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On the eve of the October 7 massacres, National Security Advisor bragged in an essay that his Mideast portfolio was “quieter than it has been for decades”. Now we are on the verge of a multifront Middle East war. How did Joe Biden inherit a decades-long regional calm and turn it into a precursor to a gargantuan war?
[1] Talk loudly and carry a twig. Issue hollow Obama-like “redlines” or serial Biden threats to aggressive enemies like the vapid “Don’t!” Witness a U.S. President who works a 3-day week, struggles to read a teleprompter, and shouts more at conservative Americans than at America’s enemies.
[2] Destroy hard-won deterrence. Abruptly pull out of Afghanistan. Abandon $50 billion in weapons to terrorists. Abandon a new $1 billion embassy. Abandon a $300 refitted air base. Abandon thousands of NATO allies, thousands of U.S. contractors, and thousands of Afghan allies. Lose 13 Marines in a horrific scramble to get out, while killing collateral Afghan civilians in a supposedly “righteous strike”. Call the entire American humiliation an impressive withdrawal.
[3] Sit passively while a Chinese spy balloon traverses the continental U.S. Shoot it down only after days of escalating public outrage. Be afraid to call the Chinese out for the Wuhan-lab-generated, gain-of-function Covid-19 virus. Let Chinese diplomats dress down our silent and stunned secretary of state and national security advisor on American soil in Anchorage.
[4] Assure Vladimir Putin that the U.S. reaction to a preemptive invasion of Ukraine would hinge on whether it was a major or “minor” invasion. Delay $100 million in military aid to Ukraine as Putin massed on Ukraine’s borders in hopes such forbearance would be reciprocated. Implore Putin to be more selective in his cyber targeting of U.S. infrastructure and institutions.
[5] Coddle terrorist Iran. Seem eager to resume the Iran Deal. Lift sanctions. Allow $100 billion in oil profits to flow into Iranian coffers. Restore aid to the terrorist Palestinian authority and Hamas. Ignore Hezbollah’s terrorism. Remove the terrorist designation of the Houthis. Mostly ignore over 120 Iranian attacks on American installations. Transfer suspended funds to Iran at the rate of $1.2 billion for each American hostage it took.
[6] Pressure Israel not to destroy Hamas—and not to reply to missile and drone attacks on the Israeli homeland. Threaten to cut off military aid to the only democratic government and longest U.S. ally in the Middle East should it finish off Hamas. Signal the Middle East that there is growing distance between Israel and America. Try to subvert if not overthrow the elected government of Israel. Transfer U.S. weapons stocks from Israel to Ukraine. Ignore thousands of missiles launched by Hamas and Hezbollah, and 100,000 Israelis internally displaced from their homes.
[7] Run up the U.S deficit by $1 trillion every 100 days through reckless spending for entitlements, massive green subsidies, and DEI initiatives—while neglecting American shortages of munition stocks, arms, ships, and planes.
[8] Recalibrate the U.S. military by substituting DEI criteria for past meritocracy. Accuse white males of being suspect white supremacists, then investigate them, then find no such evidence—and then suffer a shortage of a record 41,000 recruits. Lose the confidence of the American people in the military, so that less than half the population polls high confidence in the armed forces. Render the Uniform Code of Military Justice a mere construct.
[9] Destroy the U.S. border for rank political purposes. Cancel all prior border enforcement. Abandon construction of the border wall. Allow in 10-million illegal aliens, among them thousands from hostile nations and some with terrorist ties. Provide generous subsidies, exemptions, and entitlements to immigrant lawbreakers, not always accorded to the U.S. poor.
[10] Lose control of the world’s maritime commercial corridors. Allow the Chinese to harass allies in the South China Sea and the Philippine Sea. Allow the Houthis to shut down the Red Sea. Allow Iran to hijack ships in the Straits of the Hormuz. Witness the Black Sea become off-limits to maritime traffic.
Jeff Bargholz says
Look at fake President Joke Bidumb in that photo. Trying to hold a shit in his adult diapers with an ugly grimace. Or maybe he’s straining to squeeze it out. It’s hard to tell with his beady eyed buzzard face.
Chris Shugart says
Ouch, that’s harsh. But a fair observation nonetheless..
Jojo says
Let’s stop pretending publicly that old poopy pants is president. Obama is president. He works for the Muslim Brotherhood and he works for Iran. And the fact that the do-nothing Republicans can’t even impeach the geriatric speaks volumes about just how captured this government is. Suddenly, I know how the Polish prime minister felt when Churchill and Stalin signed their “naughty agreement,” throwing the Polish citizens to the wolves.
Joe Esposito says
Brandon is doing the job Obama didn’t have the guts to do.
Destroy America is the Democrat parties campaign slogan.
Peter says
I would add two more:
Use the DOJ and FBI to go after anyone who disagrees with or opposes your policies,’
Tear down the statues of the ancestors of people who have traditionally been the main source of military recruits.
Ted says
Yup! Absolutely, and don’t forget about uniting with tech companies to steal an election and silence normal people for being patriotic and trying t on jail you political opponents
Hardball1Alpha says
Subset of item #9: Flood western nations with millions of instigators, infiltrators and insurgents who are extremely effective at intimidating western politicians into voting against robust deterrence, ipso facto, actively aiding our enemies..
aristotle cam says
Mr Hanson- your list is all true, but, how did we get here? This list is treason and it’s here because either 1) our
ELECTED politicians on both sides of the aisle are feckless or 2) our ELECTED politicians are waiting for American
citizens to do their work for them. Look=it’s taken 3 1/2 yrs to try and get Mayorkas out of office and they probably
will not succeed. FECKLESS!
Kynarion Hellenis says
“The war, therefore if we judge it by the standards of previous wars, is merely an imposture. It is like the battles between certain ruminant animals whose horns are incapable of hurting one another. But though it is unreal it is not meaningless. It eats up the surplus of consumable goods, and it helps to preserve the special mental atmosphere that the hierarchical society needs. War, it will be seen, is now a purely internal affair. In the past, the ruling groups of all countries, although they might recognize their common interest and therefore limit the destructiveness of war, did fight against one another, and the victor always plundered the vanquished. In our own day they are not fighting against one another at all. The war is waged by each ruling group against its own subjects, and the object of the war is not to make or prevent conquests of territory, but to keep the structure of society intact. The very word “war,” therefore, has become misleading. It would probably be accurate to say that by becoming continuous war has ceased to exist. The peculiar pressure that is exerted on human beings between the Neolithic Age and the early twentieth century has disappeared and has been replaced by something quite different. The effect would be much the same if the three superstates, instead of fighting one another, should agree to live in perpetual peace, each inviolate within its own boundaries. For in that case each would still be a self-contained universe, freed forever from the sobering influence of external danger. A peace that was truly permanent would be the same as a permanent war. This–although the vast majority of Party members understand it only in a shallower sense–is the inner meaning of the Party slogan: WAR IS PEACE.”
-George Orwell, 1984
Copied and pasted from this astute article: https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2024-04-15/sober-analysis-war-health-state
CraigAustin says
I am afraid to say this but, this is a situation that the 2nd Amendment was meant to prevent. Unfortunately it didn’t, now it may be needed to resolve it instead.
World@70 says
That is the very reason Joe Biden and the left are dedicated to revoking the 2nd Amendment and confiscating the firearms of all law abiding citizens.
CraigAustin says
All these issues arise when politicians are not afraid of the people they are tasked to represent.
Kasandra says
Or when you have a whole cadre of moronic, delusional, spineless people who think they are the smartest and bestest beings ever running the government.
Chaya says
Are they afraid? Yes and No. Yes or they would not have staged Jan 6 and jailed those poor souls who believed they too could protest and peacefully without weapons. That shows a government in fear. Indictments of Trump are fear. And censorship is stark terror.
That said, we have not given them much reason for fear. We babbled endlessly about vaccines instead of addressing an obviously stolen election. We watched mass murder through a lab created virus , disruption to business, education and normal life without responding with force. Our border is open to invasion and no one has thought to shoot at the invaders. Some become despondent and turn to the drugs in instead of finding solutions. We have shown only scattered and small efforts to unseat the dictators.
I had hoped for solutions rather than submission. So perhaps their fears are allayed by now.
If so, it seems good time to give them a surprise.
Steve Chavez says
He’s been saying DON’T to his young daughter: “DON’T TELL MOMMY!”
Floyd Looney says
Israel and Iran don’t really have the ability to invade to each other. They can lob missiles or drones at each other, Israel MIGHT be able to get some F-35’s in there with great difficulty or maybe launch from a submarine.
Chris says
It is long past time for the US citizens to cull the herd in D.C. Any politician, staff member, bureaucrat, advisor, appointee, consultant or custodian emptying trash cans for for 20 years needs to be terminated post haste. Same f’ing people cause the same f’ing problems. Fire each and every one of them.
ola infree says
Let’s not forget the Biden admin back-channel efforts to undermine Netanyahu’s leadership via election interference.
jcr says
Vic. I sleep well knowing that our betters, Brandon, McConnell, Schumer and many others are fully insulated from their “leadership” decisions and are looking after me.
I sleep well knowing they have the best interests of America in their hearts,
They are Great (traitor) Patriots.
I am confident John A., John Q.. A., Thomas J., Ben F., George W., James M.,: all of our great founding Patriots; would have a special greeting for them…
Hey kids who are reading this. Do you know any of these persons are?
…ah, never mind. Watch 1619 again…
Left2Right says
Fk Romney, McConnell, Ryan. . . their brat spawn. . . and all of their ilk.