Why Is Biden Creating His Own Crises?
By calling Vlad Putin a "killer," Biden seems to have aborted the kind of summitry with Moscow in which Eisenhower, Nixon, Reagan and Bush I engaged during the Cold War when the Soviet Union was a far more menacing and hostile power than Putin's Russia is today. From Biden's behavior in his first 60 days, we already seem fated to endure years more of deepening Cold War with Russia and China. To what end this Biden-Blinken in-your-face diplomacy?