Biden V. Putin

February 22, 2023 Glen Turpening

President Biden is reinforcing American commitment to Ukraine while Putin casts America as the big threat. (The Hill)

Biden, fresh from a bold appearance in war-torn Kyiv, spoke in Warsaw to restate Western backing for Ukraine and to predict that Moscow’s invasion, now nearly a year old, is destined for failure. Hours earlier, Putin addressed Russian parliamentary and military leaders in a cavernous, flag-filled hall to present a nationalist narrative that portrays the U.S. and NATO as aggressors and threats to Russia’s security. Putin on Tuesday suspended the New START nuclear arms treaty with the United States, forcing both nations into a more volatile era of engagement on weapons of mass destruction. The threat of a nuclear conflict, which Putin has repeatedly raised in the past year, is gauged by analysts to be low. But the latest nuclear saber-rattling from the Kremlin is another sign that Putin is all-in to capture Ukrainian territory, outmaneuver the West and achieve what he sees as reclamation of Russia’s past glories (The Hill).

BY ALEXIS SIMENDINGER AND KRISTINA KARISCH , 'The Hill'

President Biden and Vladimir Putin are at the forefront of a rapidly changing World that is upending protocols and forging new alliances while dissolving others. The United States and China are the 2 World superpowers, although sidelined in Russia’s Ukraine War, are playing integral rolls in the shaping the outcome of the conflict. Newly frosty relations between America and China are exponentially complicating American foreign policy and our relations with the non- Western World and driving many nations to pick a side, either China or America.