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„Unlike Croatian leader Radić, Biden lacked the foresight to tell Zelenskyy and Netanyahu at a crucial moment, “Don’t rush in like geese in the fog!”

Dr Sanja Vujačić, November 2, 2024, Interview for Glas Slavonije – Croatia:

–  Joe Biden’s time in the White House is coming to an end. How would you evaluate his mandate? What will the U.S. and the world remember him for? What were his good decisions, and what were the bad decisions he made in the past four years, which were marked by the war in Ukraine and the war in the Middle East? What can the world expect if his successor, Harris, wins?

The first historical image of Biden’s presidency is, to put it mildly, the hasty withdrawal from Afghanistan and its handover to the Taliban, which generated a significant wave of emigration to Europe: 1.6 million immigrants.

The second image in future history textbooks will be the inseparable, ethical was already formed under the Obama administration, to which Kamala Harris also belongs. In this context, Biden supported Zelenskyy in his intention to join NATO and the European Union, contrary to the obligations that Ukraine assumed during the peaceful dissolution of the USSR. This support allowed for the delivery and deployment of NATO weapons near Russia’s borders, a nuclear power that these two Western entities view with hostility. This backdrop led to the start of the “Russian special operation.” The outcome has been approximately ten million Ukrainians fleeing to other parts of Europe in fear of war-related casualties, along with an unknown number of Ukrainian fighters who have not returned from the battlefield. Even if these casualty figures were publicly available, they would say less about the scale of the disaster than the current conditions of mobilization in Ukraine, which increasingly resemble raids to “locate, identify, arrest, and transfer” new contingents of cannon fodder to the front. Thus, Biden’s era will be remembered as the American president’s war against Putin “to the last Ukrainian.”

The third image of Joe Biden that will remain in history textbooks is the “locking down of the Anglophone community” in fear of the spread of the “virus called declinism.” Following the principle of “help yourself and God will help you,” Anglophones rallied together and first “locked themselves” into the intelligence organization Five Eyes, which does not share all information with non-Anglophone allies. Subsequently, although NATO allies follow him unquestioningly in all his intelligence-military adventures, Biden established a military version of a purely Anglophone intelligence organization, a sort of “NATO-bis military formation” known as AUKUS (a tripartite agreement on military cooperation between Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States). Even attempts to include allies like France and Germany—who openly supported Biden’s rise to power—ended in failure. Anglo-Americans do not trust even their closest allies when it comes to preserving their hegemony in the world, especially regarding the strategy to win in the foreseeable U.S.-China conflict in the new economic center of the world: the Indo-Pacific.

The fourth image that history textbooks will associate with Biden is the humanitarian and ecological disaster in Gaza, produced by allied bombs, logistics, and intelligence support serving the Anglo-American extended hand in the Middle East—Israel’s proxy. Under the pretext of an impossible mission to exterminate 3,000 members of Hamas responsible for the bloody attack on Israel on October 7, and without a plan for Gaza without Hamas, this Palestinian territory has been completely razed to the ground. Once the “largest open-air prison” for 2.1 million Palestinians—the indigenous people of the Middle East—it has now turned into the “largest open-air morgue.” Under the pretext of exterminating the Lebanese political party Hezbollah and the paramilitary group of the same name hostile to Israel, the destruction of Lebanese territories is also underway. It is noted that the strengthening of the Shiite Hezbollah paramilitary was more a result of the official Lebanese army’s inability—intentionally under-equipped by the West compared to Israel—to defend the country from aggressive neighbors: Israel and Syria. This has brought the controversies of the West, which Russia loudly denounces and the rest of the world quietly observes, to a climax in the framework of its strategy of The West vs. the Rest.

The West communicates to the world, without any complexes, that the only aggressors are those who did not receive the green light from Washington (the Russians). It seems that Washington, by deciding who will and who will not receive its bombs, also determines who has the right to engage in military actions whose CO2 production has the most significant impact on climate warming. According to a study from January 24, 2024, in just the first two months of the war, Israeli bombings using Western munitions caused the emission of over 280,000 tons of CO₂ equivalent, a figure greater than the annual emissions of 20 countries and territories; it is indicated that the carbon footprint of Gaza’s reconstruction could be 100 times larger. So much for Biden as a leader in the fight against climate warming, hurricanes, floods, etc.

In short, Biden will not leave behind the legacy of a statesman who marked his era with prudence, like the Croatian leader Stjepan Radić. Unlike Radić, Biden lacked the foresight to tell Zelenskyy and Netanyahu at a crucial moment, “Don’t rush in like geese in the fog!” He believed he had mastered Sun Tzu’s art of war, thinking he could defeat adversaries like Putin and rival Xi Jinping without direct confrontation. However, he irresponsibly supported the Ukrainian incursion into Russian territory, ultimately putting his instructors and spies at bases on the Russian border face-to-face with fighters from an Asian nuclear power—North Korea. And those fighters surely did not arrive there without Chinese consent. On one hand, Biden’s reckless actions have undermined the doctrine of nuclear deterrence. This is detrimental for Western allies, as it implies that Russia could also engage in a conventional war against nuclear powers. For instance, on the territory of the only such European power—France—whose president supported Biden’s doctrine that nuclear weapons are no longer a means of deterrence. On the other hand, Biden’s most significant legacy is undoubtedly a world on the brink of World War III.

A victory for Kamala Harris in the U.S. presidential elections would carry forward Biden’s legacy.