Biden’s Inept Presidency Leading America Into a Potential Third World War
Tucker Carlson conducted a sobering interview with retired US Army Colonel Douglas Macgregor yesterday, October 23, 2023, on the dangerous foreign policy path of the Biden administration.
Perhaps the most successful and certainly the most underrated element of President Donald Trump’s presidency was his foreign policy. During the four years of the Trump presidency from January 2017 to January 2021, the risk of a nuclear attack from North Korea was entirely defused, Russia did not advance into any of its neighboring countries, the situation in Afghanistan had stabilized with a friendly Afghan government supported by a small but effective US military presence, military conflict in Afghanistan and throughout the Middle East had largely ended during the final 18 months of the Trump presidency, the historic Abraham Accords was signed to normalize relations between Israel and four Arab nations, Iran was isolated and financially broke, China was not threatening Taiwan, and leaders around the world, including Xi Jinping of China and Vladimir Putin of Russia, respected the US president, Donald Trump. The world was largely at peace and the United States had regained lost respect.
But all of that has changed since the advent of the Biden administration in January 2021 and its incompetent foreign policy team led by long-time Democrat political operatives Antony Blinken (Secretary of State) and Jake Sullivan (National Security Advisor). Both Blinken and Sullivan are hard-core partisan Democrats, but also long-time, entrenched members of the neo-conservative (neocon) foreign policy political establishment in Washington, DC and its groupthink.
The neocon foreign policy ideology took root in the early 1990s after the fall of the Soviet Union with the basic belief in American superiority and aggressive interventions around the world to support and sustain American international dominance. This foreign policy mindset became accepted by both the Democrat and Republican party establishments leading to the intended derogatory term “uniparty” by American fiscal conservatives.
However, the fundamentals supporting the neocon ideology of the 1990s no longer exist. Today, the US military is far less combat-ready and less dominant internationally than it was in the 1990s. China and Russia have significantly closed the gap on American military superiority over the past couple of decades and, in some respects, have even gained some military advantages. Moreover, the neocon foreign policy over the past 30 years has had an extreme financial cost that has contributed heavily to America’s historically-high deficit spending and its current national debt of $33.2 trillion. The US fiscal situation has never been worse — Russia and China are well aware of this.
As Col. Douglas Macgregor explains in his interview with Tucker Carlson, Biden’s foreign policy team does not seem to realize that the US military does not have the overwhelming military superiority and the military-related supply chains that it had in the 1990s.
The international situation for the United States began to deteriorate after Biden’s unexpected and rushed exit from Afghanistan in August 2021. The exit made no sense, especially in the manner that it was conducted. Under the orders of the Biden administration, an estimated $82 billion in US military weaponry, equipment, and supplies were left behind along with the strategically-valuable Bagram Air Base. There is no doubt that Biden’s illogical exit from Afghanistan with its give-away of such a massive cache of top US military equipment was a clear sign of an inept and weak US president around the world. Only six months after Biden’s exit from Afghanistan, Putin invaded Ukraine in February 2022. The result has been an open-ended American commitment to support Ukraine in its conflict with Russia, which has cost US taxpayers at least $100 billion to date with no end in sight.
Given the costly quagmire that the United States now finds itself in Ukraine, the timing of the horrific attack by Hamas against Israel earlier this month is curious. Did Iran direct Hamas to conduct its attack against Israel because it perceives a weak and incompetent US administration? Were Russia and China in the loop with Iran on the Hamas attack? Is there a strategic plan by Russia, China, and Iran to over-extend the United States knowing that its deficit spending is out of control?
Col. Macgregor states in his interview with Tucker Carlson that the Biden administration is heading towards a dangerous direct military conflict with Iran. He believes that this will lead to a messy regional war in the Middle East involving multiple countries. A regional Middle Eastern war involving the United States, Israel, Iran, and other countries could lead to a potentially devasting third world war involving Russia and China. This is the terrible risk that Col. Macgregor does not believe the Biden administration and the neocon establishment in Washington understand.
Here’s the video link to the insightful X (Twitter) discussion between Tucker Carslon and Colonel Douglas Macgregor: https://x.com/TuckerCarlson/status/1716574971206500570?s=20