Biden’s foreign and domestic policy appears to consist largely of virtue signaling. Whether about the border with Mexico, Covid, murders in Georgia, Putin, Uighurs, Burma the signal contains a large measure of Wokeness. The question is whether the policy is all virtue signaling or whether there is something solid behind the appearance.
Both Xi and Putin are aware of the Wokeness strategy and have publicly responded to the “killer” and human rights violations accusations by playing back the Democratic party’s Black Lives Matter and minority victimization rhetoric with glee.
The Mexican border disaster is a disturbing indicator that Biden’s policy is too much hat and no cattle in areas of performance the public can actually measure. How much more is hollow? Nobody at this early stage can say but American enemies are trying to find out.
Putin in particular is probing aggressively focusing his fire and indeed personalizing the target on Biden. The sense in the Kremlin, fostered perhaps by the protection around Joe, may be that he is the weak point.
It seems certain that the probes will increase in the coming weeks. And then the truth will be known.