“If Biden is re-elected US President in November 2024, Japan may have to rethink its pacifist post-World War II status and re-arm itself to guard against threats from North Korea”
Donald Trump, the immediate past President of the United States, recently announced his bid to obtain his political party’s nomination as its presidential bet in the fast-approaching November 2024 elections.
Speaking before a large assembly of followers, admirers and well-wishers, Trump said that with the help of the American electorate, he will not allow incumbent President Joseph Biden to impose four more years of incompetence and indecision on the American people.
It will be recalled that in the November 2020 US presidential election, Trump, who belongs to the Republican Party, lost to Biden of the Democratic Party by a narrow lead in three US states.
Born on November 20, 1942, Biden turns 80 this coming Sunday.
During the 2020 presidential campaign, Trump warned against the aging Biden getting elected to the White House on account of the latter’s advance age.
“He’s so old, he doesn’t realize that he’s still alive!” was the famous line delivered by Trump to get his message through, that the most powerful office in the free world should not be entrusted to one who is bound to be forgetful and absent-minded.
Indeed, Trump’s political forecast proved to be true.
Two months ago, Biden called out to a crowd in search of a congresswoman who died earlier in a car accident. In September last year, he forgot the name of Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison in a top-level international conference.
Biden mumbles in many of his speeches, and often looks oblivious. He is likewise prone to lose his temper almost indiscriminately.
Just recently, Biden lost his cool while talking to Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky over Washington, D.C.’s promised military assistance to Ukraine, which is fighting a war on its territory against Russia.
Physicians say that forgetfulness and a propensity to lose one’s temper easily are badges of Alzheimer’s Disease, a common type of dementia that affects thought, memory and language, as well as the ability to maintain a continuing conversation.
Biden has also slipped while boarding the presidential airplane.
By the time the 2024 presidential election draws near, Biden will be almost 82 years old.
When Trump was President, the world saw him as an opinionated thug, but he was feared in the same way that the United States was feared as a world power.
It was during the Trump presidency that North Korea’s dictator, Kim Jong-un, agreed to meet personally with the US President to ease tensions in the Korean peninsula and in East Asia.
The Russians played a tough diplomatic game with Washington, D.C. and Russian diplomats were careful not to provoke a fight with America and its allies.
China chose its words and phrases very carefully when commenting on issues involving the United States and the South China Sea. Beijing was relatively mum about its plans to invade Taiwan.
The situation drastically changed when Biden succeeded Trump at the White House.
For one, North Korea is now engaged in open saber-rattling against American military presence in South Korea. Pyongyang has been firing missiles at targets close to South Korea and Japan more frequently than before.
It was during Biden’s watch when Russia invaded Ukraine. Moscow does not bother to hide its willingness to go to nuclear war over Ukraine and the latter’s plan, temporarily aborted by war, to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).
NATO states, France especially, are currently making announcements about Ukraine and future of Europe that do no sit well with the Biden-held White House.
Saudi Arabia, a known American ally, is entering into unthinkable economic deals with Russia, with the knowledge that Russia will use the proceeds of the deal to finance its illegal war against Ukraine.
With a seemingly helpless Biden watching in the wings, China is now openly supporting Russia’s war on Ukraine, as seen in its announcements and behavior in the United Nations.
It has stirred up a hornet’s nest over its planned invasion of Taiwan simultaneously with Moscow’s on-going conflict with Kyiv. In fact, Beijing seems to be ready to exchange heated words with Washington, D.C.
Under Biden’s watch, the notorious Taliban mounted a military offensive in Afghanistan, which led to the collapse of the American-supported, pro-democratic government in that country in May 2021.
If Biden is re-elected US President in November 2024, Japan may have to rethink its pacifist post-World War II status and re-arm itself to guard against threats from North Korea.
Many Americans feel and believe that under a Trump administration, the US can vindicate its immense strategic and tactical losses incurred during the Biden government.
That was the way it was and, hopefully, it will be the way once again if Trump wins his presidential bid in 2024.
When Trump retakes the White House, that will be good not only for America, but for Asia and Europe as well.