How many Americans living abroad must flee for their lives on a dime’s notice, and how many U.S. embassies must be shuttered under threat of attack, under the woefully incompetent Biden regime?
So far, we’re at two — too many — foreign policy disasters under the current Democratic administration. First, the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan last summer, which needlessly caused the deaths of 13 U.S. military personnel. If that weren’t tragic enough for Biden’s media apologists at CNN, MSNBC and other left-wing outlets, thousands of Americans and U.S. allies were also trapped behind enemy lines for months following the botched withdrawal. To date, we still don’t know how many Americans and U.S. allies remain trapped under Taliban rule.
It’s possible we will never know; their stories may never be told.
Now, for an encore, Russian President Vladimir Putin is brazenly taking advantage of bumbling Biden’s transparent weakness by expanding Russia’s map lines and invading Ukraine in real time.
On Feb. 12, Americans living in the looming war-torn country were told by the U.S. State Department to flee immediately. This followed an order from the State Department instructing most U.S. embassy personnel in Kyiv to split. “American citizens should leave now,” Biden told news anchor Lester Holt during a recent interview on NBC News. “It’s not like we’re dealing with a terrorist organization. We’re dealing with one of the largest armies in the world. It’s a very different situation, and things could go crazy quickly.”
Repeat: “Things could go crazy quickly.” How comforting for Americans now scrambling to get flights out of Ukraine and Russia while Ukrainian citizens fear for their lives. But don’t worry, because Secretary of State Antony Blinken prioritized giving us his music playlist via the U.S. State Department’s official Twitter page over the Christmas holidays just a few weeks ago — not once, but eight times — while the omicron variant was raging and Russia was amassing an estimated 190,000 troops along the Ukrainian border.
Let that sink in. While Russia was bolstering its military forces preparing to invade Ukraine, America’s top diplomat was working on his Spotify playlist. Obviously, Blinken should’ve been implementing tough sanctions on Russia as a deterrent — before it invaded Ukraine — and taken other critical steps to rally NATO defense forces to avert war and/or prepare for the worst. But instead, we got Taylor Swift’s latest jam.
And to think the mainstream media and “Never Trumpers” told us for four years that former President Donald Trump was “unfit,” “dangerous” and a “chaos president.” Seriously, folks? Perhaps these oh-so-smart “journalists” and policy “experts” can give us their assessment now on how their buddy Biden is doing managing U.S. foreign policy.
I won’t hold my breath.
Adding to the now-certain threat of war, global destabilization and humanitarian crisis that are sure to follow is the Biden administration’s terribly misguided war on fossil fuels that reversed America’s energy independence achieved during the Trump administration. Biden’s terrible decision to halt new federal oil and gas leases and permits indefinitely last week couldn’t have come at a worse time as the war with Russia and Ukraine is expected to disrupt global oil supplies and drive up already high oil and gas prices for consumers.
The cancellation of the Keystone XL pipeline to appease Democrats’ far-left climate donors and special interest groups has already caused gas prices to soar dramatically, hurting the middle and working class while weakening America on the foreign policy front, as the U.S. is now beholden to OPEC and other despotic foreign nations that don’t share our values.
How do any of these Democratic-led policies strengthen the U.S. economy, uplift working families and fortify America on the world stage, when our current commander in chief must put his hand out begging for oil from countries that despise us?
Hint: They don’t.
I don’t know about you, but I think most Americans would take a mean tweet or two from the 45th president if that meant 40% lower prices at the pump, world peace and a secure U.S. border.
The midterm elections can’t come fast enough.
Adriana Cohen is a nationally syndicated columnist with Creators Syndicate. To find out more about Adriana Cohen and read her past columns, please visit the Creators Syndicate webpage at www.creators.com.
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Oh, it didn’t take just the Ukraine crisis to expose their weaknesses—that has been self-evident with everything they have touched.
If like in the old days, when two large armies faced one another, like David and Goliath, the two armies would each choose a champion to fight it out man to man with the victor taking all the spoils. Thanks to the traitorous media who gave us an age deprived weakling, all we have is Joe and his ice cream cone facing Putin armed to the teeth with tanks and missiles. Blame not THE PEOPLE who were deceived into electing a fool as the leader of the free world, blame the Main Stream media who lives in a reality of their own, about to tumble and crumble around our necks, where America pays a lot now, when if told the truth, would only have had to pay a little bit earlier. This CYA administration is running out of media blankets to hide under, and dependency baby bottles and thumbs to suck on. Just where are the adults? Locked down like the people in Kiev without energy to get to their jobs, that thanks to Joe, no longer exist.
American energy needs in times of war Trumps environMENTAL diversions every time. OPEN OUR PIPELINES NOW and arrest any and all who try to cripple us, up to and including the fool who occupies the Whitehouse whose foolish attempts to clean our air will soon have us all breathing radioactive fallout.
D0esn,t Russia feel overmatch taking on Ukrain by its self
The Russians are not alone, they have Joe Biden in their corner covering their six, and enriching them in enough Oil revenue to by arms to make the Ukraine suffer, paid for with American oil dollars that never should have left our shores to help Putin do what oppressors do best. In this case make a useful idiot out of an American President.
AND what the hell has happened, to that BILLIONS IN WEAPONS we gave TO Ukraine, so they could fight back?? Certainly looks to ME, like no one’s fighting back… SO WILL ALL those weapons, go into RUSSIAS hands?
The idiots (Democrats, RINOS and Independents) that voted for Biden the criminal, are going to get destroyed by super inflation (the kind we saw under Jimmy Carter). These people are the “useful idiots” of Lenin! The unfortunate thing is that we Conservatives will also face the brutality of Jimmy Carter inflation under Joe Criminal!
In times of impending war, only a traitor would keep oil pipelines closed and restrict USA oil production that can energize our allies in Europe’s ability to resist Putin, and cease putting oil profits into his pocket which he now uses to kill innocent civilians. OPEN THE AMERICAN/CANADIAN pipelines NOW. Open Government lands to drilling and we can worry about the environmental problems later when the war is over. You do not engage in environment social experiments in times of war or pandemics, only a traitor with the enemy’s best interests at heart would do this.
YET we still don’t see a SINGLE member of the GOP, calling out biden FOR THIS OUTRIGHT treason.
“under the woefully incompetent Biden regime” By design.
“The Lockdown ruse worked. Official edicts from state and federal offices have become a total mockery to the Constitution and the Rule of Law. And with each passing day, these abuses of power stray further and further from any “public health” related issue.
That development was totally by design.
In truth, leftist Democrats had long sought an excuse to open their floodgates of
power-grubbing corruption, to seize control over our Nation, never to relinquish it.
If WE the People DO NOT wake up and destroy this treasonous, dishonest, demonic Democrat Party.
We the People will serve and be slaves to this treasonous, dishonest, demonic Democrat Party!! 🙁 🙁 🙁
All of his SO CALLED weaknesses are right out of their (commies) playbook. Can you say ‘The Great Reset’??!! How about ‘One World ‘Order’??!!