Putin’s Killer Response
By Finian Cunningham
March 22, 2021 "Information
Clearing House" -
- "Sputnik"
- US President Joe Biden’s
attempted slander against Russian leader
Vladimir Putin – calling him a “killer” –
was not only disgraceful. It was also very
stupid.
Such foul-mouth conduct betrays the
American leader as having no class
whatsoever. It demeans oneself and it
tarnishes the supposed prestige of his
office as the world’s self-declared most
powerful man.
But the verbal jab also set up Biden for
a swift body slam by the judo master Putin.
The Russian president gave a calm and
magnanimous response to the American
counterpart’s comment in an ABC News
interview last week in which Biden agreed to
a (ludicrous) characterization of Putin as a
“killer”. In reply, Putin said he sincerely
wished
Biden “good health”.
Such a charitable response not only
highlights the American president’s
crudeness and mean spirit. It gives the
Russian leader the moral high ground. The
whole world, including many Americans, were
able to compare the two men and see right
away which one has the superior calibre of
culture and intellect.
Secondly, without resorting to
vulgar vocabulary, Putin was able to turn
the tables on Biden by exposing him and many
of his predecessors as the real killers. By
saying the remark was a form of projection
and a case of looking in the mirror at
oneself, Putin was able to review the entire
sordid, genocidal history of the United
States, including the destruction of native
people and the dropping of atomic bombs on
Japan. That vile legacy of mass violence and
state terrorism includes Joe Biden who as a
senator and former vice president has been
instrumental in launching numerous criminal
wars which have resulted in millions of
people being killed and whole nations
demolished. Just last month, too, Biden
ordered deadly
airstrikes on Syria
– his first act of murder as president only
four weeks after his inauguration. Biden
accusing others of being a killer is
grotesque.
But it was Putin’s offer of a live and public
videoconference with Biden that was perhaps what
made his response such a winning slam.
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Despite the slanderous jibe, Putin said he was
immediately ready to discuss a range of issues with
the US president, and that the conversation could be
televised for the public. He proposed holding the
discussion this week.
“Since Biden’s words were quite
unprecedented, unprecedented formats can’t be
excluded,” explained Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov.
“President Putin proposed to discuss the situation
openly because it would be interesting for the
people of both countries.”
Indeed interesting, to say the least. Now it
turns out that Biden has rejected the offer of
public debate with Putin, according to Russia’s
foreign ministry.
Thus, the American president has made himself
look feeble. He’s running scared. It’s one thing to
act the tough guy in a controlled US media
interview, but why not say your piece to Putin’s
face? It shows that Biden is all bluster and
blather, speaking out of order without any evidence
to back up.
That’s because Biden’s defamation of the
Russian president is baseless. It’s just the usual
flimsy falsehoods spoken with the usual American
arrogance and hypocrisy. Biden knows that if he was
debating Putin in public the latter would destroy
him verbally and intellectually. Putin’s command of
history and facts – without the aid of a
teleprompter – would make Biden look like the stupid
thug he is.
Moreover, in
rejecting Putin’s challenge
to hold a public discussion Biden brings
unfavourable attention to his own bumbling image and
growing questions over this president’s mental
health. More people will be wondering if the
78-year-old man in the White House is really up for
the job. This goes beyond his notorious habit of
mangling words and “screwing up” – as Barack Obama
once lamented about his former vice president.
Since becoming the 46th president, Biden’s public
appearances and utterances have fueled more
questions about the apparent deterioration in his
cognitive health. He doesn’t take questions from
reporters, seems to be avoiding press conferences,
forgets names of his own cabinet members and last
week lost his footing while boarding an aircraft.
The barnstorming Biden made a big mistake when he
tried to bad-mouth Putin. In trying to spar with the
Russian leader he ended up punching himself in the
head by giving Putin the opportunity for a knock-out
response.
