Well some don't appear to know it...

Joe Biden Got Absolutely Rolled by Putin and Everyone Knows It

If your only sources of news came from the major broadcast and cable networks, excluding Fox News, you’d think Joe Biden just had the first major triumph of his presidency. According to CNN, he defiantly stared down Vladamir Putin in a show of force not seen since Reagan’s speech in then-West Germany. In reality, Biden was just too senile to understand it was time to look at the cameras.

Seriously, let’s look at the facts. Biden, for reasons that make sense to no one who has any understanding of foreign policy, decided to go into the meeting with no real plan at all. What was on the table to be gained? What were we hoping to get the opposition to give up? These are important questions that should be asked anytime a president holds a summit with an adversary. Yet, it was clear Biden’s only real plan was to wear aviators and eat ice cream.

Let’s also note that on substance, Biden folded like a wash-and-wear suit in the face of the Russian strongman. Putin’s biggest priority, not just now but for the last decade, has been to finish Nord Stream 2. Donald Trump had placed sanctions preventing the completion of the strategic and lucrative pipeline from Russia to Europe. Yet, for absolutely nothing in return, Biden just handed it to Putin while committing the United States at NATO to pay for Germany’s defense from the very enemy they are enriching. What great diplomacy, right?

If that weren’t bad enough, Biden then gave Putin an actual list of major targets in the United States to not attack with cyberattacks. In doing so, he might as well have hung a giant “please hack us” on America’s most important infrastructure.

Let's be honest here folks. This was like the John Lennon statement (if real) where he demanded that the Beatles could show up on stage and just fart, and people would love them. There are some that don't care exactly what Joe Biden actually does, as long as he is not Donald Trump they will declare it as a victory.

I admittedly didn't pay much attention to the Summit. I paid a bit of attention to the attention being paid by others. There certainly seems to be a substantial disconnect between what the shrinking pro-Biden crowd saw and what the rest of the nation saw.  

I did see the pictures where Biden and Putin are shaking hands (obviously for the camera) and Biden is looking at Putin while Putin is smiling for the camera. My first thought was why the fuck is our President not looking at the people taking pictures? Is he clueless to the photo-op here? Then I read the pro-Biden apologists suggest that it was Putin looking at the camera that was the real problem. That somehow after dealing with Clinton, Bush, Obama, and Trump that he was so intimated by Joe Biden that he couldn't keep eye contact. Ahem.

The truth is that these summits are about projecting an image, of course. But that image comes not by "staring at someone during a photo-op" but rather by putting forth some sort of cohesive agenda that while might never actually come to fruition, will provide a serious backdrop to what you are attempting to accomplish. Biden provided no real American agenda, while Putin once again put himself on a level (if not elevated) playing field with Biden. 

Now I don't know if (as Bonchie suggested) that there is a substantial price to pay for this. Yeah, Putin will get  his pipeline that every President (including Trump) previously thwarted. We have committed to paying for another country's defenses again. 

My last point is this. Some liberal journalists suggested that Biden's "vast foreign policy experience" was a factor here. To be clear, there is nobody on the planet with more foreign policy experience than Vladimir Putin. He has transcended American administration after American administration. To Putin, Biden is a fake with no real actual experience in how the world works. While Biden was spending his time finding work for his out of a job son, Putin has been arguably the most important and consistent world leader for two decades. To pretend that the near senile got the better of Putin because of his vast international experience is a joke. He is a golden glove qualifier going against a professional champion.

The arguments from the pro-Biden apologists are just as dumb as the performance by Joe Biden.