I don’t think that the Biden administration is preventing Ukraine from beating Russia and ending the war for some evil reason. I think the reality is worse than evil intent.
I strongly believe that the real problem is that there’s no capacity to make a decision in the administration. Nobody has a vision for the future of world politics. Nobody has created or is trying to create a foreign policy plan for the US.
This is a complete disempowerment of the nation-state. It’s like, you know, I’m not trying to see if I can soar in flight because I already know that humans don’t have wings. I don’t need to check because I already know it.
In the same way, national politicians aren’t trying to work out the new international consensus (or achieve anything significant domestically) because they have accepted as indisputable, self-evident fact that they can’t.
I think they are wrong. I think there’s still time. But these absolute wusses are acting like they have as much power to make decisions as I do to sprout wings.
People will ask if I think it would have been better with Trump. I can only say that I don’t know. He’s impulsive, so nobody can say for certain. There’s a possibility that he would have tried to “negotiate” with Russia, Putin would have humiliated him in some very painful way, and Trump would have blown a gasket and gotten propelled into action.
Or not.
I don’t know. What I do know is that this feeble, forlorn, foolish fumbling of frowzy forces of formerly planetary significance is painful to observe.
They are not evil, these Bidens, Macrons, Trudeaus, Trumps, and the rest of them. They are just passive. Empty suits, terrified of their own shadow.
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