Joe Biden NATO summit gaffes add up to huge clown show
Joe Biden’s National Lampoon NATO Summit Adventure was a smashing success!
During the geostrategically crucial trip to Helsinki, our oldest, most gaffe-prone president managed to:
- Call Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky “Vladimir,” which is a bit like calling Winston Churchill “Adolf” (yes, yes, we know the names are more similar). That bungle, by the way, the White House press team has simply erased from the event transcript.
- Skip the summit’s opening dinner, where major diplomacy often takes place, on account of having a busy week ahead — as opposed to, say, all the other heads of state there. Never mind that Biden spent the previous weekend sunning his withered carcass in Rehoboth.
- Lash out at a reporter for asking Zelensky (whose first name he has trouble with) a question about NATO membership for Ukraine.
- Bizarrely tell another reporter that “You can’t tell me whether you’re gonna be able to go home tonight” in response to her question about the political unreliability of the US.
- Call Icelandic Prime Minister Katrín Jakobsdóttir a “daughter of Ireland.” Hey, Iceland, Ireland — what’s the diff, right? This blunder sticks out all the more because of Joe’s endless blarney about his alleged connections to the Auld Sod.
- * And, last but far from least, announce that Putin (i.e. Vladimir, not Volodymyr) has “already lost the war” in Ukraine.
This is not true on any level, and Biden’s saying so is more than a mere silly gaffe.
It’s a profound strategic error on the order of his now-infamous “minor incursion” remark that seemingly gave Putin a greenlight to invade.
That doesn’t even count his massive pre-summit screwup, in which he told CNN’s Fareed Zakaria that the US is running out of artillery rounds as it sends materiel to Ukraine.
Thank goodness the summit was only two days long.
But too bad for us (and the rest of the world) that the Biden clownshow is going nowhere at least ’til January 2025.
