US President Joe Biden has boasted about his huge international coverage expertise throughout a fundraiser for his 2024 re-election marketing campaign, claiming that even veteran diplomat Henry Kissinger, who turned 100 in Might, couldn’t surpass him.
“I’m going to say one thing outrageous. I believe I do know as a lot about American international coverage as anyone dwelling, together with Dr. Kissinger,” Biden mentioned throughout an occasion in Atherton, California on Monday.
“That’s what I’ve executed my complete life, for the final 207 years,” he joked. The US chief, who is definitely 80 years outdated, and has been a politician on the nationwide stage for 50 years. He additionally held the publish of vice chairman within the Obama administration between 2009 and 2017 and was a US Senator for Delaware from 1973 till 2009.
Biden could be the oldest US president, however he’s nonetheless 20 years youthful than Kissinger, who was US Secretary of State and Nationwide Safety Adviser within the Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford administrations within the Seventies. Kissinger has remained an influential determine since then. The diplomat was awarded the 1973 Nobel Peace Prize for his involvement in negotiating a ceasefire in Vietnam.
Talking about his latest international coverage achievements, Biden talked about {that a} cut up in NATO has been averted amid the battle in Ukraine. “When you discover, [Russian president Vladimir] Putin was nearly sure when he invaded that he was going to separate NATO. NATO is extra united than it’s ever been,” he mentioned.
When Russia launched its navy operation in Ukraine in February 2022 it singled out demilitarization and “denazification” of the neighboring nation in addition to ensuring it formally declares neutrality and by no means joins NATO amongst its major targets. Final week, Putin burdened that these aims have been “basic” for Moscow and that they received’t be modified.
In his interview with the Wall Avenue Journal final month, Kissinger steered that the promise made by the West to Ukraine in 2008 that it’d be a part of NATO sometime was “a grave mistake” that led to the present combating between Moscow and Kiev. On the identical time, he insisted that – as issues stand in the mean time – peace in Europe can be not possible with out Ukraine becoming a member of the alliance.
Final week, Biden awkwardly concluded his speech on gun management in Connecticut with the phrase “God save the Queen.” The road was the title of the British nationwide anthem in the course of the reign of Queen Elizabeth II. She died final September, with the US president attending her funeral.
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