UK WANALIA NA BIDEN
A week ago we learned that US President Joe Biden, the leader of the free world,
appeared to have blocked Defence Secretary Ben Wallace’s candidacy for Nato Secretary General. British officials were understandably furious; Wallace has played a leading role in coordinating the response to
Vladimir Putin’s barbaric invasion of Ukraine, and is greatly respected by our Eastern European allies living in the shadow of the Russian bear.
Yet this track record did not seem to be enough to satisfy President Biden, who is for my money
the most anti-British occupant of the White House in the modern era. His sneering disdain towards this great country began on day one of his presidency, when he ordered the removal of Sir Winston Churchill’s bust from the Oval Office, just as his predecessor Barack Obama did back in 2009.
Perhaps that’s because Churchill is clearly a reminder of everything that spineless Biden is not: a courageous, fearless leader who projected strength and resolve in the face of the enemies of the free world. Churchill, together with his American counterpart Franklin Delano Roosevelt, forged the Anglo-American Special Relationship, which has for the past eight decades been the most powerful bilateral partnership the world has ever seen.
Biden, in contrast, seems to be doing his best to weaken that relationship. He has seemingly invested more energy in extending the hand of friendship to Communist China and appeasing the vile regime in Iran than he has in cultivating ties with the British people. In so doing, he has significantly undermined America’s alliances and standing in the world.
His approach is hugely destructive and incredibly short-sighted. Biden’s refusal to back Wallace’s NATO candidacy is
generating bad blood between Washington and London at a time when US–UK leadership is vital in confronting the global threats posed by Russia and China. It will reinforce the view within Britain’s military that Biden is willing to throw America’s closest friend and ally under the bus, as he callously demonstrated with his disastrous handling of the withdrawal from Afghanistan, which put many British lives at risk.