Joe Biden, the president of the United States, says one word over and over and over: “Don’t.”
He said it of the Taliban with regard to attacks on American troops. And then they did. He said it to the Russians with regard to going into Ukraine. And then they did. Now he’s said it to the Iranians with regard to directly attacking Israel. And then, of course, they did.
All of which means that Joe Biden is not a credible player on the world stage.
There is something in foreign policy called deterrence. It&#8217;s the single most important concept of the postwar era. The Defense Department defines <a href="https://perconcordiam.com/modern-deterrence/#:~:text=The%20U.S.%20Department%20of%20Defense,to%20communicate%20to%20counter%20an">deterrence</a> as the “prevention of action by the existence of a credible threat of unacceptable counteraction and/or belief that the cost of action outweighs the perceived benefits.”
In other words, you do not attack me because I am threatening you. If you attack me, I will clock you into next week.
You know who is an expert at deterrence? President Donald Trump. He was excellent at deterrence because every threat that he uttered was perfectly credible. He kept everybody off-balance.
It&#8217;s a kind of madman theory of foreign policy. You never knew when he meant it and you never knew when he didn’t. It didn&#8217;t matter whether you understood it. It only mattered whether he understood it. He could push you off the ball simply by saying, “If you cross the line, you don’t know what’s going to happen, but it&#8217;s going to be really bad.” 
And other nations took that seriously. The Taliban took that seriously. Russia took that seriously. China took that seriously. Iran took that seriously. 
But when Joe Biden — over and over and over again — keeps saying “Don&#8217;t,” and then other parties do, and the United States not only doesn’t respond but also slow-walks aid to America&#8217;s allies so even America&#8217;s allies cannot respond, or also intervenes to tell America&#8217;s allies not to do too much, the party that is deterred is not, in fact, the opponents, the enemies of the United States.
The party that is deterred is the United States herself.
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It is one thing to suggest that the United States should be deterred from forward action by the presence of, for example, the Soviet Union. But to suggest that the United States should be deterred from providing full aid to Ukraine, such that Ukraine is not overrun, and that we should be deterred by the possibility Vladimir Putin is going to unleash nuclear weapons — which of course is not a credible threat when it comes to simply maintaining the current battle lines in Ukraine — that&#8217;s stupid.
Or the suggestion that the United States should be deterred by Iran, which is what&#8217;s happening right now. Iran is saying, “We fired 300-odd missiles and drones at Israel. Most of those got knocked down. Virtually all of them got knocked down. But don&#8217;t go further or we are going to go further.” 
Iran is saying if Israel were to counterattack, then it would unleash 1,500 cruise missiles and ballistic missiles. So Biden is putting pressure on Israel.
The United States is the deterred party.
Being deterred is a sign that you are the weaker party in any conflict. The stronger party typically is not deterred. It is the weaker party who is worried that the cost of action will outweigh the perceived benefit. Typically, if you are on the playground, it is not the bully who is being deterred by the weakling. It&#8217;s the weakling who is being deterred by the bully.
When it comes to foreign policy, the United States has the world&#8217;s largest and most powerful military presence spanning the globe in terms of technology — far more advanced than anything on the table by a factor of probably five.
And yet, the United States is being deterred over and over by significantly smaller powers, which is why smaller powers are feeling their oats right now.
So the question is why? Why exactly has it become rote for smaller powers to deter the United States?
The answer is not the insufficiency of American materiel. The answer is not the insufficiency of America&#8217;s military might. America is so far beyond, for example, the Chinese military in terms of advancement. China going to a full-scale war with the United States would be the biggest mistake China ever made.
And if that&#8217;s true of China, who has nuclear weapons, think about Iran, who does not have nuclear weapons and whose ballistic missile system is so bad that half of the rockets just fired at Israel fell in its own territory or the territory of other countries before they even hit Israeli airspace.
So, again, why is America being deterred? The answer is simple: moral cowardice. Under Biden, the United States has become a morally cowardly force. Under Biden, the United States has basically decided that any engagement in the world&#8217;s sphere is some sort of act of aggression. Even so much as funding our allies so those allies can defend themselves with forward action to deter — for example, Iran from doing this again — would be some sort of American aggression that would escalate.
The reality is that when it comes to the Middle East, every single conflict is a game of chicken. The game of chicken, as we all know, is a game wherein two sides drive toward a cliff and whoever gets closest to the cliff without driving over wins. The worst case scenario is you&#8217;re the one who goes off the cliff.
But when it comes to the United States versus other countries, we have both the best gas and the best brakes. The reality is that if there were to be a cliff and if we were to hit it, the significant impact would be on Iran and not on the United States.
The United States is already engaged in wartime activity against Iran. It was American forces striking down drones directly from Iranian territory.
But it is Joe Biden who is acting the weakling, not just with regard to Iran directly, but also with regard to Hezbollah, with regard to Hamas, which is a basically defunct terror group at this point. The only reason that is happening is because Biden does not have the courage of American convictions.
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This is not an argument for America to be involved in war. There&#8217;s an argument that American deterrence relies on credible threat of force, and that in a world where America&#8217;s deterrence is gone, everybody gets a lot more aggressive, the world becomes a lot more violent.
There&#8217;s this theory out there from both the far-libertarian Right and from the far-Left Noam Chomsky group that the way world wars start is through a series of escalating steps that no one can stop.
There are two ways world wars start. That can be one way world wars start: when you have a relative balance of power. But when you have one full-on dominant power, the way the world war starts is by simply mistaking your way into it by failure of credibility.
The reality is that the United States owes it to the West to be an iron wall and to provide enough support to its allies that those allies can be an iron wall against forces of countries like Iran.
And yet, that is not what the Biden administration is pursuing.
That is a moral shortcoming. That is a question of will and a question of common sense.

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Deep stupidity has consequences in the real world. That is particularly true in the realm of foreign policy.
In domestic policy, you can be pretty stupid, but we have some rather solid checks and balances constitutionally from the local and state levels all the way up to the federal government. Stupidity very often can be somewhat mitigated by these structures.
But when it comes to foreign policy, the President of the United States has, effectively, plenary power. He has extraordinary power over foreign policy. That means the stupidity of a president of the United States can put people in the United States and our allies in danger of being killed because the president is a dullard. The president is an imbecile. 
When you have a senile imbecile in charge of the United States government, you&#8217;ve got a problem.
Joe Biden is not just senile. He is, in fact, an imbecile. He&#8217;s been an imbecile on foreign policy for his entire career. Robert Gates, the former secretary of defense under Barack Obama, said that Joe Biden had not been right on a single foreign policy issue his entire career. 
That pattern continued on Thursday.
Biden is a deeply unprincipled human being. When it comes to foreign policy, he does not have one damned clue. He blows with the wind. Wherever the center of gravity is in the Democratic Party at any given time, Joe Biden is there.
The center of the Democratic Party is the editorial board at the New York Times and all of their followers. The center of the Democratic Party is the absolute dullards over on MSNBC. The center of the Democratic Party is all the TikTok generation kids with purple hair. Those are the people Biden is following.
So, he has now put us in danger of World War III in two separate arenas on planet Earth at the same time.
We begin with Ukraine.
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On Thursday, Secretary of State Antony Blinken maintained two positions. The first was understandable: increased aid to Ukraine in the face of Russian aggression in the Donbas, in Crimea. But then came the second: Ukraine needs to join NATO.
What is the timeline for that? How does that timeline look? It&#8217;s been the position of the United States and many of NATO&#8217;s allies that at some point Ukraine would join NATO, but the way Antony Blinken articulated this yesterday made it sound like he wants NATO to accept Ukraine right now.
It’s important to understand that if Ukraine were to become a member of NATO, that same day the United States would be in a shooting war with Russia. That is because if you allow Ukraine to join, NATO&#8217;s in the middle of the war and it is no longer a proxy war funding the Ukrainians. At that point, Ukraine declares Article V has been invoked and all the NATO allies join in the war on Russia.
Then, you would have a direct war with a nuclear-armed power.
Does this sound like an intelligent policy to you?
The policy of the United States with regard to Ukraine — a policy I support — is to fund Ukraine to preserve its independent existence from Russia while understanding the chances they are going to defeat Russia in Crimea or the Donbas region are extremely low, so looking for an off-ramp becomes necessary.
Vladimir Putin may not be looking for an off-ramp, which means continuing to fund Ukraine sufficiently to push Putin to look for an off-ramp.
But when you say Ukraine will join NATO, understand that if that were effectuated today, you would be in a shooting war with a nuclear-armed superpower.
That was not even the worst threat of triggering World War III the Biden administration created on Thursday.
The Biden administration has decided to completely outsource its foreign policy in the Middle East to Dearborn, Michigan, pro-Hamas activists on college campuses, and the editorial board of the New York Times.
Lest we forget, on October 6, there was no war between Israel and Hamas. On October 7, Hamas crossed the border between the Gaza Strip and Israel and committed murder within a several-mile radius — 1,200 civilians dead and 250 people taken into Gaza and held as hostages. There are currently over 100 people being held as hostages by Hamas in the Gaza Strip, including five American citizens.
The Biden administration initially took the position that Israel had a right not only to defend itself, but also a right to destroy and defeat Hamas. On October 24, the White House was openly stating a cease-fire would be in Hamas&#8217;s interest.
Hamas still controls Rafah. Hamas still controls large parts of the Gaza Strip. But last week, the United States abstained from a U.N. resolution that separated off the demand for a cease-fire from the demand for a hostage release, allowing it to pass.
Biden has made a full turn, taking a complete pro-Hamas position. What Hamas wants more than anything else right now is an immediate cease-fire, leaving them holding the hostages.
On Thursday, the Biden administration gave Hamas what it wanted. Antony Blinken said that not only should there be an immediate cease-fire, but also that if Israel does not change its policy, then America would change its policy, presumably conditioning its aid to Israel.
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Israel has been allowing in hundreds of trucks to Gaza every single day. The reason the World Central Kitchen trucks were even in the Gaza Strip is because they&#8217;d been working with Israel for six months to facilitate aid into the Gaza Strip — at the behest of the Americans.
And Blinken is now saying if Israel doesn&#8217;t change its policy, then they will condition aid. He also suggested that if Israel didn&#8217;t care enough about civilians, they would become “indistinguishable from Hamas.”
That is an insane contention. That’s the kind of stupid crap you see in a bad Left-wing Hollywood movie where they say, “If we kill the bad guys, we will become the same as the bad guys.”
It is almost impossible to overstate how much the Biden administration has now flipped to the side of Hamas. All Hamas wants is to be preserved by the pathetic weakness of the West.
The face of Hamas is evil. Hamas uses human shields. If Hamas were a legitimate army out in the field like the Russian army, the United States would not end its support; it would increase support to Israel. But because Hamas is acting more evil than the Russian army, because they are hiding behind their own women and children, and because they&#8217;re holding hostages, the United States is saying Israel has to cave to them.
So Biden’s logic is that the more evil you are, the more the United States will force your opposition to cave to you.
Why does that threaten World War III? Because if you&#8217;re Iran watching this, you are licking your chops. If you are Iran, the single most powerful spreader of terror around the globe, and you&#8217;re watching this, you&#8217;re seeing that Hamas cannot militarily defeat Israel — which is why they&#8217;ve avoided open battle — and you are also watching the United States now preserving Hamas. The United States wants Hamas to be preserved.
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The United States is currently giving money to Lebanon to help relocate people in southern Lebanon. Those towns are dominated by Hezbollah. The United States is clearing $10 billion a year in money flowing to Iran. While this is all happening, the radical Palestinian population in Jordan is now threatening the Hashemite Kingdom, which is an American ally. Further, the Houthis in Yemen have not only survived, they&#8217;ve continued to shut down trafficking in the Red Sea.
Meanwhile, the Biden administration is putting pressure on Israel.
Blinken is playing propaganda fullback for Hamas, as <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/blinken-israel-risks-becoming-indistinguishable-from-hamas-terrorists" target="_blank" rel="noopener">he remarked</a>, “Israel is a democracy; Hamas, a terrorist organization. Democracies place the highest value on human life, every human life. … It&#8217;s what distinguishes us from terrorists like Hamas. If we lose that reverence for human life, we risk becoming indistinguishable from those we confront.”
That is disgusting. Of course Israel places a premium on civilian life. They&#8217;ve gotten their own soldiers killed in order to preserve human life in the Gaza Strip, where Hamas is attempting to murder its own citizens. To liken Israel&#8217;s behavior to Hamas, to suggest that Israel does not place a premium on human life, is disgusting.
Hamas knows if they just hold the hostages long enough and kill enough civilians, the United States will eventually declare Israel must lose the war and preserve Hamas.
All of this raises the prospects of World War III because Iran is going to get more aggressive; there will come a point where the existence of the state of Israel is at risk.
And if that happens, then the s*** really hits the fan. Because if you think Israel has unleashed its military power thus far, you are wrong. Israel has used a significant portion of its military power in the Gaza Strip. But if there is a full-on existential danger to the state of Israel, things are going to get extremely hot, extremely fast.

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The Biden administration has hired a professional activist to travel the globe to encourage transgenderism and gender ideology. 
Yesterday, The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/meet-the-biden-official-making-six-figures-to-travel-the-globe-pushing-transgenderism" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> on this information:
<blockquote>The Biden administration has empowered a professional activist to travel the globe on the taxpayer’s dime to push transgenderism and gender ideology.
From Australia to Brazil, South Africa to Sweden, Jessica Stern travels across the world attending so-called Pride events as the State Department&#8217;s Special Envoy to Advance the Human Rights of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, and Intersex Persons. Stern, who has boasted that she is the highest ranking lesbian woman, is paid an <a href="https://openpayrolls.com/jessica-l-stern-134880369" target="_blank" rel="noopener">annual salary</a> of over $180,000 and tasked with promoting far-left views on sex and gender, lobbying foreign governments, and assisting activist organizations.
Appointed by President Biden in <a href="https://www.state.gov/biographies/jessica-stern/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">September of 2021</a>, Stern&#8217;s work has gone largely unnoticed by the media as she bolsters the president’s broader effort to leverage the might of the federal agencies and their bureaucracies in service of a far-Left agenda. In Biden&#8217;s first weeks as president, he tasked all federal agencies to work to &#8220;advance the human rights of LGBTQI+ persons abroad&#8221; — Stern has been tip of the spear in that effort, and has stated that this mission is &#8220;<a href="https://www.state.gov/briefing-with-special-envoy-to-advance-the-human-rights-of-lgbtqi-persons-jessica-stern-on-the-first-annual-interagency-report-on-implementation-of-the-presidential-memorandum-on-advancing-the-human/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">U.S. foreign policy priority</a>.&#8221;
Stern&#8217;s travels as Special Envoy have taken her to at least 22 countries on all six of the world&#8217;s habitable continents, including Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Botswana, Canada, Germany, Greece, India, Lithuania, Malaysia, Mauritius, Mexico, Nepal, the Netherlands, Panama, Peru, the Philippines, South Africa, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, and Vietnam.</blockquote>
By the way, how many of those countries are radical-Muslim-ruled? I noticed there were zero in the Middle East. So she&#8217;s happy to preach LGBT politics pretty much everywhere except for where the Muslims are, outside of Malaysia.
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In an <a href="https://www.cfr.org/event/conversation-us-special-envoy-jessica-stern" target="_blank" rel="noopener">interview</a> with the Council on Foreign Relations, Stern said, “Good foreign policy is inclusive foreign policy. And that means having senior experts on LGBTQI rights.”
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So why is the Biden administration trotting around this lady — at taxpayer expense — to various gay pride parades around the globe? Because the State Department <a href="https://www.state.gov/x-gender-marker-available-on-u-s-passports-starting-april-11/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">says</a> it has a &#8220;commitment to promoting and protecting the freedom, dignity, and equality of all persons, including transgender, nonbinary, and gender non-conforming persons around the world.”
This is what American exceptionalism has come to mean? So now American exceptionalism is not private property ownership, free speech, or limited government. American exceptionalism apparently is LGBTQ politics. That is the most important thing the Biden administration can be pushing at this point?
This concerns one of the central problems between Left and Right today.
If you go back to the 1990s during the Clinton era, there was a large crossover between what the Left in this country wanted and what the Right in this country wanted. That&#8217;s why things got accomplished — because what people wanted, generally speaking, was a government that was limited in its intervention in daily life.
People still wanted solid families. There was some arguing around the edges with regard to topics like benefits for same-sex couples, but the idea was, perhaps, civil unions were ok and namely about granting legal rights like hospital visitation or rights in wills to gay couples.
But the idea of marriage with gay couples as a substitute for traditional marriage was off the table in the 90s. Even for the Left at that point, with regard to abortion, the Clinton line was safe, legal, and rare. There was still crossover in which people recognized abortion was a great evil.
Now, things have completely broken apart. And because there is no common vision in the United States anymore of what even constitutes good, it means administrations will promote around the globe things that are not agreed to by the vast majority of Americans.
Most Americans are not interested in paying envoys to promote transgenderism in Malaysia. This is not something we think of as a core American value, nor should we. That is not what American exceptionalism is.
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But for the Left, it is. So they&#8217;ve redefined what it is to be a good American. This is why there is so much ire in the United States.
When you have a set of common values, even if they are broadly read, even if there&#8217;s a lot of play in the joints, you still have those common values. You can have a country.
But when those fall away, what exactly do you have left? The answer is: not much.
This administration has decided it is going to claim it promotes democracy; however, it’s not really doing that. That is all dependent on where you are in the world.
Right now, the Biden administration is promoting a tyrannical Islamic government, the Palestinian Authority, and its aspirations above the interests of an ally of the United States that happens to be democratic Israel.
So when they talk about democracy, everyone knows they don&#8217;t really mean it.

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The Senate passed a $95 billion foreign aid bill early Tuesday morning that allocates money for Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan. The bill passed on a 70-29 vote, with over half of Senate Republicans voting against the measure. 
The aid package allocates $61 billion for Ukraine, $14 billion for Israel, $4.83 billion to U.S. allies in the Indo-Pacific, and over $9 billion in global humanitarian aid. The bill passed with support from nearly all Democrats and 22 Republicans. 

“It&#8217;s certainly been years, perhaps decades, since the Senate has passed a bill that so greatly impacts not just our national security, not just the security of our allies, but the security of western democracy,&#8221; Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY)<a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-senate-heads-toward-final-passage-ukraine-aid-bill-2024-02-13/#:~:text=WASHINGTON%2C%20Feb%2013%20(Reuters),Republican%2Dcontrolled%20House%20of%20Representatives." target="_blank" rel="noopener"> said</a>, according to Reuters. 
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnel (R-KY) also pushed the bill forward. 
“The Senate understands the responsibilities of America’s national security and will not neglect them,” McConnell <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/12/us/politics/senate-ukraine-aid.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> after the vote. “History settles every account. And today, on the value of American leadership and strength, history will record that the Senate did not blink.”
Sens. John Boozman (R-AR), Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), Bill Cassidy (R-LA), Susan Collins (R-ME), John Cornyn (R-TX), Kevin Cramer (R-ND), Mike Crapo (R-ID), Joni Ernst (R-IA), Chuck Grassley (R-IA), John Hoeven (R-ND), John Kennedy (R-LA), McConnell (R-KY), Jerry Moran (R-KS), Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), James Risch (R-ID), Mitt Romney (R-UT), Mike Rounds (R-SD), Dan Sullivan (R-AK), John Thune (R-SD), Thom Tillis (R-NC), Roger Wicker (R-MS), and Todd Young (R-IN) joined Democrats in passing the measure. 
The bill was opposed by conservative senators who have pushed for funding to prioritize the border crisis and the influx of illegal immigrants into the United States. 
&#8220;Americans are going to hold people accountable that chose to move on from border security and fund foreign nations before we took care of our own homes,&#8221; Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS) <a href="https://twitter.com/CraigCaplan/status/1757191475572457941" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> during debate on the bill.
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“This morning the America last caucus got a $61 billion aid package out of the Senate. But they paid dearly for this small win. The House won’t pass the current bill. We must fix our country before devoting more resources to Ukraine. That’s our message, and the fight goes on,” Sen. J.D. Vance <a href="https://twitter.com/JDVance1/status/1757357710905872637">said</a>. 
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) criticized McConnell for backing the aid package. 
“Most Senate Republicans vote no. McConnell of course votes with the Democrats. He is Biden’s chief foreign policy supporter these days. That position is an island — and the gulf between it &amp; the rest of America is only getting wider,” he said. 
“Nearly every Republican senator under the age of 55 voted NO on this America Last bill. 15 out of 17 elected since 2018 voted NO. Things are changing just  not fast enough,” Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO) said. 
The foreign aid package followed up an attempt to pair it with some border security measures earlier this month in a proposal negotiated between Sen. James Lankford (R-OK) and top Democrats. That measure failed after conservative senators said that the bill would do nothing to stop the flood of people illegally crossing the border.
House Speaker Mike Johnson has been critical of the Senate&#8217;s foreign aid bill, saying on Monday that it was &#8220;silent on the most pressing issues facing our country.&#8221;
&#8220;The mandate of national security supplemental legislation was to secure America&#8217;s own border before sending sending additional foreign aid around the world,&#8221; Johnson said.

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Former U.N. Ambassador <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/nikki-haley" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Nikki Haley</a> criticized former President Donald Trump over the weekend for how he handled a multitude of issues while in the White House.
Haley made the remarks during a Sunday interview with Jonathan Karl on ABC News&#8217; &#8220;This Week&#8221; while discussing remarks that she has made about the former president.
Haley praised the former president, saying that he was the right person for the job and that she &#8220;had a good working relationship with him.&#8221;
She then turned the tables and began to criticize him.
&#8220;I don&#8217;t agree with how he handles national security,&#8221; she said. &#8220;He focused on trade with China, but he did nothing about the fentanyl flow. He did nothing about the fact that fentanyl has killed so many of our Americans.&#8221;
She also criticized him for adding trillions to the U.S. national debt, a good chunk of which was added due to the pandemic.
She also said that the former president praised communist China and Islamic terrorists in the Middle East who are attacking Israel.
&#8220;I think that when it comes to national security, we don&#8217;t praise thugs. We let them know where we stand, and we let them know there will be hell to pay if they do anything against us.&#8221;
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Karl then asked what she thought about Trump&#8217;s campaign message that he was the voter&#8217;s &#8220;retribution.&#8221;
&#8220;You&#8217;re exhausting in your obsession with him,&#8221; Haley said, later adding, &#8220;life will be a whole lot different if the media would stop this obsession with Trump.&#8221;
&#8220;I mean, I was just asking about his central campaign theme, which is ‘I am your retribution,’ and he’s winning in the polls,&#8221; Karl responded. &#8220;That’s why I’m asking. It&#8217;s not an obsession. I’m asking about the leading candidate that you’ve been running against.&#8221;
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Nikki Haley blasts Trump’s foreign policy, which is widely considered to be one of his top strengths, saying: “I don&#39;t agree with how he handles national security.”
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The White House issued a rare threat on Saturday in an effort to enhance deterrence, promising an overwhelming military response to any attack by North Korea.
The announcement came in a joint statement at the conclusion of the second U.S.-Republic of Korea (ROK) Nuclear Consultative Group (NCG) meeting in Washington D.C. on December 15, 2023.
&#8220;The United States reaffirmed its unwavering commitment to provide extended deterrence to the ROK, backed by the full range of U.S. capabilities including nuclear,&#8221; the statement said. &#8220;Any nuclear attack by North Korea against the United States or its allies is unacceptable and will result in the end of the Kim regime, and the U.S. side reiterated that any nuclear attack by the DPRK against the ROK will be met with a swift, overwhelming, and decisive response.&#8221;
The U.S. and South Korea said that the NCG has &#8220;deepened&#8221; the ties between the two countries as they seek to deter an increasingly belligerent North Korea.
&#8220;NCG Principals reviewed the enhanced visibility of strategic assets to bolster extended deterrence, including the ballistic missile submarine the USS KENTUCKY port visit to Busan in July, B-52 strategic bomber flyover and landing on the Korean Peninsula in October, and joint observation of an ICBM test launch in November, as well as discussing future plans to demonstrate a strengthening of deterrence,&#8221; the statement added.
The statement comes after North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un has had his country in recent months <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/08/31/north-korea-says-it-simulated-nuclear-attacks-on-south-korea-and-rehearsed-occupation-of-its-rival/">conduct</a> simulated &#8220;scorched earth&#8221; nuclear missile strikes against South Korea.

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While war and atrocity dominate headlines around the world, a largely overlooked conflict in the Caucuses has escalated to ethnic cleansing of the Christian population from the oldest Christian nation in the world.
For fear of their lives, <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/International/nagorno-karabakh-enclave-emptied-entire-armenian-population-flees/story?id=103655356">more than 100,000 Armenians</a> have been forced to flee their ancestral home in Nagorno-Karabakh after Azerbaijan seized total control over the region in September. The 1,700-square-mile mountainous slice of land has been inhabited by Armenians for thousands of years, but it is surrounded by Azerbaijan, a majority Muslim nation that says the region is its territory. 
Though the fight is over territory, experts say that at its core, the conflict stems from ethnic and religious differences between Armenians and Azerbaijanis.
“Ethnicity and religion are intertwined. Azerbaijanis may say they do not hate Christians But, when it comes to Armenians — the indigenous population in the region — the Azerbaijanis show no tolerance,” explained Dr. Michael Rubin, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and expert on the region. “Azerbaijanis recognize deep down that had it not been for Joseph Stalin, they would have no claim whatsoever to Nagorno-Karabakh. The Azerbaijanis realize they have no legitimacy and so target with special animus those who do.”
Yana Avanesyan, a doctoral researcher who is originally from Nagorno-Karabakh, says the religious difference between the two countries plays a major role in the Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict. 
“When we say Armenians, we are speaking about us being Christians,” Avanesyan told The Daily Wire. “We know they hate us so much that they will just destroy everything.” 
Many refugees from Nagorno-Karabakh are sick and malnourished – Azerbaijan’s military began blockading the region in December of last year, cutting off access to food, electricity and water from the outside. Some are also exhausted after fleeing into Armenia on foot – and Armenia has expressed concern that it may not have the resources to care for such a massive influx of people.
Her family was among the more than 100,000 who fled the region without a place to go. The estimated population of Armenians in Nagorno-Karabakh is roughly 120,000, meaning nearly the entire population have decided to flee.
“War started in Nagorno-Karabakh, and people were forced to flee, and more than 100,000 people — including my entire family, my parents, my sister, my grandma — they were forced to flee their homes,” Avanesyan said. She was finally reunited with her family around a month ago, but they are now struggling to find a place to live after being uprooted from their home. 
“There are not enough resources in Armenia and people try to solve their issues by themselves. So we are trying to find apartments or houses for me, my family, and my relatives,” said Avanesyan. “I&#8217;m currently trying to find an apartment for my family before we will know what&#8217;s going on because the situation now is very uncertain.”
“No one from the displaced people knows what is going to happen to us,” she said.
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Armenia has existed in some form or another for nearly three millennia, and became the first nation to adopt Christianity as its state religion in 301 AD. While it has historically been in the political orbit of Russia, since <a href="https://freedomhouse.org/country/armenia">2018</a> it has made significant anti-corruption and pro-democracy reforms, and has been <a href="https://news.yahoo.com/putin-trip-goes-awry-angry-184312726.html">distancing itself from Moscow.</a> It is currently home to about 2.7 million people.
Azerbaijan traces its <a href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/Azerbaijani-people">roots</a> back to the Old Azeris, who were conquered by and intermarried with the Seljuk and later the Mongol Turks between the 11th and 13th centuries. It is predominantly Shia Muslim, although its culture is comparatively secular. Despite its historic and ethnic ties to Iran (more ethnic Azeris live in Iran than Azerbaijan) it is most closely aligned in global politics with Turkey. While it is nominally a republic, it is in fact an authoritarian state controlled by de facto dictator Ilham Aliyev, who was preceded by his father, Heydar Aliyev. It is home to 10.3 million people.
Azerbaijan’s claim to Nagorno-Karabakh, as explained by Rubin, can be traced to Stalin and the Soviet Union, which absorbed both nations.
The Soviets nominally advocated for a universal communist model that would transcend ethnicity and language barriers, but in practice, they often found it prudent to administer regions and subregions based on ethnic divides – the Socialist Republic of Armenia and the Socialist Republic of Azerbaijan were both members of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and the Armenian-majority region of Nagorno-Karabakh was given autonomous status within Azerbaijan.
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In the late 1980s, as the Soviet Union began to collapse, the people of Nagorno-Karabakh <a href="https://www.crisisgroup.org/content/nagorno-karabakh-conflict-visual-explainer#:~:text=In%201988%2C%20ethnic%20Armenians%20living,grew%20into%20an%20outright%20war.">petitioned</a> to leave Azerbaijan and unify with Armenia – but Azerbaijan refused. What started as a political dispute became a military dispute between the newly independent nations in 1992, in which tens of thousands of people were killed and hundreds of thousands of ethnic minorities in both nations were expelled from their homes.
In the aftermath of the 1994 ceasefire, the ‘Republic of Artsakh’ was allowed to exist as a de facto independent state within Azerbaijan, though no other nation, including Armenia, formally recognized its independence. The uneasy truce persisted for decades in what was widely regarded as a “frozen conflict.”
But that conflict rethawed in 2020 after years of border clashes, and ended with Azerbaijan seizing large portions of the Republic of Artsakh. Russia stepped in to negotiate a truce, and sent peacekeepers into Artsakh, as well as the Tachin Corridor (the only road connecting Nagorno-Karabakh to the outside world) to ensure the continued independence of the region.
The situation changed in February 2022 when Russia invaded Ukraine. As the war dragged on, it became clear that Russia was bogged down and could not commit its forces to another theater, and the Russian peacekeepers who remained in the region did not intervene when Azerbaijan blockaded the Tachin Corridor and cut Nagorno-Karabakh off from the outside world.
“We cannot tolerate any longer having such armed forces on our territory and also a structure which, on a daily basis, challenges the security and sovereignty of Azerbaijan,&#8221; <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/azerbaijan-says-six-its-citizens-were-killed-by-land-mines-karabakh-2023-09-19/">said</a> Hikmet Hajiyev, foreign policy adviser to President Aliyev.
A coalition of global organizations called <a href="https://www.120000reasons.org/">120,000 Reasons</a> launched a campaign in September that seeks to end the Azerbaijan blockade on Nagorno-Karabakh, and bring attention to what it says is an attempted genocide of the region’s entire Armenian population.
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ySWKyVjXJU">Gev Iskayjan</a>, a resident of Nagorno-Karabakh who recently fled to Armenia, told 120,000 Reasons that “over 99% of the ethnic population of Artsakh has left the area. 
“That land that we were on, that Armenians lived on for thousands of years, now, only a handful remain,” Iskayjan said.
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Azerbaijan has denied claims that it is pursuing genocide or forcing Armenians out. Its claims were undermined after it captured Stepanakert, the capital of the region, when it renamed one of the city’s streets in honor of Enver Pasha, a military officer for the Ottoman Empire who is known as the architect of the last Armenian genocide, which killed more than a million people in the 1900s. 
That sent a clear signal to the city’s Armenian population.
“Azerbaijan did not order any Armenians to leave,” Amberin Zaman wrote from Armenia for <a href="https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2023/10/azerbaijan-eyes-iran-armenia-borderlands-after-voluntary-exodus-nagorno-karabakh">Al-Monitor</a>. “Yet it ensured that life was so miserable that few would opt to stay. Indeed, even as Azerbaijani authorities rebuffed claims of ethnic cleansing, insisting their forces had struck ‘legitimate military targets,’ eyewitness accounts of rape and indiscriminate shelling that wounded and killed children began to emerge.”
Various Western nations, including the United States, condemned Azerbaijan, and as recently as last month <a href="https://asbarez.com/u-s-will-not-tolerate-ethnic-cleansing-in-artsakh-opening-lachin-corridor-is-not-negotiable/">senior U.S. officials</a> said they would not tolerate any action against the people of Nagorno-Karabakh. But in the aftermath of the invasion and dissolution of the Republic of Artsakh there has been no meaningful response. Even Armenia stayed out of the conflict, to the outrage of many of its citizens.
“It is amazing that an ethnic cleansing happened in the 21st century and there is absolutely no reaction from the international community,” political analyst Tigran Grigoryan told <a href="https://www.npr.org/2023/10/04/1203548012/armenia-scrambles-to-absorb-the-flood-of-refugees-from-nagorno-karabakh">NPR</a>. “If this happened somewhere in Europe, I believe [the Azerbaijani leadership] would already be on international wanted lists.”
Iskayjan told reporters that while he and many other Armenians feel “betrayed” by the international community, the incident raises broader questions about the influence of the United States and its allies overseas.
“Policymakers in the United States have to ask themselves, Does our word mean anything?” he said. “If a state actor like Azerbaijan can, at any time, willingly disregard what we say, what does that say about the strength of our State Department and the strength of our foreign policy?”
It’s possible that Azerbaijan believes it has too much leverage to be cowed by Western condemnation – the country is rich in natural gas, and since trade sanctions against Russia have cut Europe off from Russian energy exports, Azerbaijan has stepped in to cover some of the shortfall, with tentative plans to <a href="https://eurasianet.org/plans-for-doubling-azerbaijans-gas-flows-to-europe-on-hold">double its gas exports to Europe</a>. 
Now that Azerbaijan has secured Nagorno-Karabakh, many observers fear that an emboldened Azerbaijan could push into Armenia proper to seize control of the strategic <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/10/11/azerbaijan-armenia-karabakh-nakhchivan-corridor/">Zangezur corridor</a>, which would create a direct land route from the Caspian Sea to its close ally, Turkey. Armenia had promised Azerbaijan access to trade throughout the territory as part of the 2020 truce but has since walked back that promise, arguing that Azerbaijan’s presence in the area would effectively mean military occupation.
It’s unclear how other global or regional powers would respond to such an invasion, given the muted response thus far to the seizure of Nagorno-Karabakh. The escalated conflict could produce strange bedfellows, according to <a href="https://nesa-center.org/the-stakes-of-the-nagorno-karabakh-conflict-and-the-strategic-alliances-mapping/">foreign policy analysts</a>.
Russia could pivot into Azerbaijan’s camp out of a simple desire to side with the stronger party and minimize its own involvement. Turkey, formally a U.S. ally, is very close to Azerbaijan, and Israel has <a href="https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/azerbaijan-israels-secret-muslim-friend-431810">a strategic partnership</a> with the Azerbaijanis based on their mutual enmity with Iran. <a href="https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/defence/india-considers-sending-armenia-more-weapons/articleshow/104707633.cms">India</a>, meanwhile, has been strengthening its ties with Armenia, while Iran is also backing the Christian nation against its regional rivals.
It’s also possible that Armenia could pivot further into the Western camp now that it no longer sees Russia as a reliable protector.
Former U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for international religious freedom, Sam Brownback, has called for greater U.S. support to Armenia and blasted the Biden administration for <a href="https://thehill.com/policy/international/551577-biden-waiving-restriction-blocking-aid-to-azerbaijan-over-armenia/">sending U.S. aid and weapons to Azerbaijan</a>. He also expressed concern that the mass exodus was part of a broader pattern of anti-Christian discrimination around the world.
&#8220;We&#8217;re seeing another ancient Christian population being run out of the region,” Brownback said. “Most of the Middle East and North Africa, the Christians have all been run out.”

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/hillary-clinton" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hillary Clinton</a> got into a shouting match at an event on Monday with a heckler who demanded she denounce President Biden&#8217;s &#8220;warmongering.&#8221;
The exchange was caught on video and occurred during a panel discussion at the Institute of Global Politics at Columbia University in Manhattan.
&#8220;You sit down, and we&#8217;re going to let other people talk,&#8221; Clinton told the heckler as he stood in the crowd and talked over her.
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🚨Hillary Clinton SNAPS after INTERRUPTED mid speech over refusing to call out Joe Biden for getting us into WWIII 
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&#8220;Can you please make a statement about President Joe Biden&#8217;s speech? This is a clearly warmongering speech,&#8221; the heckler said. &#8220;President Joe Biden is calling for $100 billion of funding for Israel, Taiwan, and Ukraine, and we&#8217;re supposed to just bundle these together and pretend like we&#8217;re going to rush to World War Three and we&#8217;re all just going to let Hillary Rodham Clinton sit here?&#8221;
Biden addressed the nation from the Oval Office on Friday and spoke about his plan to push for a $105 billion security aid package for Israel, Taiwan, and Ukraine.
Earlier this month, the Palestinian terror group Hamas waged a deadly attack on Israeli civilians, prompting massive retaliatory strikes from Israel.
The former secretary of state told the heckler that this was &#8220;not the way to have a conversation&#8221; and offered to speak to him after the event.
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&#8220;Okay, right, you&#8217;re gonna wait for me, right? Please,&#8221; the heckler said.
&#8220;I will wait for you, and I will listen to you, and I will respond to you,&#8221; Clinton said.
&#8220;Respectfully, I do not believe you,&#8221; the heckler said. &#8220;The fact of the matter is, the American people&#8217;s voice is what needs to be heard because our president is not speaking for the American people, and neither are you.&#8221;
&#8220;Well, that&#8217;s your opinion,&#8221; Clinton said. &#8220;Sit down; we&#8217;ve heard your opinion.&#8221;
&#8220;I&#8217;m going to exercise my free speech,&#8221; the heckler continued.
&#8220;But it&#8217;s not free speech when you&#8217;re disrupting everyone else&#8217;s opportunity to speak,&#8221; Clinton responded.
&#8220;Yes it is! This is free speech!&#8221; the heckler shouted back to a few scattered claps in the audience.
The heckler went on to accuse Clinton of “hypocrisy” and referenced several American historical figures, saying one former secretary of state was &#8220;involved with the CIA.&#8221;
&#8220;Oh yeah, well you&#8217;re brilliant in your historical cherry-picking,&#8221; Clinton shot back.
Clinton attempted to move on and speak to another member of the panel as a man in the crowd approached the heckler and told him to sit down.
&#8220;I want to hear Hillary Rodham Clinton denounce President Joe Biden&#8217;s warmongering speech! He&#8217;s trying to push us to World War Three!&#8221; the heckler shouted.
&#8220;Oh, please. Please. Please,&#8221; Clinton said.
The heckler again demanded that Clinton denounce Biden&#8217;s speech.
&#8220;And I&#8217;ve given you an answer, I will not do that, so that&#8217;s the end of our conversation,&#8221; Clinton responded. &#8220;But I&#8217;ll still meet you outside, but you&#8217;re done.&#8221;

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President Joe Biden took some criticism on Wednesday after he traveled to Tel Aviv to speak with Israeli leaders about last week&#8217;s horrific terrorist attacks — only to leave again later in the day without seeing a single American hostage freed by their Hamas terrorist captors in Gaza.
Biden met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and then, in his public remarks, urged Israel to respond with deliberation rather than allowing themselves to be &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-warns-israel-not-to-be-consumed-by-rage-in-response-to-hamas-attacks" target="_blank" rel="noopener">consumed by rage</a>.&#8221; He also promised $100 million in aid for the civilians in Gaza, but only briefly mentioned the dozens of hostages Hamas terrorists are still holding — several of whom are believed to be American citizens.
&#8220;Disaster in Israel,&#8221; Richard Grenell, former acting Director of National Intelligence, posted on X. What about the US hostages, @JakeSullivan46?!? Why didn’t Joe Biden talk about our HOSTAGES?!&#8221;
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🚨 Disaster in Israel
What about the US hostages, <a href="https://twitter.com/JakeSullivan46?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JakeSullivan46</a>?!?
Why didn’t Joe Biden talk about our HOSTAGES?!
&mdash; Richard Grenell (@RichardGrenell) <a href="https://twitter.com/RichardGrenell/status/1714648412346515544?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 18, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) <a href="https://twitter.com/DarrellIssa/status/1714650318934266111" target="_blank" rel="noopener">asked</a>, &#8220;Did I miss the part of Joe Biden&#8217;s speech about the American hostages?&#8221;
&#8220;Is Joe Biden really going to leave the Middle East without a single American hostage being freed?&#8221; another posted, followed by, &#8220;Yup. Biden left without any American hostages. At this point him leaving Americans behind is routine.&#8221;
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Yup. Biden left without any American hostages. 
At this point him leaving Americans behind is routine. <a href="https://t.co/DDBk0oKQeb">https://t.co/DDBk0oKQeb</a>
&mdash; Comfortably Smug (@ComfortablySmug) <a href="https://twitter.com/ComfortablySmug/status/1714672593817546820?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 18, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Defense attorney Marina Medvin laid into Biden after he left Israel, saying that he never should have agreed to send any aid into Gaza — especially as long as there were still Americans held hostage there by Hamas terrorists.
&#8220;I am outraged at Biden giving $100,000,000.00 of US taxpayer funds to Hamas, the government of Gaza. They’re holding babies, children, young girls hostage. They are holding AMERICANS hostage. And our president gave them taxpayer funds?!?&#8221; Medvin posted via X. &#8220;I am fuming. This is absolutely atrocious. They slaughtered 1,400 people, a third of them little kids, in the most horrific and torturous ways, annihilating full families, and Biden tipped them.&#8221;
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I am outraged at Biden giving $100,000,000.00 of US taxpayer funds to Hamas, the government of Gaza. They’re holding babies, children, young girls hostage. They are holding AMERICANS hostage. And our president gave them taxpayer funds?!? I am fuming. This is absolutely atrocious.…
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Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis shared a similar sentiment, referring to Biden&#8217;s promised $100 million in aid money as a &#8220;gift to Hamas&#8221; and said it amounted to the Biden administration funding the terror group while they still held American hostages.
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No U.S. tax dollars to the Gaza Strip.
Hamas is holding American hostages and Biden wants to fund them?
I challenge every Republican running to step up to the plate and oppose Biden’s $100 million gift to Hamas. <a href="https://t.co/h0wPS6bAKs">pic.twitter.com/h0wPS6bAKs</a>
&mdash; Ron DeSantis (@RonDeSantis) <a href="https://twitter.com/RonDeSantis/status/1714702217804935511?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 18, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Have you noticed the entire world is destabilizing under President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joe Biden</a>? 
Afghanistan, Ukraine, Niger, Sudan, America’s southern border, and more have all been thrown into chaos under Biden’s watch. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/americas-enemies-have-a-best-friend-in-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hostile actors feel emboldened</a> and allies are uneasy, doubtful that Biden knows what he is doing as commander-in-chief.
Now, the latest geopolitical upheaval could be happening along Serbia’s border with Kosovo. 
Last Sunday, there was a standoff between more than two dozen Serbian men and Kosovo police officers. That standoff ended in bloodshed, with both sides pointing fingers at each other. Kosovo, which declared independence from Serbia in 2008, is blaming the Serbian government for the deadly skirmish. Serbia denies this, <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/30/europe/kosovo-tensions-military-buid-up-explainer-intl/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to CNN.
Since then, the Serbs have been building up troop presence along the two countries&#8217; borders. Now, the White House is telling Serbia to back off and maintain order. Meanwhile, NATO is increasing its troop presence in Kosovo.
“This is not the kind of an attack that was carried out randomly or ad hoc or by some small group,” White House National Security Spokesman John Kirby said Friday. “The amount and the types of arms that were found represent a threat to the safety of not only Kosovo personnel, but international personnel including NATO troops.”
Kirby added that the U.S. believes “this is a very destabilizing development.”
And that right there can sum up Biden&#8217;s presidency on the world stage. As mentioned, there has been much instability under Biden. As previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/rapid-reaction-fani-willis-wants-to-get-trump-viktor-orban-wants-to-get-him-back-in-oval-office" target="_blank" rel="noopener">discussed</a>, it&#8217;s hard not to look at the chaos the world is in under Biden — which began with his horrendous Afghanistan withdrawal — and yearn for Pax Trumpana.
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Former President Donald Trump’s unpredictable foreign policy yielded more stability than Biden’s predictable fecklessness. 
PS: The Serbia-Kosovo border seems to be yet another border the Biden administration cares about more than our own. When is Kirby going to admit that Biden’s illegal immigration policies, or lack thereof, have resulted in a very &#8220;destabilizing situation&#8221; for Americans?
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/international-disorder-biden-is-a-remarkably-bad-negotiator-and-doesnt-understand-how-the-world-works" target="_blank" rel="noopener">To State The Obvious, Biden Is A Remarkably Bad Negotiator And Doesn’t Understand How The World Works</a>

The World Continues To Destabilize Under Biden: This Time In Serbia

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The federal government spent nearly two billion dollars of taxpayer money on promoting <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/covid-19-vaccine" target="_blank" rel="noopener">COVID vaccination</a> around the world, according to a new report from the U.S. Agency for International Development. 
According to a <a href="https://www.usaid.gov/sites/default/files/2023-09/USAID_COVID_GVAX_Capstone_Executive_Summary_082423_FINAL_508.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> released on Thursday by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/usaid" target="_blank" rel="noopener">USAID</a>, the U.S. government spent $1.8 billion on promoting global COVID vaccination, and partnered with 120 different countries to donate 688 million COVID vaccination doses after launching “Global Vax” in December 2021.
“Global VAX demonstrated that a concerted push of technical support, diplomatic engagement, and funding can support countries to rapidly increase access to and confidence in vaccines in the midst of an evolving health emergency,” an executive summary of the report said. 
The effort encompassed USAID, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the State Department, the Department of Defense, the Department of Health and Human Services, and the Treasury Department. 
The report added that government agencies were going to maintain international partnerships
“As the emergency phase of the COVID-19 pandemic recedes, U.S. government agencies sustain partnerships around the world to save lives, strengthen health security and pandemic preparedness, promote social and economic progress, and support countries to achieve their goals for health and development,” the report said. 
Prior to launching the Global Vax program in December 2021, the U.S. had already sent <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/us-ship-4-mln-covid-19-vaccine-doses-nigeria-566-mln-south-africa-2021-07-28/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">millions of doses</a> of the Pfizer and Moderna COVID vaccines to South Africa and Niger. 
The release of the report followed comments by USAID Administrator Sammantha Power on Wednesday suggesting that countries use religious leaders to push people into getting the COVID vaccine. 
“If you are trying to get people to take a COVID vaccine, you may not, in that particular community, have resources to fund a pop-up clinic, but you can engage a faith leader for free,” Power said. 
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Power’s comments echoed the government&#8217;s domestic strategy where then National Institutes of Health Director Francis Collins <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/how-the-federal-government-used-evangelical-leaders-to-spread-covid-propaganda-to-churches" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pushed for evangelical ministers</a> to use their “credibility” to promote the COVID vaccine. 
The vaccine, which was initially marketed as highly effective, faced backlash after the Biden administration attempted to implement an aggressive mandate and some medical experts <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/covid-vaccine-brings-higher-heart-risk-little-benefit-to-young-men-medical-expert-warns" target="_blank" rel="noopener">questioned</a> the efficacy of both the Pfizer and Moderna vaccine. 
High-profile figures like X owner <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/elon-musk-claims-he-had-major-side-effects-from-second-covid-booster-shot-felt-like-he-was-dying" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Elon Musk</a> and radio host <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/megyn-kelly-says-she-regrets-getting-covid-vax-opens-up-about-autoimmune-issue-after-booster" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Megyn Kelly</a> have said that they regret taking the vaccine and had medical complications after taking the shot.

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nikki-haley-calls-senate-most-privileged-nursing-home-in-the-country-says-politicians-need-to-know-when-to-leave" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Nikki Haley</a>, the former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. and a 2024 Republican presidential candidate, raised alarm bells on China Wednesday, saying the U.S. “enemy” has already “infiltrated” the country.
Haley, who has regularly criticized the Biden administration and former President Donald Trump for their handling of the China threat, joined former Michigan Republican gubernatorial candidate Tudor Dixon on her <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-tudor-dixon-podcast-one-on-one-with-nikki-haley/id1678556326?i=1000627705673" target="_blank" rel="noopener">podcast</a> Wednesday to discuss multiple issues from the border crisis to foreign policy. Dixon asked the presidential candidate what she thought of President Joe Biden <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/biden-press-conference-china-vietnam/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">saying</a> last week that he wanted to “see China succeed economically.”
“China is an enemy,” Haley said. “They’ve been preparing for war with us for years. It is unbelievable to me how weak in the knees Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are when it comes to China. This is not a country [that] just talks about not liking America — this is a country that has already infiltrated America.”
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Joe Biden said on the world stage he wants China to succeed, but what does China succeeding look like for the U.S.?<a href="https://twitter.com/NikkiHaley?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@NikkiHaley</a> responds 👇 <a href="https://t.co/n80h9gudts">pic.twitter.com/n80h9gudts</a>
&mdash; Tudor Dixon (@TudorDixon) <a href="https://twitter.com/TudorDixon/status/1701960046676959506?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 13, 2023</a></blockquote>
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The former South Carolina governor told Dixon that China is already threatening the U.S. homeland by buying up U.S. land, putting millions of dollars into American universities, and stealing research while spreading Chinese propaganda. Haley also pointed out the Chinese Communist Party’s role in the American fentanyl crisis that killed an estimated 70,000 Americans in 2021 alone.
“China is not playing. The problem is Joe Biden is asleep at the wheel, and [Vice] President Kamala Harris won’t even know what to do this” Haley said. “We need to wake up and see [China] for the enemy that they are.” 
During her conversation with Dixon, Haley also criticized U.S. aid to foreign countries, such as Pakistan and Iraq, that fundamentally oppose American values and interests. Haley <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nikki-haley-urges-republicans-to-keep-giving-billions-in-support-to-ukraine-dont-go-pulling-out-now" target="_blank" rel="noopener">supports</a> continued U.S. aid to Ukraine during its war against Russia, believing it’s in America’s best interest to fight for Ukrainians&#8217; freedom, but she told Dixon she also wants the U.S. “to quit trying to buy friends” and “quit trying to pay off enemies.”
Earlier this month, Haley hit Biden and Trump on another foreign policy issue when she said Biden was too weak and Trump was too friendly toward U.S. nemesis North Korea. Her comments came as news of a meeting between North Korean leader Kim Jon Un and Russian President Vladimir Putin had just broken. The two leaders <a href="https://apnews.com/article/north-korea-russia-kim-putin-missile-0d70f5190df1088ebe53e8ca19f8e9c9" target="_blank" rel="noopener">held</a> a summit Wednesday where they discussed military cooperation.
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“The Kim-Putin partnership is another sign that the dictators of the world are united,” Haley said in a statement Tuesday. “The tyrants who lead China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea hate America and our values. We must take their threats seriously. Neither Joe Biden’s weakness nor Donald Trump’s friendliness to Kim have changed North Korea’s direction for the better. These dictators only understand strength.”

Nikki Haley: China ‘Has Already Infiltrated America,’ Biden ‘Asleep At The Wheel’

Nikki Haley: China 'Has Already Infiltrated America,' Biden 'Asleep At The Wheel'

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