leaders also to watch the actions of the people. So, what did this government and people do when given the best president in more than 70 years, they tried to impeach Pres. Trump twice with drummed up charges, they became great liars, cheaters, thieves and even killers; thus, God allowed Biden to steal the Oval Office back for what I believe was for only one particular reason, and that is to bring this Age of God’s grace to an end.
There is not going to be a Maga movement, nor will there be another presidential election, and I would be extremely surprised if there is even an election this November.
God has been sending His warnings that heathen nations will destroy the United States… God will save the born-again Christians, but He will not save sure a rebellious nation and people who has slaughtered 70 million of the most innocent of all life in the womb of their mothers, nor a those that have embraced every sexual sin known, and those that have rejected our LORD and Savior, Jesus Christ.

vickie
1 year ago

Dementia patients are sometimes surly, unreasonable, angry and irrational. Even though PedoJoe has been all those things his entire life, it’s worsened by his mental and physical decline.

1 year ago

The temperament, the angry outbursts, and frequent embellished stories about what a man he was — all signs of dementia/Alzheimers. I have witnessed it firsthand, and while it made me very sad when exhibited by those I’ve known personally, I just have a difficult time mustering any sympathy for Biden. His non-doctor wife and puppeteers should be charged with elder abuse for allowing him to make such a fool out of himself while the world watches!!

Dan
1 year ago
Reply to  CashGirl

And nobody does anything about it.
If it were Trump, they’d be having mad cow outbreaks.

Dan
1 year ago

Arrogance and stupidity. Same quality as all globalist dumbocraps

Sammy knows the hypocrites
1 year ago

Biden is just another white guy who, if he ever came up on sone white guy getting the poop beat out of him by some black guy, he would turn the other way and get the heck out of there as fast as he could.

Lwasylb
1 year ago

Dementia

Don
1 year ago
Reply to  Lwasylb

I’d agree but that indicates he’s always been demented.

Murph Meister
1 year ago

Why is Joe this way while totally misdeploying our forces and weakening our military with ridiculous woke rules and vaccine mandates while allowing a massive invasion of our southern border and weakening our energy reserves? Why? Because he is a traitor.

Don
1 year ago

He’s a punk who thinks he’s important and always has been.

ronald stewart
1 year ago

look biden was stuoid and incompetent when he got to DC 50 yrs ago he has always been corrupt its just on a bigger scale noe as VP and now POTUS. his dementia is just making it worse