Let’s glance back at that remarkable Politico article from Wednesday that quoted high ranking Ukrainian officers. In the part I quoted for you, the officer essentially forecast that the Russians could win not in ten years, but as soon as this summer:
Summer? Like, July? Or August? In other words, just before the elections?
Coincidentally this week, urgent calls ensued to both Russia and China.
The Hill reported the first urgent call in a story mind-numbingly headlined, “Biden holds call with China’s Xi ahead of Japan, Philippines meetings.” The first thing to note is Biden is not apparently big on phone calls. According to the Hill, the last time the two leaders spoke by phone was in July 2022.
Think about that. Biden hasn’t called Xi in nearly two years. Hilariously, the Hill quoted a senior administration official who pathetically explained, “Both President Biden and President Xi agreed to try to pick up the phone a bit more, use that tool as a means of responsibly managing the relationship, of being in closer touch at the leader level on a more regular basis.”
Talking to the president of China is Biden’s job.
Tellingly, neither the Hill article, nor the official summary of the 90-minute call mentioned Ukraine. Instead the U.S. reports focusing on a giant menu of distracting non-emergencies like artificial intelligence, fentanyl, trade, TikTok, and Taiwan. But the Chinese issued their own official summary, and guess what?
According to the Wall Street Journal— based on the Chinese call summary — the call was really about Biden threatening China to stop helping Russia in Ukraine:
So right around the same time Politico got intel direct from high-ranking Ukrainian military officials expecting the Russian offensive this summer — the worst possible political time for Biden — intel presumably shared with the White House — Biden suddenly decided to ring up President Xi and tell the Chinese leader to back off.
The WSJ noted, “the Biden administration is preparing to raise some Trump-era tariffs on Chinese goods, including electric vehicles.” So, again, like with the Houthis, Biden is embarrassingly falling back to Trump’s China policies, which Biden had promptly reversed after getting hold of the office.
But that wasn’t all. Enter the French.
The next day after Joe’s call to President Xi, the French called the Russians — also for the first time in years. France24 ran the story Wednesday with a remarkably similar-sounding headline:
According to French reports, the call was merely to convey the country’s sympathies over the recent Moscow terror attack. But the official Russian report described the call quite differently. The Russian report said the French had called “urgently.” And one of the topics discussed was a peace dialog for Ukraine:
Like Biden’s official report about the Xi call, the French official report completely failed to mention the Ukraine discussion. And in another astounding coincidence, on Tuesday U.S. neocon mastermind Secretary of State Anthony Blinken happened to be in France, right before this call.
Now, we don’t know anything beyond the scraps I’ve reported. So we can only guess at the “plan,” if there is a plan. But, especially combined with the Houthi debacle, Biden’s Ukraine “strategy” looks to everyone watching like something totally disorganized, reactive, and desperate.
Biden doesn’t talk to President Putin. He barely talks to President Xi. Could the explanation really be that Biden isn’t cognitively capable of those kinds of conversations anymore?
The sad truth is that even if the package is approved by the U.S. Congress, a massive resupply may not be enough to prevent a major battlefield upset. Essentially, everything now depends on where Russia will decide to target its strength in an offensive that’s expected to launch this summer.
Summer? Like, July? Or August? In other words, just before the elections?
Coincidentally this week, urgent calls ensued to both Russia and China.
The Hill reported the first urgent call in a story mind-numbingly headlined, “Biden holds call with China’s Xi ahead of Japan, Philippines meetings.” The first thing to note is Biden is not apparently big on phone calls. According to the Hill, the last time the two leaders spoke by phone was in July 2022.
Think about that. Biden hasn’t called Xi in nearly two years. Hilariously, the Hill quoted a senior administration official who pathetically explained, “Both President Biden and President Xi agreed to try to pick up the phone a bit more, use that tool as a means of responsibly managing the relationship, of being in closer touch at the leader level on a more regular basis.”
Talking to the president of China is Biden’s job.
Tellingly, neither the Hill article, nor the official summary of the 90-minute call mentioned Ukraine. Instead the U.S. reports focusing on a giant menu of distracting non-emergencies like artificial intelligence, fentanyl, trade, TikTok, and Taiwan. But the Chinese issued their own official summary, and guess what?
According to the Wall Street Journal— based on the Chinese call summary — the call was really about Biden threatening China to stop helping Russia in Ukraine:
So right around the same time Politico got intel direct from high-ranking Ukrainian military officials expecting the Russian offensive this summer — the worst possible political time for Biden — intel presumably shared with the White House — Biden suddenly decided to ring up President Xi and tell the Chinese leader to back off.
The WSJ noted, “the Biden administration is preparing to raise some Trump-era tariffs on Chinese goods, including electric vehicles.” So, again, like with the Houthis, Biden is embarrassingly falling back to Trump’s China policies, which Biden had promptly reversed after getting hold of the office.
But that wasn’t all. Enter the French.
The next day after Joe’s call to President Xi, the French called the Russians — also for the first time in years. France24 ran the story Wednesday with a remarkably similar-sounding headline:
According to French reports, the call was merely to convey the country’s sympathies over the recent Moscow terror attack. But the official Russian report described the call quite differently. The Russian report said the French had called “urgently.” And one of the topics discussed was a peace dialog for Ukraine:
Like Biden’s official report about the Xi call, the French official report completely failed to mention the Ukraine discussion. And in another astounding coincidence, on Tuesday U.S. neocon mastermind Secretary of State Anthony Blinken happened to be in France, right before this call.
Now, we don’t know anything beyond the scraps I’ve reported. So we can only guess at the “plan,” if there is a plan. But, especially combined with the Houthi debacle, Biden’s Ukraine “strategy” looks to everyone watching like something totally disorganized, reactive, and desperate.
Biden doesn’t talk to President Putin. He barely talks to President Xi. Could the explanation really be that Biden isn’t cognitively capable of those kinds of conversations anymore?
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