Why a Biden-Trump Rematch would be the Best for America and the Free World?
The U.S. Presidential Election 2024 would be critical for the World going forward and the events leading up to it so far have been equally dramatic and almost harbinger of a virtual cliffhanger.
The 2024 U.S. Presidential Contest is here once again with the humdinger just months way from now. However, the road leading up to it has been fill of circuitous story plots & dramatic events taken almost right out of a Hollywood blockbuster, especially with the earlier courtroom drama and the latest assassination plot with Trump almost stealing the show with his big mouth persona, boundless energy & bellicosity and most importantly, with the scale & intensity of series of events which have surrounded him over the past couple of months.
Biden, on the contrary, has been in the limelight for all the wrong reasons, especially with his almost sleepwalking act during the first debate with Trump which has raised eyebrows and has cast a huge shadow of doubt emanating from not just public & media but also his fellow Democrats with the clarion call for Biden to step aside and pass on the baton to someone else only rising with every passing day ever since that fateful day.
However, one has to evaluate what each one of them actually stands for and means, not just for America, but instead for the entire world. While a veteran Biden brings the invaluable stability, prudence & wisdom to table as the President given his long and worthy years of experience in the White House at the helm and as the Veep in the Obama administration from 2009 to 2017. Trump, on the contrary, clearly is impetuous, volatile, amateurish, a beacon of rebellion & revolution (whether that's required or not) and has had a really tempestuous relationship with politics so far despite of his brilliant credentials as a businessman.
The geopolitical scenario, however, has been highly volatile, unpredictable and clearly in a state of flux with Russia on a clear resurgence & posing a serious threat to Europe, China weaving a military ascendancy & becoming the new belligerent in Asia threatening democracies & American allies while a nuclear-powered North Korea and Iran operate as their vassals in a well organized & closely coordinated operational arrangement of convenience with evidences of Russian usage of North Korean missiles & Iranian UAVs in Ukrainian unraveling the sinister plot.
The traditional, stable & rules-based world order is under a renewed threat from revisionist, autocratic powers which do not have respect for basic human rights, values or freedom as they threaten to disrupt the world. Russia's exit from most of the Cold War-era treaties, development of hypersonic missiles and dangerous, radical delivery systems for nuclear weapons over the recent years and China's rapid ramp-up of nuclear weapons production; have already triggered a new arms race with the West with global defense spending surging to its highest level ever of $2.4 trillion for 2023, all of which, thereby, collectively have made the world a truly dangerous place to live in.
At such a crucial juncture in modern history, does the world need someone like Trump who threatens to:-
Withdraw from or break apart NATO, the bulwark of security for the free world for decades
Is a self-confessed Putin admirer
Plans to abandon traditional U.S. allies in the Asia-Pacific and elsewhere or charge them for providing American security umbrella.
Plans to restart nuclear weapons testing after taking office, which will only give Russia & China the perfect pretext to build on it and return the favor.
Plans to abandon and withdraw U.S. economic support to Ukraine in the war against Russia which is a moment Putin has eagerly been awaiting for years and the latest assassination bid on Trump could easily have been a carefully orchestrated act backed by Russian secret agents with Putin desperately looking to, somehow, turn the tide & wave in favor of Trump
Biden, on the contrary, has vied to maintain order & stability, valued relationships with traditional U.S. allies, respected & upheld traditions and stood for core American values by supporting Ukraine. Biden, thus, should be supported rather than being exhorted to step down by his fellow Democrats as he is the best guy from the Dems camp to represent them and someone for whom the current global situation seems to have been custom built for. Asking VP Harris to take over from him would rather be akin to forfeiting and would almost be a repeat of Trump-Hillary Clinton contest earlier, given the strong support from white male supremacists Trump enjoys and given that there isn't enough time for anyone else with similar credentials and experience to be brought to the fore with only 3 months left. Biden, thus, is the best option America and the free world have, as their Presidential candidate against not just Trump but actually Putin and Xi Jinping and Biden's campaign actually needs to be repositioned and reflect that effectively, just like it did and worked in 2020, rather than simply banishing him for his age over just one below-par debate performance.
Trump's 'America First' rhetoric, with its inherent underlying selfishness, and his limited foreign policy acumen, on the contrary, is actually going to bring the nation down by withdrawing America from its traditional global leadership at the expense of a potential, dramatic rise of China & Russia along with their global influence.
With the world engulfed in a dangerous, virtual contest between the East & West for global supremacy and geopolitical power competition marked by a relentless arms race; Trump's impetuousness, volatility, amateurish views towards foreign policy and a die-hard penchant for rebellion & revolution are a bigger threat for the free world for sure than Biden's, currently under-scanner, mental agility, faculties and alacrity are....
Thus, America will not just be voting for itself this time around but rather for the entire free world. Americans, thus, have a huge responsibility on their shoulders and they will really have to exercise a lot of caution, prudence & wisdom with the ballot rather than simply getting blindsided and giving into the rhetoric of 'America First' without understanding its full implications...
May God bless America and the entire Free World...
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