One day that might save the world

The Day is June 27, 2024, but before we go to the headline substance, the first thing that crossed my mind after watching the Trump-Biden debate was the famous book “Ten Days That Shook the World,” written by the American journalist John Reed. In it, he describes the ten days in October 1917 during Russia’s Bolshevik Revolution, which indeed justified its title. What happened on June 27? One should exercise caution in saying this, but I believe it added a step toward ending the war in Ukraine, thus saving the world.

Of course, one can criticize Trump endlessly and for a good reason, but there is one thing that even his harshest critics and haters cannot deny. Donald Trump has not started a single war, and during his first presidential term, he had friendly meetings with Russia’s Putin, China’s Xi, and North Korea’s Kim. He repeated this intention during the so-called debates. So-called because it was a highly embarrassing exchange for the country that pretended to be indispensable and exceptional, claiming the role of a world leader.

NYT: “To Serve His Country, President Biden Should Leave the Race”

Mentioning some of the most humiliating moments is unnecessary since they are constantly repeated and replayed throughout mainstream and social media. However, the most remarkable fact is that staunched supporters of Democrats and Biden, like the New York Times, Washington Post, and CNN, made the most devastating to Biden of these remarks. In addition to columnists, the New York Times editorialized, “To Serve His Country, President Biden Should Leave the Race.”  Washington Post admitted that “Democrats panic over Biden’s debate performance, doubt his future.” CNN said, “Biden’s disastrous debate pitches his reelection bid into crisis,” and followed with, “Foreign diplomats react with horror to Biden’s dismal debate performance.”

Comparing the present state of affairs in the US with the USSR has long become the habit of conservatives who call WP and NYT “Pravda on the Potomac” and “Pravda on the Hudson,” respectively. To follow this logic, what happened in the US media after debates would be similar to Soviet Pravda and Izvestija denouncing Leonid Brezhnev during his term as the General Secretary of the Communist Party. One might add that CNN would be compared to Soviet Central Television then.

The only logical explanation for this spectacle is that anticipating Biden’s loss in November, the DNC has facilitated the early debate (usually done after both candidates’ final nominations) and expected his defeat to force him to withdraw from the race before the Democratic Party Convention in August so that they would have enough time to find his replacement.

Call it a conspiracy, but who knows, someone like the new Julian Assange at some point will disclose the DNC’s dirty games as he did during the 2016 presidential campaign. At that time, they conspired against Hillary Clinton’s competitor, Berny Sanders, and when Assange made this public through Wikileaks, she accused him of being Putin’s agent, together with Trump.  The “Russiagate” story still reverberates today and has contributed to the current crisis.

Whether Trump is the one who actually saves the world, we don’t know, but it is Biden who is mainly responsible for the war in Ukraine. It was he who had a Ukrainian Portfolio during the February 2014 coup over there, and the “f*ck EU”  Victoria Nuland, who coordinated this coup on the ground, admitted in the leaked phone conversation with US Ambassador Geoffrey Pyatt.

So, to summarize, while this debate will be remembered as the most embarrassing one in  American history, it provided a glimpse of hope for peace by the expected removal of Biden from the game.