It was touted as a “one-on-one” summit over a “secure” video-conference line, and Russian President Vladimir Putin stuck strictly to that format for his Dec. 7 summit with President Joe Biden: he was alone in the room, and even had his interpreter sit in a separate room. Biden, on the other hand, was chaperoned throughout by Secretary of State Tony Blinken, National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan, and NSC senior director for Russia Eric Green.
Immediately following the summit, the chaperones deployed to put out the official U.S. line. Sullivan gave a 40-minute briefing to the press Tuesday afternoon, suggesting that the U.S. was prepared for a two-front war against Russia and China; and Secretary of State Tony Blinken spoke at length later that evening with Thorold Barker of the Wall Street Journal at the latter’s CEO Council Summit.
Blinken was chillingly clear in delivering threats and warnings to both Russia and China, blaming them for the Ukraine and Taiwan crises, respectively, and threatening a blistering U.S. response to any military moves those countries might make. Blinken was particularly explicit about the Establishment’s gambit in pulling out of Afghanistan, actually arguing that the American people do still have “an appetite … to re-engage overseas if necessary” – i.e., launch more perennial wars, only this time directly against Russia and China, exactly as Lyndon LaRouche had warned all along was the true strategic intention behind the Libya, Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, etc. provocations.
Said Blinken: “It’s also true that in ending America’s longest war and making sure that we’re not sending a third generation of Americans back to fight and die in Afghanistan, that frees up a tremendous amount of resources and focus for other challenges. And what we certainly know from other countries that may seek to challenge us is that it was not necessarily bad for them we were bogged down in Afghanistan with the prospect of remaining there for another five or ten years. It’s a very different strategic equation when we have actually ended the longest war and can focus on other things.”
