The Biden 10-Step Plan for Global Chaos
Victor Davis Hanson / @VDHanson / April 14, 2023
Why is French President Emmanuel Macron cozying up to China
while trashing his oldest ally, the United States?
Why is there suddenly talk of discarding the dollar as the
global currency?
Why are Japan and India shrugging that they cannot follow the
United States’ lead in boycotting Russian oil?
Why is the president of Brazil traveling to China to pursue
what he calls a “beautiful relationship”?
Why is Israel suddenly facing attacks from its enemies in all
directions?
What happened to Turkey? Why is it threatening fellow NATO
member Greece? Is it still a NATO ally, a mere neutral, or a de
facto enemy?
Why are there suddenly nonstop Chinese threats toward Taiwan?
Why did Saudi Arabia conclude a new pact with Iran, its former
archenemy?
Why was Egypt secretly planning to send rockets to Russia to
be used in Ukraine, according to leaked Pentagon papers?
Since when did the Russians talk nonstop about the potential
use of a tactical nuclear weapon?
Why is Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador bragging
that millions of Mexicans have entered the United States, most of
them illegally? And why is he interfering in U.S. elections by
urging his expatriates to vote for Democrats?
Why and how, in just two years, have confused and often inco-
herent President Joe Biden and his team created such global chaos?
Let us answer by listing 10 ways by which America lost all
deterrence.
1) Biden abruptly pulled all U.S. troops from Afghanistan. He
left behind to the Taliban hundreds of Americans and thousands of
pro-American Afghans. Biden abandoned billions of dollars in U.S.
equipment, the largest air base in central Asia—recently retrofit-
ted at a cost of $300 million—and a $1 billion embassy. Our gov-
ernment called such a debacle a success. The world disagreed and
saw only humiliation.
2) The Biden administration allowed a Chinese high-altitude
spy balloon to traverse the continental United States, spying on
key American military installations. The Chinese were defiant when
caught and offered no apologies. In response, the Pentagon and the
administration simply lied about the extent that China had sur-
veilled top-secret sites.
3) In March 2021, at an Anchorage, Alaska, mini summit, Chi-
nese diplomats unleashed a relentless barrage at their stunned
and mostly silent American counterparts. They lectured the timid
Biden administration diplomats about American toxicity and hypo-
crisy. And they have defiantly refused to explain why and how
their virology lab birthed the COVID-19 virus that has killed tens
of millions worldwide.
4) In June 2021, in response to Russian cyberattacks against
the United States, Biden meekly asked Russian President Vladimir
Putin to at least make off-limits certain critical American infra-
structure.
5) When asked what he would do if Russia invaded Ukraine,
Biden replied that the reaction would depend on whether the Rus-
sians conducted a “minor incursion.”
6) Between 2021 and 2022, Biden serially insulted and bragged
that he would not meet Mohammed bin Salman, the de facto ruler of
Saudi Arabia, and one of our oldest and most valuable allies in
the Middle East.
7) For much of 2021, the Biden administration made it known
that it was eager and ready to offer concessions to reenter the
dangerous Iran nuclear deal—at a time when Iran has joined China
and Russia in a new geostrategic partnership.
8) Almost immediately upon inauguration, the administration
moved the United States away from Israel, restored financial aid
to radical Palestinians, and both publicly and privately alienated
the current Benjamin Netanyahu government.
9) In serial fashion, Biden stopped all construction on the
border wall and opened the border. During the 2019 Democratic pre-
sidential primary, Biden made it known that illegal aliens were
welcome to enter the United States—some 6-7 million did. He rein-
stated “catch and release.” And he did nothing about the Mexican
cartel importation of fentanyl that has recently killed over
100,000 Americans per year.
10) In the last two years, the Pentagon has embarked on a woke
agenda. The Army is short by 15,000 in its annual recruitment
quota. The defense budget has not kept up with inflation. One of
the greatest intelligence leaks in U.S. history just occurred from
the Pentagon.
The Pentagon refused to admit culpability and misled the coun-
try about Afghanistan and the Chinese spy balloon flight. The cur-
rent chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff called his Chinese com-
munist counterpart and head of the People’s Liberation Army to ad-
vise him that the U.S. military would warn the Chinese if it de-
termined an order from its commander in chief, former President
Donald Trump, was inappropriate.
This list of these self-inflicted disasters could be easily
expanded.
But the examples explain well enough why our emboldened
enemies do not fear us, our triangulating allies judge us unreli-
able, and calculating neutrals assume America is in descent and
too dangerous to join.
Yet without America, the result is a new Chinese order in
which, to quote the historian Thucydides, “The strong do what
they can and the weak suffer what they must.”**
This is similar to a recent post I made but Victor Davis
Hanson is one of my favorites.
We have reached a new low for this nation and the level of
corruption is beyond anything imaginable and yet with each day
Biden does more damage.
Liberal Americans remain clueless and can’t seem to have
no answers or solutions so we now have to ask God to save the
Christians that continue to ask for His grace.
Conservatively,
John
Conservativelyjohn.com 