For his first speech on the state of the Union, Tuesday, the US President, Offensive and Resolved, first talked about Ukraine, relegating the inner policy issues.
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The annual discourse on the state of the Union, for an American president and his advisers, is a polishing matter. Each theme, each sentence are weighed for weeks, before being pronounced before the elected representatives at Congress. For his first, Joe Biden intended to put his action into perspective, insist on the economic advances of his early presidency and draw a voluntarist path in this year marked by the mid-term elections in November. It’s about overcoming the epidemic, galloping inflation, domestic divisions, while the popularity of Democrat fleets dangerously around 40% in polls. All this was well mentioned, Tuesday 1 March, in a crowded capitol. But the American president, very offensive and resolved, first talked about Ukraine.
“When the story of this era will be written, the Putin War against Ukraine will have left the lower Russia and the rest of the world stronger,” said Joe Biden, saying that “democracies are showing themselves At the moment “, in the fight against autocracies. The American President mentioned the “bad calculations” of Vladimir Putin, “isolated from the world more than ever” after having “met the wall of force” that is the Ukrainian people. “We have counterated the lies of Russia with the truth. And now that [Putin] acted, the free world is responsible for it.”
This formula of “free world”, forged at the time of the Cold War, says the age of its author, or his desire to summarize in a basic way the Common Front against Moscow. Joe Biden did not talk about China, ignored the withdrawal of Afghanistan, not evoked the possible cost of the war in Ukraine for American consumers. Instead of dramatizing, he wanted to reassure. Instead of preparing Americans with pessimistic scenarios, he claimed that everything had been anticipated. Instead of promising sweat and tears, he drew the following tomorrow.
Reassure American public
Economic War President, refusing to directly involve his army in a new external conflict, Joe Biden seeks both to illustrate his determination of brashing against Moscow and to reassure the American public. Elected to overcome the inner fractures, eager to radically reorient his country to the competition with China, here is Joe Biden absorbed by a conflict out of the remote ages, in the middle of the European continent. With, opposite, a political actor, Vladimir Putin, whose rationality and balance are no longer considered as acquired. “Through our story, we learned the following lesson: when dictators do not pay a price for their attacks, they cause more chaos,” said Joe Biden. They continue to move forward. And the costs and threats to the America and the world continue to grow. “
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