‘Staggeringly blunt rhetoric’ has marked Joe Biden’s first forays into foreign policy which have seen relations with both China and Russia sink to lows not see in decades. Biden dubbed Vladimir Putin ‘a killer’ this week and the first high level meeting with Chinese diplomats indicated the USA would raise concerns over actions by China “in Xinjiang (Uighurs), Hong Kong, Taiwan, cyber-attacks on the United States and economic coercion of our allies”.
Analysts say with no mutually binding arms control agreements now we are back to a situation similar to the one preceding the Cuban missile crisis. Some say it is the advent of a “second nuclear age”; more dangerous and unpredictable than the first with more states capable of building a bomb. Cyberwarfare is also a concern since it allows one power to seize control of another’s nuclear arsenal without firing a shot. As is the development of new technologies making possible the execution of extremely accurate nuclear strikes. ‘These factors have lowered the psychological barrier for using nuclear arms.’ The two nuclear superpowers are Russia, with approximately 4,300 warheads, and the US, with an estimated 3,800 warheads.
Joe Biden’s astrocartography puts his Mars/Descendant line through Moscow and Iran; and his super-confident, power-struggling Jupiter and Pluto Ascendant lines are triggered over Beijing. They will be his militant hot-spots at least for argument and ramped up rhetoric.
Every American president in recent times who volunteered or was pulled into military activity did so on a world zone through which one of their four Mars lines ran. For Roosevelt it was Pearl Harbor; for Harry Truman, Japan and Korea; for Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson and Ford, it was Vietnam; for Jimmy Carter, Iran. Margaret Thatcher’s Mars on the midheaven (the key Mars line) runs straight through the Falkland Islands, where Britain declared war after the Argentinian invasion in 1982. George W Bush’s Mars Midheaven line was through Afghanistan.
The relationship charts between the USA and Russia 1917 and 1991 suggest that the real deterioration and aggravation will come in 2022/23/24; with ripples of unease and some disruption from mid this year onwards. It does coincide with Putin’s 4th Term chart flagging up danger signs – this year with a frustrated/enraged tr Pluto conjunct the Mars and worse by 2023 with Solar Arc Pluto conjunct the Mars and major instability then as well. He’ll be feeling cornered both domestically and globally – and desperate leaders can lash out.
There’s no confirmed birth date for Putin, but the 7 October 1952 date does appear to make sense in relation to Trump with a controlling composite Sun Pluto. And in relation to Biden there are major jolts and jangles from the middle of this year.
China may be more of a war of words and commercial pressure. Biden’s relations with Xi Jinping will continue to be uneasy and undermining until 2023. The relationship charts between the USA and China 1912 and 1949 likewise show disappointment and dissatisfaction this year with 2023/24 looking more strained.
Nice foreshadowing, Marjorie!
Biden doesn’t have the comedy element that Trump had so going to be interesting…
I can only hope that he is a better president than Obama. For Americans who lived and worked or studied abroad, it was an absolute nightmare! He had the wonderful idea of forcing banks to record every single transaction that Americans made and report it to Homeland security.
Fortunately here in the UK it wasn’t so bad, but in most parts of the EU , many of these people found themselves without bank accounts at all, and consequently without jobs.
I think Harris runs in ’24 and wins.
WTF Biden did not “dub” or call Putin a killer. I’m sick of seeing this repeated ad nauseum here and elsewhere. Biden was asked a question during an ABC interview with George Stephanopoulos “Is Putin a killer?” Joe answered honestly, yes. That is a far cry from “dubbing” or “calling” someone a killer. Words matter and most people only read headlines, if that. so we end up with a storyline that isn’t what actually happened. I was proud and relieved to see a strong and honest response from Biden, and surprised at what a whining thin skinned baby Putin was about it. You’d think he’d wear it as a badge of honor, since he loves to be seen as tough. But his response showed him to be quite the oppose.
Calm down. White house has issued a statement confirming Biden does not regret calling Putin a killer.
Except he didn’t actually call him a killer, which was the point of my post, lost on you apparently. SMH
The hostilities were already there, it’s just that Russia and China had sort-of-plausible deniability as they conducted cyber-warfare, & spread online misinformation. Meanwhile Trump had Putin’s back as huge, still undetermined amts of sensitive data were stolen from multitudes of sites. Many agree that the mysterious attacks on diplomatic staff in Cuba and elsewhere are likely by Russia.
True that Biden hasn’t been very ‘diplomatic’ (sometimes making me cringe a bit), but it’s both his blunt style and his (and our) need to have the US reassert itself vs those 2 adversaries who only respect strength. I have no problem with that, as long as he has a plan, is ready to back up whatever he declares, and isn’t just blowing hot air.
But aren’t Cuba and Russia friends, though? They certainly were for a decades when Russia helped them out until the Soviet fell in 1991 culminating in a very hard time for Cuba for a few years. I believe their connections are still strong. In 2014, Putin visited Cuba announcing he was going to remove 90% of Cuba’s $35 billion national debt. He also announced he was going to invest in Cuba’s offshore oil industry. So, I’m not so sure it was Russia in this instance.
I don’t think Biden is being arrogant. I think it’s good that he is standing up to Putin. Someone has to do it.
Yes, but there is hitting a hornets nest with a baseball bat and there is taking a more diplomatic approach to eradicate the problem so fewer people get stung. It’s his approach that is going to rile up an unpredicatable, angry enemy. It’s not the smartest way to bring down the oppsition.
@Jo, why on Earth should the US, which is superior to Russia on almost any given metric, try to appease them? Especially when Russians have never respect meek behavior like that.
Also, Putin is anything but “unpredictable”. He is a KGB appatrachik through and through. A petty officer trying to make a buck at a safe posting within Warsaw Pact who stroke real gold. When you realize his priority is ans has always been profiting from a system, you just can interpret his every move.
I’m not pro-Russian. But I think there are many ways in keeping an enemy in line. Alara has cleared up what was actually said and how Biden said it. But had Biden or whichever President said it, becoming aggressive is usually not the way to bring an enemy down. Sun Tzu would say, “Supreme excellence consists of breaking the enemy’s resistance without fighting / The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.
One of Russia’s great strengths is the way they manipulate the global internet with propaganda to weaken their enemies. They have been doing this in different formats one way or another for 100+ years. They even had (and still may have) a department at the Kremlin to focus on this. They have it down to a fine art form. One way to keep them in line could be to regulate and monitor social media platforms. But until higher office focus on this, Russia are running loose. There is mounting evidence that Russians are briliant when it comes to weapons of massive disinformation that destabilise countries and governments. And guess what? It’s working very well. Too well, in fact. Better yet, if possible, cut off Russia’s internet reach to the Western world. That would help sever Russia’s encroachment onto the global platform. And who is to say Putin cannot employ his cronies for a mass poisoning situation anyway the minute he feels truly cornered?
My argument is, almost every America appears to be looking to start a war with some other country. Since 1776 the US has been at war 225+ years out of its 245 years. It’s a shocking record and also alludes to why they are so powerful. Which I think is deeply ingrained by its military industrial complex identity. I’m all for taking on bullies. But war rhetoric, these days, is not the best way forward. More often than not it results in the killing of innocent people. Naive as I am.
Hi Marjorie, Thank you for a very interesting post, I read an article by another astrologer who said that Joe Biden has Saturn-Uranus conjunction in the Seventh House. He believes suggests Joe Biden attracts trouble.
I have concerns about China and it’s empowerment which I feel is going to be challenged around or under the waters of Taiwan. I also feel that a slightly more assertive Japan and Taiwan may become more friendly. Does the astrocartography indicator of the Pluto line indicate a transforming relationship with Japan and USA.
Sorry, Joe, I see Biden as the positive side of Pluto in Capricorn emerging at last. He is turning into a surprisingly good and progressive President standing up for what’s right in the world while being transparent about the flaws of his country. My only concern is that he will be too old or unhealthy to run in 2024.
Seems like Biden is showing the typical Pluto in Capricorn arrogance when it comes to leadership? I really don’t think America can take a moral high ground on any of this considering their own history in regards to sticking their nose in other people’s business and creating and partaking in wars. I think diplomacy is Biden’s best bet to navigate history out of its usual negative patterns. And also to deal with unpredictable leaders like Putin. Hasn’t it been mentioned on here that Joe Biden will be the last collapsing dinosaur of the Pluto in Capricorn era before Aquarius comes into view to change things? It will be interesting to see how this plays out.