World Leaders Have Noticed Biden’s ‘Deterioration’ — From Repeating the Same Stories to Not Even Recognizing Close Allies, Ian Bremmer Reports
Ian Bremmer, the president of the Eurasia Group, revealed on Tuesday that several world leaders have noticed President Joe Biden’s increasing “deterioration” and are concerned about his ability to serve four more years in the White House.
After speaking to several unnamed leaders at this week’s NATO summit, Bremmer told MSNBC host Katy Tur, “They don’t think he can serve another four years, and I will say that is true of every leader that I have met with that’s attending the NATO summit.”
He explained, “It’s not that they don’t like him. In fact, they’re deeply concerned. NATO allies, more than other countries around the world, are very concerned about what it would mean if Trump were to become president, given his stated policies on Russia-Ukraine, and on NATO, and on the European Union. So, I mean, it’s not like they’re saying, ‘We don’t like Biden. We want him to go.’ They just don’t think he’s up to it. They increasingly think he’s going to lose.”
After Tur questioned, “I wonder if there’s anything he can do behind the scenes to convince those NATO allies that he’s up for it?” Bremmer replied:
Again, they want him to win. Ok, I mean, maybe not Viktor Orban in Hungary, but the large, the vast majority of the foreign leaders that are here in Washington right now, they want Biden to win, and back in the Munich Security Conference when they all gathered in late February, I would say they thought he would.
Over the last few months, it’s been closer to a coin flip. Right now, they mostly think he won’t, and that is on the basis of them continuing to spend time with him over the course of the last one, two years. They’ve seen the deterioration. They’ve seen him slow down, and it’s not just physically slowing down. It’s repeating the same anecdote twice in an individual meeting. I’ve heard that from a world leader today. It’s not recognizing someone that he knew quite well when he came up and introduced them.
Bremmer concluded, “These sorts of things, you can’t not recognize them and it’s not because they don’t like him, it’s not because they don’t want him to be president. That’s not it at all. It’s because they feel like they have so much at stake in this election.”
Watch above via MSNBC.
