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Line 184: − − ==Foreign policy== − {{Cquote|<big>Joe Biden has been wrong on nearly every major [[foreign policy]] and [[national security]] issue over the past four decades.</big>|||[[Robert Gates]]<ref>https://freebeacon.com/politics/obamas-former-defense-secretary-slams-bidens-foreign-policy-credentials-age/</ref>}} − {{See also|Biden/Harris regime foreign policy}} − Biden revived [[Adolf Hitler]]'s ''[[Lebensraum]]'' program to secure territory in [[Eastern Europe]] and Ukraine for [[Western]] interests. Biden and Democrats insisted that supplying weapons to the neo-Nazi fascist Ukrainian regime was to "defend [[democracy]]." The Ukrainian regime came to power in 2014 in a U.S.-backed [[coup]] that included the support of Ukrainian anti-Russian neo-Nazi paramilitary organizations.<ref>https://moderndiplomacy.eu/2018/06/04/how-and-why-the-u-s-government-perpetrated-the-2014-coup-in-ukraine/</ref> India, Brazil, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Venezuela, Iran and China rejected Biden's sanctions scheme against Russia,<ref>https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/china/china-snubs-us-on-russia-saying-he-who-tied-the-bell-to-the-tiger-must-take-it-off/articleshow/90316107.cms</ref> which only did more to hurt American consumers than Russia or Putin. Bishop Talbert Swan of the [[NAACP]] condemned the Biden-backed Ukrainian regime during the [[2022 Russia-Ukraine conflict]]: − {{quotebox-float|"White folks in Ukraine are: blocking Black people from getting on trains, dragging Black people off buses, denying shelter to Black people in freezing temperatures, and holding Black students at gunpoint."<ref>https://twitter.com/TalbertSwan/status/1497922289085648898</ref>}} − On March 28, 2022 U.S. dictator Joseph Biden trashed the November 1985 joint declaration issued by [[President Reagan]] and [[Mikhail Gorbachev]] at the Geneva Summit which read,<ref>[https://www.europeanleadershipnetwork.org/commentary/the-reagan-gorbachev-statement-background/ The Reagan-Gorbachev Statement: Background], European Leadership Network, 17 November 2021.</ref> "a nuclear war is unwinnable and must never be fought" when Biden issued an updated version of the National Defense Strategy (NDS).<ref>[https://www.armscontrol.org/act/2022-04/news/biden-policy-allows-first-use-nuclear-weapons Biden Policy Allows First Use of Nuclear Weapons], Arms Control Association, April 2022.</ref> − − Biden junta foreign secretary Antony Blinken announced in a speech at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies as part of the [[Zbigniew Brzezinski|Brzezinski]] Lecture Series on September 13, 2023 after the failed 2023 [[Ukraine counteroffensive]], "The old world order is over...One era is ending, a new one is beginning, and the decisions that we make now will shape the future for decades to come."<ref>https://youtu.be/yXd_KDsOpSQ</ref> − − ===Ukraine adventurism=== − [[File:Biden-Pozharskyi-email.jpg|right|350px|thumb|Burisma exec thanks Hunter for introducing him to his father, Joe Biden.<ref>https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/Biden-Pozharskyi-email.jpg</ref> Biden has always denied any knowledge or involvement with his son's business activities or associates.]] − {{See also|Ukraine aid|Biden-Ukraine scandal}} − Ukraine functions as the corrupt [[money laundering]] operation for [[Washington, D.C.]] politicians to receive [[kickback]]s of taxpayer money from their financial support into Ukraine.<ref>https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/02/22/biden-delivers-remarks-on-ukraine-video-and-transcript/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=biden-delivers-remarks-on-ukraine-video-and-transcript</ref> In May 2021 it was revealed that Joe Biden met with Ukrainian, Russian and [[Kazakh]] business associates of Hunter Biden in the private “Garden Room” at Café Milano,<ref>https://nypost.com/2021/05/26/hunter-biden-arranged-secret-dinner-with-business-partners-and-vp-joe/</ref> a Georgetown institution whose catchphrase is: “Where the world’s most powerful people go" in April 2015 while Biden was vice president. The following day, April 17, Hunter Biden received an email from Vadym Pozharskyi, an executive of Burisma, to thank him for introducing him to his father. − {{quotebox-float|“Dear Hunter, thank you for inviting me to DC and giving an opportunity to meet your father and spent [sic] some time together....It’s realty [sic] an honor and pleasure.”}} − Burisma was paying Hunter $83,333 a month to sit on its board a the time. Biden has always denied any knowledge of or involvement with his son's business or associates. − <!--Biden ordered vital military aid to Ukraine to be withheld.<ref>https://www.politico.com/news/2021/06/18/white-house-ukraine-military-lethal-weapons-495169</ref> President Donald Trump was impeached under the false pretense of withholding military assistance from Ukraine, which in fact he never did. Prior to Biden's moves to appease Russian President Vladimir Putin, and Biden's widely criticized meeting with the Russian leader in Geneva in June 2021,<ref>https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/16/europe/vladimir-putin-met-joe-biden-and-got-what-he-wanted-intl-cmd/index.html</ref>--> − − While ignoring the U.S. southern border, the Biden regime escalated tensions with Russia over the sacred "inviolability" of Ukraine's border in an effort qualm questions over American leadership within NATO caused by the Afghan debacle.<ref>https://www.foxnews.com/politics/democrats-ukraine-bill-touts-inviolability-borders-party-ignores-us-crisis</ref> − − Writing in ''[[Newsweek]]'', [[Lt. Col. Daniel Davis]] said, − {{quotebox-float|"US leadership would be wise to adjust its policies to reflect the reality of Ukraine’s slim chances against Russia’s fortified lines...[[Washington, D.C.|Washington]] has spent nearly $113 billion over the course of this war, provided Ukraine with an astounding volume of modern arms and ammunition, and delivered an impressive array of training and intelligence support...After almost a year of preparation, it hardly dented the Russian lines...Rather than repeating over the next year and a half what has already not worked—potentially costing Ukraine yet additional hundreds of thousands of losses—it’s time to try something that has a chance to succeed...In other words, it’s time to acknowledge objective reality and employ policies that can work”.<ref>[Mainstream “Newsweek” Wakes up to Reality: “$113 Billion in Modern Arms Hardly Dented Russian Lines”], By Richard Abelson, ''[[Gatewaypundit]], Sep. 21, 2023.</ref>}} − − =====Compromised by corrupt Ukrainian oligarchs===== − {{See also|FBI summary of confidential human source's meeting with Burisma executives|Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists|Alexandra Chalupa|}} − Biden restored the Obama era support for Ukrainian [[Neo-Nazi]]s.<ref>https://russia-insider.com/en/ukraine/washington-post-ukrainian-neo-nazis-are-romantics/ri312</ref> On March 1, 2021 Biden funneled $125 million in grants to Ukraine,<ref>[https://www.defense.gov/Newsroom/Releases/Release/Article/2519445/defense-department-announces-125m-for-ukraine/ defense-department-announces-125m-for-ukraine/]</ref> a country his son has extensive investments in.<ref>https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/03/biden-gang-already-deals-ukraine-125-million-us-tax-payer-money-way-ukraine-right-now/</ref> Ukrainian [[neo-Nazi]]s have been battling Ukraine's indigenous Russian speaking population since the [[Great Patriotic War]].<ref>https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/neo-nazis-far-right-ukraine/</ref> One month later Biden junta neo-Nazi allies held a rally in [[Kiev]] to commemorate the 77th anniversary of the creation of the [[SS|SS Galicia Division]], made up primarily of [[OUN|Ukrainian nationalists]] armed by [[Nazi Germany]] to fight against the [[Soviet Union]].<ref>https://www.rt.com/russia/522435-ss-galicia-march-kiev/</ref> The SS Galicia Division is responsible for multiple [[mass murder]]s and [[war crimes]] against [[Jewish]]s and [[Polish]] civilians.<ref>https://spzh.news/en/zashhita-very/68324-ss-galichina-uniaty-kholokost-i-zhizny-v-sostojanii-lzhi</ref> The governments of Germany and Israel condemned the celebration,<ref>https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/305285</ref><ref>https://112.international/politics/german-ambassador-condemns-march-dedicated-to-ss-division-galicia-60995.html</ref> but not the Biden junta. Former Democratic presidential candidate [[Tulsi Gabbard]] asked on the ''Tucker Carlson Show'',<ref>https://youtu.be/iywKH60NUGg</ref> − [[File:Joe Biden at CFR meeting 2018 2.jpeg|left|300px|thumb|Biden at the [[Council on Foreign Relations]]: "‘I’m leaving in six hours. If the prosecutor is not fired, you’re not getting the money'...Well, [SOB], he got fired."<ref>http://web.archive.org/web/20210218183940/https://haciendapublishing.com/articles/deep-dark-secrets-rich-famous-and-powerful-cliff-kincaid</ref>]] − {{quotebox-float|The question for the American people is, ''Are we willing to go to war with Russia on behalf of Ukraine?'' We need to understand that such a war would come at a cost beyond anything that we can really imagine. This is something that will directly impact every single one of your viewers and all of our loved ones. This is a war that is not a game. It's a war in which there are no winners. Russia has thousands of nuclear weapons aimed towards us that could hit any town or city in America in less than 30 minutes and exact a cost upon every one of us that would result in excruciating death and suffering beyond comprehension. Hundreds of millions of people dying and suffering, seeing their flesh being burned from their bones. This is something you know you can't really even imagine. And it's a cost that we will all pay. − − Why in the world would we ever contemplate going to war with Russia? Honestly, it is one that we should not do for those very reasons. If you look at the impacts of what a [[nuclear war]] brings it, really brings about the end of the world as we know it. And our leaders should understand this consequence and take it seriously. And this is why President Biden, instead of continuing to escalate tensions and continuing this [[new Cold War]] between the United States and Russia, he needs to de-escalate these tensions and actually focus on bringing an end to this new Cold War because if he doesn't, then it's not a question of if we go to war with Russia if this war ends up with a nuclear holocaust, it really is then just a question of when. And if we continue down this path that we are on it's something that could happen a lot sooner than any of us think.}} − [[File:Rand Paul Tulsi Gabbard.png|right|300px|thumb|For speaking out against the Biden regime's policy of war with Russia, Sen. [[Rand Paul]] and Tulsi Gabbard were place on the [[Ukrainian Nazi]] kill list.<ref>https://mronline.org/2022/09/21/ukrainian-hit-list-publishes-names-and-addresses-of-alleged-russian-propagandists/</ref>]] − Ukrainian [[President Volodymyr Zelensky]] accused the junta of handing a "weapon" to the Kremlin by allowing the completion of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, "This is a weapon, a real weapon … in the hands of the Russian Federation. It is not very understandable … that the bullets to this weapon can possibly be provided by such a great country as the United States. How many Ukrainian lives does the relationship between the United States and Germany cost?"<ref>https://www.axios.com/zelensky-biden-ukraine-russia-nord-stream-pipeline-fe50756b-6b82-43f0-b390-734ea3e95de0.html</ref> − − Gennadiy Druzenko, a Fulbright-Kennan Institute Research Scholar at the Kennan Institute and fellow at the Wilson Center in [[Washington, D.C.]],<ref>https://www.wilsoncenter.org/person/gennadiy-druzenko</ref> head of the Center for Constitutional Design,<ref>https://ccd.group/en/team/gennadiy-druzenko/</ref> a former researcher at the Center for Constitutional Democracy at Indiana University, and served as the Government Commissioner for Ethno-National Policy in the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine<ref>https://independent.academia.edu/GennadiyDruzenko/CurriculumVitae</ref> who now operates a war-zone mobile hospital in eastern Ukraine told a Ukrainian Channel 24 TV interviewer that he had instructed his doctors to castrate captured Russian POWs. Druzenko said: − {{quotebox-float|"I have always been a great humanist and said that if a man is wounded, he is no longer an enemy but a patient. But now [I gave] very strict orders to castrate all [captured Russian] men, because they are cockroaches, not people."<ref>https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10636597/Ukrainian-doctor-tells-TV-interviewer-ordered-staff-CASTRATE-Russian-soldiers.html</ref>}} − Since 2014 when the Kyiv regime initiated the Donbas war against Russian civilians, some 500 doctors have worked with Druzenko's mobile hospital. − − =====Ethnic cleansing in the Donbas===== − {{See also|Ethnic cleansing in the Donbas|Donbas war}} − On November 20, 2021, Trump-Russia hoaxer and Biden [[DNI]] [[Avril Haines]]<ref>https://the-war-economy.medium.com/spygate-part-9-the-deputies-meetings-cde47d4d08a6</ref> alleged that Russia had massed 100,000 troops at the border with Ukraine and was planning an invasion. In late December 2021 [[Jake Sullivan]] said a four-week window was left to prevent such an invasion and that if it were to happen the sanctions against Russia "would be overwhelming, immediate and inflict significant cost on the Russian economy and their financial system."<ref>https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/19/politics/joe-biden-russia-ukraine-obama-2014/index.html</ref> Germany had called upon the US not to impose sanctions, insisting that doing so will "damage transatlantic unity", ''Axios'' reported,<ref>[https://www.axios.com/germany-nord-stream-sanctions-congress-ukraine-4d28940b-dc3b-4b19-9d16-c122da6d113c.html Scoop: Germany urges Congress not to sanction Putin’s pipeline], Zachary Basu, ''Axios'', Nov 28, 2021.</ref> citing newly obtained German documents dated November 19, 2021 and marked as "classified": − {{quotebox-float|"US Sanctions targeting [[Nord Stream 2]] would undermine the commitment given to [[Germany]] in the Joint Statement, weaken the credibility of the US government, and endanger the achievements of the Joint Statement, including the provisions supporting Ukraine."<ref>https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21118732-germany-non-paper</ref>}} − The ongoing reality was a massive buildup and activity of [[NATO]] forces inside Ukraine, which Putin had warned about crossing Russia's red line days before Haines panicked statements.<ref>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/defense-national-security/putin-accuses-nato-of-ignoring-russian-warnings-about-red-lines</ref> [[CIA]] leaker [[David Ignatius]] told the ''Washington Post'' that the US was supporting an anti-Russian military insurgency in Ukraine.<ref>https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/12/19/biden-ukraine-insurgents-russia/</ref> Germany refused flyover permission for arms deliveries to Ukraine. Foreign Ministry spokeswoman [[Maria Zakharova]] reported that ten thousand NATO soldiers, including four thousand Americans, were already stationed and active in Ukraine. Drones and Stingers have been provided and used in eastern Ukraine.<ref name="tass.com">https://tass.com/world/1376191</ref> Several NATO members refused to send troops if NATO got involved in Ukraine. − [[File:Ukro-nazis.jpg|right|300px|thumb|The so-called "[[Ukrainian crisis|Revolution of Dignity]]" which the [[Obama administration]] supported. Written on the wall: “Ukraine for Ukrainians.”<ref>https://futuristrendcast.wordpress.com/tag/upass-bandera-crimes/</ref>]] − Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova reported that ten thousand NATO soldiers, including four thousand Americans, were already stationed and active in Ukraine. Drones and Stingers have been provided and used in eastern Ukraine.<ref name="tass.com"/> In light of all the threatening activity on its border, on December 17, 2021 President Putin presented two treaties to be signed, one with the US<ref>https://mid.ru/ru/foreign_policy/rso/nato/1790818/?lang=en</ref> the other with NATO,<ref>https://mid.ru/ru/foreign_policy/rso/nato/1790803/?lang=en&clear_cache=Y</ref> the essence of which is that [[the West]] pledges not to threaten Russia's borders by offering membership to Ukraine or by arming and basing missiles in Ukraine. Putin stated, "You are on our doorstep. We cannot back down." Putin promised a response if the NATO powers do not stop their offensive actions. NATO General Secretary [[Jens Stoltenberg]] rejected them out of hand. Russia's deputy foreign minister Alexander Grushko said on December 18, 2021 that NATO has been living in a fantasy world and that Europeans must think about whether they mean to turn their continent into a field of military confrontation. − − Former U.S. ambassador to Russia Jack Matlock wrote in ''Krasno Analysis'' on December 14, 2021 that interference by the U.S. and its NATO allies in Ukraine's civil struggle has exacerbated the crisis within NATO and raised the specter a possible conflict between the nuclear powers. Russia is extremely sensitive about foreign military activity adjacent to its borders, as any other country would be, and as the United States has always been. Russia has signaled repeatedly that it will stop at nothing to prevent NATO membership for Ukraine. Ukraine's friends in Europe and America should help them understand, rather than Ukraine is pursuing what could easily turn out to be a suicidal course. He concluded, "back in October 1962 it was the U.S. southern border that was being approached closely by [[Soviet]] soldiers and missiles in [[Cuba]] which threatened the devastating first strike. Today it is the relentless march of NATO, closer and closer to Russia's borders. 60 years ago [[President John F. Kennedy]] said. "within the past week unmistakable evidence has established the fact that a series of offensive missile sites is now in preparation on that imprisoned island," and he said that "this is in an area well known to have a special and historical relationship to the U.S. and is a deliberately provocative and unjustified change in the status quo which cannot be accepted by this country." President Kennedy demanded that the Soviet Union remove and never again try to place nuclear-capable missiles and aircraft virtually on the U.S. border and in an area with a special and historical relationship to the U.S.<ref>https://ccisf.org/ambassador-jack-matlock-ukraine-tragedy-of-a-nation-divided/</ref> − − President Putin's agreement proposed to Biden on December 7, 2021 was that the United States ensure that Ukraine would not join NATO and thereby have U.S. and NATO forces and missiles of various types placed right on Russia's border and in an area with a special and historical relationship to Russia. − − After a month of CIA/MSM [[warmongering]] hysteria, in late January 2022 President Zelensky of Ukraine told Biden to tone down the rhetoric.<ref>https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10452249/Ukrainian-President-Volodymyr-Zelensky-told-Biden-tone-messaging-invasion.html</ref> French Premier [[Emmanuel Macron]] said after meeting with Putin in February 2022, "The geopolitical objective of Russia today is clearly not Ukraine, but to clarify the rules of cohabitation with NATO and the EU."<ref>https://news.sky.com/story/ukraine-russia-tensions-frances-macron-flies-to-moscow-to-meet-putin-in-high-risk-diplomatic-mission-12535079</ref> − − =====Support for Ukrainian fascism===== − [[Tucker Carlson]] summed up Biden regime policy toward Ukraine: − {|class="infobox" style="float:right; font-size:85%; width:1ex; line-height:17px; margin: 0px 0px 5px 50px" cellpadding="1" − |[[File:Zelensky transvestism.PNG|410px]] − |[[File:Putin and Zelensky.png|300px]] − |- − |colspan="3"|<hr/>The clown president [[Volodoymr Zelensky]] (second from left), chest exposed, tight leather pants, wearing high heels depicted as the modern "[[Churchill]]";<ref>https://www.bitchute.com/video/f1Ll6yw172sg/</ref><br> (right) Vladimir Putin receives briefing on Zelensky. (edited image) − |} − {|class="infobox" style="float:right; font-size:85%; width:1ex; line-height:17px; margin: 0px 0px 5px 50px" cellpadding="1" − |[[File:Ukrainian nazis castrate Russians.PNG|300px|]] − |[[File:Azov victim 1.PNG|330px|]] − |- − |colspan="3"|<hr/>(left) Former Commissioner for Ethno-National Policy in the Ukrainian Cabinet of Ministers instructed doctors to castrate Russian POWs "because they are cockroaches, not human."<ref>https://youtu.be/15UjP-H2CMA</ref> (right) female victim of [[Ukrainian Nazis]] found in the basement of Mariupol School #25, which the Azov Battalion used as a headquarters, with a [[swastika]] painted on her chest in her own blood;<ref>https://videopress.com/embed/pZ2UoEfN?cover=1&preloadContent=metadata&useAverageColor=1&hd=1Video:</ref><ref>https://youtu.be/j0GDBUpmj3I</ref><ref>https://youtu.be/6LQSYmda0Sc</ref> − |} − {|class="infobox" style="float:right; font-size:85%; width:1ex; line-height:17px; margin: 0px 0px 5px 50px" cellpadding="1" − |[[File:Ukrainian nazis.PNG|400px]] − |[[File:Pravy Sektor black and red.PNG|200px]] − |- − |colspan="3"|<hr/>(left) Viral tweet during the [[Zelensky regime]]. (right) Ukrainian soldiers invading the [[Donetsk People's Republic]] with the flags of the United States and Ukraine along with the Red and Black Nazi 'Blood and Soil' banner of the [[Pravy Sektor]].<ref>https://www.sott.net/article/425877-4-month-countdown-NATOs-largest-exercise-in-25-years-Normandy-Four-meets-and-another-false-flag-in-Syria</ref> Pravy Sektor are responsible for the murders of the "[[Heavenly Hundred]]". − |} − {{quotebox-float|"Since the day that Donald Trump became president, Democrats in Washington have told you it's your patriotic duty to hate Vladimir Putin. It's not a suggestion. It's a mandate. Anything less than hatred for Putin is treason. − − Many Americans have obeyed this directive. They now dutifully hate Vladimir Putin. Maybe you're one of them. Hating Putin has become the central purpose of America's [[foreign policy]]. It's the main thing that we talk about. Entire cable channels are now devoted to it. Very soon, that hatred of Vladimir Putin could bring the United States into a conflict in [[Eastern Europe]]. − − Before that happens, it might be worth asking yourself, since it is getting pretty serious: What is this really about? Why do I hate Putin so much? Has Putin ever called me a [[racist]]? Has he threatened to get me fired for disagreeing with him? Has he shipped every [[middle-class]] job in my town to Russia? Did he manufacture a [[CCP pandemic|worldwide pandemic]] that wrecked my business and kept me indoors for two years? Is he teaching my children to embrace [[Critical race theory|racial discrimination]]? Is he making [[fentanyl]]? Is he trying to snuff out [[Christianity]]? Does he [[Atheists and dog meat eating|eat dogs]]? − − These are fair questions, and the answer to all of them is no. Vladimir Putin didn't do any of that. So why does permanent Washington hate him so much? − − If you've been watching the news, you know that Putin is having a border dispute with a nation called Ukraine. Now, the main thing to know about Ukraine for our purposes is that its leaders once sent millions of dollars to [[Biden family corruption|Joe Biden's family]]. Not surprisingly, Ukraine is now one of Biden's favorite countries. Biden has pledged to defend Ukraine's borders even as he [[Biden border crisis|opens our borders]] to the world. That's how it works. Invading America is called [[equity]]. Invading Ukraine is a war crime. − − So with every day, we move closer to some kind of conflict with Russia, a conflict that could easily spin out of control given that the people running us have no fine motor skills, the administration assures us this has nothing at all to do with ripping Joe Biden's personal debts to Ukrainian [[oligarch]]s. Not at all. It's completely and totally unrelated. − − The point here is to defend democracy, not that Ukraine is a [[democracy]]. It is not a democracy. Ukraine's president has arrested his main political opponent. He has shut down newspapers and television stations that have dared to criticize him. So in American terms, you would call Ukraine a [[tyranny]]. But Joe Biden likes Ukraine. So Putin bad, [[war]] good. How will this conflict affect you? − − Will affect you quite a bit, actually. Energy prices in the United States are about to go way up, and that means that everything you buy will become much more expensive, from the food you eat to the car you drive to the tickets you need to take your family on vacation this summer, assuming you can still afford a vacation by then. You're about to become measurably poorer. That's not a guess. Joe Biden has admitted this. − − On the other hand, you're going to win an important moral victory against dastardly old Vladimir Putin, who is much, much worse than [[Justin Trudeau]]. Just so you know. So you can feel good about that because…because…let's see, come to think of it, why would you feel good about that? It seems like a pretty terrible deal for you and for the United States. [[Hunter Biden]] gets a million dollars a year from Ukraine, but you can no longer afford to go out to dinner. That's not a bargain. − − So what are we missing here? What we're missing is the big picture, and that's why Joe Biden has dispatched [[Kamala Harris]] to explain that picture to us. Kamala Harris’ old job was to open America's border. She did that. Her new job is to keep Ukraine's borders closed.<ref>https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/tucker-carlson-hate-putin-americans-suffer</ref>}} − Chris Hedges of the leftist ''[[Salon]]'' magazine, speaking of Biden's $40 billion aid package to Ukraine, said the United States "is trapped in the death spiral of unchecked militarism."<ref>https://www.salon.com/2022/05/26/a-return-to-permanent-is-here-first-it-will-bankrupt-america-then-destroy-it/</ref> − − =====Russia-Ukraine war===== − {{See also|Russia-Ukraine war}} − On January 9, 2022 ''[[Reuters]]'' reported on a telephone call between Biden and Ukranian President Volodymyr Zelensky. ''Reuters'' reported, “U.S. President Joe Biden assured Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy that Kyiv’s bid to join the NATO military alliance was in its own hands, Zelenskiy’s chief of staff said after the two leaders spoke."<ref>https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukrainian-president-zelenskiy-holding-talks-with-biden-adviser-says-2021-12-09/</ref> On March 20, 2022, in an CNN interview Zelensky said “I requested them personally to say directly that we are going to accept you into NATO in a year or two or five, just say it directly and clearly, or just say no. And the response was very clear, 'you’re not going to be a NATO member, but publicly, the doors will remain open.'”<ref>https://www.cnn.com/europe/live-news/ukraine-russia-putin-news-03-20-22/h_7c08d64201fdd9d3a141e63e606a62e4</ref> − − [[NSA]] Dir. Gen. [[Paul Nakasone]] told ''[[Sky News]]'' that United States military hackers conducted offensive operations in support of Ukraine: "We've conducted a series of operations across the full spectrum; offensive, defensive, [and] information operations."<ref>https://news.sky.com/story/us-military-hackers-conducting-offensive-operations-in-support-of-ukraine-says-head-of-cyber-command-12625139</ref> − − When Russia conducted an incursion into Ukraine to end the Donbas war, all Russia's allies supported [[Vladimir Putin]], but no U.S. allies supported Joe Biden, apart from a few token initiatives.<ref>https://youtu.be/_ZQcstirhJI</ref> Asked if he underestimated Putin, Biden stared vacantly and picked his teeth. − <ref>R Spencer, "[https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/robert-spencer/2022/02/23/awkward-asked-if-he-underestimated-putin-biden-stares-vacantly-and-picks-his-teeth-n1561398 Awkward: Asked if He Underestimated Putin, Biden Stares Vacantly and Picks His Teeth]", pjmedua, Feb 23, 2022.<blockquote> − when asked “Do you think you may have underestimated Putin?,” Old Joe Biden first continued to stare in the general direction of the question, a slight smirk on his face, expression absolutely unchanged from what it had been before the question was asked. A few seconds later he turned his head to face the camera and, after a few more seconds, grinned sardonically. A few seconds later, he began picking his teeth with his thumbnail, and then grins a bit vacantly before the video mercifully runs out. Amid all the wrong choices, erroneous policies, abject failures, and stupid missteps of this disastrous administration, it was a trivial moment, but it was a telling one.</blockquote></ref> On April 14, 2022, a ''[[Bloomberg News]]'' op-ed stated: − {{quotebox-float|"Joe Biden never planned for a war like this. The assumption was that Russia would quickly conquer much of the country, so the U.S. would be supporting a simmering, low-intensity Ukrainian insurgency. Instead, Ukraine’s successful resistance has led to an ongoing, high-intensity conventional fight, with prodigious consumption of munitions and intense attrition of key military assets. Pentagon officials say that Kyiv is blowing through a week’s worth of deliveries of antitank munitions every day. It is also running short of usable aircraft as Russian airstrikes and combat losses take their toll. Ammunition has become scarce in [[Mariupol]] and other areas.” − − For the same reason, the war in Ukraine is a sobering preview of the problems the U.S. itself would face in a conflict against Russia or China. If forced to go to war in [[Eastern Europe]] or the Western Pacific, Washington would spend down its stockpiles of missiles, precision-guided munitions and other critical capabilities in days or weeks. It would probably suffer severe losses of tanks, planes, ships and other assets that are sophisticated, costly and hard to replace.”<ref>https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-04-14/russia-ukraine-war-u-s-is-running-out-of-weapons-aiding-kyiv</ref>}} − − ======Kyiv operational command center====== − ''[[The New York Times]]'' reported on June 25, 2022: − {{quotebox-float|"[[C.I.A.]] personnel have continued to operate in the country secretly, mostly in the capital, Kyiv, directing much of the vast amounts of intelligence the United States is sharing with Ukrainian forces...a few dozen commandos from other NATO countries, including Britain, France, Canada and [[Lithuania]], also have been working inside Ukraine....commandos from these allies either remained or have gone in and out of the country since then, training and advising Ukrainian troops and providing an on-the-ground conduit for weapons and other aid...their presence in the country — on top of the diplomatic staff members who returned after Russia gave up its siege of Kyiv — hints at the scale of the secretive effort to assist Ukraine that is underway and the risks that Washington and its allies are taking....commandos are not on the front lines with Ukrainian troops and instead advise from headquarters in other parts of the country or remotely by encrypted communications...the signs of their stealthy logistics, training and intelligence support are tangible on the battlefield....Ukrainian commanders recently expressed appreciation to the United States for intelligence gleaned from satellite imagery, which they can call up on tablet computers provided by the allies. The tablets run a battlefield mapping app that the Ukrainians use to target and attack Russian troops."<ref>https://archive.ph/IJ9yI</ref>}} − On August 1, 2022 in an interview published in the UK ''Telegraph'', Ukrainian defense official Vadim Skibitsky acknowledged they consult with Washington before launching strikes and that Washington has [[veto]] power over decision-making.<ref>https://archive.ph/ZX4o6</ref><ref>https://www.businessinsider.com/himars-us-has-effective-veto-over-russian-targets-report-says-2022-8</ref> Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova responded with the statement: “No other confirmation of the direct involvement of the United States in hostilities on the territory of Ukraine is required...They are fully involved…Now Kiev representatives are talking about their military involvement not only through the supply of weapons, but through personnel management in the ranks of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, direct instructions and the choice of targets”.<ref>https://archive.ph/tr52o</ref> − − ======Decision to arm Ukraine with offensive weapons====== − On June 1, 2022 Russian Deputy Foreign Minister [[Sergey Ryabkov]] told ''RIA Novosti'' news that Biden's decision to arm Ukraine with [[HIMAR]] missile launchers increases the risk of direct confrontation between Russia and the United States. Foreign secretary [[Blinken]] said the weapons, which have a precision range of up to 300 kilometers, were given on the pretext of a promise by Zelensky not to use the HIMARs against Russian territory. However Zelensky's transgender chief propagandist [[Alexei Arestovich]] immediately threatened, "Crimea is ours…It belongs to Ukraine…And they know it…Therefore, it will fly to Crimea double-time."<ref>https://www.sott.net/article/468500-US-to-allow-Ukraine-to-decide-range-of-missiles-Kiev-threatens-to-strike-Crimea-should-the-need-arise?</ref> Deputy Chairman of Russia’s Security Council [[Dmitry Medvedev]] retorted, “If those types of weapons are used against the territory of Russia, the armed forces of our country will have no other choice but to strike decision-making centers...It is obvious what those decision-making centers are: the defense ministry, the general staff and so on...But it should be understood that, in this case, the ultimate decision-making centers are regretfully not even on the territory of Kiev." <ref>https://tass.com/politics/1459891</ref> − − ''The Washington Post'' reported on June 17, 2022, − {{quotebox-float|"Biden administration officials had discussed the possibility of a protracted conflict with global spillover effects even before February [2022], as U.S. intelligence suggested Putin was preparing to invade. − − The Biden administration hopes that the new weaponry, in addition to successive waves of sanctions and Russia’s diplomatic isolation, will make a difference in an eventual negotiated conclusion to the war, potentially diminishing Putin’s willingness to keep up the fight, the official said. − − Even if that reality does not materialize immediately, officials have described the stakes of ensuring Russia cannot swallow up Ukraine — an outcome officials believe could embolden Putin to invade other neighbors or even strike out at NATO members — as so high that the administration is willing to countenance even a global [[recession]] and mounting [[hunger]]."<ref>https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/06/17/long-war-ukraine/</ref>}} − − =====Terrorist attack on Nordstream pipeline===== − {{See also|Nord Stream pipeline#Morganthau Plan 2.0}} − Biden and his foreign policy team—National Security Adviser [[Jake Sullivan]], Secretary of State [[Tony Blinken]], and [[Victoria Nuland]] had been vocal and consistent in their hostility to the two pipelines, which ran side by side for 750 miles under the [[Baltic Sea]] from two different ports in northeastern Russia near the [[Estonia]]n border, passing close to the [[Danish]] island of Bornholm before ending in northern [[Germany]]. − − <!--The direct route, which bypassed any need to transit [[Ukraine]], had been a boon for the German [[economy]], which enjoyed an abundance of cheap Russian [[natural gas]]—enough to run its factories and heat its homes while enabling German distributors to sell excess gas, at a [[profit]], throughout [[Western Europe]]. Action that could be traced to the Biden regime would violate US promises to minimize direct conflict with Russia. Secrecy was essential. − − From its earliest days, [[Nord Stream 1]] was seen by [[Washington, D.C.|Washington]] and its [[anti-Russian]] [[NATO]] partners as a threat to [[Western alliance|western dominance]]. The holding company behind it, Nord Stream AG, was incorporated in Switzerland in 2005 in partnership with [[Gazprom]], a publicly traded Russian company producing enormous profits for shareholders which is dominated by oligarchs known to be in the thrall of Putin. Gazprom controlled 51 percent of the company, with four European energy firms—one in France, one in the Netherlands and two in Germany—sharing the remaining 49 percent of stock, and having the right to control downstream sales of the inexpensive natural gas to local distributors in Germany and Western Europe. Gazprom’s profits were shared with the Russian government, and state gas and oil revenues were estimated in some years to amount to as much as 45 percent of Russia’s annual budget. − − America’s political fears were real: Putin would now have an additional and much-needed major source of income, and Germany and the rest of Western Europe would become addicted to low-cost natural gas supplied by Russia—while diminishing European reliance on America. In fact, that’s exactly what happened.-->Many Germans saw Nord Stream 1 as part of the deliverance of former Chancellor [[Willy Brandt]]’s famed ''[[Ostpolitik]]'', which would enable postwar Germany to rehabilitate itself and other European nations destroyed in [[World War II]] by, among other initiatives, utilizing cheap Russian gas to fuel a prosperous Western European market and trading economy. − − <!--Nord Stream 1 was dangerous enough, in the view of NATO and Washington, but Nord Stream 2, whose construction was completed in September of 2021, would, if approved by German regulators, double the amount of cheap gas that would be available to Germany and Western Europe. The second pipeline also would provide enough gas for more than 50 percent of Germany’s annual consumption. Tensions were constantly escalating between Russia and NATO, backed by the aggressive foreign policy of the Biden Administration. − − Opposition to Nord Stream 2 flared on the eve of the Biden inauguration in January 2021, when Senate Republicans, led by Ted Cruz of Texas, repeatedly raised the political threat of cheap Russian natural gas during the confirmation hearing of Blinken as Secretary of State. By then a unified Senate had successfully passed a law that, as Cruz told Blinken, “halted [the pipeline] in its tracks.” There would be enormous political and economic pressure from the German government, then headed by [[Angela Merkel]], to get the second pipeline online. − − Would Biden stand up to the Germans? Blinken said yes, but added that he had not discussed the specifics of the incoming President’s views. “I know his strong conviction that this is a bad idea, the Nord Stream 2,” he said. “I know that he would have us use every persuasive tool that we have to convince our friends and partners, including Germany, not to move forward with it.” − − A few months later, as the construction of the second pipeline neared completion, Biden blinked. That May, in a stunning turnaround, the administration waived sanctions against Nord Stream AG, with a State Department official conceding that trying to stop the pipeline through sanctions and diplomacy had “always been a long shot.” Behind the scenes, administration officials reportedly urged Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, by then facing a threat of Russian invasion, not to criticize the move. − − There were immediate consequences. Senate Republicans, led by Cruz, announced an immediate blockade of all of Biden’s foreign policy nominees and delayed passage of the annual defense bill for months, deep into the fall. Politico later depicted Biden’s turnabout on the second Russian pipeline as “the one decision, arguably more than the chaotic military withdrawal from Afghanistan, that has imperiled Biden’s agenda.” − − The administration was floundering, despite getting a reprieve on the crisis in mid-November, when Germany’s energy regulators suspended approval of the second Nord Stream pipeline. Natural gas prices surged 8% within days, amid growing fears in Germany and Europe that the pipeline suspension and the growing possibility of a war between Russia and Ukraine would lead to a very much unwanted cold winter. It was not clear to Washington just where Olaf Scholz, Germany’s newly appointed chancellor, stood. Months earlier, after the fall of Afghanistan, Scholtz had publicly endorsed French President Emmanuel Macron’s call for a more autonomous European foreign policy in a speech in Prague—clearly suggesting less reliance on Washington and its mercurial actions. − − Throughout all of this, Russian troops had been steadily and ominously building up on the borders of Ukraine, and by the end of December more than 100,000 soldiers were in position to strike from Belarus and Crimea. Alarm was growing in Washington, including an assessment from Blinken that those troop numbers could be “doubled in short order.” − − The administration’s attention once again was focused on Nord Stream. As long as Europe remained dependent on the pipelines for cheap natural gas, Washington was afraid that countries like Germany would be reluctant to supply Ukraine with the money and weapons it needed to defeat Russia. − − It was at this unsettled moment that-->Biden authorized Jake Sullivan to bring together an interagency group to come up with a plan. In December of 2021, two months before the first Russian tanks rolled into Ukraine, Sullivan convened a meeting of a newly formed task force—men and women from the [[Joint Chiefs of Staff]], the CIA, and the State and Treasury Departments—and asked for recommendations about how to respond to Putin’s impending invasion. − − <!--It would be the first of a series of top-secret meetings, in a secure room on a top floor of the Old Executive Office Building, adjacent to the [[White House]], that was also the home of the President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board (PFIAB). There was the usual back and forth chatter that eventually led to a crucial preliminary question: Would the recommendation forwarded by the group to Biden be reversible—such as another layer of sanctions and [[currency]] restrictions—or irreversible—that is, kinetic actions, which could not be undone? − − What became clear to participants is that Sullivan intended for the group to come up with a plan for the destruction of the two [[Nord Stream]] pipelines—and that he was delivering on the desires of Biden.--> − Over the next several meetings, the participants debated options for an attack. The [[U.S. Navy|Navy]] proposed using a newly commissioned [[submarine]] to assault the pipeline directly. The [[Air Force]] discussed dropping bombs with delayed fuses that could be set off remotely. The [[CIA]] argued that whatever was done, it would have to be covert. Everyone involved understood the stakes. “This is not kiddie stuff,” according to a source directly familiar with the matter said. If the attack were traceable to the United States, “It’s an act of [[war]].” − − <!--At the time, the CIA was directed by [[William Burns]], a mild-mannered former ambassador to Russia who had served as deputy secretary of state in the [[Obama Administration]]. Burns quickly authorized an Agency working group whose ad hoc members included—by chance—someone who was familiar with the capabilities of the Navy’s deep-sea divers in Panama City. Over the next few weeks, members of the CIA’s working group began to craft a plan for a covert operation that would use deep-sea divers to trigger an explosion along the pipeline. − − Something like this had been done before. In 1971, the American intelligence community learned from still undisclosed sources that two important units of the Russian Navy were communicating via an undersea cable buried in the Sea of Okhotsk, on Russia’s Far East Coast. The cable linked a regional Navy command to the mainland headquarters at [[Vladivostok]]. − − A hand-picked team of Central Intelligence Agency and [[National Security Agency]] operatives was assembled somewhere in the Washington area, under deep cover, and worked out a plan, using Navy divers, modified submarines and a deep-submarine rescue vehicle, that succeeded, after much trial and error, in locating the Russian cable. The divers planted a sophisticated listening device on the cable that successfully intercepted the Russian traffic and recorded it on a taping system. − − The NSA learned that senior Russian navy officers, convinced of the security of their communication link, chatted away with their peers without encryption. The recording device and its tape had to be replaced monthly and the project rolled on merrily for a decade until it was compromised by a forty-four-year-old civilian NSA technician named Ronald Pelton who was fluent in Russian. Pelton was betrayed by a Russian defector in 1985 and sentenced to prison. He was paid just $5,000 by the Russians for his revelations about the operation, along with $35,000 for other Russian operational data he provided that was never made public. − − That underwater success, codenamed Ivy Bells, was innovative and risky, and produced invaluable intelligence about the Russian Navy’s intentions and planning. − − Still, the interagency group was initially skeptical of the CIA’s enthusiasm for a covert deep-sea attack. There were too many unanswered questions. The waters of the Baltic Sea were heavily patrolled by the Russian navy, and there were no oil rigs that could be used as cover for a diving operation. Would the divers have to go to Estonia, right across the border from Russia’s natural gas loading docks, to train for the mission? “It would be a goat fuck,” the Agency was told.--> − Throughout “all of this scheming,” the source said, “some working guys in the CIA and the [[State Department]] were saying, ‘Don’t do this. It’s stupid and will be a political nightmare if it comes out.’” Nevertheless, in early 2022, the CIA working group reported back to Sullivan’s interagency group: “We have a way to blow up the pipelines.” − − What came next was stunning. On February 7, 2022 less than three weeks before the seemingly inevitable [[Special military operation|Russian invasion of Ukraine]], Biden met in his White House office with German Chancellor [[Olaf Scholz]], who, after some wobbling, was now firmly on the American team. At the press briefing that followed, Biden defiantly said, “If Russia invades . . . there will be no longer a [[Nord Stream 2]]. We will bring an end to it.” − − Twenty days earlier, Nuland had delivered essentially the same message at a State Department briefing, with little press coverage. “I want to be very clear to you today,” she said in response to a question. “If Russia invades Ukraine, one way or another Nord Stream 2 will not move forward.” − − Several of those involved in planning the pipeline mission were dismayed by what they viewed as indirect references to the attack. − − “It was like putting an [[atomic bomb]] on the ground in [[Tokyo]] and telling the [[Japan]]ese that we are going to detonate it. The plan was for the options to be executed post invasion and not advertised publicly. Biden simply didn’t get it or ignored it.” − − Biden’s and Nuland’s indiscretion, if that is what it was, might have frustrated some of the planners. But it also created an opportunity. According to the source, some of the senior officials of the CIA determined that blowing up the pipeline “no longer could be considered a covert option because the President just announced that we knew how to do it.” − − The plan to blow up Nord Stream 1 and 2 was suddenly downgraded from a covert operation requiring that Congress be informed to one that was deemed as a highly classified intelligence operation with U.S. military support. Under the law, the source explained, “There was no longer a legal requirement to report the operation to Congress. All they had to do now is just do it—but it still had to be secret. The Russians have superlative [[surveillance]] of the Baltic Sea.” − − The Agency working group members had no direct contact with the [[White House]], and were eager to find out if Biden meant what he’d said—that is, if the mission was now a go. The source recalled, “[[Bill Burns]] comes back and says, ‘Do it.’” − − <!--[[Norway]] was the perfect place to base the mission. In the past few years of East-West crisis, the U.S. military has vastly expanded its presence inside Norway, whose western border runs 1,400 miles along the north [[Atlantic Ocean]] and merges above the [[Arctic Circle]] with Russia. The [[Pentagon]] has created high paying jobs and contracts, amid some local controversy, by investing hundreds of millions of dollars to upgrade and expand American Navy and Air Force facilities in Norway. The new works included, most importantly, an advanced synthetic aperture radar far up north that was capable of penetrating deep into Russia and came online just as the American intelligence community lost access to a series of long-range listening sites inside China. − − A newly refurbished American submarine base, which had been under construction for years, had become operational and more American submarines were now able to work closely with their Norwegian colleagues to monitor and spy on a major Russian nuclear redoubt 250 miles to the east, on the Kola Peninsula. America also has vastly expanded a Norwegian air base in the north and delivered to the Norwegian air force a fleet of Boeing-built P8 Poseidon patrol planes to bolster its long-range spying on all things Russia. − − In return, the Norwegian government angered liberals and some moderates in its parliament last November by passing the Supplementary Defense Cooperation Agreement (SDCA). Under the new deal, the U.S. legal system would have jurisdiction in certain “agreed areas” in the North over American soldiers accused of crimes off base, as well as over those Norwegian citizens accused or suspected of interfering with the work at the base. − − Norway was one of the original signatories of the NATO Treaty in 1949, in the early days of the [[Cold War]]. Today, the supreme commander of NATO is [[Jens Stoltenberg]], a committed anti-communist, who served as Norway’s [[prime minister]] for eight years before moving to his high NATO post, with American backing, in 2014. He was a hardliner on all things Putin and Russia who had cooperated with the American intelligence community since the [[Vietnam War]]. He has been trusted completely since. “He is the glove that fits the American hand,” the source said. − − Back in Washington, planners knew they had to go to Norway. “They hated the Russians, and the Norwegian navy was full of superb sailors and divers who had generations of experience in highly profitable deep-sea oil and gas exploration,” the source said. They also could be trusted to keep the mission secret. (The Norwegians may have had other interests as well. The destruction of Nord Stream—if the Americans could pull it off—would allow Norway to sell vastly more of its own natural gas to Europe.)--> − On September 26, 2022, a NATO P8 surveillance plane made a seemingly routine flight and dropped a sonar buoy. The signal spread underwater, initially to Nord Stream 2 and then on to Nord Stream 1. A few hours later, the high-powered C4 explosives were triggered and three of the four pipelines were put out of commission. Within a few minutes, pools of methane gas that remained in the shuttered pipelines could be seen spreading on the water’s surface and the world learned that something irreversible had taken place. − − Asked at a press conference days later about the consequences of the worsening energy crisis in Western Europe, Blinken described the moment as a potentially good one: − − :''“It’s a tremendous opportunity to once and for all remove the dependence on Russian energy and thus to take away from Vladimir Putin the weaponization of energy as a means of advancing his imperial designs. That’s very significant and that offers tremendous strategic opportunity for the years to come, but meanwhile we’re determined to do everything we possibly can to make sure the consequences of all of this are not borne by citizens in our countries or, for that matter, around the world.”'' − − [[Victoria Nuland]] expressed satisfaction at the demise of the newest of the pipelines while testifying at a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing in January 2023. − − =====Bucha massacre===== − [[File:Safari.PNG|left|300px|thumb|Ukraine Special Forces SAFARI was sent into Bucha after the Russian withdrawal to hunt down so-called "collaborators", for example, people who accepted Russian humanitarian relief.<ref>https://youtu.be/9vGUJXuYQZQ?t=686</ref>]] − {{See also|Bucha massacre}} − Joe Lauria of Consortium News reported that on March 30, 2022, according to the Russian Defense Ministry, all Russian forces left Bucha. This was confirmed on March 31 Bucha mayor Anatolii Fedoruk in a video on the Bucha City Council official Facebook page. The translated post accompanying the video says: − {{quotebox-float|“March 31 – the day of the liberation of Bucha. This was announced by Bucha Mayor Anatolii Fedoruk. This day will go down in the glorious history of Bucha and the entire Bucha community as a day of liberation by the Armed Forces of Ukraine from the Russian occupiers."<ref>https://youtu.be/BL8R6K5VdtI?t=519</ref>}} − There was no mention of a massacre of hundreds of civilians littering the streets. Evidence of crimes appeared only on the fourth day after the Security Service of Ukraine and representatives of Ukrainian media arrived in the town.<ref>https://consortiumnews.com/2022/04/04/questions-abound-about-bucha-massacre/</ref> − [[File:SBU actions in Bucha April 2, 2022.PNG|right|300px|thumb|[[SBU]] special forces with Cyrillic '''СБУ''' acronym brutalizing civilians, April 2, 2022.<ref>https://twitter.com/NG_Strategy/status/1511921181259022343</ref>]] − ''The New York Times'' was in Bucha on April 2, 2022 and did not report a massacre. Instead, the ''Times'' confirmed the Russian withdrawal was completed two days after the mayor of Bucha said it was, and that the Russians left “behind them dead soldiers and burned vehicles, according to witnesses, Ukrainian officials, satellite images and military analysts.” The ''Times'' said reporters found the bodies of six civilians. “It was unclear under what circumstances they had died, but the discarded packaging of a Russian military ration was lying beside one man who had been shot in the head,” the paper said. In Bucha, the ''Times'' was close to the neo-Nazi Azov Battalion, whose soldiers appear in the newspaper’s photographs. The ''Times'' suggests that Azov Nazis may be responsible for the killings: − {{quotebox-float|“Something very interesting then happens on [Saturday] 2 April, hours before a massacre is brought to the attention of the national and international media. The US and EU-funded Gorshenin Institute online [Ukrainian language] site Left Bank announced that: − − :''‘Special forces have begun a clearing operation in the city of Bucha in the Kyiv region, which has been liberated by the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The city is being cleared from saboteurs and accomplices of Russian forces.’''<ref>https://en.lb.ua/news/2022/04/02/12441_special_forces_regiment_safari.html</ref> − − The Russian military has by now completely left the city, so this sounds for all the world like reprisals. The state authorities would be going through the city searching for ‘saboteurs’ and ‘accomplices of Russian forces.’ Only the day before [Friday], Ekaterina Ukraintsiva, representing the town council authority, appeared on an information video on the Bucha Live Telegram page wearing military fatigues and seated in front of a Ukrainian flag to announce ‘the cleansing of the city.’ She informed residents that the arrival of the Azov battalion did not mean that liberation was complete (but it was, the Russians had fully withdrawn), and that a ‘complete sweep’ had to be performed.”}} − According to War On Fakes, "the first unit of the Ukrainian armed forces to enter Bucha was the special forces of the National Guard of Ukraine. The official Telegram channel of the National Guard posted a video, filmed by the fighters of this detachment themselves. We can see on this video that the Ukrainian military calmly pass through the streets of the city—and no ‘mountains of corpses’ are visible on these streets.” War On Fakes then asks, “So where did the corpses on the streets of Bucha come from. And who are these people? − The answer may lie in the video of the Territorial Defense of Ukraine, which clearly states the question ‘Can I shoot at them if there are no blue armbands?’ To which a positive response follows. The video was originally posted by the leader of the [[Territorial Defense]] Sergey ‘Botsman’ Korotkikh.”<ref>https://mronline.org/2022/04/07/staged-massacre-in-bucha/</ref> Sergey ‘Botsman’ Korotkikh later makes startling postings about the disappearance of Chilean/American journalist [[Gonzalo Lira]] from [[Kharkiv]]<ref>Sergey ‘Botsman’ Korotkikh</ref> − − On April 3, 2022 when the story broke, Russia immediately requested a meeting if the [[UN Security Council]] for the following Monday, April. The [[United Kingdom]], another permanent member of the Security Council, [[veto]]ed holding a Security Council meeting in the matter.<ref>https://www.sott.net/article/466326-Britain-blocking-UN-investigation-into-Bucha-massacre-in-Ukraine-Russia</ref> − Russian UN Ambassador said in a statement: − {{quotebox-float|"[[London]] shows clearly what does the so-called [[new world order]] looks like, the order based on rules and based, it seems, on violation of all possible and impossible norms of international law, treaties and any norms of civilized behavior at all."<ref>https://tass.com/world/1432333</ref>}} − The [[Pentagon]] refused to confirm the Ukrainian government's claim that Russians were responsible for the massacre.<ref name="reuters.com">https://www.reuters.com/world/pentagon-cant-independently-confirm-atrocities-ukraines-bucha-official-says-2022-04-04/</ref><ref name="reuters.com"/><ref>https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/04/us-military-intelligence-official-refutes-russian-atrocities-claims/comments/page/5/</ref> − − Former leader of the Socialist Party of Ukraine, Ilya Kiva said that the story in Bucha was planned and prepared in advance by the [[counterintelligence]] of Ukraine, with the assistance of the British [[MI6]]. Kiva said, − {{quotebox-float|"The whole story in Bucha was prepared and planned in advance by the SBU and [[MI6]]. They arrived early in the morning, cordoned off the area, scattered the corpses and then sent [[journalist]]s there. That's why that clown Zelensky even came back. To raise the interest of the international press in the alleged tragedy, but it's all a pure fake. Why didn't such a situation take place in other areas? Don`t you understand that it was staged in advance, which was supposed to arouse the aggression and hatred in you first of all. But it didn't happen."<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ot894JsANM</ref>}} − All the corpses wore white arm bands which were distributed by the Russian military to identify civilian non-combatants, who then became the victims of Ukrainian security forces as collaborators in reprisal actions. Some alleged corpses sat up after television cameras filmed them.<ref>https://rumble.com/vzl3qf-evidence-of-bucha-false-flag.html</ref><ref>https://southfront.org/leaked-recording-allegedly-confirms-massacre-in-bucha-was-staged-by-ukrainian-militants/</ref> Ukrainian television showed footage of Ukrainian security forces dragging corpses into place for the TV cameras. − − ======Western coverup====== − Western media and the NATO allies [[coverup]] came unglued by their own investigation. A team of forensic investigators from Kyiv reported that dozens of civilians who died in the city of Bucha were killed by tiny metal arrows from shells fired by the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) artillery. − − Pathologists and coroners who are carrying out postmortems on bodies found in mass graves in the region north of Kyiv said they found small metal darts, called fléchettes, embedded in people’s heads and chests. “We found several really thin, nail-like objects in the bodies of men and women and so did others of my colleagues in the region,” Vladyslav Pirovskyi, a Ukrainian forensic doctor, told ''[[The Guardian]]''. “It is very hard to find those in the body, they are too thin. The majority of these bodies come from the Bucha-Irpin region.” − − Independent weapons experts who reviewed pictures of the metal arrows found in the bodies confirmed that they were fléchettes, an anti-personnel weapon widely used during the first world war. These small metal darts are contained in tank or field gun shells. Each shell can contain up to 8,000 fléchettes. Once fired, shells burst when a timed fuse detonates and explodes above the ground. − − “According to a number of witnesses in Bucha, fléchette rounds were fired by artillery a few days before Russian forces withdrew from the area at the end of March”, – ''The Guardian'' reported.<ref>https://youtu.be/MpSM-aiaxK4</ref> The same fléchettes were used by the AFU in 2014 in the [[Lugansk Peoples Republic]] (LPR) at the start of the Donbas war. − − Fléchettes were not widely used during the [[Second World War]], but were brough back by the US during the [[Vietnam war]]. “Fléchettes are an anti-personnel weapon designed to penetrate dense vegetation and to strike a large number of enemy soldiers,” according to Amnesty International. “They should never be used in built-up civilian areas.”<ref>https://southfront.org/bucha-investigation-contradicts-itself-confirms-afus-atrocities/</ref> − − A team of 18 experts from the forensic department of France’s national gendarmerie, alongside a team of forensic investigators from Kyiv, have started documenting the situation after the re-occupation of Bucha by the SBU Safari force. “We are seeing a lot mutilated (disfigured) bodies,” said Pirovsky. “A lot of them had their hands tied behind their backs and shots in the back of their heads. There were also cases with automatic gunfire, like six to eight holes on the back of victims. And we have several cases of cluster bombs’ elements embedded in the bodies of the victims.” − − Evidence collected by experts during a visit to Bucha, Hostomel and Borodianka, and reviewed by independent weapons experts, showed that cluster munitions and powerful unguided bombs were used in the region. They killed a large number of civilians and destroyed at least eight buildings. These types of weapons are banned by the Ottawa Convention, which Ukraine is party to. Illegal cluster munitions were discovered in Ukrainian weapons storage depots. − − =====Expropriation of grain stocks===== − Biden called for the expropriation of 20 million tonnes of Ukrainian grain stocks to alleviate price increases caused by American and European sanctions.<ref>https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2022/05/11/remarks-by-president-biden-on-supporting-farmers-and-american-families/</ref> − − =====NYT turns on Biden's war policy===== − On May 19, 2022, after NATO's humiliating defeat in the [[Battle of Mariupol]], the ''New York Times'' editorial board turned on Biden's war policy which was having a disastrous effect on the US economy and causing the senseless destruction of lives and property in Ukraine: − {{quotebox-float|"Recent bellicose statements from Washington — President Biden’s assertion that Mr. Putin “cannot remain in power,” Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s comment that Russia must be “weakened” and the pledge by the House speaker, Nancy Pelosi, that the United States would support Ukraine “until victory is won” — may be rousing proclamations of support, but they do not bring negotiations any closer. − − In the end, it is the Ukrainians who must make the hard decisions: They are the ones fighting, dying and losing their homes....Biden should also make clear to President Volodymyr Zelensky and his people that there is a limit to how far the United States and NATO will go to confront Russia, and limits to the arms, money and political support they can muster. It is imperative that the Ukrainian government’s decisions be based on a realistic assessment of its means and how much more destruction Ukraine can sustain. − − Confronting this reality may be painful, but it is not appeasement. This is what governments are duty bound to do, not chase after an illusory “win.”<ref>Editorial, − [https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/19/opinion/america-ukraine-war-support.html The War in Ukraine Is Getting Complicated, and America Isn’t Ready], ''The New York Times'', May 19, 2022.</ref>}} − − =====Decision to use cluster bombs===== − In early July 2023, the Biden regime ran out of 155mm artillery shells for its [[M777 Howitzer]]s it donated to [[Zelensky regime]].<ref>https://youtu.be/a8-UyO7Vzq8</ref> Biden authorized the transfer of [[cluster munition]]s to Ukraine.<ref>https://nonzero.substack.com/p/biden-the-blob-and-cluster-munitions</ref> [[Jen Psaki]] stated from the White House Press Briefing Room podium that use of cluster bambs was a [[war crime]].<ref>https://therightscoop.com/watch-the-moment-bidens-white-house-said-the-use-of-cluster-bombs-was-a-war-crime/</ref> NATO ally Germany publicly declared that Germany opposed the transfer of cluster munitions to the Zelensky regime.<ref>https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/germany-opposes-sending-cluster-munitions-ukraine-minister-says-2023-07-07/</ref> The most commonly quoted statistics used internationally are that civilians make up 98% of the victims of cluster bombs and up to one third of these are [[children]]. − − President Trump remarked, “Joe Biden should not be dragging us further toward World War III by sending cluster munitions to Ukraine—he should be trying to end the war and stop the horrific death and destruction being caused by an incompetent administration...These unexploded cluster munitions will be killing and maiming innocent Ukrainian men, women, and children for decades to come, long after the war—we pray—has ended”.<ref>[https://thehill.com/policy/defense/4091451-trump-biden-dragging-us-world-war-iii-ukraine-cluster-bombs/ Trump says Biden ‘dragging’ US ‘into World War III’ by sending Ukraine cluster bombs], BY SARAH FORTINSKY - 07/11/23. ''The Hill''.</ref> − − Purely civilian targets in various districts of [[Donetsk]] and [[Kherson]] region were hit with the cluster munitions. Donetsk, in particular,<ref>https://rinj.press/fpm2023/august/usa-and-ukraine-hit-school-in-donetsk-with-cluster-munitions/</ref> was hit hard with cluster bombs. Among the targets were residential buildings, hospitals and grocery stores.<ref>https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2023/08/06/russia-accuses-ukraine-of-using-biden-supplied-cluster-bombs-on-civilian-targets-in-donetsk/</ref> − − =====Pope Francis added to US-funded Nazi kill list===== − [[File:Pope Francis on Ukrainian Nazi kill list.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Pope Francis was added to the Ukrainian Nazi kill list in late August 2023.]] − [[Roman Catholic]] Pontiff [[Pope Francis I]] was added to the Ukrainian Nazi kill list in late August 2023.<ref>https://twitter.com/jacksonhinklle/status/1696910826953642153</ref> − Speaking to the 10th All-Russian Catholic Youth Assembly in a video address in late August 2023 Pope Francis said − {{quotebox-float|“Never forget your heritage...You are the descendants of great Russia: the great Russia of saints, rulers, the great Russia of Peter I, Catherine II, that empire – educated, great culture and great humanity...Never give up on this heritage...You are descendants of the great Mother Russia, step forward with it...And thank you – thank you for your way of being, for your way of being Russian”.}} − Advisor to the [[fascist]] regime of Ukrainian dictator [[Volodymyr Zelensky]], [[Mykhailo Podoliak]] blasted the speech as "[[imperialist]] [[propaganda]]", [[CNN]] reported.<ref>https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/29/europe/pope-francis-russia-ukraine-intl-hnk/index.html</ref> Days later, Pope Francis was added to the official Ukrainian Ministry of the Interior's Myrotvorets, or "Nazi kill list",<ref>https://twitter.com/jacksonhinklle/status/1696910826953642153</ref> a joint effort with [[NATO]] and the U.S. taxpayer funded [[CIA]].<ref>https://www.sott.net/article/480725-Independent-Ukrainian-kill-list-actually-run-by-Kiev-backed-by-Washington</ref> − − ---- − − ===Russia=== − <center>{{cquote|We have only to kick in the door and the whole rotten structure will come crashing down.|||[[Adolf Hitler]] call for regime change in Russia, 1941.}}</center> − <center>{{cquote|For God's sake, this man cannot remain in power.|||Joe Biden call for regime change in Russia, 2022.}}</center> − [[File:Download-2.jpg|right|350px|thumb|Vladimir Putin (left) [[Oleg Deripaska]] (right). [[Christopher Steele]] of the ''[[Steele Dossier]]'' was hired by Deripaska to lobby the Obama/Biden DOJ; [[Andrew McCabe]] then met with Deriapaska two months before the [[2016 presidential election|2016 election]].]] − {{See also|Russophobia}} − Biden portrays his policy as being more tough against Russia than [[President Trump]]'s has been,<ref>Bowden, John (April 15, 2021). [https://thehill.com/policy/international/russia/522773-kremlin-biden-encouraging-hatred-of-russia Kremlin: Biden encouraging hatred of Russia]. ''The Hill''.</ref> although this policy under the [[Obama regime]] was to let Russia expand into the Crimea and the [[Middle East]]. Under an [[Obama]] era policy, Islamist groups like the [[Islamic State]] were allowed to expand in Syria. Biden has called Putin a killer,<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYCJZROo-hA</ref> which severed relations between the U.S. and Russia without in any way being able to rein in the latter's activities. This is heavily remote from the [[Trump Administration]]'s approaches which successfully and effectively weakened the [[Kremlin]]. − − While the Biden junta has imposed a few sanctions on the country,<ref>Kelly, Laura; Miller, Maggie (April 15, 2021). [https://thehill.com/policy/international/548477-biden-sanctions-further-chill-us-russia-relationship New US sanctions further chill Biden-Putin relations]. ''The Hill''. Retrieved April 20, 2021.</ref> they have been unable to halt Russia from flexing its muscles on its neighbors. − − In early April 2021, [[Vladimir Putin]] signed a law to permit two additional terms for himself in office.<ref>Choi, Joseph (April 5, 2021). [https://thehill.com/policy/international/russia/546475-putin-signs-law-allowing-him-to-remain-president-through-2036 Putin signs law allowing him to remain president through 2036]. ''The Hill''. Retrieved April 20, 2021.</ref> − − It was reported by ''[[The Hill]]'' on April 17, 2021 that Russia increased their military presence in the [[Black Sea]].<ref>Axelrod, Tal (April 17, 2021). [https://thehill.com/policy/international/europe/548836-russia-increases-military-presence-in-black-sea-amid-rising Russia increases military presence in Black Sea amid rising Ukraine tensions]. ''The Hill''. Retrieved April 20, 2021.</ref> A diplomat from Ukraine was also detained in Russia.<ref>Jenkins, Cameron (April 17, 2021). [https://thehill.com/policy/international/russia/548808-ukrainian-diplomat-released-after-brief-detention-in-russia Ukrainian diplomat briefly detained, ordered to leave Russia]. ''The Hill''. Retrieved April 20, 2021.</ref> − − In August 2021, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said that the U.S. continued support of Ukraine “will continue to nurture the neo-Nazi and racist mentality of the current Ukrainian government.”<ref>https://www.rt.com/russia/531866-lavrov-zelensky-summit-control-crimea/</ref> − − ====Relations with Vladimir Putin==== − − As vice-president in 2011, Putin snubbed Biden in a face-to-face meeting. Sitting across a conference table Putin, Biden attempted to lecture Putin. Biden said, "I’ve been around a long time. The first time I was here…” and in mid-sentence his microphone was cut off,<ref>https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2011/03/10/remarks-vice-president-joe-biden-and-russian-prime-minister-vladimir-put</ref> the lights for the TV cameras went off, and the press was told to leave. The press exited quickly and quietly. Videocameras were disassembled from tripods and still photographers stopped shooting. Portable lights came down from retractable poles. No one spoke and no one lingered. Putin pulled the plug, stole Biden's audience, and rendered him speechless. Putin and the Russian delegation sat motionless as their American counterparts realized the rug had been pulled out underneath Biden's feet. Putin had neither fear nor respect for Biden, and Biden was humiliated.<ref>https://thenationalpulse.com/analysis/putin-humiliated-biden-in-moscow-meeting/</ref> − − Biden, who called Putin a "killer" in March 2021, now called him a "bright and worthy adversary" on the eve of the June 16, 2021 summit in Geneva.<ref>https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/white-house-plays-down-hacker-swap-after-putin-offers-biden-a-deal-kr7cc9l8n</ref> Putin criticized Biden's [[human rights]] record, the mass incarceration of dissidents, and the murder of [[Ashli Babbitt]], a peaceful protester at the January 6, 2021 Capitol election theft protests.<ref>https://youtu.be/h1HPcxLc_nE</ref> Biden ducked out and refused to appear at the traditional post-summit press conference leaving more questions about Biden's mental fitness.<ref>https://creativedestructionmedia.com/news/europe/2021/06/12/biden-refuses-to-hold-joint-press-conference-with-putin-after-upcoming-summit/</ref> − − In 2014 Hunter Biden colluded with and received $3.5 million from [[Elena Baturina]], the richest woman in Russia and widow of former Moscow mayor Yury Luzhkov as payment to establish an American bank account for her.<ref name="tapatalk.com">https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/missionquestfpb/shock-man-who-had-hunter-biden-s-laptop-suggests-t-t10669-s2420.html</ref> Baturina eventually laundered $39 million through American banks with the help of [[Rosemont Seneca]] of funds stolen from contractors while her husband was the mayor of Moscow. In late 2019 Baturina was declared a fugitive from justice by a Russian court.<ref name="rferl.org">https://www.rferl.org/a/russian-court-declares-late-moscow-mayor-s-widow-wanted-after-failure-to-appear/30348065.html</ref> − − ====Sanctions==== − Biden's sanctions on Russia led to the de-dollarization of the planet, abandonment of the U.S. dollar and the global reserve currency, the creation of alternative and competing international networks and mediums of exchange, the suicide of globalization, food and energy shortages in Europe and the United States, declining living standards in the NATO bloc, and global recession. Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova explained that the Biden regime's economic war on Russia and unacceptable behavior was caused by − {{quotebox-float|“impotent rage because the plan to turn Ukraine into 'anti-Russia' and use it as a bridgehead for delivering all types of strikes on the territory of the Russian Federation failed...Apparently, it was not expected that Russia would withstand this blow, and problems, according to the law of communicating vessels, would begin to multiply in the United States of America itself, not to mention its satellites from the European Union singing along with them ... This is the root of aggressive rhetoric and personal insults that go beyond all limits of decency, performed by the American President as well…They reflect internal turmoil, uncertainty, irritation with the fact that it did not work out, as it always worked before, and as it was planned this time”.<ref>https://tass.com/politics/1426993?utm_source=&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=&utm_referrer=</ref>}} − − ===India=== − On April 11, 2022, Antony Blinken stated that the U.S. is monitoring "a rise in human rights abuses" in India.<ref>https://www.reuters.com/world/india/us-monitoring-rise-rights-abuses-india-blinken-says-2022-04-11/</ref> In May 2022, the Biden Junta's ambassador to the UN, attacked India for banning wheat exports, despite India facing shortages and a heatwave.<ref>https://www.statecraft.co.in/article/us-urges-india-to-take-responsibility-and-reconsider-wheat-export-ban</ref> Additionally, the [[Biden Junta]] has been putting pressure on India to resume trade and ties with [[Pakistan]].<ref>https://www.business-standard.com/article/current-affairs/india-pakistan-engage-in-back-channel-talks-to-break-stalemate-report-122053000475_1.html</ref> On June 2, 2022, Blinken falsely accused India of "attacks on religious minorities".<ref>https://indianexpress.com/article/world/attacks-on-religious-minorities-in-india-2021-us-7949751/</ref> On June 5, 2022, the Biden Junta called Gilgit-Baltistan a part of Pakistan.<ref>https://www.dailypioneer.com/2022/india/us-envoy-to-pak-calls-disputed-gilgit-baltistan-part-of-pakistan.html</ref> − − ====Killings of Hindus in Jammu and Kashmir==== − A significant portion of the weapons left behind in Afghanistan by the U.S. is being used by Pakistani terrorists to kill Hindus in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir.<ref>https://english.newstracklive.com/news/nsa-dovals-agenda-in-dushanbe-includes-afghan-transfer-of-abandoned-us-weaponry-to-kashmir-sc57-nu318-ta318-1231013-1.html</ref> − − ===Iran=== − =====Iranian nukes===== − At least 3 US negotiators on Iran nukes, resign, for Biden's dangerous soft stand.<ref>[https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10439847/Three-Bidens-Iran-negotiating-team-RESIGN-not-tough-nuke-deal.html Elizabeth Elkind, Politics Reporter and Rob Crilly, Senior U.S. Political Reporter 'Biden's put national security at risk': GOP lawmaker slams president after three of his team negotiating with Iran on nuclear deal RESIGN because US is being too soft and calls for him to revert to Trump's 'maximum pressure' policy], The Daily Mail, Jan 25, 2022. − <blockquote> − -Republican Rep. Michael Waltz praised the negotiators who have stepped back for 'recognizing when diplomacy is getting too desperate' − -Waltz has had his own experience in the Middle East as an Army Green Beret − -State Department official confirmed Tuesday that Richard Nephew stood down − -He was U.S. Deputy Special Envoy for Iran and known as sanctions architect − -Nephew, who wanted Biden to take a harder stance against Iran, has reportedly been avoiding the meetings in Vienna since December − -At the same time, reports emerged that two other negotiators had left − -It comes at a critical time in negotiations between the West and Tehran − -Iran has rejected talk of an interim agreement and wants a legal guarantee that the U.S. will not walk away from the nuclear deal − -It also won't negotiate directly with the US, with European intermediaries </blockquote></ref> − − In Feb/2022, Israeli officials lashed Biden over pointless Iran diplomacy, that Biden "has turned diplomacy into a religion."<ref>Elad Benari, [https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/322619 Report: Senior Israeli officials blast Biden over Iran deal], ''INN'', 21.02.22.<blockquote> − Senior Israeli officials reportedly say Biden "has turned diplomacy into a religion" as talks with Iran advance.</blockquote></ref> − And looming accord doesn't address advances Tehran has made since 2015, so 'agreement the US will sign with Tehran is meaningless'<ref>Staff, [https://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-officials-lash-biden-for-meaningless-new-iran-nuclear-deal-report/ ‘Turned diplomacy into a religion’: Israel officials said to lash Biden on Iran deal], ''TOI'', 20 February 2022.<blockquote> − Sources quoted saying looming accord doesn't address advances Tehran has made since 2015, so 'agreement the US will sign with Tehran is meaningless'</blockquote></ref> − As the new agreement ignores the fact that Iran has made rapid advancements in uranium enrichment since 2015 and addresses issues that are no longer relevant instead. In addition, the draft of the new agreement does not obligate Iran to destroy its advanced centrifuges, instead allowing it to "store them." − Above all, the first phase of the agreement allows the Iranians to continue perpetrating its global terror network by almost immediately granting it access to about $7 billion of funds now frozen in South Korean banks due to sanctions.<ref>Channel 13 News [Israel], Feb 21, 2022</ref> − − In Mar 2022, at the days of [[Russia-Ukraine war]], [[Mike Pence]] decried [[Biden]]: − <ref>Ariel Kahana, [https://www.israelhayom.co.il/news/geopolitics/article/8921088 Former US Vice President Mike Pence in an exclusive interview: "Putin is creating atrocities in Ukraine and the US is on his side over Iran, it's inconceivable."] ''ILH'', 7/3/2022. − <blockquote> − Trump's former deputy attacks President Biden: "Seeks dangerous agreement with Iran" - on Russian invasion of Ukraine: "Putin must be arrested, and Putin must pay" - he adds: "Pressure must continue until Russian forces leave" − "It is inconceivable that while Putin is committing atrocities on Ukrainian soil, the administration is negotiating a nuclear deal with Iran, it is unacceptable," former US Vice President Mike Pence said in an exclusive interview with Israel Today... − "It's a bad thing to do in peacetime, but working so closely with the Russians now to return to the dangerous and flawed agreement with the ayatollahs in Iran - it's really unacceptable. I believe that especially in this period the US administration should not work with Russia to ease sanctions or repay "Iran in some way into the arms of the nations."</blockquote></ref><blockquote> − "Seeks dangerous agreement with Iran... It is inconceivable that while Putin is committing atrocities on Ukrainian soil, the administration is negotiating a nuclear deal with Iran, it is unacceptable... − It's a bad thing to do in peacetime, but working so closely with the Russians now to return to the dangerous and flawed agreement with the ayatollahs in Iran - it's really unacceptable. I believe that especially in this period the US administration should not work with Russia to ease sanctions or repay "Iran in some way into the arms of the nations."</blockquote> − − Biden's push for a bad deal, got so bad, that in Mar 2022,<ref>Tal Spungin, "[https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-700734 Saudi Arabia, UAE leaders not returning Biden's calls, disappointed with US - report]", ''JPost'', Mar 9, 2022.<blockquote> − Saudi Arabia and the UAE are disappointed with the Iran nuclear deal, as well as the American response to Houthi terrorist attacks in recent weeks. − The leaders of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have declined calls from US President Joe Biden for several weeks, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday citing officials in the Middle East and the United States. − The messages of dissatisfaction sent by Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman and Emirati Shiekh Mohammed bin Zayed al Nahyan come as the two leaders share concerns over the American response to recent missile and drone strikes from Yemen, claimed by the Iranian-backed Houthi rebels. − The two nations are also reportedly disappointed with the state of negotiations in the ever-nearing Iran nuclear deal, according to the WSJ.</blockquote></ref> ''Saudi Arabia, UAE leaders not returning Biden's calls, disappointed with US.'' − − Gabriel Noronha, who served for two years in former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s Iran Action Group on Biden's deal (Mar/2022):<ref>Gabriel Noronha, "[https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/this-isnt-obamas-iran-deal-its-much-much-worse This Isn’t Obama’s Iran Deal. It’s Much, Much Worse]", ''Tablet'', March 7, 2022.<blockquote> − Anyone seeking to gauge the imminent outcome of the international talks over Iran’s nuclear program being held in Vienna should take a look at reports from late January that three top U.S. diplomats had quit—largely in protest over the direction set by U.S. Special Envoy for Iran Robert Malley, who serves as the U.S. government’s chief negotiator. − − Having served for two years in former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s Iran Action Group, I knew that this development was tantamount to a public cry for an intervention. Such resignations—not of conservative dissenters, but of career staff and President Joe Biden’s own political appointees—should have been cause for Biden or Secretary Antony Blinken to recall Malley and investigate. Their failure to do so is a sign either of a troubling lack of attention to the talks, or else the possibility that Malley—who served in the same capacity under President Barack Obama when the first Iran deal, the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), was originally negotiated and signed—has been given a free hand to negotiate whatever he wants, as long as he gets Iran to sign. − − Evidence for the latter view can be gleaned from the fact that Blinken has reneged on his pledge that his Iran negotiating team would have “a diversity of views.” Instead, he has let Malley continue to concede issue after issue in Vienna. Multiple career officials view these capitulations as so detrimental to U.S. national security that they contacted me requesting that I rapidly share details of these concessions with Congress and the public in an effort to stop them. − − Reports out of Vienna indicate that a deal could occur within the next few days. While some issues are still being ironed out—such as whether the United States will grant Russia immunity from any economic sanctions relating to Iran, as Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has publicly demanded—the details that follow have been conveyed to me as finalized. My subsequent discussions with foreign diplomats—including those directly involved and those outside but close to the negotiations—confirmed their claims. Ambassador Mikhail Ulyanov, who led negotiations on behalf of Russia, has crowed that “Iran got much more than it could expect. Much more,” and bragged about how Russia teamed up with China and Iran to get dozens of wins over the United States and European negotiating positions. − − The list of concessions that follows is long, detailed, disturbing, but also somewhat technical. But this much is clear to me: The deal being negotiated in Vienna is dangerous to U.S. national security, to the stability of the Middle East, and to the Iranian people who suffer most under that brutal regime. The lack of evidence to justify a removal of U.S. sanctions is illegal, and the deal that will be foisted upon the world without the support of Congress will be illegitimate. This deal will not serve U.S. interests in either the short or long term. − With Robert Malley in the lead, the United States has promised to lift sanction...</blockquote></ref><blockquote>This isn’t Obama’s Iran deal. It’s much, much worse.</blockquote> − And:<blockquote> − Iran is set to get access to a massive windfall of cash: My latest estimate (derived from figures declassified during my tenure at the State Department) is $90 billion in access to foreign exchange reserves, and then a further $50-$55 billion in extra revenue each year from higher oil and petrochemical exports, with no restrictions on how or where the money can be spent. − Personally, the most troubling transfer of funds will be the $7 billion ransom payment the United States is preparing to pay for the release of four Americans from an Iranian jail. Now, let me be clear: I would be extremely glad to bring these Americans back home safely as quickly as possible. They are innocent victims who, along with their families, have suffered unjustly for far too long. But make no mistake: Biden’s payment will only supercharge Iran’s hostage-taking industry….</blockquote> − − =====Iran's proxy Islamist terrorists: Houthis===== − Biden has reversed Trump's designating the [[Houthis]] as a terrorist group under a facade of "humanitarian" effect. Yet, in 2022, a bipartisan House group argued that ‘removing the designation… has done little’ to improve the humanitarian situation in Yemen.'<ref>[https://jewishinsider.com/2022/02/seventeen-lawmakers-write-to-biden-urging-reinstatement-of-houthi-terrorist-designation/ Seventeen lawmakers write to Biden urging reinstatement of Houthi terrorist designation], ''JI'', Feb 15, 2022.</ref> − − Reported in Feb/2022:<ref>"[https://www.memri.org/tv/yemen-rally-houthi-drones-strike-nyc-tlv-ksa-uae Yemeni Student In Rally Aired On Houthi TV: Soon Our Drones Will Strike New York And Tel Aviv]," ''MEMRI'', January 24, 2022. [https://www.memri.org/sites/default/files/2022/02/MTV93812_0.jpg]</ref><blockquote> − − In an address delivered at a student rally in Hajjah, Yemen, a Yemeni student said that the Houthis will strike New York and Tel Aviv with their drones. He also said that the Houthis’ missiles will continue to strike deep in Saudi Arabia and the UAE. The rally was broadcasted [sic] on Al-Masirah TV (Houthis-Yemen) on January 24, 2022. − Student: “Placing their trust in Allah, our missile forces are continuing to strike deep inside Saudi Arabia and the UAE. Allah willing, our UAVs will reach Tel Aviv and New York in the very near future.”</blockquote> − − In Feb 2022, − The [[United Nations]] Security Council imposed an arms embargo on Yemen's Iran-backed Houthis labeled group as terrorists.<ref>Darryl Coote,"[https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2022/02/28/yemen-United-Nations-Houthis-arms-embargo/1391646102510/ U.N. imposes arms embargo on Houthis, labels group as terrorists]", ''UPI.com'' − Feb. 28, 2022.''The United Nations Security Council on Monday imposed an arms embargo on Yemen's Iran-backed Houthis as several ambassadors voiced concern.''</ref> − − Due to the [[UAE]]'s disappointment with Biden - reluctance to designate the Houthis as a terrorist organization, it avoided voting against Russia when pressed by the US in Feb 2022, UN Security Council on the US resolution against the Russian invasion of Ukraine.<ref>Roi Kais @ kaisos1987 Tweeted ([https://twitter.com/kaisos1987/status/1498316663816605697 Feb 28, 2022]):<blockquote> − A senior [[UAE|Emirati]] official tells Kann News that his country's failure to vote in the UN Security Council on the US resolution against the Russian invasion of Ukraine over the weekend is due in part to disappointment with the US position regarding the Houthi rebels in Yemen...</blockquote></ref> − − =====Illicit oil===== − Iran’s illicit oil sales help fuel mass military buildup. Biden admin’s lax sanctions enforcement drives Iranian military spending.<ref>[https://freebeacon.com/national-security/irans-illicit-oil-sales-help-fuel-mass-military-buildup/ Iran’s Illicit Oil Sales Help Fuel Mass Military Buildup], ''Free Beacon'', Oct 11, 2022. − <blockquote>Biden admin’s lax sanctions enforcement drives Iranian military spending. − − The Biden administration’s lax enforcement of sanctions on Iran’s illicit oil trade has allowed the hardline regime to infuse more than $15 billion into its military and terrorist proxies during the past two years, according to analysis by a watchdog group. − Iranian military spending significantly jumped in 2022 as the regime got more access to cash through its multibillion-dollar trade in illicit oil—cash that made its way to the regime as a result of the Biden administration’s decision not to enforce U.S. sanctions, according to United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI), a watchdog group that tracks the regime’s oil sales and military spending. − Iran, according to a report by UANI and an open source military spending database, has allocated $10.5 billion this year for its military and Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), a paramilitary fighting force that backs terrorist groups across the region. That number, which jumped from $4.5 billion in 2021, comes after the regime took in some $43 billion in funds from illicit oil sales, primarily to China. This cash is fueling Iran’s regional terror enterprise, as well as its crackdown at home on a growing protest movement that threatens to topple the hardline regime.</blockquote></ref> − − =====Missile attack on US Consulate===== − Hours after Donald Trump noted Biden was “crawling around on his knees trying to find alternative oil sources” from countries like Iran on March 12, 2022,<ref>https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10607061/Trump-slams-Biden-crawling-globe-knees-begging-pleading-oil.html</ref> the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps claimed responsibility for firing an estimated 12 long-range Fateh-110 ballistic missiles near a US military base and American consulate located in Erbil, Iraq.<ref>https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/44728/breaking-reported-ballistic-missile-attack-near-u-s-base-in-erbil-iraq</ref> − =====Cash: $6,000,000,000===== − In 2023, Biden admin hands $6,000,000,000 to terror sponsor Iran for hostages, in deal announced on 9/11.<ref>Bradford Betz, [https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-admin-strikes-deal-iran-swap-prisoners-release-6-billion-frozen-funds Biden admin strikes deal with Iran to swap prisoners, release $6 billion in frozen funds], ''Fox News'', September 11, 2023.</ref> − =====Unlocking $10 Billion===== − − In Mar 2024, Biden Admin renews Iran sanctions waiver that unlocks upwards of $10 Billion for regime. Denounced by Republicans.<ref>Adam Kredo, [https://freebeacon.com/?post_type=post&p=1868715 Biden Admin Renews Iran Sanctions Waiver That Unlocks Upwards of $10 Billion for Regime]. ''Free Beacon'', March 13, 2024. − Iran International English − @IranIntl_En ([https://twitter.com/IranIntl_En/status/1768081854479937927 Mar 13, 2024]): − Republican Senator @SenTomCotton:<blockquote>"Nothing sums up the Biden administration’s weakness better than asking Iran for help with a problem that they are playing a leading role in, and that our own Navy is capable of solving.</blockquote> − − Iran International English − @IranIntl_En: − Congressman @RepPatFallon ([https://twitter.com/IranIntl_En/status/1768085668759023744 Mar 13, 2024]): <blockquote>"Why is Biden granting sanctions relief to Iran while its proxies aim to kill US personnel? Does Biden want to fund terrorism, or does it want to protect our troops abroad? Another chapter in the Biden foreign policy legacy of disgrace!"</blockquote></ref> − − ===Israel=== − :{{See also|2021 Hamas war|}} − [[File:Pro-Palestinian rally.PNG|right|250px|thumb|A [[Nazi]] flag appears at a Pro-Palestinian rally during [[Operation Guardian of Walls]].<ref>https://gellerreport.com/2021/05/nazis-flags-at-pro-terror-palestinian-demo.html/</ref>]] − After four years of peace during the Trump years ending decades of war, soon after Biden's 100th day Israel was subjected to an attack of over 3,000 Iranian-built missiles launched from Gaza, Lebanon, and Syria.<ref>https://twitter.com/IDF/status/1391840686366986245</ref> When the Iranian sponsored terror group [[Hamas]] attacked, Biden ordered all U.S. troops out of [[Israel]], abandoning an ally.<ref>https://dailycaller.com/2021/05/14/us-military-travel-warning-israel-gaza-hamas-terrorism/</ref> − − In late March 2021, Biden junta admin Linda Thomas-Greenfield wasted $15 million of U.S. taxpayer dollars, handing them in foreign aid to [[Palestinian]]s in the Middle East to "resume diplomatic ties".<ref>Two references: − *Gaouette, Nicole; Roth, Richard (March 25, 2021). [https://edition.cnn.com/2021/03/25/politics/us-palestinians-diplomatic-ties-two-states/index.html US to resume diplomatic ties with Palestinians that were cut under Trump]. ''CNN''. Retrieved April 20, 2021. − *Kelly, Laura (March 25, 2021). [https://thehill.com/policy/international/544940-biden-admin-announces-15m-in-humanitarian-assistance-for-palestinians Biden admin announces $15M in humanitarian assistance for Palestinians]. ''The Hill''. Retrieved April 20, 2021. − *Lederer, Edith M. (March 25, 2021). [https://apnews.com/article/linda-thomas-greenfield-health-coronavirus-pandemic-west-bank-covid-19-pandemic-4f96f9f9790a4f469fd040eb91959cd9 US gives $15 million to Palestinians to deal with COVID-19]. ''Associated Press''. Retrieved April 20, 2021. − *Magid, Jacob (March 25, 2021). [https://www.timesofisrael.com/in-first-under-biden-us-announces-15-million-in-aid-for-palestinians/ In first under Biden, US announces $15 million in aid for Palestinians]. ''The Times of Israel''. Retrieved April 20, 2021.</ref> According to ''[[ABC News]]'' on March 31, 2021, nearly ''$300 million'' were allocated for the Palestinians.<ref>Lee, Matthew (March 31, 2021). [https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/biden-administration-quietly-ramping-aid-palestinians-76790948 Biden administration quietly ramping up aid to Palestinians]. ''ABC News''. Retrieved April 20, 2021.</ref> − − The Biden junta has attempted to restore over $200 million in foreign aid to the [[Palestinian]]s which the [[Trump Administration]] slashed,<ref>Two references: − *Kelly, Laura (April 7, 2021). [https://thehill.com/policy/international/middle-east-north-africa/546925-biden-administration-to-restore-millions-in-aid Biden administration to restore aid to Palestinian refugee agency: report]. ''The Hill''. Retrieved April 20, 2021. − *Septalnick, Matt; Zengerle, Patricia; Landay, Jonathan (April 7, 2021). [https://www.reuters.com/article/us-palestinians-usa-exclusive/exclusive-u-s-to-restore-about-150-million-in-aid-to-palestinians-sources-idUSKBN2BU23M?il=0 Exclusive: U.S. to restore more than $200 million in aid to Palestinians - sources]. ''Reuters''. Retrieved April 20, 2021.</ref><ref>Multiple references: − *Kelly, Laura (April 7, 2021). [https://thehill.com/policy/international/546973-us-restores-235-million-in-humanitarian-assistance-to-palestinians US restores $235 million in humanitarian assistance to Palestinians blocked by Trump]. ''The Hill''. Retrieved April 20, 2021. − *[https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/apr/08/joe-biden-restores-us-aid-palestinians-donald-trump Biden restores $200m in US aid to Palestinians slashed by Trump]. ''The Guardian''. Retrieved April 20, 2021. − *Verma, Pranshu; Gladstone, Rick (April 7, 2021). [https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/07/world/middleeast/biden-aid-palestinians.html Reversing Trump, Biden Restores Aid to Palestinians]. ''The New York Times''. Retrieved April 20, 2021.</ref> an effort that Republican lawmakers blocked two days later.<ref>Two references: − *Harkov, Lahav (April 8, 2021). [https://www.jpost.com/international/republicans-delay-biden-administrations-funds-to-palestinians-664595 Republicans delay Biden administration’s funds to Palestinians]. ''The Jerusalem Post''. Retrieved April 20, 2021. − *Kelly, Laura (April 9, 2021). [https://thehill.com/policy/international/547417-gop-lawmakers-block-biden-assistance-to-palestinians GOP lawmakers block Biden assistance to Palestinians]. ''The Hill''. Retrieved April 20, 2021.</ref> The Palestinians have a record of documented terrorism.<ref>[https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/palestinian-terrorism Terrorism: Palestinian Terrorism]. ''Jewish Virtual Library''. Retrieved April 20, 2021.</ref><ref>[https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/major-palestinian-terror-organizations Palestinian Terrorism: Major Terror Organizations]. ''Jewish Virtual Library''. Retrieved April 20, 2021.</ref><ref>Durns, Sean (January 21, 2021). [https://www.newsweek.com/palestinian-authority-still-paying-terrorists-opinion-1563138 The Palestinian Authority Is Still Paying Terrorists | Opinion]. ''Newsweek''. Retrieved April 20, 2021.</ref> One of their terrorist organizations, [[Hamas]], uses human shields<ref>[https://www.channel4.com/news/factcheck/factcheck-hamas-civilians-human-shields Does Hamas use civilians as human shields?]. ''4 News''. Retrieved April 20, 2021.</ref> which anti-Zionist/anti-Semitic propagandists then deceitfully exploit to accuse Israel of murdering civilians. As the junta set about undoing the Abraham Accords, Hamas launched over 100 missiles.<ref>https://www.nysun.com/foreign/as-biden-tries-to-get-the-old-band-back-together/91504/</ref><ref>https://therightscoop.com/breaking-hamas-launches-multiple-rockets-into-southern-israel-one-israeli-city-ordered-into-lockdown-over-terrorist-infiltration-threat/</ref> − − In fact, Biden froze the ''Abraham Accords''.<ref>[https://lidblog.com/biden-froze-abraham-accords How Joe Biden Froze The Abraham Accords That Was Bringing Peace Between Israel and the Arab Countries], Lid, Nov 30, 2022.</ref> Contributing to more instability in the Middle East. − − [[File:IMG-20240628-WA0000.jpg|thumb|Trump calls Biden a bad "palestinian"]] − − 2024: Trump calls Biden ‘a bad Palestinian’ as president’s halting debate showing rattles Dems. After US leader says Netanyahu backs ceasefire proposal laid out last month, predecessor claims Israel wants to continue the war and that it should be allowed to 'finish the job.'<ref>[https://www.timesofisrael.com/trump-calls-biden-a-bad-palestinian-as-presidents-halting-debate-showing-draws-scrutiny/ Trump calls Biden ‘a bad Palestinian’ as president’s halting debate showing rattles Dems.], By JTA, Jacob Magid, and Agencies. ''TOI'', June 28, 2024.<blockquote>After US leader says Netanyahu backs ceasefire proposal laid out last month, predecessor claims Israel wants to continue the war and that it should be allowed to 'finish the job.'</blockquote></ref><ref>[https://www.israelhayom.com/2024/06/27/calling-biden-a-bad-palestinian-trump-says-gaza-war-should-continue/ Trump says Biden 'like a Palestinian' as candidates clash on Israel], ''ILH'', 06-27-2024.<blockquote><small> − Presumptive Democratic and Republican nominees face off in a contentious presidential debate, offering voters a rare side-by-side comparison of the two oldest candidates ever to run for president.</small></blockquote></ref><ref>[https://www.ynetnews.com/article/r1xuptiir US presidential debate: Biden: 'We saved Israel'; Trump: 'he's a very bad Palestinian'], ''Ynet'', 06.28.24.<blockquote><small> − POTUS appears weak, stammering and confused during debate marked by numerous taunts and below-the-belt jabs; GOP candidate: 'Israel would have never been invaded in a million years by Hamas' had he been president.</small></blockquote></ref><ref>[https://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2024/06/trump-used-word-palestinian-as.html Trump used the word "Palestinian" as a pejorative. He's right], EoZ, June 28, 2024. − <blockquote><small> − Trump is saying that Biden is taking the Palestinian side in the conflict. This is presumably what Hasan wants as well. − − Assuming that Trump used the word in a negative way, he's right. And this is part of the story about Palestinians that no one wants to say. − − 70-80% of Palestinians support specific terror attacks against Jewish civilians, after the fact, during the last 20 years of polling. These include some of the most horrific attacks like the slaughter of rabbis in Har Nof in 2014, with axes and cleavers. − − 80% of Palestinians surveyed, in a poll done by Palestinians, said they supported the attack. − − In 2008, a terrorist entered the Mercaz Harav yeshiva and started mowing down students. 8 were killed, including 4 children. When Palestinians were asked if they supported that attack, 84% said they did. − − In 2003, when asked about the Maxim restaurant suicide bombing in Haifa that murdered 21 including a two month old baby, 75% of Palestinians said they supported it. − − And more recent polls show that over 75% of Palestinians supported the October 7 pogrom. − − 75% isn't 100%, but no one can deny that as a society, Palestinians support murdering innocent Jewish civilians, no matter where they live. Many of them openly cheer those murders. − − What kind of people cheer terror attacks? Of course they should be vilified and insulted for their attitudes. Using the word "Palestinian" as a pejorative is quite reasonable without there being any significant Palestinian pushback against the cult of death that their society promotes.</small></blockquote></ref> − − − ====BDS==== − Biden offers a million dollar for "reporting" on so-called human rights "violations", allegedly, but only if by Israel.<ref>Lahav Harkov, [https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-702100 US offering $1 million to report on Israeli (supposed) "human rights" violations], JPost, March 23, 2022.</ref> Just more incentives to [[Pallywood]] lies and emboldening bigoted [[BDS]]. As if [[George Soros]] anti-Israel money wasn't enough. Indeed, ''watchdog wants Biden to disclose origins of $1 Million grant program to demonize Israel''.<ref>Adam Kredo, [https://freebeacon.com/national-security/watchdog-wants-biden-to-disclose-origins-of-1-million-grant-program-to-demonize-israel/ Watchdog Wants Biden To Disclose Origins of $1 Million Grant Program To Demonize Israel], ''Washington Free Beacon'', Mar 21, 2022.</ref> − − ====ISIS among Arab-Islamists: "Palestinians" and/or residing in Israel==== − The Biden admin. failed to address the fatal dangerous ISIS problem at Arab-Islamists "Palestinians" and/or those residing in Israel.<ref>Daniel Greenfield, [https://www.jns.org/opinion/will-biden-fund-isis-in-israel-to-aid-the-palestinians/ Will Biden fund ISIS in (Arab Islamists in) Israel to aid the Palestinians?], ''JNS'', March 29, 2022.<blockquote><font size=1> − − The "Palestinian people" have spoken. Will Biden listen to them? − − "In the name of Allah, the merciful and compassionate," said Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas, “we would like to welcome Secretary Clinton.” − “Blinken,” someone corrected him. − − “Sorry, Blinken,” said the 86-year-old Islamic terrorist leader. − − U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken had to travel thousands of miles to find a leader even more unpopular and out of it than the one he had left behind at the White House. − That was last year. This year, Abbas got Blinken’s name right, but not much else. − − In 17 years (and just one election), Abbas has seen a lot of secretaries of state come and go to get their pictures taken with him before sending him a few hundred million dollars. − − Last year, Abbas told Blinken that he had “postponed the elections” because of Israel and that the moment he gets his paws on Jerusalem, “we will hold them immediately and without any delay, because ultimately what we’re interested in is to establish democracy throughout Palestine.” This year they can’t be held either, because Abbas still doesn’t have Jerusalem. − − The last Palestinian Authority presidential election was in 2005. Abbas won. The last parliamentary election was in 2006. Hamas won. The presidential and parliamentary elections have been postponed since then but are expected to resume any time now. If not, blame Israel. − − Since elections won’t be happening anytime soon, a recent poll reveals that 73% of the “Palestinians” occupying the West Bank and Gaza Strip want Abbas to resign. − If elections were somehow held today, the Hamas presidential candidate would win 54% of the vote while Abbas would only get 38%. So you can see why there will be no elections. − − Sixty-one percent want to tear up all agreements with Israel (since they haven’t kept them, that would be a technicality), 70% don’t want to negotiate with Israel and 64% don’t even want to negotiate with Biden. Fifty-eight percent oppose the “two-state solution” that is the touchstone of the entire peace process. − − Seventy-three percent believe that the Koran predicts that Israel will be destroyed, but only 32% believe it will happen in 2022. − Under these circumstances, the last thing the Biden administration wants is democracy for the quarreling foreign jihadist tribes who invaded Israel over the last few centuries and were rebranded with the name of the European colonists known as the Philistines. − − Blinken is fine with Abbas postponing the elections forever, because otherwise the terror clans will do what they did the last time that Bush naively allowed elections and vote for Hamas. − − And that would be inconvenient because Hamas won’t pretend that they aren’t terrorists. − − Four Israelis were murdered last week by a Muslim terrorist attack at a mall in Beersheva. − − Despite the terrorist’s Islamic State membership, a Hamas spokesman praised “the executor of the heroic operation” and promised more “heroic operations: stabbings, ramming and shooting” like the car-ramming and stabbing spree that killed a rabbi who ran a soup kitchen and two mothers of three. So much for the claim that Hamas will inhibit the rise of the “extremists” of ISIS. − P.A. media also hailed the terrorist, Muhammad Abu al-Kiyan, who was shot and killed by an Israeli bus driver who chased him down on foot, as a “martyr.” If the P.A. follows its usual “Pay to Slay” policy in this case, it won’t just be financially supporting the usual stable of PLO, Hamas and Islamic Jihad families, but also an ISIS terrorist’s family. − − And that will mean American taxpayers will end up subsidizing ISIS terrorism in Israel, as the Biden administration explores ways to bypass the Taylor Force Act’s ban on terror funding. − − At a joint press conference on Sunday with Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, Blinken gave a speech mostly blaming Israel for future violence during Passover and Ramadan. That speech was followed by another ISIS attack in which two heavily armed terrorists opened fire on a bus. The Islamic terrorists were taken down by cops who had been eating nearby, but not before they killed two officers. − − Hamas celebrated the “valor and courage” of the ISIS terrorists, as did Islamic Jihad. − Hezbollah, backed by Iran, praised the ISIS attack as an “important and most effective practical response to the infamous and treacherous normalization meetings that some Arab regimes are carrying out with the enemy entity,” referring to the anti-Iran summit in Israel with the foreign ministers of Bahrain, UAE, Morocco and Egypt. − − Iran’s pro-Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps outlet, too, praised it as a “martyrdom operation.” When it comes to Israel, Iran and ISIS are on the same side. Much as Al-Qaeda and Iran were on the same side when it came to the terrorist attacks of September 11. − − Blinken meanwhile used the visit to pitch Israelis on a Biden plan to remove the IRGC, Iran’s terror hub, from the list of foreign terrorist organizations, claiming it would be “symbolic.” − − He failed to condemn the terrorist attack as an ISIS attack, calling it “senseless” violence. − − At his joint press conference with Abbas, Blinken also failed to condemn terrorism or to note that ISIS, with the tacit support of his PLO hosts in Ramallah and of Hamas in Gaza, was planting its flag in Israel. Instead, Blinken once again condemned Jewish Israeli “settler violence.” − − Like Undersecretary of State Victoria Nuland’s previous visit, the formula of Biden administration officials condemning Israeli “settler violence” while promising to “strengthen” the terrorists of the P.A. is as familiar as it is evil. The P.A. is an unwanted institution whose leader 73% of the people he rules over want to see out of office. − And 49% want to dissolve the Palestinian Authority. − − Considering the decades of failure, misery and terrorism wrought by the failed Clinton initiative to create a Palestinian state, it’s long past time for everyone to turn the page on this disaster. − − Neither Arab Muslims nor Israelis want Abbas or the P.A. Only diplomats like Blinken and Nuland insist on keeping the senile tyrant of Ramallah in office until he dies. − − In a final statistic, the poll asked who was “most deserving of representing and leading the Palestinian people.” Thirty-one percent picked Hamas, 29% chose Abbas’ P.A., and 33% chose none of the above. Eighty-four percent believe the P.A. is corrupt and 70% believe Hamas is dirty. − The “Palestinian people” have spoken. Will Biden listen to them? − − The root source of the corruption is the hundreds of millions of dollars Blinken came bearing last year for the regime of a corrupt, senile autocrat who didn’t even know whom he was talking to. There’s more money coming this year to prop up the terrorist regime. − − All in the name of a peace which doesn’t exist and that the majority of “Palestinians” don’t want. − − The United States has gone from using its foreign aid to the P.A. to prop up PLO, Islamic Jihad and Hamas terrorism against Israel to subsidizing ISIS terrorism. − Will ISIS be a final red line for the corrupt farce of a two-state solution and a peace process?</font></blockquote></ref> − See: [[Islamic State#Islamic Arabs .22Palestinians.22 inside Israel|ISIS among Islamic Arab "Palestinians" in Isr.]] − ====Blood money - "Palestinian" terror: Pay for Slay==== − Non-public [[State Department]] report (2022) furnished to Congress: [[Palestinian Authority]] is still paying imprisoned terrorists stipends and inciting violence against Israel, even as the Biden administration provides nearly half a billion dollars in American taxpayer funds to the government.<ref>[https://freebeacon.com/national-security/palestinian-government-still-pays-terrorists-as-us-aid-dollars-flow/ Palestinian Government Still Pays Terrorists as US Aid Dollars Flow], ''Washington Free Beacon, Oct 18, 2022 − <blockquote>The Palestinian government is still paying imprisoned terrorists stipends and inciting violence against Israel, even as the Biden administration provides nearly half a billion dollars in American taxpayer funds to the government, according to a non-public State Department report recently furnished to Congress. − The Palestinian Authority, which committed to stop these acts to receive new tranches of U.S. aid money, "continued payments to Palestinian prisoners who had committed acts of terrorism, as well as the families of so-called ‘martyrs’ who died while committing acts of terrorism," according to the report, a copy of which was reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon. Official Palestinian government media organizations and social media accounts also "broadcast or published content praising or celebrating acts of violence." − Details from the State Department report are likely to fuel congressional opposition to the Biden administration’s renewed funding of the Palestinian Authority, which almost immediately resumed when the Democratic administration entered office. U.S. aid was slashed by the Trump administration due to the Palestinian Authority’s support for terrorism, as well as a bipartisan U.S. law mandating that American aid be frozen until the Palestinian government ends its terrorist payment policy, also known as "pay-to-slay." That law, the [https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/1164 Taylor Force Act], was passed in 2018 and banned the State Department from allocating aid to the Palestinian government until it could certify that payments to terrorists and incitement against Israel ceased.</blockquote></ref> − − − Victims of terrorism sued Biden admin for sending taxpayer aid to "Palestinians."<ref>Adam Kredo, [https://freebeacon.com/national-security/victims-of-terrorism-sue-biden-admin-for-sending-taxpayer-aid-to-palestinians/ Victims of Terrorism Sue Biden Admin for Sending Taxpayer Aid to Palestinians], ''Washington Free Beacon'', December 20, 2022.<blockquote><font size=1> − Victims of Palestinian terror attacks are suing the Biden administration for awarding nearly half a billion dollars in U.S. taxpayer funds to the Palestinian government, which allegedly uses these funds to pay convicted terrorists and their families. − − The lawsuit, filed in federal court on Tuesday by American victims of Palestinian terror attacks and Rep. Ronny Jackson (R., Texas), alleges the Biden administration is in violation of federal law for resuming U.S. aid to the Palestinian government, according to a copy of the lawsuit exclusively obtained by the Washington Free Beacon. The Trump administration froze these funds due to the Palestinian government’s financial support for terrorists as part of a program known as pay-to-slay. − − The plaintiffs, led in the suit by the America First Legal Foundation, a watchdog group composed of lawyers, are asking the court to halt the Biden administration’s Palestinian aid program over charges it is sustaining the pay-to-slay program in violation of a 2018 law known as the Taylor Force Act. That law—named after an American who was killed in 2016 by a Palestinian terrorist—bars all U.S. payments to the Palestinian government until it halts the terrorist payment program. − − The State Department, which is named as a defendant in the suit, has formally determined in congressional notifications that the Palestinian government pays terrorists and incites violence against Israel. Now, a court must determine if U.S. aid payments should be stopped for violating federal law. − − Force’s family is also listed as a plaintiff in the case, along with Jackson and Sarri Singer, who survived a Palestinian suicide bombing in 2003. − − “I am committed to doing everything in my power to get the accountability these families so richly deserve as we work to make sure U.S. taxpayer-funded terrorism never happens again,” Jackson told the Free Beacon. “President Trump showed tremendous leadership when he signed the Taylor Force Act into law and ended taxpayer support for the Palestinian Authority’s terrorist activities. Joe Biden’s decision to reverse course knowing full well blood is on his hands as a result is unconscionable.” − − Stuart and Robbi Force, Taylor’s parents, said in a statement that President Joe Biden and Secretary of State Antony Blinken are “dishonoring the memory and legacy of a good man, and ignoring the citizens of the United States who understand that taxpayer dollars should not be used to fund the killing of innocent civilians.” − − The lawsuit centers on the Biden’s administration’s decision to resume U.S. aid even as the State Department determines the pay-to-slay program has continued, disclosures that were first made public by the Free Beacon reveal. − − The Palestinian government “continued payments to Palestinian prisoners who had committed acts of terrorism, as well as the families of so-called ‘martyrs’ who died while committing acts of terrorism,” the State Department affirmed in a non-public report to Congress earlier this year. − − The Palestinian government has provided an estimated $1.5 billion to convicted terrorists and their families from 2013 to 2020, according to information contained in the lawsuit. As much as $15 million per month is being paid into the pay-to-slay fund as of 2020, according to Palestinian officials quoted in regional news outlets….</font></blockquote></ref> The [[Palestinian Authority]] has been criminally using aid for bloody murderers terror.<ref>[https://palwatch.org/home/search?q=Pay+for+slay Pay for Slay], ''Palwatch.''</ref> − − − Pay for slay, blood money staggering toll. − After Biden sent $1 billion to the PLO, Israeli deaths rose 900%. − It cost $10,000 to kill a 6-year-old—and the terrorists have the money.<ref>Daniel Greenfield, [https://www.jns.org/opinion/after-biden-sent-1-billion-to-the-plo-israeli-deaths-rose-900/ After Biden sent $1 billion to the PLO, Israeli deaths rose 900%], ''JNS'', February 15, 2023.<blockquote><small> − It cost $10,000 to kill a 6-year-old—and: the terrorists have the money. − − When U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with PLO leader Mahmoud Abbas last month, he boasted of the over one billion dollars in aid that the Biden administration had programmed for the terrorist territories. − − That aid has come with a very heavy price. − − In Feb. 2019, President Trump’s total cutoff of aid to the Palestinians became official. That year, 10 Israelis or people in Israeli controlled areas were killed in stabbings, shootings, rocket and other attacks, down from 12 the previous year, 15 in 2017 and 16 in 2016. − − In 2020, however, only three Israelis were killed. − − These numbers reflected the diminished capacity of the Islamic terrorists. The reduction in numbers was not due to the pandemic. The year still saw attacks, including firebombings, rocket launches and stabbings, but the success and lethality rates for these attacks were lower. − − The numbers turned around dramatically once again in 2021. − − In April 2021, the Biden administration restored aid to the PLO. Terror incidents, reflecting attack attempts, shot up sharply, from 91 in February and 89 in March to 130 in April. − − By May, major fighting had resumed, with 13 Israelis, including two children, killed. − − By the time the year was over, 17 people in Israeli areas had been killed. The over 400% increase in deaths was only the beginning. In 2022, 31 Israelis or people in Israeli areas were killed, up from only three in 2020, for a massive 900% increase in casualties since the restoration of foreign aid to the terrorists. This was the worst death toll since 2015 under Obama. − − But in January and the first half of February, 10 Israelis have already been killed, including a 6-year-old boy and his 8-year-old brother. [https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/367299] − − Three times as many have been killed in the past month and as in all of 2020. That’s a 233% increase over 2020 in just a fraction of a year, but it’s also a marked month-to-month escalation from 2022, which featured no attacks at all in January or February. More people have already been killed by terrorists in 2023 than through most of March 2022. − − What a difference a billion dollars makes. − − While the media has tried to portray the terrorism as “lone wolf” attacks, they’re crowdsourced violence of the kind that Al Qaeda and Islamic State helped innovate. But the PLO’s version is unique through its ‘Pay-to-Slay’ program [https://jcpa.org/paying-salaries-terrorists-contradicts-palestinian-vows-peaceful-intentions/], which rewards terrorists, regardless of their formal affiliation, with salaries and payments for their families. [https://emetonline.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Pay4Slay_Fact-Sheet-FINAL.pdf] − − Terrorists are paid based on the length of their prison sentence. That means successful killers can earn $2,000 to $3,000 a month in a part of the world where the average salary is around $700 a month. It’s five times more profitable to be a terrorist than a teacher. [http://www.algemeiner.com/2015/10/16/the-palestinian-authority-is-openly-paying-terrorists-who-kill-israelis/], [https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-730788]. − − The [[Palestinian Authority]] calls for the murder of Jews, praises it and then rewards it. − − Muhammad al-Lahham of the Fatah Revolutionary Council, which runs the political movement behind the terrorists of the P.A., was caught on video praising the “patriotic conscience” of a terrorist who had killed a rabbi taking his two-year-old son for a walk in 2022. [https://www.frontpagemag.com/biden-convenes-anti-semitism-summit-while-funding-murder-of-jews/]. − − The Trump administration cut off aid to the PLO’s P.A. and Congress passed the Taylor Force Act, banning funds from going to finance Pay-to-Slay. − − Throughout all this, PLO leadership have been consistent in refusing to stop financing terrorism. − − “We will neither reduce nor prevent [payment] of allowances to the families of martyrs, prisoners and released prisoners, as some seek, and if we had only a single penny left, we would pay it to families of the martyrs and prisoners,” Abbas had bragged. By “martyrs,” he meant those Islamic terrorists who were killed while carrying out terrorist attacks. [https://www.jns.org/abbas-if-we-had-only-a-penny-left-we-would-pay-to-martyrs-and-prisoner-families/]. − − Despite this, the Biden administration restored aid and rebuilt diplomatic relations. Biden and Blinken have met with Abbas. And while they have attacked Israel over everything from letting Jews pray on the Temple Mount (due to Jewish prayers offending Muslim sensibilities) to democratic judicial reform that will limit the unilateral authority of pro-terrorist judges, Biden and Blinken have had nothing to say to the terrorists about the program funding the murder of Jews. [https://www.frontpagemag.com/teenage-girls-murder-shows-what-loyal-and-disloyal-daniel-greenfield/], [https://www.frontpagemag.com/biden-convenes-anti-semitism-summit-while-funding-murder-of-jews/]. − − America First Legal, under Stephen Miller, filed suit against the Biden administration on behalf of the parents of Taylor Force: a non-Jewish Afghanistan war vet murdered in Jerusalem. [https://aflegal.org/as-israelis-are-murdered-in-jerusalem-afl-and-its-clients-demand-president-biden-and-secretary-of-state-blinken-stop-enabling-palestinian-terrorism/], [https://www.frontpagemag.com/how-us-taxpayers-funded-murder-iraq-vet-israel-daniel-greenfield/]. − − “The Biden Administration is well aware that the P.A. pays Palestinian terrorists to injure or kill innocent Americans and Israelis in Israel. Yet, in blatant violation of the Taylor Force Act, a federal law that prohibits the government from sending American taxpayer dollars to the P.A. until it stops supporting terrorism, President Biden and Secretary of State Blinken have resumed payments to the P.A. after the Trump Administration had stopped these payments in compliance with the Taylor Force Act,” America First Legal declared.. − − “The Taylor Force Act, named after our son, was passed by Congress and signed by President Trump to stop this Pay to Slay. Yet the Biden Administration has resumed payments to the P.A. notwithstanding its Pay to Slay program,” said Stuart Force, Taylor’s father. − − The Biden administration’s decision to fund the P.A. has consequences beyond Israel. Islamic terrorism is a global threat and has been a reliable killer of Americans abroad. − − “Robbi and I call upon President Biden to stop sending fungible taxpayer dollars to the P.A. that will end up funding terrorism,” Stuart Force appealed. − − And the latest wave of violence shows just how “fungible” that money is. − − The massive uptick in successful terrorist attacks is not a coincidence. The numbers become more significant when we distinguish between so-called “lone wolf” attacks, which are most directly impacted by Pay-to-Slay, and rocket attacks by other terrorist groups. Fourteen people were killed in direct terrorist attacks in 2018. That number dropped to five in 2019, the year Trump cut off aid to the PLO. By 2020, it fell to three, in 2021, the year Biden restored aid, it rose to four and then shot up to 32 in 2022, reflecting the “slow burn” effect of fungible aid money being taken away and then restored within a government bureaucracy, even if it’s run by and for terrorists. − − As the Biden administration continues pumping money into the terrorist entities occupying parts of Israel, the violence is drastically increasing. 2023 is already on track to top 2022, which had the worst numbers since 2015. The level of Islamic terrorism is returning to that of the Obama administration, and that means that we can expect an even higher death toll in Israel. − − The billion dollars in aid is a factor, but an even bigger factor is that the Biden administration, like its Democrat predecessor, has made no secret of its support for the P.A. And the Biden administration has gone even further with its diplomatic support for the PLO regime and its pressure on Israel. The latest murders are the work of a terrorist group that knows that Washington, D.C., has its back and will intervene to protect it from Israel. − − The Biden administration’s decision to appoint Hady Amr, an open supporter of Islamic terrorism and opponent of the Jewish state who was “inspired” by the intifada, as its key liaison to the PLO, has consequences, and dead bodies in Jerusalem are among the most obvious. [https://www.frontpagemag.com/bidens-new-asst-sec-state-worked-islamic-terror-daniel-greenfield/], [https://www.frontpagemag.com/as-palestinian-terrorists-wound-american-girl-biden-upgrades-ties-with-terrorists/]. − − Islamic terrorism runs on money and foreign support. The Biden administration has provided both. The Palestinian Authority spends hundreds of millions of dollars a year on Pay-to-Slay. − − The pipeline of terror may end with a six-year-old boy lying dead on a Jerusalem street, but it begins with cash coming out of Washington, D.C. The attacks of Sept. 11 cost Al Qaeda about half a million dollars. The cost to the PLO of killing that little boy, his brother and a newly married man going to spend the Sabbath with his wife’s family probably comes out to about $30,000 a year. Or $10,000 per dead Jewish person. That’s a fraction of the millions of dollars in foreign aid which could be used to finance hundreds and thousands of more murders of Jews. − − $10,000 to kill a six-year-old boy, another $10,000 to kill his 8-year-old brother. Thanks to the financiers of murdering Jews in the Biden administration, the terrorists have the cash. − − And we’re the ones providing it.</small></blockquote></ref> − − − In July 2023, lawmakers call on Biden to end PA’s ‘pay for slay’<ref>Joshua Marks, [https://www.jns.org/u-s-israel/pay-for-slay/23/7/19/303926/ US lawmakers call on Biden to end PA’s ‘pay for slay’], ''JNS'', July 19, 2023.<blockquote><small> − The Congress members asked Secretary Blinken for an update on the Palestinian policy of rewarding terrorists. − − A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers is calling on the State Department to update Congress on negotiations to end the Palestinian Authority’s policy of paying terrorists. − − In a letter sent to Secretary of State Antony Blinken, the 50 members of Congress noted with concern the uptick of violence in Judea and Samaria in recent months and the P.A.’s refusal to condemn the killings of Israelis while at the same time continuing its “pay for slay” program.</small></blockquote></ref> − − − [[File:Pay.for.slay.Abbas.jpg|thumb|Palestinian Authority (PA) President 'Abbas: 'If We Had Only A Single Penny Left, We Would Pay It To Families Of The Martyrs(sic) (July 23, 2018)<ref>[https://www.memri.org/reports/palestinian-authority-pa-president-abbas-if-we-had-only-single-penny-left-we-would-pay-it Palestinian Authority (PA) President 'Abbas: 'If We Had Only A Single Penny Left, We Would Pay It To Families Of The Martyrs And Prisoners'], ''Memri'', July 24, 2018]</ref>]] − − − As Biden's admin. demanded concessions from Israel in exchange of normalization with Saudi Arabia, Arab writer asked: "Where Are the Palestinian Concessions for Peace?"{{Cquote|If anyone is misreading the situation, however, it is Blinken, who thinks that Israeli concessions would convince the Palestinians to accept an agreement between Saudi Arabia and Israel. As the results of the PCPSR poll showed, the Palestinian public is not impressed with the proposed concessions. − − If the Palestinian Authority is currently unable or unwilling to prevent terror groups from attacking Israelis, it is truly delusional to think that it would be more diligent in controlling security in any new areas it received from Israel. Abbas has not been willing to send his security officers to arrest or kill the terrorists based in the cities of Jenin and Nablus. He knows that if he does, his people will condemn him as a "traitor" and "collaborator" with Israel, and quickly dispatch him to "drink tea up there" with the Egypt's murdered President Anwar Sadat, who was assassinated for brokering his country's 1979 peace deal with Israel. Moreover, Abbas will not go against the terrorists as long as they do not physically go against him. − − Most of all, the idea of transferring more land to the Palestinians is terrible because sends a message to the Palestinian Authority that, after it failed to combat terrorism in land under its control, it will be rewarded with even more land... − − The Palestinian Authority (PA), through its "Pay-for-Slay" program, proudly rewards terrorists who murder or wound Jews. In just one year, "Ramallah paid out around NIS 600 million ($187 million) in salaries for Palestinians imprisoned, jailed, or killed by Israel in 2020, according to a senior Palestine Liberation Organization official." In 2018, PA President Mahmoud Abbas said: "We will neither reduce nor withhold the allowances of the families of martyrs, prisoners, and released prisoners... if we had one single penny left, we would spend it on the families of the martyrs and the prisoners." − − As the poll illustrates, support for anti-Israel terrorism among the Palestinians has risen from 53% (three months ago) to 58% today...<ref>Bassam Tawil, [https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/20001/palestinian-concessions-peace Where Are the Palestinian Concessions for Peace?], Gatestobe Institute, September 28, 2023.</ref>}} − − ====Money to UNRWA==== − '''US taxpayer dollars''' & UNRWA − − The [[Trump]] Administration cut off US funding to UNRWA in 2018 but the Biden administration reversed the decision. Under him, the White House has been "reckless" in its decision to "funnel millions of dollars into this corrupt organization." − In Feb 2023, GOP senators and reps. introduce bill to cut UNRWA funding, blasting it for 'rampant history' of ties to antisemitism and terrorism. − {{Cquote| − The United Nations Relief and Works Agency Accountability and Transparency Act seeks to end the use of American taxpayer dollars flowing to UNRWA which the bill’s sponsors noted has a “rampant history of anti-Israel and antisemitic propaganda and activity.” − − “UNRWA’s lengthy and detailed history of promoting antisemitism, violence, and terrorism through ‘educational’ materials, and its continued ties to Hamas, should completely disqualify this corrupt entity from receiving any US taxpayer funding,” Roy said. − − “UNRWA has failed to meet previous commitments to stop its hostility towards Israel, and it is an obstacle to peace. Israel is one of our greatest allies and closest friends; we cannot say we truly stand with them while helping prop up a corrupt organization like this. If our actions do not match our words, then our word means nothing.” − − Roy pointed out that the Trump Administration cut off US funding to UNRWA in 2018 but the Biden administration reversed the decision. He accused the White House of being "reckless" in its decision to "funnel millions of dollars into this corrupt organization." − − Risch, the ranking member on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, slammed UNRWA for employing people with ties to Hamas, adding that continued US funding of the organization as it now stands was “unacceptable.” − − "More than 70 years [after its creation], the organization has employed individuals affiliated with Hamas, a US designated foreign terrorist organization (FTO), and its schools have been used to promote antisemitism and store Hamas weapons," he said. "It is unacceptable that US taxpayer dollars are being used to fund this agency, which is why I've introduced legislation to cease US contributions to UNRWA unless the administration can certify without a doubt that the agency has no affiliation with US designation FTOs and does not support antisemitic rhetoric."<ref>[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/367779 Senate and House Republicans move to cut funding to UNRWA], '"Israel National News'', Feb 21, 2023.</ref>}} − − ====Tom Nides==== − Tom Nides was appointed by Biden as Ambassador to Israel in 2021 and has called himself a reform and a liberal. − − <small>[He is in anti-Israel style - like Jstreet/JVP type].</small> − − Reported in Feb 2023, (after bloody anti-Jewish terror attacks), about Tom Nides, not differentiating between the accidental death of a "Palestinian" civilian during an anti-terror raid with dozens of Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorist, and stating that 60% of his time is helping "Palestinians."<ref>Deborah Brand , [https://www.breitbart.com/middle-east/2023/02/20/us-ambassador-to-israel-60-of-my-time-is-helping-palestinians/ U.S. Ambassador to Israel (Nides): 60% of My Time Is Helping Palestinians], ''Breitbart'', 20 Feb 2023.</ref> {{Cquote|U.S. Ambassador to Israel Tom Nides said he spends the majority of his time helping Palestinians, an unusual remark from a diplomat purporting to serve as the U.S. envoy to Israel. He also made several comments relating to Israel’s domestic policies, including telling Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to “pump the brakes” on the government’s proposal to reform the judiciary and calling on Israel’s new Arab allies to condemn the Jewish state over its recent decision to legalize nine Jewish so-called outposts in the West Bank. “I spend 60% of my time trying to help the Palestinian people,” Nides told podcast host David Axelrod, a former senior advisor to Barack Obama. He drew a moral equivalency between Palestinian terrorism and the IDF’s counter-terror operations, and made no differentiation between the accidental death of a Palestinian civilian during an anti-terror raid with dozens of Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorists, and the intentional murder of Jewish Israelis in any one of the five terror attacks to take place in Jerusalem in the past three weeks.}} − − − After Nides called to slow on judicial reform, Diaspora Affairs Minister Amichai Chikli spoke out against Nides to respect Israeli democracy after call to slow on judicial reform. − <ref>[https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-731997 Chikli tells Nides to respect Israeli democracy after call to slow on judicial reform], ''JPost'', Feb 18, 2023.</ref> − − − In June 2023, after yet another massacre by Arab-Islamists "Palestinians", Tom Nides --monitored by Biden's people-- was slammed for outrageously attempts of some moral equivalence between Arab-Islamic terrorists targeting the unarmed and anti-terror operations.<ref>[https://www.jns.org/us-news/hamas/23/6/20/296961/ US State Department appears to double down on Nides’s moral equivalence], ''JNS'', June 20, 2023.</ref> − − ====Meddling against Conservative government?==== − There were charges in Feb 2023, that Biden is meddling in Israel, that the admin is funding "progressive" anti-Bibi movement.<ref>[https://israelnationalnews.com/flashes/601809 Republican Senator: Biden admin funding anti-Bibi movement], − ''INN'', 3/8/2023.<blockquote> − Republican Senator [[Tom Cotton]] claims that the Biden administration is funding Israel's Movement for Quality Government that is "trying to bring down Netanyahu."</blockquote></ref><ref>[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/368452 How US taxpayer funds are flowing to a group bankrolling anti-Netanyahu protests], ''INN'', 3/8/2023.<blockquote> − The U.S. government has been funneling taxpayer money to the left-wing group bankrolling protests against Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, according to Israeli funding documents reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon.</blockquote></ref> − The kind of aid, [[Bernie Sanders]] & [[AOC]] are fine with. No protests. − − ====Biden's anti-Israel appointments==== − − Partial list: − − * Dilawar Syed (Islamist) − U.S. Department of State Special Representative for Commercial and Business Affairs − − “Following Mr. Syed’s confirmation hearing, Emgage Action released incendiary statements during the regional unrest, stating “This state of affairs is not a case of ‘both sides.’ Not when Palestinians are occupied and the State of Israel is the occupier.”<ref>[https://www.hawley.senate.gov/senator-hawley-colleagues-call-another-hearing-sba-nominee-after-ties-anti-israel-group-revealed Senator Hawley, Colleagues Call for Another Hearing on SBA Nominee After Ties to Anti-Israel Group Revealed], June 30, 2021</ref> − − − − * Hady Amr (racist Arab) − − Deputy Assistant Secretary for Israeli-Palestinian Affairs Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs: then elevated to Special Envoy to the Palestinians − <blockquote> − “I was inspired by the Palestinian intifada,” Hady Amr wrote a year after Sept. 11, 2001.<ref>Melanie Phillips, [https://www.jns.org/biden-administration-wont-stop-appeasing-the-palestinians/ Biden administration won’t stop appeasing the Palestinians], JNS, June 2, 2022</ref></blockquote> − − − * Reema Dodin (racist "palestinian" Arab) − − Deputy Director of the White House Office of Legislative Affairs − − Dodin legitimized and even encouraged suicide bombings against Jews. − <ref>[https://www.jns.org/incoming-senior-biden-staffer-justified-suicide-bombers-during-second-intifada/ Incoming senior Biden staffer justified suicide bombers during Second Intifada], ''JNS'', Nov 24, 2020.<blockquote><small> − In 2002, Reema Dodin, then a student at the University of California, Berkeley, spoke about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, saying that “suicide bombers were the last resort of a desperate people.”</small></blockquote></ref><ref>Evie Fordham , [https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-staffer-palestine-suicide-bombings-reema-dodin-university-california Senior Biden staffer called Palestinian suicide bombings ‘the last resort of a desperate people’], ''Fox News'', Nov 24, 2020.<blockquote> − − Dodin is a volunteer for Biden's transition team and currently serves as Deputy Chief of Staff for Sen. Dick Durbin</blockquote></ref> − − − * Uzra Zeya (Islamic) − Under Secretary of State for Civilian Security, Democracy, and Human Rights − − Zeya has a long record of denouncing the “Is.. lobby” and the “secret money” it uses to control American politicians…. She appears not to care that Hamas & the PLO endanger their own civilians by placing weapons in schools, hospitals, mosques…. Nor does her support of Hamas and the PA suggest she should be in charge of defending “democracy” anywhere else.<ref>Alana Goodman, [https://freebeacon.com/biden-administration/biden-nom-for-top-state-dept-post-contributed-to-book-about-how-israel-lobby-controls-american-politics/ Biden Nominee for Top State Dept Post Contributed to Book About How 'Israel Lobby' Controls American Politics], ''Free Beacon'', Feb 18, 2021</ref> − − − * Maher Bitar ("Palestinian" racist Arab) − − Senior Director for Intelligence at the National Security Council − − Bitar wrote in one paper, “Israel’s political existence as a state is the cause for Palestinian dispossession and statelessness…. Israel’s rejection of their right to return remains the main obstacle to finding a durable solution.”<ref>Lela Gilbert, [https://www.hudson.org/religious-freedom/abraham-accords-jcpoa-joe-biden-strange-attachment-iran Abraham Accords, the JCPOA, and Joe Biden’s Strange Attachment to Iran], ''Hudson Institute'', Dec 14, 2022</ref> − − − − * [[Wendy Sherman]] − Deputy Secretary of State − − Sherman negotiated Obama's [[Iran nuke deal]] also downplayed PLO suicide bombings − <ref>[https://www.jewishpress.com/blogs/guest-blog/hear-o-israel-how-do-i-hate-thee/2022/06/12/ JewishPress] June 12, 2022.<blockquote>She negotiated the genocidal-to-Israel Iran deal and has also praised arch-terrorist Yasir Arafat as “the leader of the resistance movement” as well as downplaying the PLO suicide bombings and other terror attacks on innocent Israelis that Arafat engineered; on and on. </blockquote></ref> and other terror attacks on innocent Israelis engineered by Arafat following the Oslo accords, by calling this mere “nagging disruptions from the Palestinian side.”<ref>[https://israel365news.com/345468/biden-hires-anti-israel-soros-agent-to-key-position/ Biden hires anti-Israel ‘Soros agent’ to key position]. − <i> − I will gather all the nations And bring them down to the Valley of Yehoshafat. There I will contend with them Over My very own people, Yisrael, Which they scattered among the nations. For they divided My land among themselves.</i> − Joel 4: 2 (The Israel Bible) − By Adam Eliyahu Berkovitz. − May 5, 2021</ref> − − − − * [[Kristen Clarke]] − Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division − − The linked letter [in Clark’s tweet] accused ADL of playing a “destructive role . . . in undermining struggles for justice,” based on a few occasions when ADL criticized antisemites such as Ilhan Omar. − − − − * [[Deb Haaland]] − Interior Secretary − − Haaland tweeted: ‘The murder of 60 Palestinians in Gaza just as Ramadan begins weigh heavy on my heart today…” but failed to mention that Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad acknowledged almost all casualties were their militants. J Street called her their hero. − − − − * [[Avril Haines]] − − Director of National Intelligence − − Haines signed a vicious letter falsely condemning Israeli violence, terrorism, and incitement. − − − − * [[Symone Sanders]] − Senior Advisor and Chief Spokesperson to the Vice President − − Sanders praised Israel-basher and Jew-hater Linda Sarsour as dedicating her career to fighting for justice. − − − * [[Karine Jean-Pierre]] − White House Press Secretary − − Jean-Pierre condemned those who condemned Jew-haters Reps. Omar, Tlaib, and AOC; and successfully urged Democratic presidential candidates not to attend a major pro-Israel conference. − − − − * [[Merrick Garland]] − United States Attorney General − − Judge Garland’s decisions repeatedly blocked or limited innocent victims of Palestinian Arab terrorism and Iranian terrorism from obtaining justice. − − ====Treating Islamic Republic of Iran better...==== − On July 13, 2023, The [[Wall Street Journal]] devoted its editorial to criticism of the US president and wondered "What does Biden have against [[Israel]]?... He treats the governing coalition in Jerusalem worse than he does [[Iran]]. − − In a harsh criticisms hurled by the American administration towards Israel and in its title asked "What does Biden have against Israel?". − "Why does President Biden go out of his way to criticize and try to impose orders on the Israeli government? At least rhetorically, the president and his administration treat Prime Minister [[Benjamin Netanyahu]] and his ruling coalition worse than the Islamic regime in Iran," the article reads. − − It also noted in it that "Mr. Biden again this week publicly refused to invite Mr. Netanyahu to the White House and excused it from the Prime Minister's coalition partners. Tom Neids, Mr. Biden's outgoing ambassador to Israel, said that the U.S. must intervene to prevent Israel from 'going off the rails.' . When Mr. Netanyahu was most vulnerable, at the end of March, Mr. Biden stated regarding legal reform - an internal Israeli issue - that 'Israel will not be able to continue on this path.' Netanyahu has already changed course and moderated the reforms - and it should be remembered that this is an internal Israeli affair in which the American president has no legitimacy to interfere. Instead, Ambassador Naides was sent to publicly order Netanyahu to 'press the brakes' on the reform." − − The authors of the article state that "it is clear that the government is siding with the opposition parties in Israel, and this is not a way to treat a democratic ally, especially in light of the fact that the party represented by the Prime Minister of Israel has been in power for most of the last 25 years." − − "The Israelis are the ones who have to debate the question of whether the proposed reforms will curb the extraordinary powers of their Supreme Court or change the balance in another way. They don't need Mr. Biden's interpretation," the article reads. − − The authors do not spare criticism of the conduct of the president and his administration towards Israel. "The president's policy towards Israel is not good. US aid to anti-Israeli international bodies has been renewed, the 'West Bank' and East Jerusalem are constantly mentioned as 'occupation' but it is not clear how this conduct promotes peace. While Mr. Biden is undermining the Netanyahu government, Hamas and other branches of Iran are gaining strength and opening another front with Israel in Judea and Samaria." − − "The most disappointing thing is the failure of the Biden administration to extend the Abraham Accords. Even on the Iranian issue, the president promised a stronger agreement and his administration meanwhile is basing its discourse on an unwritten agreement that will allow Iran to release tens of billions of dollars and achieve a breakthrough in the nuclear field. This is a startling retreat even from Barack [[Obama]]'s position," conclude the writers.<ref>[https://www.wsj.com/articles/biden-israel-benjamin-netanyahu-tom-nides-iran-abraham-accords-judicial-reform-639bd846 What Does Biden Have Against Israel?] − The President treats the governing coalition in Jerusalem worse than he does Iran. − By The Editorial Board. − July 13, 2023.<blockquote><small> − Why does President Biden go out of his way to snub, criticize and give marching orders to the government of Israel? At least rhetorically, the President and his Administration treat Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his governing coalition worse than they do the ruling mullahs in Iran.</small></blockquote>[https://www.jewishpress.com/news/left-vs-right/wsj-biden-treats-israel-worse-than-he-does-iran/2023/07/14/ WSJ: Biden Treats Israel Worse than He Does Iran], ''The Jewish Press'', July 14, 2023.; − [https://www.inn.co.il/news/607728 The Wall Street Journal: Biden's attitude towards Israel - worse than the attitude towards Iran], ''INN'', Nitzan Keidar, 25 in Tammuz 5783. 07/14/23.</ref> − − ====Push back against Israelophobia from Congress, House==== − Despite a handful of radical-left with the duo bigots [[Rashida Tlaib]] and [[Ilhan Omar]] (who use them) propaganda and slander and Biden often caving, however, as Israel's President Isaac Herzog, spoke on July 19, 2023 <ref>[https://www.jns.org/u-s-israel/u-s-israel-relations/23/7/19/303932/ Herzog hails Israel’s ‘greatest partner and friend’ in Congress address], ''JNS'', July 19, 2023. − <blockquote><small> − Israeli President Isaac Herzog had a “wonderful meeting” with U.S. President Joe Biden, whom he called a “huge friend of Israel.” − − Israeli President Isaac Herzog on Wednesday addressed a joint session of Congress, following a meeting the previous day with his U.S. counterpart at the White House. − − “At this moment in my people’s history, gathering on Capitol Hill to celebrate 75 years of Israeli independence with our greatest partner and friend, the United States of America, my soul is overflowing with pride and joy. The people of Israel are grateful to no end for the ancient promise fulfilled and for the friendship we have formed,” said Herzog. − − “When the State of Israel was established in 1948, the land which the Almighty promised to Abraham, to which Moses led the Israelites, the land of the Bible, of milk and honey, evolved into an exquisite land of democracy. Against all odds, the Jewish people returned home and built a national home, which became a beautiful Israeli democracy, a mosaic of Jews, Muslims, Christians, Druze and Circassians, secular, traditional and Orthodox, of all denominations and all possible views and lifestyles. A land which welcomed the ingathering of exiles from one hundred different countries,” continued Herzog. − − “A land which became the Startup Nation—a bustling hub of innovation and creativity, social action and intellectual discovery, spiritual awakening and business ventures, scientific ingenuity and lifesaving medical breakthroughs. We built a nation-state which has faced relentless war, terror and delegitimization since its birth. A country fighting to defend itself from enemy and foe, yet whose citizens continue to greet each other with the word ‘peace,’ shalom.” − − Herzog then shifted attention to Iran, calling the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program “perhaps the greatest challenge Israel and the United States face at this time. − − “Let there be no doubt: Iran does not strive to attain nuclear energy for peaceful purposes. Iran is building nuclear capabilities, that pose a threat to the stability of the Middle East and beyond. Every country or region controlled or infiltrated by Iran has experienced utter havoc. We have seen this in Yemen, Gaza, in Syria, Lebanon and Iraq. In fact, we have seen this in Iran itself where the regime has lost its people and is suppressing them brutally. …. − − “Iran is the only nation on the planet publicly calling, plotting and developing means to annihilate another nation, a member of the family of nations, the State of Israel. … Allowing Iran to become a nuclear threshold state—whether by omission or by diplomatic commission—is unacceptable,” the Israeli leader said. − − On the issue of peace, Herzog thanked the United States for its longstanding diplomatic efforts in the region. − − “The peace which the United States brokered between Israel and its neighbors has revolutionized the Middle East. The historic peace treaties with the Arab Republic of Egypt and the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan have demonstrated the many blessings of opting out of the cycle of war,” he said. − − “Three years ago, the Abraham Accords realigned our imaginations and our region. Israel eagerly welcomed the United Arab Emirates, the Kingdom of Bahrain and the Kingdom of Morocco into an exclusive, warm peace between our peoples. … Israel’s hand is extended, and our heart is open, to any partner in peace—near or far. − − “Israel thanks the United States for working towards establishing peaceful relations between Israel and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, a leading nation in the region and in the Muslim world. We pray for this moment to come. This would be a huge sea change in the course of history in the Middle East and the world at large,” continued Herzog. − − “My deep yearning is for Israel to one day make peace with our Palestinian neighbors. Over the years, Israel has taken bold steps towards peace and made far-reaching proposals to our Palestinian neighbors. Notwithstanding the deep political differences, and the numerous challenges that surround Israeli-Palestinian relations, and I do not ignore them, but it should be clear that one cannot talk about peace while condoning or legitimizing terror, implicitly or explicitly. True peace cannot be anchored in violence. − − “Palestinian terror against Israel or Israelis undermines any possibility for a future of peace between our peoples. Israelis are targeted while waiting for buses, while taking a stroll on the promenade, while spending time with their family. − − “At the same time, successful terror attacks are celebrated, terrorists are glorified, and their families are financially rewarded for every Israeli they attack. This is inconceivable. It is a moral disgrace. Terror is not a bump in the road. Terror is hatred and bloodshed. It contradicts humanity’s most basic principles of peace. Israel cannot and will not tolerate terror, and we know that in this we are joined by the United States of America,” added Herzog. − − “We pray for the fulfillment of Isaiah’s prophecy, ‘Nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore.” − − With respect to the Netanyahu government’s judicial reform initiative, Herzog expressed “great confidence in Israeli democracy. − − “Although we are working through sore [painful] issues, just like you, I know our democracy is strong and resilient. Israel has democracy in its DNA,” he said. − − “I will say to you, our friends, in English, what I have said to my people, to my sisters and brothers, in Hebrew back home: As a nation, we must find a way to talk to each other no matter how long it takes. As head of state, I will continue doing everything to reach a broad public consensus, and to preserve, protect and defend the State of Israel’s democracy,” added Herzog. − − He proceeded to stress the importance of the Jewish state’s relationship with America. − − “We are proud to be the United States’ closest partner and friend. We are grateful to the United States for the necessary means you have provided us to keep our qualitative military edge, and to enable us to defend ourselves, by ourselves,” he said. − − “This reflects your ongoing commitment to Israel’s security. We are also tremendously proud that ours is a two-way alliance, in which Israel has been making critical contributions to the national security and interests of the United States in numerous ways. Thank you, dear members of Congress, for your support of Israel throughout history, and at this critical moment in time,” added Herzog. − − The Israeli president invited a slew of guests to attend the speech, including Clifton Truman Daniels, grandson of former U.S. president Harry Truman, who recognized Israel 11 minutes after its declaration of independence in 1948. − − Herzog is also being accompanied by Leah Goldin, whose son Lt. Hadar Goldin was killed in action during the 2014 conflict with Hamas in Gaza. His body is still being held by the Palestinian terror group....</small></blockquote></ref> there was "tremendous love for Israel in Congress."<ref>Uzi Baruch, [https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/374408 Erdan to INN: We saw tremendous love for Israel in Congress'], ''INN'', Jul 19, 2023. − <blockquote><small> − Israeli Ambassador to the UN says President Herzog showed there is no crisis in US-Israel relations.</small></blockquote></ref> − − In an effort to combat bigoted slander, in July 2023, "the US House of Representatives on Tuesday overwhelmingly voted in favor of a resolution condemning antisemitism and stating that Israel" is not so called "apartheid" or the R word.<ref>Elad Benari, [https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/374353 House approves resolution: Israel is not a racist or apartheid state], ''INN'', | 19/7/23 .<blockquote><small> − The US House of Representatives on Tuesday overwhelmingly voted in favor of a resolution condemning antisemitism and stating that Israel is not a racist state, NBC News reported. − − The vote was 412-9, with 195 Democrats joining all Republicans in voting yes. Nine Democrats voted against the non-binding resolution, several of whom have previously denounced Israel as an “apartheid state”. One Democrat voted present. − − The resolution was a Republican response to Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA), who over the weekend called Israel a “racist state”, before walking back the comments and stating that she had directed them at Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government. − − Before Tuesday’s vote, Jayapal declined to provide any lengthy comment about the GOP effort, only calling it “ridiculous” before the elevator doors closed. − − Authored by Rep. August Pfluger (R-TX), the resolution does not mention Jayapal by name but it clearly takes aim at her recent remarks, noted NBC News. It states that it’s the sense of Congress that “the State of Israel is not a racist or apartheid state,” that “Congress rejects all forms of antisemitism and xenophobia," and that “the United States will always be a staunch partner and supporter of Israel.” − − “This is about an affirmation of support,” said Pfluger, a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee. “This is about a stance: 75 years after Israel became a nation, the United States was within minutes the first country to recognize ...</small></blockquote></ref> − − ===Qatar=== − − In Jan 2022, Biden told [[Qatar]]’s emir, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, earlier this month that the Gulf country is to be designated as a major non-NATO ally, a significant upgrade in relations between the two countries. Yet the designation comes despite concerns over Qatar’s backing of Islamist groups throughout the region, including Hamas. − Experts add:<ref>Ariel Ben Solomon, "[https://www.jns.org/with-major-non-nato-designation-america-seems-to-court-terror-supporting-qatar/ With major non-NATO designation, America seems to court terror-supporting Qatar]", ''JNS'', Feb 18, 2022.</ref><blockquote> − “For decades, Qatar has provided financial and political support, directly and indirectly, to virtually every anti-American Islamic terrorist organization,” noted Carmon. − − This list includes the terror-based Muslim Brotherhood, Al-Qaeda and even organizations affiliated with ISIS, he claimed. − − Senior Muslim cleric and Muslim Brotherhood leader Sheikh Yusef al-Qaradawi, a prominent Islamist known for his vicious anti-Semitism and justification of the Holocaust, has been operating for years from Qatar under its protection, said Carmon. “In addition, Qatar has provided shelter to several other jihadi leaders.” − For example, according to testimony in 2003 before a committee in the U.S. House of Representatives, the Qatar Charitable Society is linked to top levels of the Qatari government and played a significant role in funding jihadi groups, including Al-Qaeda... In addition, the “charity” organization was first named as funding Al-Qaeda during the trial proceedings of the 1998 bombings of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. − “If it weren’t for Qatar, the September 11 attacks might not have taken place,” he continued. − − “In 1996, terrorist mastermind Khalid Sheikh Muhammad had been under Qatari protection in Doha. When the U.S. government notified the Qatari emir that they were coming to arrest KSM for his involvement in terrorist plots, KSM disappeared within hours, only to reappear in 2001 as the mastermind behind 9/11.” − Jonathan Schanzer, senior vice president at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, told JNS, “the Biden decision was driven in part by the looming energy crisis. Qatar is a major global gas producer and provider.” − “With Russia set to invade Ukraine and potentially cut off gas to Europe, the administration needs alternatives. So, some of this may link back to our large air-force base at Al Udeid,” he said. − “But don’t ignore the looming energy crisis. It accounts for quite a bit right now,” he added. − − Qatar has ruled out normalizing relations with Israel − − ... the official Qatari-owned TV channel, Al Jazeera, functions as a mouthpiece for jihadi terror organizations. “It has praised Osama bin Laden and broadcasted his speeches and allowed a sheikh to pledge allegiance to ISIS on air.” − “The Qatari-based channel has also aired calls for terror attacks against American oil installations,” he said. “It even hosted a birthday party—complete with a large cake, fireworks and a band—for released terrorist Samir Al-Kuntar,” a Lebanese Druze member of the Palestine Liberation Front and Hezbollah “who brutally murdered a 4-year-old [Israeli] girl and her father in 1979.” − − Qatar’s [[duplicity]] regarding the United States is manifest in its diplomacy, too. “Qatar funded the Taliban throughout America’s presence in Afghanistan, yet the American administration is eagerly thanking Qatar for its ‘help’ in preventing an even greater disaster during the withdrawal last August.” − According to an exclusive report by Axios last week, Qatar arranged with the Taliban to resume evacuation flights with Qatar Airways to allow American and other countries to evacuate thousands of their citizens. − − Another Axios report, also last week, said that Qatar ruled out normalizing relations with Israel. Al Thani said that while Qatar continues to have a “working relationship” with Israel to help the Palestinians, he does not envision the country joining the Abraham Accords “in the absence of a real commitment to a two-state solution.” − The country has been involved in ensuring that Israel helps move aid and reconstruction supplies to Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and has transferred hundreds of millions of dollars of aid to Hamas, which rules the coastal enclave with an iron fist. − − Moreover, the United States acts like it is indebted to Qatar for hosting the Al Udeid Air Base and U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) headquarters, which Qatar built at the cost of $2 billion, stated Carmon. − There was another option: Both the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia had offered to host the CENTCOM base in Qatar’s stead, but America rejected their offers. − He said “the Qataris should be thanking the U.S. for guaranteeing their security, but instead, Qatar has been strengthening security relations with countries like China and telling the Iranians that ‘only countries along the coast [of the Persian Gulf] should keep security in the region.’ ”</blockquote> − − See related, it's propaganda TV, [[Al Jazeera]]. − − ===Afghanistan=== − No American was killed in Afghanistan since February of 2020 until Biden's seizure of power. − [[File:Kabul 2021.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Joe Biden, author of the [[Violence Against Women Act]], abandoning the women and girls of Afghanistan to the Taliban [[rape jihad]].]] − The Taliban warned in late March 2021 that the group would start targeting foreign troops in [[Afghanistan]] if they remain in the country beyond the May 1, 2021 deadline set by the US-Taliban peace deal.<ref>https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/3/26/taliban-threaten-to-re-target-foreign-troops-if-may-1</ref> As American troops departed, the Peoples Republic of China began expanding their Belt and Road Initiative with a $62 billion aid package to Afghanistan to extend the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC).<ref>https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9755531/China-prepares-Afghanistan-following-Americas-departure-Belt-Road-program.html</ref> − − On July 8, 2021, Biden said from the White House, "I trust the capacity of the Afghan military, who is better trained, better equipped, and more competent in terms of conducting war,"<ref>https://freebeacon.com/national-security/bidens-afghanistan-predictions-were-all-wrong/</ref> "There's going to be no circumstance where you're going to see people being lifted off the roof of an embassy of the United States from Afghanistan."<ref>Naomi Lim, White House Reporter, [https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/biden-parallels-afghanistan-vietnam-wars Biden dismisses comparisons between Afghanistan and Vietnam wars], Washington − Examiner, Jul 8, 2021</ref> The same month the Defense Department said it was providing the Afghan Air Force 35 Black Hawk helicopters and three A-29 Super Tucanos. The United States spent $83 billion equipping and training the Afghanistan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF), including $10 billion in aircraft and vehicles.<ref>https://www.defenseone.com/threats/2021/08/us-spent-83-billion-training-afghan-forces-why-did-they-collapse-so-quickly/184529/</ref> Less than a month later several Black Hawks helicopters and other aircraft were seized by the Taliban. Many of the aircraft and helicopters are armed. These A-29 Super Tucanos can fire laser-guided and other types of bombs. The Afghan government also had 50 American-made MD-530 attack helicopters, which are armed with machine guns and rockets. The Afghan Air Force had UH-60 Black Hawks and Russian-made Mi-17 helicopters, as well as C-130 and Cessna transports, and a small fleet of armed Cessnas.<ref>https://www.defenseone.com/threats/2021/08/taliban-captured-helicopters-can-they-capture-air-force/184525/</ref> − − As the impending crisis escalated, White House chief propagandists Jen Psaki said "The Taliban has to make an assessment about what they want their role to be in the international community."<ref>https://www.mediaite.com/online/jen-psaki-mocked-for-saying-taliban-has-to-make-an-assessment-about-their-future-role-america-is-back-alright/</ref> Her comments came as reports flowed in of Taliban fighters going door-to-door and forcibly selecting girls as young as 12 to reward as brides for the victorious jihadis.<ref>https://www.wsj.com/articles/afghans-tell-of-executions-forced-marriages-in-taliban-held-areas-11628780820</ref> − − Former Obama Ambassador to Afghanistan Ryan Crocker said,<ref>The Atlantic (2011). [https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2011/04/panetta-will-run-pentagon-petraeus-to-lead-cia/237927/ Panetta Will Run Pentagon; Petraeus to Lead CIA].</ref> the Islamist group cares less about diplomatic relations than it does about the idea that it has defeated the world’s strongest military, a narrative that will embolden other Islamist militants around the world. − {{quotebox-float|“We’re going to pay for that for a long time to come, and that’s why it is insane – just idiotic – to think that we can tell the Taliban that if they don’t stop taking over territory and play nice, the international community will withhold recognition and support. The Taliban really doesn’t care, because they’ve got something far more valuable.” − − “We have seen this movie before. This would be the Taliban of the 1990s that gave safe haven to al-Qaida, except they’re meaner and tougher than they were then because of what they’ve been through.” − − “But even with all of that, I’m afraid a lot of people are going to die. As the Taliban moves into different cities and towns, they’ve got their hit list. So it’s going to be messy, it’s going to be incomplete and more people are going to die, but we’ve got to make our best possible effort.” − − “I’m left with some grave questions in my mind about his ability to lead our nation as [[commander-in-chief]].”<ref>https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2021/aug/14/a-self-inflicted-wound-former-ambassador-to-afghan/</ref>}} − Crocker told ''[[CBS]]'' ''[[Face the Nation]]'', "It has created a global crisis, quite frankly. It has emboldened violent Islamic radicals, and I think we’re all gonna see the fallout of that, certainly in Pakistan, a champion the Taliban. The Taliban victory, the narrative of defeating the great infidel, empowers radicals in Pakistan that they’re going to have to deal with if they can. And that’s a country of 220 million people with nuclear weapons.<ref>https://therightscoop.com/obama-afghan-ambassador-says-bidens-withdrawal-has-created-a-global-crisis/</ref> ''Politico'' chief European correspondent Matthew Karnitschnig wrote, "Biden told allies to join him in proving that [[democracy]] works and defending it against [[authoritarianism]]. Instead, they look at Afghanistan and see “the discrediting of the Western alliance and everything it is supposed to stand for in the world.”<ref>https://www.politico.com/newsletters/politico-nightly/2021/08/16/what-biden-lost-in-afghanistan-493977</ref> Former Obama Defense Secretary [[Leon Panetta]] said that there is no question that "our national security is threatened by what has happened."<ref>https://youtu.be/FT_2GpJSS1I</ref> According to the U.K. ''Telegraph'', − [[File:Biden Imbecile.PNG|right|300px|thumb|''Sunday Mirror'', August 22, 2021.<ref>[https://www.pressreader.com/uk/sunday-mirror/20210822/page/1 Sunday Mirror], − Aug 22, 2021</ref>]] − {{quotebox-float|“Joe Biden’s handling of the Afghanistan withdrawal was condemned as “catastrophic” and “shameful” on Wednesday as the [[Houses of Parliament]] delivered an unprecedented rebuke to a US president. MPs and peers from across the political spectrum, including [[Boris Johnson]], put some blame for the Taliban’s takeover and the chaos that followed on Britain’s closest ally. Mr Biden was accused of “throwing us and everybody else to the fire” by pulling out US troops, and was called “dishonourable” for criticising Afghan forces for not having the will to fight. Former defence chiefs who led British troops in the Middle East were among those to speak out, while there were warnings that the West’s withdrawal would embolden Russia and China. − − […] Labour MP Chris Bryant called Mr Biden’s remarks about Afghan soldiers “some of the most shameful comments ever from an American president”. Khalid Mahmood, a Labour MP and former defence minister, said: “The Biden government have just come in and, without looking at what is happening on the ground, have taken a unilateral decision, throwing us and everybody else to the fire.” <ref>[https://archive.is/YkOPb#selection-517.0-535.24 Parliament holds Joe Biden in contempt over Afghanistan], By Ben Riley-Smith, ''The Telegraph'', 18 August 2021.</ref>}} − Former [[Labour Party]] [[Prime Minister]] [[Tony Blair]] slammed Biden's "imbecilic" retreat.<ref>https://archive.is/2D8am#selection-491.1-491.56</ref> − − The Taliban regime that the Biden junta facilitated to power contained several leaders on the [[FBI]]'s Most Wanted List. Biden's abandonment of $83 billion in military equipment made the United States, bar far, the world's largest state-sponsor of terror. − − =====Withdrawal===== − {{See also|Fall of Kabul}} − [[File:Taliban flag raising.PNG |left|300px|thumb|Taliban mock U.S. flag raising at [[Iwo Jima]] in their victory over America.<ref>https://therightscoop.com/taliban-mock-iwo-jima-flag-raising-pose-for-photos-with-their-trove-of-american-vehicles-weapons-equipment/</ref>]] − Panic ensued as the Kabul airport was flooded with people fleeing the Taliban terror. Some people were stampeded to death.<ref>https://www.the-sun.com/news/3479109/taliban-jalalabad-afghanistan-kabul-uk-troops-2-2/</ref> ''[[The New York Times]]'' reported about the dangerous road thousands of people face trying to get to the Kabul airport: “There were volleys of rifle fire, along with pushing, pulling and beating with wooden sticks, Kalashnikovs and hoses.”<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/08/18/world/asia/kabul-airport-afghanistan-maps.html</ref> At the airport, “in desperate scenes, babies were passed to U.S. soldiers in the hope of giving them a life outside the country,” ''[[The Guardian]]'' reported.<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2021/aug/19/children-passed-over-the-walls-of-kabul-airport-amid-evacuation-chaos-video</ref> Tens of thousands of Afghans lined up outside the airport in the hopes of finding a way out.<ref>https://www.businessinsider.com/video-people-crushed-to-death-at-kabul-airport-thousands-flee-taliban-2021-8?op=1</ref> Three young men clung to the tires of an airplane, only to fall on top of people's houses once the plane was airborne.<ref>https://twitter.com/AsvakaNews/status/1427172720446373892</ref> Remains of a fourth body were found crushed inside the wheel well upon landing.<ref>https://notthebee.com/article/shockingly-awful-video-shows-afghan-mans-body-dangling-from-wheel-well-of-c-17</ref> − − People died after being crushed or succumbing to sweltering temperatures in the crowds outside the airport gate as individuals and families sought refuge from the Taliban.<ref name="lbc.co.uk">https://www.lbc.co.uk/radio/presenters/matt-frei/women-at-kabul-airport-crushed-fleeing-taliban/</ref> [[UK]] ''Independent'' journalist Kim Sengupta saw four women crushed to death in the space of about an hour, in the crush as Afghans scrambled to leave the Taliban-controlled country.<ref name="lbc.co.uk"/> ''[[Sky News]]'' chief correspondent Stuart Ramsay saw people crushed to death, medics check their vital signs and then cover the bodies in white sheets.<ref>https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/15927269/afghanistan-kabul-airport-crush-taliban/</ref> A heartbroken mother found her 2-year-old daughter trampled to death.<ref>https://nypost.com/2021/08/22/fatal-stampede-outside-kabul-airport-takes-place-as-people-attempt-to-flee/</ref> Biden told ABC’s [[George Stephanopoulos]] "no one's being killed right now."<ref>https://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2021/08/26/biden-last-week-nobody-is-being-killed-n2594798</ref> On August 26, 2021, two suicide bombs went off outside the Kabul airport, killing about 60 people including 12 American soldiers and injuring more than 100. One was a car bomb about 200 yards away, outside the Baron hotel, which was a staging area for evacuees from the airport.<ref>https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2021/0826/Islamic-State-says-it-was-behind-suicide-attacks-at-Kabul-airport</ref> [[ISIS-K]] claimed responsibility. An [[Italian]] [[C-130]] also came under fire as it departed the airport.<ref>https://therightscoop.com/breaking-c-130-comes-under-fire-as-it-leaves-kabul-airport-also-reports-of-explosion-outside-airport-gate/</ref> A translator for the [[U.S. Marine Corps]] spoke with Fox News and gave a first-hand account of what he witnessed after the suicide attack.His 5-year-old girl died in his hands.<ref>https://100percentfedup.com/breaking-baby-girl-died-right-in-my-hands-witness-of-afghan-explosion-tells-what-he-saw-after-suicide-bomb-at-the-airport/</ref> − − With 40,000 Americans stranded,<ref>https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/08/breaking-afghanistan-hannity-reports-10000-many-40000-americans-trapped-inside-afghanistan-taliban-blocking-access-airport-video/</ref> embassy personnel in Kabul were apprised by the State Department to leave the embassy and make their way to the airport. Staffers reported being jostled, hit, spat on and cursed at by Taliban fighters at checkpoints near the airport. Some staff members reported that they were almost separated from their children, while others collapsed in a crush of people and had to be taken to hospitals with injuries. Others said they had collapsed on the road because of heat exhaustion. “It would be better to die under the Taliban’s bullet” than face the crowds again, a staff member was quoted as saying in a State Department cable. “Happy to die here, but with dignity and pride," according to ''[[NBC News]]''.<ref>https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/afghan-staff-u-s-embassy-losing-faith-evacuation-efforts-diplomatic-n1277397</ref> A heart-wrenching audio clip of a stranded American woman in fear for her life was posted to social media.<ref>https://therightscoop.com/heartbreaking-audio-of-american-woman-trapped-in-afghanistan-begging-for-biden-to-help-her/</ref> At least 24 students from a [[San Diego]] school district and 16 parents had tickets to fly out but were not able to get to the airport.<ref name="latimes.com">https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-08-24/students-from-cajon-valley-school-district-stranded-in-afghanistan?utm_id=36108&sfmc_id=4509190</ref> − − While the Biden regime did not inform our Afghan allies it was abandoning Bagram Airbase,<ref>https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9758175/US-left-Afghan-airfield-night-didnt-tell-new-commander.html</ref> Army Gen. Chris Donohue, commander of the 82nd Airborne, did inform the Taliban commander whom he had been coordinating with on August 30, 2021 that the Biden regime was abandoning the Kabul airport, according to CENTCOM commander Gen. Frank McKenzie.<ref>https://www.defenseone.com/threats/2021/08/inside-final-hours-kabul-airport/184975/</ref> Donohue had refused entry to the airport of American citizens with passports to leave Afghanistan.<ref>https://www.ronjohnson.senate.gov/services/files/84E1CBFE-B7F5-4E89-87E4-0823EDEA28E4</ref><ref>https://twitter.com/newsmax/status/1431018570822062081</ref><ref>https://www.dailywire.com/news/retired-marine-says-hundreds-of-their-rescued-orphans-christians-turned-away-by-u-s-military-ended-up-in-hands-of-the-taliban</ref><ref>https://dailycaller.com/2021/08/30/ron-johnson-american-citizens-blocked-kabul-airport-state-department/</ref> This was done with the full knowledge of the chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Gen. [[Mark Milley]].<ref>https://justthenews.com/sites/default/files/2021-08/YonEmailToMajorRedacted.pdf</ref> − − [[Lauren Boebert]] on Biden's 2022 SOTU speech:<ref>Lauren Boebert @laurenboebert Tweeted:<br><i> − 13 brave and heroic members of our military died during Biden's botched Afghanistan withdrawal. They deserved to be recognized during the State of the Union speech so I made sure to speak up.</i> − [https://twitter.com/laurenboebert/status/1499375327734382605 March 3, 2022]</ref> − <blockquote>13 brave and heroic members of our military died during Biden's botched Afghanistan withdrawal. They deserved to be recognized during the State of the Union speech so I made sure to speak up.</blockquote> − − "Some of the thousands of Afghans denied help during the August 2021 evacuation of US forces from Kabul chose horrific deaths rather than risk capture by the Taliban after helping Americans during their 20-year war there."<ref>Caitlin Doornbos, [https://nypost.com/2023/03/08/afghans-chose-razor-wire-suicide-over-taliban-when-kabul-fell/ Afghans chose razor wire suicide over Taliban when Kabul fell, US Marine tells lawmakers], ''NYpost'', 3/8/2023.</ref> − − Report:<ref>Miranda Devine, [https://nypost.com/2023/09/10/marines-were-ordered-to-pick-up-human-feces-before-they-were-allowed-to-leave-kabul/ Marines were ordered to pick up human feces before they were allowed to leave Kabul: 'Degrading and ridiculous'], ''New York Post'', September 10, 2023.</ref> Marines were ordered to pick up human feces before they were allowed to leave Kabul. Outrage: 'Degrading and ridiculous.' − − ====Emboldening adversaries==== − Following [[Iran]]'s Mar 12, 2022, attacking Erbil,<ref>[https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-701103 Missiles fired from Iran fall near US consulate in Erbil, Iraq - report], ''Jerusalem Post'', Mar 12, 2022.<blockquote>Some 12 missiles were fired from Iranian territory and fell near the US consulate in Erbil in northwestern Iraq on Saturday night. − The Kurdistan Counter-Terrorism Service announced that 12 ballistic missiles were fired from "outside the borders of Iraq and the Kurdistan region, specifically from the east," according to the Iraqi News Agency (INA). − Independent open-source intelligence (OSINT) accounts shared videos reportedly shared by Iranian civilians showing missiles being fired from Iran at the time of the attack, with at least one of the videos being geolocated to a site in Khasabad in the East Azerbaijan province of Iran.</blockquote></ref> via 12 missiles, reaching near US consulate and damaging [[Kurd]]ish media offices, a journalist: 'I have not seen a united Iraq around anything for a long time... Condemnations all-over-the-map against Iran'.<ref> − <blockquote>Indeed, I have not seen a united Iraq around anything for a long time. Condemnations all-over-the-map [in Iraq] against Iran following the missile attack, from Erbil to Baghdad, including the "crowner" of kings Shiite preacher Muqtada al-Sadr. Why is this interesting? Because the shooting of the Iranians takes place on days when there is some breakthrough in the contacts for the formation of the government with the participation of factions affiliated with Iran.</blockquote> -- roi kais • روعي كايس רועי קייס (@kaisos1987) [https://twitter.com/kaisos1987/status/1503066261932105733 March 13, 2022].</ref> − − Yet, all the weak Biden administration had to say that it doesn't believe it was the target...<ref>Fox News Sunday, Mar 13, 2022</ref> − − It has then went back and forth, between cowardly appeasing the Iranians first then telling the truth.<ref>Farnaz Fassihi (@farnazfassihi) Tweeted ([https://twitter.com/farnazfassihi/status/1503493146860208132 Mar 14, 2022]):<blockquote> − Update from @EricSchmittNYT: A senior Biden administration official refuted the earlier comment by a US official, saying the administration believes that the building that was hit was a civilian residence only and did not also serve as an Israeli training site.</blockquote> − − -IntelOmarion (@IntelOmarion) Tweeted ([https://twitter.com/IntelOmarion/status/1503494582507610120 Mar 14, 2022]): − @farnazfassihi @EricSchmittNYT<blockquote>Seriously? This is extremely unprofessional and dangerous reporting. Your previous claims have only fuelled Iranian propaganda & will enable further attacks on Iraq.</blockquote></ref> − − − Experts connected Biden's failed method /form of Agfhanistan withdrawal with the [[Russia-Ukraine war]] in Feb/2022. − − In fact, a Feb/2022 Caps-Harris poll showed 62% of respondents believe Putin would not have ordered troops into Ukraine with Trump in White House.<ref>Edward Helmore, "[https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/feb/26/poll-trump-russia-ukraine-white-house Poll: US majority believes no Russian invasion with Trump as president]", The Guardian, Feb 26, 2022. − <blockquote> − Caps-Harris poll shows 62% of respondents believe Putin would not have ordered troops into Ukraine with Trump in White House... − − In partisan terms, the survey found that 85% of Republicans and 38% of Democrats held the view.</blockquote></ref> − − As pundits explain:<ref>John Ratcliffe, Cliff Sims, "[https://thefederalist.com/2022/03/03/fear-of-donald-trump-kept-putin-from-invading-ukraine-heres-how-trump-pulled-it-off/ Fear Of Donald Trump Kept Putin From Invading Ukraine. Here’s How Trump Pulled It Off]", ''The Federalist '', Mar 3, 2022.</ref><blockquote>Trump not only successfully deterred Russia from acting against Ukraine, he effectively deterred a lot of bad behavior across the planet.</blockquote> − − Liberal B Maher rhetorically asked: ‘If Putin thought Trump was really that supportive’ then ‘why didn’t he invade when Trump was in office?'<ref>Ian hatchett, [https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2022/03/11/maher-if-putin-thought-trump-was-really-that-supportive-then-why-didnt-he-invade-when-trump-was-in-office/ Maher: ‘If Putin Thought Trump Was Really That Supportive’ Then ‘Why Didn’t He Invade When Trump Was in Office?’], Breitbart, 03/11/2022.<blockquote> − On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher criticized people who have attempted to make the Russian invasion of Ukraine about their pet issues and criticized those who have attempted to blame the invasion on former President Donald Trump by asking, “if Putin thought Trump was really that supportive of him, why didn’t he invade when Trump was in office?” And arguing that the question’s worth asking “if you’re not locked into one, intransigent thought.”</blockquote></ref> − − ====Taliban threatens to send 2000 suicide bombers to DC==== − The Taliban told the United States that if America wants 2,000 soldiers to guard its embassy in Kabul, the Taliban too will deploy a similar number of [[suicide bomber]]s at the Afghan embassy in Washington D.C. On December 11, 2021, a tweet by Maulvi Mohammad Yaqoob Mujahid, the son of the late Afghan Taliban founder Mullah Mohammad Omar Mujahid and now the acting defense minister of Afghanistan under the Taliban regime, stated: “If America wants 2,000 English [i.e., American] troops at its embassy in Afghanistan, we also want 2,000 Fidayeen Mujahideen [i.e., suicide bombers] from the Fateh Force at the embassy of Afghanistan in America.” The tweet is the first indication that the U.S. is seeking to deploy 2,000 troops to open its embassy in Kabul, according to the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI).<ref>https://www.memri.org/jttm/afghan-taliban-defense-minister-maulvi-mohammad-yaqoob-mujahid-if-america-wants-2000-english-ie#_edn1</ref> − − Fidayeen is another term used by jihadi groups for their suicide bombers. “Fateh Force,” or “victorious force,” is a “martyrdom force” within the Badri 313 unit of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan. Badri 313 is named after the Ghazwa-e-Badr, the first Islamic battle led by Islam’s founder Muhammad in which 313 Muslims defeated thousands of non-Muslim tribesmen. − − ====Looting Afghanistan's central reserves==== − On February 11, 2022 Joe Biden signed an executive order which splits Afghanistan's $7 billion in foreign reserves between 9/11 victims and aid to Afghans.<ref>https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/02/11/biden-afghanistan-currency-taliban/</ref> − − ====Bases housed Afghan evacuees - unrepairable damage==== − A Dec 2022 report showed, US military bases that housed Afghan evacuees suffered $260 million in damage.<ref>Houston Keene, [https://www.foxnews.com/politics/us-military-bases-housed-afghan-evacuees-suffered-260-million-damage US military bases that housed Afghan evacuees suffered $260 million in damage], ''Fox News'', December 28, 2022.<blockquote><font size=1> − DOD report notes 'tables, chairs and cots broken' by Afghans, 'tents and cots ruined by spray paint, human biological matter and holes' ... A new Department of Defense (DOD) report found that the U.S. military bases that housed Afghan evacuees suffered $260 million in damages, with the Air Force saying the damage was "unrepairable." The DOD inspector general reported last week that the eight bases housing the refugees in Texas, Wisconsin, New Jersey, Virginia, New Mexico and Indiana are asking for repair money after they sustained over a quarter-billion dollars in damage. Over 17 days, 120,000 evacuees..</font></blockquote></ref> − − ====Alleged killing of Zawahiri==== − In August 2022 Biden announced the alleged killing of former al-Qaeda leader [[Ayman al-Zawahiri]], who was reported dead in November 2020. Zawahiri was allegedly killed by violating international airspace with an experimental weapon prohibited by the Geneva Convention. Hours later, the U.S. State Department issued a travel alert for the heightened probability of retaliatory terrorist attacks against U.S. citizens. − − ===China=== − [[File:Xi and the Bidens.PNG|right|300px|thumb|Xi Jinping meeting with Joe and Hunter Biden.]] − In a two hour telephone conversation in late February 2023, Biden attempted to cajole President Xi Jinping to help end the [[war in Ukraine]] that the United States instigated by sanctioning Russia. ''New York Times'' diplomatic correspondent Edward Wong reported, "Xi didn't suggest a role China could play in ending the war…And he used a favorite phrase of his to cast blame on the US: 'Let he who tied the bell on the tiger’s neck take it off?'.”<ref>https://twitter.com/ewong/status/1504853536273797120</ref> − − =====China First policy===== − − Since 2017 China's communist government has imprisoned more than one million people and subjected those not detained to intense surveillance, religious restrictions, forced labor, and forced sterilizations.<ref>https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/chinas-repression-uyghurs-xinjiang</ref> Biden has friendly relations with the communist regime of China. Biden refuses to see Communist China as a threat to the United States and condemned the notion by calling it "bizarre".<ref>[https://www.breitbart.com/2020-election/2020/02/28/joe-biden-bizarre-to-say-china-is-americas-competition/ Joe Biden: ‘Bizarre’ to Say China is America’s Competition]</ref> According to an assessment by the 17 member U.S. [[Intelligence Community]], China interfered in the 2020 presidential election on behalf of their officially favored candidate and family business partner, Joe Biden.<ref>https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2021/01/07/transparent-timing-intelligence-community-assessment-on-foreign-interference-in-2020-election-submitted-to-congress-hours-after-electoral-certification/</ref> China was one of first countries which welcomed the media declaration of the [[Biden junta]]. Shortly thereafter China imposed covid butt swab tests on American diplomats.<ref>https://thenationalpulse.com/2022/01/27/china-forced-american-diplomats-to-take-anal-covid-tests/</ref> − [[File:Biden CCP.JPG|left|400px|thumb|The Biden White House official Youtube channel cozying up to Chinese Communist dictator, mass murderer, and slave master [[Xi Jinping]].]] − China is the world’s largest source of Marine debris, the largest consumer of trafficked wildlife and timber products, the greatest emitter of mercury, and the largest emitter of greenhouse gases, producing nearly one third of all global emissions. − − Vice foreign minister He Yafei said: despite differences in political ideology, there could still be opportunities for long-term cooperation. “Multilateralism, I will say, is very much needed at this critical moment,” he said. “For China, the US and the EU, all of us should rethink who we are and what roles we can play in the future.<ref>[https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3109496/us-china-relations-trump-divisions-could-haunt-biden US-China relations: Trump divisions could haunt Biden presidency]</ref> Biden referred to the [[genocide]] of the [[Uyghur]] people as a cultural norm<ref>https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/02/joe-biden-excuses-uyghur-genocide-just-chinese-cultural-norm-spreading-ccp-propaganda/</ref> and called the sovereign republic of Taiwan a "renegade province" of Communist China.<ref>[https://thetaiwantimes.com/president-biden-calls-uyghur-genocide-in-xinjiang-different-norm/ President Biden Calls Uyghur Genocide In Xinjiang “Different Norm”]</ref> − − The CCP moved to further the grip Beijing had over [[Hong Kong]]<ref>Axelrod, Tal (March 11, 2021). [https://thehill.com/policy/international/china/542695-chinese-lawmakers-back-move-to-tighten-grip-on-hong-kong Chinese lawmakers back move to tighten grip on Hong Kong]. ''The Hill''. Retrieved April 20, 2021.</ref> and has China intimidated Taiwan.<ref>Mitchell, Ellen (April 13, 2021). [https://thehill.com/policy/defense/547943-china-sends-25-warplanes-into-taiwan-air-zone China sends 25 warplanes into Taiwan air zone]. ''The Hill''. Retrieved April 20, 2021.</ref> Wary of the fact that many in the junta and Biden himself are shills for the CCP, China has pleaded for Trump's policies which supported Taiwan and weakened the communist regime to be lifted.<ref>Bowden, John (March 7, 2021). [https://thehill.com/policy/international/china/542015-china-calls-on-biden-to-reverse-trumps-dangerous-practice-on China calls on Biden to reverse Trump's 'dangerous practice' on Taiwan]. ''The Hill''. Retrieved April 20, 2021.</ref><ref>Lonas, Lexi (March 18, 2021). [https://thehill.com/policy/international/543763-china-to-ask-biden-administration-to-lift-trump-policies-report China to ask Biden administration to lift Trump policies: report]. ''The Hill''. Retrieved April 20, 2021.</ref> − − Analysts explain that the Saudis are working on alliance with China under Joe Biden's 'careless' foreign policy. "It's 'a damning indictment of the Biden administration' treatment of Saudis."<ref>[https://www.wnd.com/2022/12/saudis-working-alliance-china-joe-bidens-careless-foreign-policy/ Saudis are working on alliance with China under Joe Biden's 'careless' foreign policy], ''WND'', Dec 24, 2022</ref> − − =====Taiwan provocations===== − In August 2022, in retaliation for provocative acts by the Biden regime against Taiwan and in the Taiwan Straits, China passed numerous sanctions against the United States, American citizens and their families. The Chinese Defense Ministry released a list of areas in which there will no longer be communication between Chinese and American officials, that includes working meetings between defense departments, maritime security consultation, cooperation on illegal migration, judicial assistance, transnational crime, drug control, and [[climate change]], and a planned phone call between senior military commanders of the two nations was canceled. − − =====Chinese spying: objects / TikTok===== − − '''TikTok - Trump / Biden''' − − After ridiculing Trump for wanting to ban TikTok (especially by radical [[MSNBC]], finally, it came out in 2022, that TikTok admits to spying on U.S. users.<ref> [https://mashable.com/article/tiktok-spying-internal-report-us-users TikTok admits to spying on U.S. users as effort to ban the app heats up], Dec 23, 2022.</ref> And the [[FBI]] said China could use TikTok to spy on Americans, including government workers.<ref>[https://www.npr.org/2022/11/16/1137076864/fbi-says-china-could-use-tiktok-to-spy-on-americans-including-government-workers FBI says China could use TikTok to spy on Americans, including government workers], ''NPR'', November 16, 2022.</ref> − − '''Spy Balloon case''' − − In Jan 2023, as Chinese spy balloon hovered over US citues, only after he was pressured, the spy balloon was shut down. − Even Dems. uploaded on Biden for the delay.<ref>Brandon Gillespie, [https://www.foxnews.com/politics/democrat-unloads-biden-decision-delay-shooting-down-chinese-spy-balloon Democrat unloads on Biden decision delaying takedown of Chinese spy balloon, says admin 'owes America answers'], ''Fox News'', February 9, 2023 .</ref> − {{Cquote|US officials also detailed what they've discovered about the broader spying operation they say the Chinese government has undertaken using a fleet of high-altitude surveillance balloons across the globe. − − But senior Biden officials faced pointed questions on Capitol Hill from lawmakers in public hearings and classified briefings as Congress is demanding more information about why the balloon wasn't shot down sooner.<ref>Jeremy Herb, Jennifer Hansler, Kylie Atwood, Manu Raju and Haley Britzky, [https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/09/politics/spy-balloon-technology/index.html US officials disclosed new details about the balloon's capabilities. Here's what we know], ''CNN'', February 09, 2023.</ref>}} − He played it down.<ref>Victor Nava, [https://nypost.com/2023/02/10/biden-downplays-chinese-spy-balloon-claims-not-a-major-breach/ Biden downplays Chinese spy balloon, claims ‘not a major breach’], ''NYPost'', February 10, 2023.</ref> − − It was revealed later on, that US Intelligence watched spy balloon as it lifted pff near China’s south coast – US military tracked it tor a week before it entered US airspace.<ref>[https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/02/breaking-us-intelligence-watched-spy-balloon-lifted-off-near-chinas-south-coast-us-military-tracked-week-entered-us-airspace/ BREAKING: US Intelligence Watched Spy Balloon as it Lifted Off Near China’s South Coast – US Military Tracked it For a WEEK Before it Entered US Airspace], GWP, Feb 15, 2023</ref> − After 4 take downs of Chinese spying "objects" in 8 days, GOP ramped up criticism over lack of information − <ref>[https://thehill.com/homenews/house/3853410-republicans-ramp-up-criticism-over-chinese-spy-balloon/ Republicans ramp up criticism over Chinese spy balloon], ''The Hill'', 02/11/23</ref> and general pressure mounted on Biden to break his silence as 'people are freaked out' over objects shot from sky.<ref>MJ Lee and Kevin Liptak, [https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2023/02/13/politics/joe-biden-objects-shot-from-sky/index.html Pressure mounts on Biden to break his silence as 'people are freaked out' over objects shot from sky], ''CNN'', February 13, 2023.</ref> − − House Oversight Committee chair, [[James Comer]], accused China of ‘spy ring’ in US, that the concerns with China are a "whole lot bigger" than the spy balloons. He called on the Biden administration to take a tougher approach to the world’s most populated country.<ref>Mark Moore. [https://nypost.com/2023/02/13/rep-comer-accuses-china-of-spy-ring-in-us/ House Oversight Committee chair accuses China of ‘spy ring’ in US], ''NYPost'', February 13, 2023.</ref> − − '''TikTok after Balloon case''' − − Feb 2023, Chinese Spying Concerns fueled new calls for TikTok nan.<ref>Marisa Herman, [https://www.newsmax.com/platinum/china-tiktok-spying/2023/02/10/id/1108105/ Chinese Spying Concerns Fuel New Calls for TikTok Ban], ''Newsmax'', 10 February 2023.</ref> − − [[Fred Fleitz]] (former U.S. government official, serving since January 2022 as Vice Chairman of the America First Policy Institute Center for American Security) reiterated the threat via TikTok that the Balloon was just a test which Biden failed at. But TikTok is the real danger.<ref>TMZ Live @TMZLive ([https://twitter.com/TMZLive/status/1623356355112505344 Feb 8, 2023]):<blockquote> − After the Chinese spy balloon fiasco, TikTok is under a microscope. What is the Government doing about TikTok? We spoke with @FredFleitz on TMZ Live..</blockquote></ref> − − ===Drug cartels=== − After the kidnapping and murder of US citizens in Feb 2023, it was reported that the [[White House]] opposes designating drug cartels as terrorist organizations. − <ref>[https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/white-house-opposes-designating-drug-cartels-terrorist-organizationshttps://justthenews.com/politics-policy/white-house-opposes-designating-drug-cartels-terrorist-organizations White House opposes designating drug cartels as terrorist organizations], March 8, 2023 | Ben Whedon</ref>
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{{See also|Liberal World Order}}
{{See also|Liberal World Order}}
In June 2022 Biden economic adviser Dennis Henderickson said the sanctions on Russian gas and fertilizer that destroyed the Western economy and created mass starvation were to insure the future of the "Liberal Word Order".
In June 2022 Biden economic adviser Dennis Henderickson said the sanctions on Russian gas and fertilizer that destroyed the Western economy and created mass starvation were to insure the future of the "Liberal Word Order".
==Sexual misconduct==
==Sexual misconduct==