Incompetence Is Dangerous

Incompetence is dangerous. That is a truism that is playing out before our eyes almost every day as the Biden-Harris team pushes us ever closer to a hot war with Russia.

Iran is sending short-range Fath 360 missiles to Russia, so the Russians can free up their stand-off platforms for strategic targets inside Ukraine.

Four years ago, Iran didn’t have enough Fath missiles to send to Russia, nor were they a world-class manufacturer of attack drones. But in January 2021, the Biden-Harris team removed the Trump-era sanctions on Iran’s oil exports, allowing them to go from 400,000 barrels/day to over two million barrels/day today.

Guess what? As a result of that policy shift – which was done by executive order, by the way, not by Congress — the Islamic regime in Iran today has more money for terror, for Hamas, for the Houthis, and to fund terror plots in the United States (such as assassination attempts on Donald Trump).

And, of course, they have more money to build ballistic missiles and drones and send them to Russia, in exchange for strategic missile and nuclear technology.

The failure of this administration to project forward the consequences of their policies is simply astonishing. As a direct result of removing sanctions on Iranian oil exports and imposing sanctions on Russia, the United States has propelled those two authoritarian regimes into each other’s arms.

In fact, this new military, economic, and strategic alliance is actually a threesome, as most of you reading these weekly columns know. China is a willing partner.

It’s not as if this was not foreseeable. So you have to ask yourself: are these people just incompetent, or have they willfully weakened the United States and strengthened our enemies?

This past week, Russian bombers flew into the Alaska Air Defense Identification Zone, forcing NORAD to scramble jets to chase them away. They have done this repeatedly over the past two years. This past July, the Russians flew the first ever-joint challenge mission to Alaskan air space with Chinese bombers.

That joint Russia-China Air Force mission targeting the United States is just one of many hostile acts this new Axis of Opportunism has taken since Biden and Harris have been at the helm. They have also carried out joint naval drills, including Iran. And of course, they are all-in on the Ukraine war. (For a more in-depth treatment of the Russia-China-Iran alliance, read by policy peace at the America First Policy Institute, here).

Also this week, the United States is discussing with Britain the request by Ukraine’s Zelenskyy to use long-range U.S. and British missiles to attack targets deep inside Russian territory. Putin responded with the obvious: “This would in a significant way c change the very nature of the conflict,” he said on Thursday. “It would mean that NATO countries are at war with Russia.”

That, of course, is what Zelenskyy has been seeking for quite some time. Because his forces are getting overrun in the Donbas, he is hoping to force the US and NATO into joining the war directly. Otherwise, he faces defeat on the battlefield.

This is all tremendously dangerous. And none of it had to happen. A stronger Iran, a stronger Russia, and the ever increasing likelihood of a direct US-Russia hot war are the results of the reckless policies of the Biden-Harris administration.

I ask you again, are they just incompetent, so lacking in imagination they can’t project forward the consequences of their acts? Or is this an attempt to mire the American body politic in a wider war, just in time for the November elections?

It won’t be easy for Donald Trump to stuff this genie back into the bottle, but at least we know that he will try. With Kamala, all bets are off.

I discuss this, as well as the shocking lurch toward authoritarianism in Great Britain, with the arrest of scores of British citizens for thought crimes and “hate speech” on social media, on this week’s Prophecy Today Weekend. As always, you can listen live at 1 PM on Saturday on 104.9 FM or 550 AM in the Jacksonville, Florida, area, or by using the Jacksonville Way Radio app. If you miss it live, you can listen to the podcast here.

Yours in freedom.

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