Frederick Kempe, the CEO of the oligarch’s think tank Atlantic Council, published a glowing review of President Biden’s Oct. 19 national address. Titled “Biden’s Inflection Point and History’s Sobering Lessons,” Kempe described the speech as one which was “as eloquent and compelling as any he has delivered in his lifetime.” He fully endorsed the intent of the speech, to tie together funding the Ukraine and Israeli war efforts, as one which may serve as a “defining ‘moment’ in history,” such as the period after two world wars and after the Cold War, as three previous defining moments.
Writing that Biden “looked sharp” and “spoke with vigor,” he said he “connected the dots between Russia’s criminal war in Ukraine and Hamas’s terrorist attack on Israel, assisted by Iran.” He also praised the message delivered in Washington by EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, who said “Our democracies are under sustained and systemic attack by those who abhor freedom because it threatens their rule.” The division of the world into “democracies,” led by the U.S. and Europe, against terrorists and dictators, fits the narrative of the Summit of Democracies, which was hatched by the Atlantic Council.
That Kempe is aware that the order defended by the Atlantic Council and Western “democracies” is under attack is clear in his juxtaposition of Biden’s speech and stand for Ukraine and Israel, with the Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation in Beijing. He wrote, “As if scripted by a grand dramatist, Chinese leader Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin were meeting in China as Biden traveled to Israel, doubling down on their common cause to rewrite the rules of the global order.”
Further down in his self-congratulatory message, he refers back to an Atlantic Council weekly column he wrote in 2018 titled “Inflection Points,” which he describes as “defining moments in history when U.S. leadership alongside partners and allies would be decisive.”
