Biden Has Proved Much Smarter Than His Enemies and Predecessors: He Deserves a Second Term

Adebayo Adeniran
4 min readNov 29, 2022

And history will be very kind to him

Joe Biden via Wikimedia Commons

Not even Reagan had full measure of his Russian counterpart as the current incumbent does.

For all of Ronald Reagan’s silver tongued performances on the global stage, USSR’s disintegration had little to with the former Hollywood actor’s actions. The Soviet empire collapsed all by itself.

Back in the 1980s, things were much more straightforward: you knew who the enemy was. And the enemy was the “evil empire”which had Eurasia in its pocket.

But today, America’s enemies are many and actually quite complex. It has to worry about the Chinese, Russians, Iranians, North Koreans, Saudi Arabia under MBS and to a much lesser degree, India.

Joe Biden has had to worry about the Chinese claiming full ownership of the South China sea, an invasion of Taiwan; the man-child in Pyongyang firing missiles at his southern neighbour; Iran’s nuclear ambitions and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and not forgetting the Middle East.

While it may be true to state that these problems aren’t any different from what Obama, Bush Jr. and Trump had to grapple with, but what’s different has been the manner with which these issues were handled.

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Adebayo Adeniran

A lifelong bibliophile, who seeks to unleash his energy on as many subjects as possible