Since the Israeli invasion of Gaza, Russian President Vladimir Putin finds it easy to describe the “liberal international order” of US President Joe Biden as a “hollow shell,” especially after the latter announced that he would stand up to the International Criminal Court if it issued charges against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. After he had supported her accusation of war crimes in Ukraine against Putin.

This is what British writer Edward Luce sees in his article, which he begins with a rule among the Italian mafia that stipulates that whenever an operation is carried out, the question arises: “Who benefits?” Then the writer commented that there is no evidence that Russia was behind the Hamas operation on October 7. October 2023, but it was one of the main beneficiaries.

Luce stressed that whoever wants to reach the same result only has to ask the question: “Who is the loser?”, so that it becomes clear to him without difficulty that Biden is the loser from a geopolitical standpoint and that the movement of Israeli forces towards Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip is likely to only make the matter worse.

The writer says: Fate wanted the Hamas attack to coincide with Putin’s birthday to represent the geopolitical instability that resulted from this operation. A continuing gift to Moscow, including Biden’s position on the International Criminal Court when it comes to Netanyahu compared to his position on it regarding Putin.

Edward Luce, a Financial Times writer, pointed out that the irony is that before the Hamas attack, there was mutual admiration between Putin and Netanyahu, as each viewed the other as a strong leader who would spare no effort to cling to power, and that they shared their disdain. For American liberals, and “benevolent” Democrats in general, although Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and its rapprochement with Iran have affected that relationship, according to the writer.

Luce explained that Putin remains a beneficiary party from the repercussions of the Israeli army’s operations in Gaza, but his interests in this matter overlap with the interests of Netanyahu, who fears that the end of the war will lead to holding general elections in which the Likud Party is not expected to win, which means that he may go directly to prison. Because of his postponed corruption trials, he therefore “has every incentive to continue the war. This makes Netanyahu a major threat to Biden’s re-election prospects, just as Putin is.”

The writer concluded by saying: “Everything good for Putin is good for Donald Trump and therefore bad for Biden.”

Source: Financial Times + Aljazeera