International News: Is Joe Biden Really in Charge of America or is There a Shadowy Group Which is in Charge?

In the recent one on one presidential debate between incumbent President Joe Biden who is in the “lame duck” leg of his presidency and former president, Donald Trump, both were seen attacking each other rather wildly. As per today political news reports, the Democratic Party establishment is in panic mode after the way Biden performed in this debate, wherein he was not in control of his words and actions several times. There was no doubt in anyone’s mind that the president is not well and definitely not in a position to run for the highest office in the country anymore.

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In fact, his opponent, former president, Trump made it more difficult for Biden by constantly poking him about issues that are the subject of serious debate among rational Americans today.

The latest news reports show that there is a sense of despondency among the democrats about Biden running for a second term at the White House because they don’t think he will win with the current state of his health.

Understandably, Biden is most likely not involved in the everyday affairs of the president’s office, where the most important decisions of America are made, going by today news Hindi.

Who is making all the major decisions at the White House?

The trillion-dollar question in America now and across the world is, if Biden is a non-functional president because of ill-health and old age, who is complementing him at the White House?

The obvious and technical answer to that question is, who else but Vice President Kamala Harris. However, Harris was always considered incompetent for this role and is seen as someone who merely goes through the motions of a vice president as per today political news analysis.

For instance, the decision to fund Ukraine’s war effort against Russia is a complex one that has several layers of pros and cons defining the return on investment [RoI] of the US tax payers’ money being spent there.

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People making such decisions are powerful oligarchs in the famous defence industrial complex of the US as well as from other industry sectors as per the latest news reports.

The neo-conservative grouping of American imperialists

A lot is being said about the controlling power of the neo-conservative coterie in America and how well they are entrenched in the power structure of that country.

So, who are the neoconservatives and what is their role in American foreign policy? To put it in short, they are a group of American intellectuals who think their nation is exceptional and has been chosen by God to dominate the world.

They are also very powerful because of their well-structured relationships with the biggest business interests of America, which gives them tremendous leverage in the country’s power establishment.

As per today news Hindi, they drive all the policies that compel American presidents to play the dangerous game of conspiring against nations and then intimidating them to follow the way suggested by America.

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How the neoconservatives operate at the highest level

However, some American presidents themselves have been neoconservatives and one name that comes up prominently in this regard is that of President George W Bush, who needed no nudge from the neoconservatives to invade Iraq and Afghanistan after the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

During a conversation with the media, Bush had famously said “When it comes to foreign policy, it’s my way…or the highway!” This reflects the neoconservative mentality and how they want to have their way.

This was Bush’s way of brushing aside all questions about the fake “Weapons of Mass Destruction [WMD]” theory floated by the neoconservatives to be used as an excuse to invade Iraq.

As per this fake theory, Bush and his neoconservative coterie asserted that the Iraqi dictator of that time, Saddam Hussein, had WMDs that posed a threat to America’s allies in the Middle East.

Funding the Ukraine War has worsened America’s economic crisis

Just as they had pushed the American presidents to wage wars in former Yugoslavia, Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria and different other places, it is the neoconservatives today who are behind Biden’s decision to fund the Ukraine War that is destroying this beautiful country.

Unfortunately for the neoconservatives this time, they miscalculated the power and capabilities of the Russian Federation rather foolishly before deciding to back Ukraine.

Some folks believe that Biden is also a neoconservative himself especially when he had said rather intriguingly that he will fund Ukraine “To the last Ukrainian standing”.

However, according to a larger number of people in the know, he is not a neoconservative although he is in alignment with them in certain matters.

Ukraine happens to be one of these matters and it is said that Biden is deeply involved in the entire problem surrounding Ukraine right from the time it became an issue with Russia. There is no doubt that the Ukraine War is not going America’s way with the Ukrainian Army losing ground and falling back every day in the face of increasing pressure by the enormous Russian artillery formations all along the battlefront. Russian resources are like a bottomless pit and they are historically known to fight long, hard and attritional ground wars that western armies are not trained for. Now, President Biden and his neoconservative friends are under serious pressure to stop funding the Ukraine War and focus on the runaway inflation at home.

AUTHOR: Dev Kumar is an independent geo-political observer, commentator and blogger who tries to look at international issues in relation to India and present a different dimension that has hardly been covered by mainstream experts.