[ April 24, 2024 ]
Victor Davis Hanson lists 10 ways the Biden Administration has crushed America’s deterrence, which has in a very short time destabilized the world. The list should have been expanded to include the Biden Administration’s handling of North Korea and Venezuela.
Victor Davis Hanson: We are terrifying our allies pic.twitter.com/umWLNmKY15
— Laura Ingraham (@IngrahamAngle) April 14, 2023
Our emboldened enemies do not fear us, our triangulating allies judge us unreliable, and calculating neutrals assume America is in descent and too dangerous to join. https://t.co/A43N77ojQY via @VDHanson
— Victor Davis Hanson (@VDHanson) April 13, 2023
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Biden’s endless missteps have led to utter chaos around the world
By The Blade, April 13, 2023
Why is French President Emmanuel Macron cozying up to China while trashing his oldest ally, the United States?
Why is there suddenly talk of discarding the dollar as the global currency?
Why are Japan and India shrugging that they cannot follow the United States’ lead in boycotting Russian oil?
Why is the president of Brazil traveling to China to pursue what he calls a “beautiful relationship”?
Why is Israel suddenly facing attacks from its enemies in all directions?
What happened to Turkey? Why is it threatening fellow NATO member Greece? Is it still a NATO ally, a mere neutral, or a de facto enemy?
Why are there suddenly nonstop Chinese threats toward Taiwan?
Why did Saudi Arabia conclude a new pact with Iran, its former archenemy?
Why is Egypt sending rockets to Russia to be used in Ukraine?
Since when did the Russians talk nonstop about the potential use of a tactical nuclear weapon?
Why is Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador bragging that millions of Mexicans have entered the United States, most of them illegally? And why is he interfering in U.S. elections by urging his expatriates to vote for Democrats?
Why and how, in just two years, have ad confused and often incoherent Joe Biden and his team created such global chaos?
Let us answer by listing 10 ways by which America lost all deterrence.
1) Joe Biden abruptly pulled all U.S. troops from Afghanistan. He left behind to the Taliban hundreds of Americans and thousands of pro-American Afghans. Biden abandoned billions of dollars in U.S. equipment, the largest air base in central Asia—recently retrofitted at a cost of $300 million—and a $1 billion embassy. Our government called such a debacle a success. The world disagreed and saw only humiliation.
2) The Biden Administration allowed a Chinese high-altitude spy balloon to traverse the continental United States, spying on key American military installations. The Chinese were defiant when caught and offered no apologies. In response, the Pentagon and the administration simply lied about the extent that China had surveilled top-secret sites.
3) In March 2021, at an Anchorage, Alaska mini-summit, Chinese diplomats unleashed a relentless barrage at their stunned and mostly silent American counterparts. They lectured the timid Biden Administration diplomats about American toxicity and hypocrisy. And they have defiantly refused to explain why and how their virology lab birthed the COVID virus that has killed tens of millions worldwide.
4) In June 2021, in response to Russian cyber-attacks against the United States, Biden meekly asked Putin to at least make off-limits certain critical American infrastructure.
5) When asked what he would do if Russia invaded Ukraine, Biden replied that the reaction would depend on whether the Russians conducted a “minor incursion.”
6) Between 2021 and 2022, Joe Biden serially insulted and bragged that he would not meet Muhammad bin Salman, the de facto ruler of Saudi Arabia, and one of our oldest and most valuable allies in the Middle East.
7) For much of 2021, the Biden Administration made it known that it was eager and ready to offer concessions to re-enter the dangerous Iran nuclear deal—at a time when Iran has joined China and Russia in a new geostrategic partnership.
8) Almost immediately upon inauguration, the administration moved the United States away from Israel, restored financial aid to radical Palestinians, and both publicly and privately alienated the current Netanyahu government.
9) In serial fashion, Biden stopped all construction on the border wall and opened the border. He made it known that illegal aliens were welcome to enter the United States unlawfully. Some 6-7 million did. He reinstated “catch and release.” And he did nothing about the Mexican cartel importation of fentanyl that has recently killed over 100,000 Americans per year.
10) In the last two years, the Pentagon has embarked on a woke agenda. The army is short by 15,000 in its annual recruitment quota. The defense budget has not kept up with inflation. One of the greatest intelligence leaks in U.S. history just occurred from the Pentagon.
The Pentagon refused to admit culpability and misled the country about Afghanistan and the Chinese spy balloon flight. The current chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff called his Chinese communist counterpart and head of the People’s Liberation Army to advise him that the U.S. military would warn the Chinese if it determined an order from its commander-in-chief Trump was inappropriate.
This list of these self-inflicted disasters could be easily expanded.
But the examples explain well enough why our emboldened enemies do not fear us, our triangulating allies judge us unreliable, and calculating neutrals assume America is in descent and too dangerous to join.
Yet without America, the result is a new Chinese order in which, to quote the historian Thucydides, “the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.”
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21 Comments
1 year ago
There is NOTHING any one can do to improve on the world chaos. It has to be 1 country at a time. THOSE ELITES AT WEF, are placing their plans in motion to destroy any kind of INDEPENDENCE, SOVEREIGNTY, AND RIGHTEOUSNESS in the world, 1 country at a time.
The Bible is very clear about what is happening and what is going to happen and there is no stopping it. Oh, G-d may slow it down a bit because of the prayers of the righteous, but the evil progression will prevail UNTIL JESUS RETURN TO SNATCH HIS PEOPLE AWAY, ALONG WITH THE REMOVAL OF THE HOLY SPIRIT. And then, IT WILL BE GLOBAL CHAOS AND EVIL LIKE YOU HAVE NEVER SEEN BEFORE.
SO, isn’t it time people began looking TO G-D instead of away from G-D FOR their answers, since HE IS THE ONE WHO CREATED MANKIND AND THE WORLD?
When G-d threw Satan out of Heaven, HE gave earth to Satan. THIS IS SATAN’S DOMAIN, folks.
YOUR ETERNAL SOUL WILL DEPEND ON WHO YOU CHOOSE TO FOLLOW/SERVE.
Maranatha!
1 year ago
If the goal was to murder the USA, the murderer would want to smear our name in every way so the rest of the world hated us. The ultimate premeditated murder of the USA would be by the hands of the rest of the world while the architects of the plot played defenseless victims.
If Biden is so obviously hostile to the USA, and so destructive to the world, why has the Democrat Party embraced and protected him for so long? Why do they advertise him and his destruction? Biden is a reflection of the Democrat Party, and the Democrat Party is a reflection of, and tool of, the greater family of families behind this premeditated murder.
The so called globalists are European centered, so the idea that they want China to rule the world is ridiculous. They want the USA and China to die in a war. They set the stage for a war of survival so we are forced to do their dirty work or die, and we are supposed to die anyhow. They want us in a war with Russia too. They want us in a war with a nuclear armed Iran too. Who benefits from the ruin of the USA, China, Russia, and the ME? (Others would be involved in such a war.) Europe.
Keep your friends close and your enemies closer. They seem very close to Islam and China. They seemed to embrace the black community too, but that didn’t end up the way it looked like it would at first embrace.
1 year ago
Reply to
Zeus
We need an interpreter to explain the gibberish you always produce, you are totally confused and rational thinking is way beyond your capability.
1 year ago
Reply to
turtlebrat
When you can’t keep up, you insult.
Why would anyone but China want China to dominate the world.
Tell me all about it, Brighteyes.
1 year ago
Reply to
Snowedin
What’s flying over your head, Einstein?
Apparently, everything is.
A 6th grader could figure this out.
1 year ago
Reply to
Snowedin
Attacking the messenger instead of disproving the message is a tactic used by scumbags. I hit the target or I confused a mental midget. Which is it? . Maybe you’re just too stupid to connect the dots ,and I’m giving you too much credit when I suggest you might be trying to discredit the messenger of a message that gets your goat.
You keep wallowing in the symptoms where they want you to focus, or you want everyone to focus, and I’ll think about the cause.
You should change your name to Snowjob.
D
1 year ago
Reply to
Zeus
“They seemed to embrace the black community too, but that didn’t end up the way it looked like it would at first embrace.” This comment alone is why you got my THUMBS DOWN! Color has NOTHING to do with what these DemoKKKratic National COMMUNIST Committee members are doing!!!
1 year ago
This is in no way “chaos” created by a senile old man. This is an all-out, coordinated attack carried out by a group of master strategists.
Unfortunately, before anyone had a clue what was going on, they had already taken over. The MSM, academia, the DNC and a substantial number of RINOs, law enforcement and all the associated “alphabet” agencies, Big Pharma, Big Tech, the legal system, etc.
We’re just totally screwed by the Green Weenie.
1 year ago
Reply to
JoeyJ
it is going according to the commie playbook by the bought and paid for group of traitors let by barry with joe fronting it – he may be senile but he still loves money
1 year ago
Oh Boy, Make Sure Black American Voters Don’t See This Joe Biden Video From 1993!
https://vidmax.com/video/196355-oh-boy-make-sure-black-american-voters-don-t-see-this-joe-biden-video-from-1993
1 year ago
We have the Fifth Column in the U.S. and it’s the anti American Biden!
D
1 year ago
I think there should be stickers just like the Biden ‘I did that’ ones, but with George Soros’ photo on it.
1 year ago
About point number one of this above list. The catastrophe that Joe Biden created in Afghanistan, it’s worse than terrible.
Just think of all those Americans and out good Afghans friends he abandoned in Afghanistan to be encountered captured tortured and murdered by the bloodthirsty Taliban.
To make matters even worse Biden admitted many unchecked and unvetted “refugees” into and throughout the United States , a number of them , not doubt are criminal and secret jihadists scheming and waiting for the time they consider to engage in murderous violence.
The innocent people who will be murdered by them will guilty and likewise Biden will also then have their blood on his sinister wicked and destructive hands.
All that evil in Afghanistan would never have happened if that President Pretender, Joe Biden just threw away and totally destroyed nearly twenty years of progress accomplished by the blood sweat and tears and even the deaths of many Americans as well as those blood, sweat and tears of America’s allies.
Also Biden threw away more than trillion of the American taxpayer’s money that was invested in for the betterment and development of Afghanistan.
This tragic scenario didn’t actually have to had happen in Afghanistan because the generals of the Pentagon who are strategic military advisers to the President strongly counseled Biden not to have a sharp, sudden withdrawal from Afghanistan but instead have and start a gradual drawback of the US armed forces after September 11, 2021.
The problem was that the arrogant conceited and stupid Joe Biden refused to heed or listen to the wise council of the intellects of the Pentagon. Therefore is this complete catastrophe with the Taliban total takeover of Afghanistan.
In the ancient but wisdom filled book by Sun Tzu entitled THE ART OF WAR, it is written “He will win who has the military capability and is not interfered with the sovereign.”
That awful incompetent and probably even treasonous villain, Joe Biden, ruined everything.
1 year ago
As for point number one of this top list . Joe Biden is the one who should really have an indictment charges filed against him .For many reasons.
One of those reasons is because that treasonous US “President” Biden, has aided and new continues to support that murderous Taliban enemy conquer Afghanistan and even let the America and American people hating Taliban have new high quality US military equipment.
Likewise, Biden is a traitor to all the families and friends of those US soldiers, who had shed their blood, were killed and terribly maimed for life by the Taliban. For creepy traitorous old Joe just ‘gave away” Afghanistan to the Taliban.
Biden also has betrayed many Americans and the good Afghans who really aided the US military in the land by abandoning them all to the vicious and murderous Taliban.
Furthermore, Biden really does not care about those thirteen Americans who died or the other American who died in Afghanistan because of either his incompetence or treasonous orders.
Therefore , Joe Biden is very, obviously is ether completely incompetent and despicably treasonous. In the first or second case Biden should not have been allowed be enter the Office of the Presidency in the first place.
As that catastrophe, he created in Afghanistan and letting the Talban obtain may high quality US military equipment.
As the former US President Theodore Roosevelt that the Office of the Presidency in not only a powerful position but “a very strong man” is needed for the Oval Office. Joe Biden is not a strong man but as already stated is weak and feeble.
Roosevelt also, rightly, believed “a man holding that very important Office “should be sharply watch by the people [and] held to a strict accountability by them.”
1 year ago
Concerning point number one on this above list. That horrible policy and directed action of that horrendously treasonous “president” Joe Biden in Afghanistan does indeed have a galvanizing effect to stir and impel the jihadists of many different Islamic terror/murder organizations around the world to continue even stronger than before.
Especially since they have their useful idiot and stooge sitting and resting in the Oval Office of the White House masquerading as a real, genuine, United States President.
That treacherous fiend old man Joe Biden asset and inspiration to America’s enemies around the world.
1 year ago
Very much related to item number one of this above ,top, list. If it wasn’t for Joe Biden who created that total catastrophe in Afghanistan there wouldn’t be a problem of Afghan refugees in the first place.
Furthermore, that Biden scheme to settle all those Afghan refugees in the different States in American is a recipe for disaster.
Take England for example , The United Kingdom has already experienced many vicious and malice-filled murderous Muslims terrorists attacks ,as those ,for example, those different malicious and deadly jihadists attacks in London and that horrendous mass murder jihad homicide bombing in the city of Manchester in which so many innocent young girls died.
Another way to illustrate the folly of foolish and reckless kindness is by the fable of Aesop which of a kind old farmer who saw outside a poor helpless viper that was freezing to death in the winter cold. The compassionate but foolish farmer felt sorry for that creature so he went outside and put it in his vest pocket to warm it up and therefore save its live. The viper revived in the warmed of vest ,felt better then bit the farmer through the vest and the kind but foolish farmer died a slow and painful death from that viper’s bite.
So it might be in America by Afghan jihadists playing the part of a desperate “refugee” from Afghanistan who claimed that he was just fleeing the Taliban. For no amount of caring and kindness will change the murderous and destructive nature of a violent /jihadist/Muslim because such a man has been infected with an evil and deadly nature because of the evil and deadly religion.
The duty of any genuine President of the United States is to protect the safety, security and lives of the American citizen.
1 year ago
About point number three, The reason why those Chinses diplomats were so arrogant and rude to those American officials is because they well understand that Joe Biden in his meetings with the Communist President of Red China, Xi Jinping, will always results in agreed to policies that will be very favorable to China and let him get away with his horrendous cruel oppression of the people of China as well as accepting Jinping international policies designed the lowering of the United States as a world power.
For Xi Jinping knows that Biden is very weak and feeble-minded and he even likes Socialism and will be very easily manipulated to be the useful idiot ,stooge , tool and” lap dog” of XI Jinping will able to use Biden to have do anything to wants him to do. In other words, Biden is his stooge and tool because he malleable, for old Joe very cognitively challenged since is an empty-headed mindless idiot.
For example, Joe Biden in a speech he declared Bogus “President” “Imagine had the tobacco industry been immune to prostitute being sued, come on.”
1 year ago
As for point number five. It needs to should be remembered that Vladimir Putin using the Russian military to invade and destroy Ukraine didn’t happen when President Trump was in the White House he kept Putin under control. If Donald Trump would still of President this Putin disaster in Ukraine would not have occurred. Now with Joe Biden masquerading as a genuine US President Putin has become totally out of control, irrational and very dangerous.
