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While Biden’s critics are focusing on what appears to be some major cognitive issues for the president, very few of them, if any, have focused on the following statement in his interview with George Stephanopoulos: “I’m running the world.”
Running the world? Sounds pretty delusional to me. But apparently not to the mainstream press or Biden’s statist critics. To them, the notion that a president “runs the world” is an normal as the notion that the president “runs the economy.”
It is this type of delusional mindset that comes with a worldwide military empire. The ruler in an empire inevitably convinces himself that he is “running the world.”
After all, he wields the power to bomb, invade, and aggress against any country in the world. He has the power to terminate U.S. foreign aid to any country that is dependent on it. He has the power to dictate to foreign officials what they can and cannot do. If they refuse to follow orders, he can destroy them with economic sanctions and embargoes. He can also assassinate anyone he wants.
That’s the reason that Biden is convinced that he is “running the world.” In his mind, he’s the world’s emperor and all the people in the world are his subjects.
Woe to those nations who have rulers who refuse to be subjects of the empire. They have to be dealt with. They need to be put down.
Biden brought up a perfect example of this in his interview with Stephanopoulos: Vladimir Putin. As everyone knows, Putin refused to become a loyal lapdog of the U.S. Empire. So, as Biden put it in his interview with Stephanopoulos, “I’m takin’ on Putin.”
How has Biden done that? Through what he termed “the expansion of NATO.” He stated, “I’m the guy that put NATO together, the future. No one thought I could expand it. I’m the guy that shut Putin down. No one thought could happen.”
What’s he’s referring to is that by expanding NATO eastward by absorbing former members of the Warsaw Pact and moving toward Russia’s borders with the threat to absorb Ukraine into NATO, the U.S. was able to give Russia another “Vietnam” or another “Afghanistan” by provoking Russian into invading Ukraine. Thus, the idea was to have tens of thousands of Russian soldiers killed, which would cause an uprising in Russia that would oust Putin from power and replace him with a pro-U.S. stooge. At the same time, of course, these U.S. acts of aggression against Russia have gotten the United States ever closer to the prospect of an accidental nuclear war.
But, hey, we should at least give Biden credit: At least he openly admits, even if he doesn’t realize it, that it was the U.S. government that brought on the crisis in Ukraine.
But there is something else that is worth noting about Biden’s mindset. He fails to recognize that it was not he who implemented the NATO plan to “degrade” Russia and effect regime-change in Russia. It was the U.S. national-security establishment that did that because, as Tufts’ law professor Michael J. Glennon documents in his excellent book National Security and Double Government, it is the national-security establishment that is actually in charge of the U.S. government. Biden is only the figurehead, one that they permit to take credit for what they have done to Putin and Russia with their NATO machinations, only Biden just doesn’t realize it.
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