Joe Biden with his sinking approval ratings has resorted to a new tactics of hiding his failures by declaring war against authoritarian rule which he describes as battle between democracy and autocracy. Currently although he has been mainly focusing on Russia and China, it is anticipated that Biden’s “battle” will further expand in a number of European, Asian and African nations within the span of next one year. Currently, Biden has been mainly focusing on Ukraine and making frantic efforts in putting extended pressure of Russian President Vladimir Putin by enforcing series of sanctions and confiscation of properties owned by Russian nationals in various parts of the world, including the United States.
Joe Biden has been mainly leading the battle against Vladimir Putin and Russia by hiding the plain fact that Ukrainian President Zelensky is surrounded and affiliated by neo-Nazis, including notorious Azov Battalion. At Biden’s efforts, European Union, Britain and few other countries have already joined the sanction bids against President Putin and other members of his administration as well as wealthy Russians.
But according to analysts, Ukraine is not the only place where Joe Biden may see “contest between autocracy and democracy”. They said, similar things are happening within several European democracies, through elections rather than military conflict.
Analysts said, victory in the recent elections in Hungary and Serbia, two of Vladimir Putin’s allies have proved – most of the people in Europe are not buying Western propaganda against Russia and Putin. A bigger test will occur this month in France, which will hold its own presidential election — and where a victory by the far-right candidate would be a geopolitical earthquake.
Recently, Viktor Orban, Hungary’s Putin-friendly prime minister, appears to have won reelection there. “We won a victory so big that you can perhaps see it from the moon and certainly from Brussels”, Orban told supporters Sunday night, taking a dig at the European Union.
Orban’s re-election in Hungary, where American analysts are seeing democracy sliding toward autocracy. After taking power in 2010 with a legitimate election victory, Orban set about changing the rules to remain in power. He has stacked the courts with allies and used lawsuits to quash critical media coverage. He has aggressively changed election rules.
In each of the past two national elections, Orban’s party, Fidesz, received less than half the votes yet still won a two-thirds supermajority in Parliament. After Sunday’s election, Fidesz appears to be on track to win 135 seats of the 199-seat parliament.
Viktor Orban has overseen a government that combines cultural nationalism, economic populism and high-level corruption. His policies have lifted the incomes of many Hungarians, including in the more rural areas that make up his base, while stoking fears of immigrants and, more recently, LGBTQ people.
In Serbia, President Aleksandar Vucic, who became president in 2-17 has used both Vladimir Putin and Viktor Orban as role models helped turn Serbia’s once-independent media into something more akin to a propaganda machine.
Although Vucic has not imposed sanctions on Russia or suspended flights to Moscow, his government did vote in favor of a U.N. resolution condemning the invasion.
In Sunday’s election, voter turnout was high, but opposition politicians said that they were concerned about foul play. Vucic’s party is on track to keep its hold on Parliament, but with a reduced majority, exit polls indicated.
In French, voters will go to the polls for the first round of a presidential election Sunday. If no candidate receives a majority — and none is likely to — a two-person runoff will take place two weeks later, April 24.
The favorite is the incumbent, Emmanuel Macron. But his lead in the polls is not huge, and the war in Ukraine seems to be hurting him. Inflation was already fairly high in Europe, as it is in much of the world, because of the pandemic. The war has caused prices to rise even further, mostly because of sanctions on Russian oil.
Main challenger of Macron is Le Pen, who has a long history of friendliness to Putin. Her party has taken loans from a Russian bank, and she met with him in 2017 in an attempt to strengthen her political image. Although Le Pen trails in the polls by roughly 6 percent, according to analysts, it is a small enough margin for an upset to be conceivable. Analysts said, if Le Pen wins the election, the autocracy-friendly caucus within Europe’s democracies would become far larger than it already is. “A victory by her,” Cohen writes, “would threaten European unity, alarm French allies from Washington to Warsaw, and confront the European Union with its biggest crisis since Brexit”, they added.
Joe Biden will have another task within next three months when general election takes place in Pakistan, a failed state where Prime Minister Imran Khan has visibly declared jihad against the United States. Pakistani state-run media has been running anti-US propaganda in full swing thus showing Washington as the worst enemy of Islamabad.
In my opinion, Joe Biden will certainly intervene into the domestic politics and election in Pakistan and may also make attempts of ousting Imran Khan from power by helping Pakistani military establishment. For Joe Biden, although Imran Khan is already in dislike list, he may not extend support to Khan’s opponents – either Muslim League or Pakistan People’s Party as both are heavy pro-Islamists, while Pakistan People’s Party with “Thief of Baghdad” Asif Ali Zardari or “Playboy Politician” Bilawal Bhutto Zardari as leaders would only contribute in pushing Pakistan further towards nurturing radical Islam and jihad and patronize massive corruption.
US President Joe Biden’s “democracy and autocracy” actually is a dangerous game of destabilizing a number of nations in the world. His prime targets will be those nations who are currently having deeper economic relations with China and Russia. Biden will eventually expand his “democracy and autocracy” onto the Middle Eastern nations, although his administration has been enhancing secret romance with Iranian mullah mafia regime. Biden administration will also poke nose into internal affairs of Bangladesh, especially during the 2023 general elections.
