VDH’s excellent summary:
Recently, Secretary of State Antony Blinken bragged in an op-ed that “The Biden administration’s strategy has put the United States in a much stronger geopolitical position today than it was four years ago.”
What?
This is the latest campaign fantasy narrative also served up by Harris-Walz—analogous to the four-year untruth that “the border is secure” and “the economy is strong”—as they try to explain why the world utterly blew up on their watch and due to their own actions…
VDH lists all they ways Blinken/Biden/Harris etc have failed. What I want is someone to ask Mr Blinken what he means by “in a much stronger geopolitical position”. I would think that that would mean an ability to control possible events by forthright pronouncements based on our ability to enforce well-defined consequences. What does he mean? In what world does he think anyone has any respect for anything he says or belief that there will be consequences for anything they do?
Well from a certain point of view they succeeded in destroying so much of this country relations with the worlds
Well the cynic in me thinks, “What else is he going to say?”
Something struck me as strange and did some digging. This the first time since at least the Coolidge Administration that the none of the big 4 cabinet slots (Defense/War/Navy, State, AG, Treasury) have been vacated during a presidential term. In fact of the 15 executive departments in the cabinet there have only been two vacancies during the Biden Administration. That is extraordinary. We can speculate as to why.
Of the Big 4, Yellen and Austin have been invisible. Obama;s Sec Defs (Gates, Hagel) used to complaint hat they were kept out of the loop, Austin was probably picked because he was willing to be quiet. Yellen? She briefly emerged from her cave 2 ½ years ago over Russia sanctions but haven’t seen much of her since…. hmmmm
Blinken is out of gas and is just slap-happy at this point; he’ll say anything he’s so exhausted I bet they all are, 4 years in. We’ve been watching Biden’s foibles but in reality the whole Administration has just run out of gas. I mean if you’re Blinken do you blame him for being punch drunk? He spends all this time to get to the top and he delivers a carp show. Nobody in the world cares he what he thinks.
Blinken is mr smithers he has been at bidens side since he got out of harvard he went to the same lycee with robert malley the iranian agent whose father was a nasserite and plo supporter
Malley was of like minds with jamal khashoggi the qatari agent at odds with prince salman over among other things the houthis
At this point, Biden (whoever is pulling his strings), Kamala (ditto), Blinken, et al. — indeed, what else can they say?
You have to wonder how they (some of them) can even sleep straight at night after telling these utter lies. Or worse, they’ve told these lies so often they think it’s actual reality.
In any case, GET THESE DANGEROUS CLOWNS OUT OF OFFICE AS SOON AS LEGALLY POSSIBLE.
Blowing up the world when you don’t approve of it makes perfect sense. A controlled implosion before a big new rebuild. Oh….the guys you trusted to do the controlled implosion were incompetent clowns? Well, eggs and other stuff has to get broken to make an omelet.
Victor Davis Hanson is a national treasure. His best line, repeated many times in many different forms in his columns: “They are immune to the consequences of their ideology.”
That one sentence helped me really understand the the Left and their motivations.
“They are immune to the consequences of their ideology.”
Exactly. They seem to think that when they have blown up the United States as it exists – and the western world with all it’s courtesies, comforts and security – that everything they take for granted will somehow still be there for them.
@tacticus
Still waiting for the omlette. It has been overdue since 1917.
When it comes time for a reckoning, there are plenty of Republicans that need to be in the dock too.
The only sin the Left recognizes is to be “right wing.” So when they look upon the world they see a global Sodom and Gomorrah full of happy prosperous right-wing peasants and kulaks who don’t even have the grace to feel guilty about their evil, sinful, sinfully evil and evilly sinful right-wingism.
So yes, they see blowing up the world as a victory, as a confirmation of their good works and their faith. They look forward to when the wrath of Saint Marx and the Barren Mother Gaia blow up the world, with fire and flood (“Climate change!”) and plague and famine and war.
(And if any of their own number look back with regret, they deserve to be turned into a pillar of sequestered carbon for that sin.)