Gasps could be heard in the audience when Joe Biden accidentally introduced the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, as “President Putin” in a gaffe that underlines concerns about his cognitive decline.
Tony Diver says the way Biden s confused Putin with Zelensky may have been the final straw in a comment in The Telegraph.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/politics/2024/07/12/joe-biden-putin-gaffe-nato-summit-zelensky-president/
At the high profile NATO summit in Washington DC, surrounded by Western leaders, and with the eyes of the world on him, Biden concluded his speech by saying “Now I want to hand it over to the president of Ukraine, who has as much courage as he has determination, President Putin."
Biden also referred to Trump as his VP.
"I wouldn’t have picked Vice President Trump to be vice president, if she’s not qualified to be president,” he said. More gasps, as the penny dropped that he had mistaken his closest ally for his greatest foe, says Tony Diver.
Confusing Zelensky and Putin is a misfortune, but to confuse Trump with Kamala Harris looks like more than carelessness and that mad confusion reigns supreme.
The root cause for the disastrous defeat of the Ukraine was visible for all to see not just in non compos menti Biden but in the sycophantic WEF elite who had gathered to celebrate and applaud him without criticism from Keir Starmer to Olaf Scholz in the way courtiers applauded the absolutist Byzantine emperors a thousand years ago.
Only the Byzantine emperors were not up against the mentally agile Russians, Chinese and BRICS, now running circles around the WEF elite, Billionaires and corporations and West.
We can only imagine the gasps and potential for confusion if there ever were a nuclear emergency and if Biden cannot identify or communicate to missile command if the nukes are NATOs or Russian.
Increasingly clear is that Biden is not the problem. He is just a symptom of a wider malaise gripping the WEF elite which has affected every area of government and decision making as is now so obvious in the disastrous failures in the Ukraine war, accelerating the collapse of the dollar.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZRw0Dcxs6I
https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/president-biden-campaign-2024/card/biden-accidentally-introduces-ukraine-s-zelensky-as-president-putin--biVtbH8UDcdiMux4Yd21
CNN describes a political discourse in the White House which is focussed on theatrical performance of rituals performed by Biden rather than substantial geopolitical analysis and problem solving.
It seems Biden rarely meets his Cabinet to discuss policies and, then, only using pre scripted and pre approved talking points. Just who pre scripts these talking points is not clear. Yet it appears to be Bidens family and aides, who may be working for Billionaire donors and corporations.
Alarmingly, Biden s Rasputin style circle of aides, are reported to bully, yell at and coerce other members of the administration who raise concerns about his mental state to shut down a debate and continue to concentrate power in their hands, raising serious questions about democracy, transparency and accountability.
From CNN
Back in Washington, there have been clear signs throughout his term of Biden being increasingly stage-managed, with lists of talking points, names of questioners and drawings of where he should walk presented to him by aides. Ahead of closed-door Cabinet meetings that Biden attends, it is customary for Cabinet officials to submit questions and key talking points that they plan to present in front of Biden ahead of time to White House aides, two sources with direct knowledge told CNN.
“The entire display is kind of an act,” one of those sources told CNN. “They would come and say, ‘Hey, the president is going to call on you about 25 minutes in, and ask this question. What are the bullet points you’ll respond with?’”
The second source, who echoed that same description, said when Biden attends Cabinet meetings, they are “not free-wheeling, and pretty well-orchestrated.” And the meetings themselves are infrequent, with one Cabinet secretary telling CNN they are uncertain of Biden’s condition because they so rarely see him.
In fact, the last full Cabinet meeting took place on October 2, 2023. Sources also said Cabinet meetings during the Obama years, which Biden attended as vice president, were not pre-scripted this way.
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While it’s clear the president had aged in the past year, none of them said they had seen the version of Biden, faltering and dazed, that showed up at last month’s debate.
In many of these conversations, sources blamed the president’s inner circle of advisers and family for what they said has become a painstakingly choreographed daily operation designed to prevent him from being in unscripted settings for extended periods of time.
“There’s this general sense of just, unbelievable holding your breath every time he does an event, every time he’s with people,” one top Democrat in close touch with Biden’s inner circle of advisers told CNN. This person added that some of those advisers have privately acknowledged: “This is going to get worse.”
That Democrat was blunt about how the president’s closest advisers have responded to any criticism or concerns expressed about the president – including his age and fitness: “Everyone who expresses any level of suspicion or contrary views? They call everyone and they beat the s*** out of them and say: ‘Stay on message.’”
At least one official involved in Biden’s debate prep at Camp David raised doubts about his ability after seeing how rehearsals were going, according to one source briefed on those preparations.
“It’s not like Biden’s inner circle didn’t know this,” one Democratic strategist close to the White House said of the extent of the president’s recent decline.
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/07/11/politics/joe-biden-age-decline-democrats-angry/index.html
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