Le Temps: Joe Bidena enters

Joe Bayden is increasingly performing with loud and not quite diplomatic statements, writes Louis Lemma in an article printed in the Swiss newspaper Le Temps (translation is available on the website inopressa.ru ).

What role does Joe Biden play in the White House? He cultivates the frankness that the Americans are used to for his long career of the senator. But what about untimely statements that restore Iran, the Arab world, Russia against him? Is there too many gross mistakes for one person?

Barack Obama knew that his Biden is uncontrolled, writes the author of the article. The new president probably wanted to create a “team of rivals” - as his idol Abraham Lincoln. Biden’s experience in international affairs, just as his numerous connections and acquaintances in Congress and in the leadership of the democratic and republican parties, make him indispensable for the young president.

Obama, as you know, has breakfast with Biden every Friday, the rest of the time the vice president lives his life. And, according to Louis Lemma, the president gave Biden a new role: to be his opponent, and he does not hesitate to express what he thinks, without fear of provoking the discontent of the President of the United States. Such a distribution of roles works in an oval office, the author of the article writes, but outside the walls of the White House, a similar situation causes problems. So, in a Saturday interview, the newspaper Wall Street Journal Biden called Russia a “weak” state, and its “fading” economy. He stated that Russia has no other choice, how to "submit to the West." But the West should now try not to humiliate Russia, and this analysis contradicts the statements of Obama himself, who expressed a desire to see Russia "strong, peaceful and prosperous." The Russian press sharply reacted to the words of “American mentors”: if the “reboot” of relations between the two countries is based on such postulates, then the Russians do not want such a “reboot”.

Biden "brought" in relation to Iran, it is said further in the article. Unlike Obama, who still continues to advocate a dialogue with Tehran, Biden said that Israel has the right to defense and that the White House may not object to the raids in order to destroy Iranian nuclear facilities. The head of the Iranian parliament Ali Laridzhani reacted to these words as follows: "We will blame the Americans for the adventure of the Zionist state."

Does Biden say on his own behalf or is it about the real Epistle of the White House? “I think the president has formulated his opinion about Russia, and his vice president supports this opinion and president’s policy,” the White House spokesman hastened to assure on Monday. Well, at breakfast on the coming Friday the conversation of the two politicians again promises to be lively, the author of the article writes in conclusion.