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Biden says he wants to run again because he’s close to achieving world peace, putting Putin in his place

October 16, 2023 | | Print Article

President Joe Biden’s disillusion on the economy bled into foreign policy as he spoke toward seeking world peace in motivating his reelection campaign.

(Video: CBS News)

As the White House has continually touted Bidenomics to the American people, it came as little surprise that on the brink of a third World War the president was spinning up success. During a sit-down Thursday for the latest edition of CBS News’ “60 Minutes,” Scott Pelley summed up the state of disaster as he challenged the certainty of a 2024 bid.

“Mr. President, given these two wars and the dysfunction in Congress, are you sure that you want to run again?” he asked, noting both the declaration of war by Israel after the terror attack from Hamas and the roughly 20 months of fighting between Ukraine and Russia.

Spinning up a positive outlook, Biden replied, “Yes, because I’m sure — look, when I ran, I said, ‘The world’s at an inflection point.’ The world’s changing, but we have an opportunity to make it — so, imagine if we were able to succeed in getting the Middle East put in place where we have normalization of relations. I think we can do that.”

“Imagine what happens if we fact, unite all of Europe and [Russian President Vladimir] Putin is finally put down where he cannot cause the kind of trouble he’s been causing,” the president continued. “We have enormous opportunities, enormous opportunities to make it a better world.”

Sounding every bit like a beauty pageant contestant, social media couldn’t let Biden’s claim pass by unaddressed as he had actively worked against accomplishments like the Abraham Accords, brokered by then-President Donald Trump, that were getting shredded in real-time by an administration that saw fit to enact deterrents after escalation.

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The claim to Pelley didn’t exactly match up with Biden’s announcement of his reelection campaign in April when he had contended, “Every generation has a moment where they have had to stand up for democracy. To stand up for their fundamental freedoms. I believe this is ours. That’s why I’m running for reelection as President of the United States. Join us. Let’s finish the job.”

Elsewhere in the interview, the commander-in-chief appeared to be trying to transition his image to that of a successful wartime president as he postured with bravado when Pelley posited of the Middle Eastern conflict, “There’s limited fighting already on the northern Israeli border, and I wonder what is your message to Hezbollah and its backer, Iran?”

“Don’t,” said Biden without explanation before emphasizing. “Don’t, don’t, don’t.”

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Pelley had to clarify, “Don’t come across the border? Don’t escalate this war?” leading the president to add, “That’s right,” before hedging on Iran’s influence in the October 7 attack on Israel, “I don’t wanna get into classified information. But to be very blunt with you, there is no clear evidence of that.”

As a reminder, ahead of the Hamas attack that slaughtered more than 1,300, Saudi Arabia was on the brink of a trilateral agreement with the U.S. and Israel that would have actually normalized relations between the Middle Eastern nations before the White House cleared the unfreezing of $6 billion in assets for Iran and had reversed Trump’s policy on providing aid to Palestinians to the tune of $235 million. The Saudis have since put that plan on pause.

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