Biden Foreign Policy
January 14, 2025 — Scott Johnson
The AP reports that Hamas has accepted a draft agreement for a ceasefire and hostage deal with Israel. The AP states that it has obtained a copy of the draft. The Times of Israel has summarized the three phases of the deal as reported by the AP (more TOI here based on Israeli diplomatic officials): The three-phase agreement would begin with the gradual release of 33 hostages over a six-week
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January 14, 2025 — Scott Johnson
Introduced by the absurd Secretary of State Antony Blinken — he who elicited the lying statement of the Deep State 51 on the New York Post’s coverage of Hunter Biden’s laptop in 2020 and turned it over to Politico to publicize it — President Biden provided a farewell assessment of his foreign policy achievements yesterday afternoon. He appeared at the State Department before a cheering audience that must have been
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January 13, 2025 — John Hinderaker
The New York Post reports that, after well over a year, there is sudden progress on getting Hamas to release the remaining Israeli and American hostages: Israel and Hamas reached a significant “breakthrough” in cease-fire talks early Monday in a deal that aims to finally end more than 15 months of war and bring home the remaining hostages. Talks held in Qatar — and attended by envoys of both President
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December 12, 2024 — Scott Johnson
Secretary of State Antony Blinken testified yesterday before the House Foreign Affairs Committee on the catastrophic withdrawal from Afghanistan. Blinken is a complete and utter tool. He is of course the guy who solicited the corrupt statement signed by the Dirty 51 impugning the authenticity of the evidence found on Hunter Biden’s laptop. That may have been a stroke of evil genius, but Blinken sounds like the man who taught
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December 10, 2024 — Scott Johnson
In a nearby post I observe that the Obama/Biden foreign policy hands (including Obama and Biden themselves) make Neville Chamberlain look like a strategic genius. If viewed through a different lens, however, they look more like the British traitors known as the Cambridge Five. They served the other side — Soviet Union — during the Cold War. However, they did so covertly. The Obama/Biden team are somewhat more open about
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November 19, 2024 — Steven Hayward
Many readers objected to a post several weeks back suggesting that for effective purposes, World War III is underway, with Russia-China-Iran-North Korea and their various proxies forming the new Axis Powers. Some news items from today: • Israel Finds Large Troves of Russian Arms in Hezbollah’s Hands TEL AVIV—As Israel advances its invasion of southern Lebanon, its troops are finding large troves of Russian weapons, confirming longstanding suspicions in Israel
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November 19, 2024 — Scott Johnson
David Milstein observes on X that the Biden-Harris administration has “engaged in unprecedented pressure and undermined Israel’s important military operations at virtually every step of the way.” Here are excerpts of what Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu said yesterday in the Knesset as reported in a characteristically hostile Times of Israel story, this one by Lazar Berman: Speaking nearly two weeks after the US election, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu repeatedly criticized
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November 9, 2024 — Scott Johnson
The criminal complaint against Farhad Shakeri charges that in September he was directed by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps of Iran to surveil and kill Trump, whom the charging papers identify as “Victim-4.” The criminal complaint was unsealed yesterday. I have embedded it via Scribd below. Please do read it or the Politico story on it here. Politico recounts that the charged attempt to assassinate Trump is only “the latest
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November 3, 2024 — Scott Johnson
Republican Lily Tang Williams — “survivor of Mao’s cultural revolution,” “American by choice” — is running against Maggie Goodlander in New Hampshire’s Second Congressional District. See Ms. Lee’s video campaign bio here. Ms. Goodlander, the wife of historically awful National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan, is favored to win. I hadn’t heard of Ms. Williams until the video clip below turned up on X yesterday. Having watched it several times now,
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October 26, 2024 — Steven Hayward
Many of the media headlines reporting on Israel’s air strikes on Iran in the middle of the night last night say something along the lines of “could lead to an escalation of the regional war.” I have news for everybody: World War III has been underway at least since October 7 of last year, whether we want to acknowledge it or not. The only question is whether its scale and
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October 19, 2024 — Scott Johnson
Michael Doran is director of the Hudson Institute’s Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East and (says I) our best analyst of American Middle East policy. See, for example, his classic 2015 essay “Obama’s secret Iran strategy” and, following up, his 2021 Tablet column “The realignment.” Doran explains otherwise inexplicable Obama/Biden policies while also demonstrating that the Obama/Biden team is, speaking colloquially, crazy. That’s not how the Obama/Biden
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October 18, 2024 — Scott Johnson
After Israel announced the IDF’s elimination of Sinwar in Rafah yesterday, Vice President Harris made a congratulatory statement (White House transcript here, video clip below). This statement should fill a normal person with disgust. 🚨 Kamala speaks out about Sinwar. “Know this, we will always bring you to justice” Wait a minute… We? Sinwar was found in Rafah. Wasn’t it Kamala who said going into Rafah would be a “huge
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October 9, 2024 — John Hinderaker
The Russia/Ukraine war has been a humanitarian disaster. Estimates vary, but somewhere around one million Russians and Ukrainians have been killed or wounded in the two and a half years since Russia’s invasion. Like almost all Americans, I was on Ukraine’s side when Russia launched its invasion, and I still am. But two and a half years down the road, one can only wonder whether Western support for Ukraine has
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October 7, 2024 — Scott Johnson
Our friends at Tikvah deem this the most consequential year in modern Jewish history. They refer, of course, to the invasion of Israel by Hamas this past October 7 and the related events since then. Well, since then…as has frequently been noted by the Israelis, they have been fighting a war on seven fronts. On every front the intention of Israel’s enemies is to wipe it off the map. They
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October 4, 2024 — Scott Johnson
The Iran regime struck Israel with some 180 ballistic missiles fired from Iran. The Iranian regime meant to inflict death and destruction on Israel. As it is, Israel’s most sophisticated missile defense system approached perfection under an assault that was intended to overwhelm it. In the event, the strike did damage but killed only one Gazan Arab who had relocated to the West Bank. Watching the strike in real time
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September 30, 2024 — John Hinderaker
Israel’s stunning success in taking out the entire leadership of Hezbollah has laid the foundation for a ground incursion that will eliminate the terrorists’ ability to threaten northern Israel, where somewhere around 100,000 people have had to flee their homes to avoid Hezbollah rockets. The Wall Street Journal reports: Israeli special forces have been carrying out small, targeted raids into southern Lebanon, gathering intelligence and probing ahead of an expected
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September 27, 2024 — Scott Johnson
Yesterday the White House hosted Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky. Vice President Harris met with Zelensky. The White House has posted a readout of their meeting. Among other things, they discussed Zelenskyy’s plans for victory. In a public statement with Zelensky by her side Harris talked tough. “Putin started this war and he could end it tomorrow if he simply withdrew his troops from Ukraine’s sovereign territory,” she said. Harris: 'I
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