Slogans And Ill Timed Symbolic Gestures Mask Catastrophically Failed Policy
Arrogant Clueless Faces In High Places
As If Nixon Sang “Ohio”
Bill Clinton was known for “triangulation” – so we need to craft a similarly notorious term for Biden’s cynical hypocrisy, where he says one thing to provide political cover for doing the exact opposite. (“Bidenocrisy”?) ~~~ just 3 days ago
Biden Secretary of State Blinken is being widely mocked on the Internets for his ridiculous “performance” of Neil Young’s classic “Keep On Rockin’ In The Free World” in a bar in Kiev, Ukraine.
But actually, his absurd Karaoke of Young comes very, very close to perfectly revealing the essential Modus Operandi (MO) of the Biden Administration: i.e. cluelessness, incompetence, arrogance, Orwellian doublespeak, delusion, and a pattern of ill timed empty slogans and symbolic gestures designed to mask policy failures.
Blinken’s performance came precisely at a moment when US and western media are finally recognizing that the Russians are on the verge of a humiliating dominating military victory in the Ukraine proxy war – exposing a massive strategic failure by the Biden Administration.
Blinken’s performance exposed the fact the he had absolutely no clue about the substantive content and meaning of his performance. No clue about the timing of his display. No clue about how he is received by a world audience or the people of Ukraine, who have suffered over 500,000 dead and had their country wrecked by a US led proxy war. As Professor Mearsheimer wrote way back in 2014: Ukraine has been led down the garden path:
U.S. and European leaders blundered in attempting to turn Ukraine into a Western stronghold on Russia’s border. Now that the consequences have been laid bare, it would be an even greater mistake to continue this misbegotten policy.
Blinken has shown exactly those same flaws in his official capacity as Secretary of State.
The perverse irony is that Neil Young’s song was written in 1989 to savage the cruel Neoliberal lies of the Reagan trickle down economics and Bush I Administration’s war machine, which are now perfectly replicated by the Biden team:
There’s colors on the street
Red, white and blue
People shufflin’ their feet
People sleepin’ in their shoes
But there’s a warnin’ sign on the road ahead
There’s a lot of people sayin’ we’d be better off dead…We got a thousand points of light
For the homeless man
We got a kinder, gentler machine gun hand
We got department stores and toilet paper
Got Styrofoam boxes for the ozone layer
Got a man of the people, says keep hope alive
Got fuel to burn, got roads to drive
What’s next?
An AI generated version of Nixon singing Ohio? (turn up your sound!)