President Joe Biden and the Democrats have led us straight into what might be another cold war with Russia, and part of the reason that’s happening is due to a combination of Biden’s incompetence and his weakness. When you’re the most powerful nation on the planet, strong leaders are required to defend the country from those who would like to see it collapse and take more power in its absence.

A weak leader is only going to invite challenges and bad faith deals because the strong leader knows that the weak leader will lean more toward appeasement. In the current situation, Russian President Vladimir Putin couldn’t have asked for a much better leader to push around than Biden.

It’s a fact that Ted Cruz highlighted in a recent interview to the Daily Wire:

“Literally, every region on Earth has gotten markedly worse since Joe Biden became president and worse from the perspective of U.S. national security,” Cruz told the Daily Wire. “Biden combines radical leftist ideology with manifest incompetence. And it’s a toxic brew, last seen with Jimmy Carter, and the debacle of foreign policy that unfolded under his disastrous administration, Biden’s administration in just a year is already worse than Jimmy Carter.”

Cruz further delved into Biden’s issues, including the fact that he has a habit of going around the back of our allies in order to act unilaterally. The most heinous of these examples is the Afghanistan withdrawal, where Biden effectively abandoned American citizens and our allies to the Taliban, all without consulting any of the other foreign leaders.

This move, according to Cruz, exposed a massive flaw in the Biden administration, and one that our enemies will take advantage of:

That catastrophe had enormous consequences in Afghanistan. But the consequences were felt around the world. Every enemy of America looked to the Oval Office and took the measure of the man in the Oval Office. And they concluded that Joe Biden is weak, feckless, and utterly ineffective. And as a result of the disaster in Afghanistan, the chances of a Russian invasion of Ukraine increased tenfold, the chances of a Chinese invasion of Taiwan increased tenfold. The enemies of America have determined that the Commander in Chief of the United States Armed Forces is too weak to do a damn thing about their hostile intentions.

Weakness inspires hostile activity, as Cruz pointed out, and one of the reasons so many of our enemies are acting out is because they watched as Biden displayed weakness in Afghanistan. As I noted earlier, the left has a habit of appeasement, which Cruz noted never works:

There is a reason that nobody studies at the Neville Chamberlain School of Foreign Affairs. Appeasement doesn’t work and it’s provocative. Appeasement increases the chances of military conflict, because bullies and tyrants are far more likely to engage in bad conduct in the face of weakness.

Cruz pointed out that Russia waited until a weak leader came along before they even began advancing on Ukraine, and did not attack during the years of Donald Trump’s presidency as they knew that Trump wouldn’t tolerate any troublemaking from Russia.

Cruz also noted that our enemies were assured of Biden’s weaknesses after two events, the first being Afghanistan and the second being the lifting of sanctions on Nord Stream 2. This gave Putin the green light to begin pushing Biden around and move closer to bringing back the Soviet Union. Ukraine is necessary to Russia for its energy production but an invasion would have damaged his ability to transport his main export, oil and gas, into Europe for sale. With the lifting of sanctions for Nord Stream 2, Russia has an undersea pipeline that goes directly from Russia to Germany, nixing the need to worry about damaging his oil sales through Ukraine.

This ambition of Putin’s has made war with America and Europe very close.

“The U.S. military has advised Congress that Europe is in the greatest jeopardy that it has been since 1945,” Cruz said. “That’s the result of Biden’s weakness.”

Cruz is correct. Biden has failed on every foreign policy problem he’s come across. On every box he’s supposed to have checked as a leader on the world stage, he’s missed the mark. Whether or not we like to admit it, Putin is a very cunning and ruthless leader, and far outclasses Biden as a statesman. Where Biden flounders and fails at every turn, Putin’s power and ambition are absolute.

Russia is on the rise while at the White House, it’s amateur hour.

Russia is a beast constantly ready to pounce and the only reason it stays back is by the power of a handler. When you’re the President of the United States you effectively become the handler of multiple dictators, and if you can’t handle them they will manhandle you.

This comes with so many severe consequences and we’re going to see some of them in the near future.