Russian President Vladimir Putin (L) and Chinese President Xi Jinping pose for a photograph during their meeting in Beijing, on February 4, 2022. (Photo by Alexei Druzhinin / Sputnik / AFP)
- China and Russia [do]… not respect the sovereignty of other states.
- Biden… should realize that there can be no accommodation with regimes that either seek the destruction of the United States—China and Iran, for instance—or regimes helping such enemies—most notably Russia. Biden should be supporting America’s friends to the hilt and seeking total victory for Ukraine and Israel.
- Continuing with existing policies is perhaps the most dangerous option of all. Those policies may sound reasonable, constructive, and pleasing to the ear, but they have in fact created the disastrous situation that now exists.
- Biden has opened the floodgates of Hell. Although nothing is inevitable, we are fast approaching the point where, as a practical matter, he will not be able to stop China and Russia, directly and through proxies, from merging existing conflicts and turning them into the next global war.
President Joe Biden’s foreign policy has collapsed. National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan effectively admitted that to CNN’s Dana Bash on February 4.
“You have said now a couple times on this show and you have said this many times before that the administration is trying to prevent this from spreading into a regional conflict,” Bash told Sullivan on “State of the Union,” referring to the war in Gaza.
The CNN anchor proceeded to list some of the places to which the Gaza conflict has now spread. Then she asked this:
“My colleague Peter Bergen smartly pointed out that this conflict involves 10 countries, at least four major terrorist groups, so isn’t this already a regional conflict?”
“Well, Dana, what I would say is that these are distinct but related challenges,” the national security adviser replied. Then he struggled to put the best face on the ongoing disaster:
“For example, what’s happening in the Red Sea is obviously to a certain extent triggered by what’s happening in Gaza, but it’s not the same thing. The Houthis aren’t just hitting ships related to Israel; they’re hitting a lot of different ships from a lot of different countries. And so we are trying to deal with the challenge to freedom of navigation in the Red Sea. That is a distinct challenge. The militia groups in Iraq and Syria are hitting our forces. We’re responding. And then of course Israel is dealing both with the challenge of Hamas in Gaza and the threat from Hezbollah in the north.”
Sullivan, although not his intention, confirmed the war in Gaza has already extended beyond that troubled strip.
The situation is actually worse than he let on. Hamas leaders have fled Qatar and are now hiding out in Qatari diplomatic missions in Morocco, where they are unwanted by the King, and in Algeria, where they are welcomed by the regime.
Iran, therefore, effectively has operatives at the western end of the Mediterranean. In December, the regime’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) publicly threatened to close off that body of water, just as it has essentially crippled shipping through the Red Sea. With terrorists close to the Strait of Gibraltar, the IRGC might be able to make good on what otherwise appears to be a wild boast.
Hamas operatives have also fled Qatar for Turkey, which controls access to the Black Sea, and Lebanon.
War, therefore, has spread farther than Dana Bash’s question suggests. Biden’s Afghanistan debacle of August 2021 was quickly followed by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, by China’s and Russia’s fueling insurgencies in North Africa, and by Iran’s attacks on Israel from Gaza and the Golan Heights.
Much as I dislike Biden, his Administration, and his policies, America’s peril from China, Iran, and to a lesser degree Russia cannot be entirely blamed on him. We have been enabling China and Iran for decades.
Would anyone be so bold as to even think of shutting off the flow of cheap, slave-made, products from China? I think not. We have become as addicted to cheap Chinese crap as we have to their fentanyl. It’s a disfunctional relationship at best, and an abusive one at worst.
As for Iran, it is they who have been at war with us (non-stop) since 1979. Since then, we have had multiple opportunities to weaken the Islamic regime, but we never bothered. Then the “traitor in chief” showed up and sent Billions of dollars to Iran on US cargo planes in the middle of the night.
In all of this, of course, Biden is complicit, plus he has now forced Russia to embrace China and Iran, instead of Europe….a colossal flub-up, like everything else he has done.
So enough of the hand-wringing. Let’s work towards getting the Woke Leftists, the Deep State apparatchiks, and the Neo Cons, out before we are done in once and for all.
I think that Trump could put our house back in order (if Congress cooperates), but he has so much “baggage” that it would be really ugly. I’m also wondering about Robert F. Kennedy Jr. I hear very little about him. I think that the MSM are trying as hard as they can to shut him down. And last I heard, Biden was still refusing to give him Secret Service protection. Would anyone here care to comment?
The West was shamefully coaxed by the Biden administration to get involved in the most corrupt Ukraine war. Who in his right mind could expect Pres. Putin to allow Ukraine to become a member of Nato and have US military bases all along his border. Just like Israel, he is adamant to protect his own country? The two people that will save the world from a WW3 will be Trump and Putin. Mark my words.