Joe Blows Diplomacy

Suddenly I don't feel safe...

It makes me extremely sad as an American to see the Biden administration coming here with bizarre sex politics, trying to push them on Hungarians for no reason that benefits American national security or the economy. So, I want to say I’m sorry.

Tucker Carlson (to Hungarian audience)

In August, Joe Biden dared reporters to “name a single objective we’ve ever set out to accomplish that we’ve failed on.” How about his withdrawal from Afghanistan, preventing Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, keeping China’s spy balloons out of US airspace, or the Iranian nuclear deal? Don’t forget how he’s depleted US munitions inventories, invited reserve-currency competition to the US dollar, and pushed “woke” culture on tradition-steeped nations.

Why would Biden’s envoys try to export his party’s “woke culture” to nations that don’t want it? That was the point of Tucker Carlson defining “diplomacy” to a Hungarian audience: the point of diplomacy is not to hector other nations – it’s the job of our diplomats to win you to our side (Bush One winning German reunification from Gorbachev in 1990 with the Two Plus Four Plan comes to mind).

Lacking Bush One’s personal diplomacy skills, Biden is a bad pitchman with a bad product. Allies and rivals see an 82-year-old mumbling incoherently and walking zombie-like, and polls that show 70% of Democrats don’t want him to run again, 77% of all US voters say he’s “too old to be effective” in a second term, and a measly 31% of the country with a favorable view of him (source: ABC/Ipsos).

Why should allies accept cultural positions rejected by most Americans? 71% of US voters oppose Biden’s energy and climate positions, but he pressures India to abandon fossil fuels. 74% of Americans reject Biden’s transgender positions, but he flies LGBTQ flags at the US embassy in Bahrain. 76% of the USA dislike Biden’s Open Borders policies, but he badgers Hungary over its strict immigration policies (data from Democrat pollsters John Halpin and Ruy Teixeira).

Back to Carlson, who asked Hungarian Prime Minister Orban about Ukraine: “if you were in charge of NATO, what would you do?” Orban’s reply: “Peace. Immediately. Call back Trump, that’s the only way out.” Immediately? Not with Biden, whose aid to Ukraine just passed $113 billion, and whose secretary of state just decreed, “the United States will stand united with Ukraine, for as long as it takes.” Putin is, of course, despicable, but America’s commander in chief may be getting played.

Biden is supporting Ukraine “for as long as it takes” by using the Presidential Drawdown Authority to ship munitions from Pentagon inventories. Despite a cap of $11 billion annually, the drawdown threatens weapons readiness to defend US interests in Taiwan (semiconductors) and Arabia (petroleum). That Ukraine was depleting “US military stockpiles” was first reported by the Wall Street Journal in August 2022.

The Journal cited the depletion of 155mm howitzer shells that take over 13 months to replenish, requiring the US to now send 105mm shells and cluster munitions (banned in over 100 countries) to Ukraine, a move the White House calls a “bridge” until 155mm shell production ramps up. Now, Army Secretary Christine Wormuth says Ukraine will “continue using [cluster munitions] for a while.”

Even worse, Raytheon CEO Greg Hayes told The American Conservative that US shoulder-fired Javelins sent to Ukraine consumed “five years worth of Javelin production.” In August, the commander of US Air Forces in Europe admitted at a conference of US military allies in London that US stockpiles were not “nearly what we had at the heart of the Cold War” and “getting dangerously low – too low that we don’t have enough.”

Credit Vivek Ramaswamy for seeing this and saying the war in Ukraine makes war with China inevitable. He knows the results of a series of war games at the Center for Strategic and International Studies: the US will run out of long-range, precision-guided munitions – such as anti-ship missiles – in less than a week in a Taiwan Strait conflict. While Biden plays checkers, Putin and Xi are playing 3-dimensional chess.

By imposing crippling trade sanctions on Russia, Biden opened a new front in the China-US proxy war; a push for de-dollarization by Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa (BRICS). If they did undercut the dollar’s dominance, it would open a Pandora’s Box for the US economy. A BRICS currency is not likely, but that Biden’s given it legs is one more reason to question this president’s diplomacy.

I am an unapologetic Sinophobe, having watched China plow under the Arsenal of Democracy, leak COVID from a lab into Europe and the Americas, and fly a spy balloon flew over US military bases. We’ve seen how myopic liberals allow thugs with grand designs to start world wars; 1933, when England and America could have killed Hitler in the cradle.

That Biden claims perfection is a red flag: he lies because he is no diplomat. It’s Labor Day weekend, and Joe Biden is the worst president in US history.