A not-insignificant part of Joe Biden’s pitch to the American people in 2020 was that his administration would represent a return to competence in the executive branch — the adults would be back in charge.
That illusion has been shattered more than a few times by now, but it should have been apparent even before Biden ever took office. After all, remember who Barack Obama tapped as his secretary of state? This guy:
Former U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on BBC Arabic: The Ukraine Crisis Could Distract the World from the Climate Crisis While Having Massive Emissions Consequences #RussiaUkraineConflict #UkraineRussie #UkraineRussiaCrisis #ClimateCrisis @JohnKerry @ClimateEnvoy pic.twitter.com/nsOC1iZeGm
— MEMRI (@MEMRIReports) February 24, 2022
John Kerry — 2004 Democratic presidential nominee, secretary of state from 2012 to 2016, and now special presidential envoy for climate for President Biden — was seemingly more concerned about the temporary prioritization of a potential (and since commenced) invasion of Ukraine, a sovereign nation of over 44 million, over climate change than he was about the conflict itself.
“I hope President Putin will help us to stay on track with what we need to do for the climate,” are words that left his mouth on the eve of the invasion.
Every moment that John Kerry served as secretary of state was a national-security risk, and we have an administration full of people who think like him at the helm as the Russia takes what it wants in eastern Europe. God help us.