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He is currently the symbol of all evil: the old white man. It was invented by the left-green zeitgeist and is kept in circulation by dogmatic lecturers, doctrinaire tweeters and self-adhesives of the latest generation. In their eyes, the old white man is responsible for capitalism, colonialism, consumerism and all the worries of these days, months and years, which will inevitably lead to a climate catastrophe if a nuclear war does not put a speedy end to all disasters.

Now this living being of the present has made a journey in the flesh: from Washington to Kyiv, and then to Warsaw. It is symbolic that he stumbled while boarding his presidential plane on the gangway.

The old white man, as he lives and breathes as he should be, he wants to do justice to the role in the world theater meant for him: as precarious as he is obsessed with power.

How did Joe Biden get to Kyiv? Colleagues from the Süddeutsche Zeitung studied the course of the historic trip to the smallest detail: after dinner with his wife Jill in a restaurant known for especially delicious rigatoni, the US president did not go to bed, but at 4 o’clock flew to Przemysl: 15 in the morning Eastern Poland, from where he left at nine o’clock thundered by train through western Ukraine to Kiev.

In the capital of the war-torn country, Vladimir Zelensky and his wife Elena greeted him with the phrase: “Thank you for coming.” To which Joe Biden replied, “More importantly, how are your kids?”

Yes, and then the two presidents walked around Kyiv to the screech of air raid sirens. Their walk was a demonstration of global political power: Ukraine is Ukraine, not a breakaway province of Russia; Although it is the site of Putin’s criminal war, it is also part of the free world that America is watching.

With the images of his impressive visit, older white man Joe Biden awakened and inspired the West to its commitment that its values ​​are non-negotiable, that democracy and the rule of law are non-negotiable.

No other event for these left and right wingers – what’s the difference? – so pathetically spent years of the zeitgeist clarified the size and meaning of the figure of the Western symbol:

The old white man is a blessing to the world.

And Joe Biden, the prototype of this despised species, personifies the defense of freedom, in whose realm the detractors of this very freedom with their conspiracy theories about the evil deeds of the West in our really good world can dream of finally getting rid of the West. – and only the Global South would remain.

But what would the “Global South” – that myth of a better world that the media daily conjure up on a daily basis – be without the old white man with his science and economics, without his successes, progress and mistakes, without his unchanging ” I”? -criticism and self-correction?

What medicines – yes, what antibiotics, what vaccinations – will sick children be given in the Global South?

The people there know the answer. And it is not they who are arguing and mobilizing against the “Global North”. These are the spoiled offspring of a wealthy society, for whom the achievements of their fathers and great-grandfathers are a thorn in the side – where to find your own achievements?

But all their scolding and scolding is also part of freedom. Because freedom must be lived. Again and again. Smart and stupid. constructive and destructive.

While the old white man protects them.

Source: Blick