A Weird Mix of Whispering/Firey Shouting

During his self-congratulatory speech to the American public Wednesday evening, President Joe Biden bragged about how his tenure improved American status abroad. Victor Davis Hanson signals a time-out on his braggadocio. Has any other recent president done more to weaken the U.S. military under his tenure? The Pentagon suffered a real reduction in its budget and never quite recovered from the debacle in Afghanistan, blames VDH in American Greatness.

Succumbing to election year pressure, Biden did all he could to restrain and block Israeli retaliations to the October 7 massacres.

Only after he was repeatedly proven wrong does he now shamelessly take credit for what Israel ironically achieved by ignoring his own threats directed at Israel.

It is true, Mr. Biden, that Iran is “weaker than it’s been in decades.”

But Tehran was aided, not hurt, by Biden’s nonstop efforts to lift sanctions, to allow Iran to make billions in oil revenues, to pay the theocracy billions of dollars in hostage ransom, and to beg the mullahs to reenter the ill-starred Iran deal. Everything Biden did makes it much harder for Israel to survive.

Did ChatGPT Write Biden’s Speech

Somehow, Biden’s incessant “ankle-biting and finger-shaking” weakened Iran? Not exactly. The government, under Netanyahu, systematically destroyed Iranian air defenses after killing most of Iran’s foreign terrorist operatives, continues VDH.

The Assad regime in Syria imploded not due to any effort by Biden but after the Israeli decimation of Hezbollah and the humiliation of Iran; Syria under Assad was overwhelmed. Couple that with the election victory of Donald Trump, Assad’s enemies were confident to attack a now isolated and weakened regime.

Biden’s Warped Logic 

To Biden’s boast: I am the first president in decades who is not leaving a war in Afghanistan to his successor, VDH, responds, Really? Biden’s Afghanistan withdrawal is “the greatest humiliation of the US military in a half-century. It cost the lives of 13 Marines.”

Biden does not leave a war to his successor only because he fled in humiliation and lost it.

Joe Biden also took credit for saving Ukraine from Russia. Yet there’s no mention of why Russia invaded in the first place.

Had Biden not destroyed American deterrence by fleeing Kabul and leaving behind billions of dollars in abandoned U.S. military equipment, had he not claimed, prior to the Russian invasion, that his reaction to Putin’s likely aggression would hinge on whether it was “a minor incursion,” then the Russians might never have invaded at all.

Vladimir Putin grabbed Crimea and the Donbass in 2014 during the Obama-Biden administration. (Putin) later sought to swallow the entire country with an attack on Kyiv in 2022 on Biden’s watch.

China was never more bellicose than during Biden’s presidency. It serially threatened Taiwan, used cyber warfare to bully the U.S., brazenly expropriated U.S. military technology, and without worry sent a spy balloon to traverse the U.S. with impunity.

Biden’s open border saw more than 10 million illegal entries, among them thousands of Chinese nationals. Meanwhile, Chinese investors were freed to systematically buy up thousands of acres of America’s farmland adjacent to sensitive US military bases and installations.