Good Thursday evening. This is Daniel Allott with The Hill's Top Opinions. The world is enmeshed in the equivalent of World War III, and President Biden doesn't seem to realize it. That's what retired historian Mark Toth and retired Army colonel Jonathan Sweet took away from Biden's State of the Union address on Tuesday. Despite the existence of very real threats from Russia and China, they write, Biden "buried these two clear and present dangers simultaneously confronting national security." Biden dwelled on the challenges of 2020/21 – COVID-19, the Jan. 6 riot and a stalled economy – not the problems that confront us now. "It should have been paramount for Biden to address the national security challenges facing the United States and the free world head on in his speech," the authors write. But he failed to do so. Biden focused too much on domestic policy, Toth and Sweet believe, only addressing foreign affairs at the end of his speech. Biden even glossed over the Chinese spy balloon incident that was fresh on everyone's mind; he referenced it only indirectly. "Whether Biden wanted to admit it or not, this existential inflection point in the form of a dystopian WWIII is upon us. He should have sounded that warning but did not." Read Toth and Sweet's piece here. Not subscribed to The Hill's Top Opinions? Sign up here. |
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By GRADY MEANS, former White House policy assistant |
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