WSJ: Crisis for Biden’s Chaotic Foreign Policy

March 15, 2022 Hunter Wallace Alt-Center, Foreign Policy, Geopolitics, Politics, Populists, Progressives, Russia, Ukraine, World 9

Haven’t you heard?

It is over for the national populists.

WSJ:

“The Biden administration’s foreign policy has entered a deep and possibly transformative crisis. Most, though not all, of the ideas Team Biden brought to the White House failed to work. But most, though not all, of the changes American foreign policy requires will be toxic to much of the Democratic base. …

Worse, the administration’s approach to great-power diplomacy has comprehensively failed. After a year of vain efforts to “park Russia” or to pry it away from China, the administration is trying the same strategy in reverse, now hoping to peel China from Russia. We shall see if national security adviser Jake Sullivan’s meetings this week in Rome lead to Chinese cooperation with the Western anti-Russia campaign, but Beijing won’t help Mr. Biden out of the goodness of its heart. …

The world is a tough place. Geopolitics rule, and if you get power politics wrong, the rest doesn’t matter. Our ability to influence the behavior of others on issues like human rights and climate change depends on our geopolitical power much more than on the purity of our hearts and the nobility of our goals. America and its democratic allies, even at their best, are not strong and united enough to handle the world’s geopolitical challenges without enlisting the help of nondemocratic and even antidemocratic partners. We can’t do that while simultaneously virtue-signaling about how much we loathe them, and their help comes at a price that must be paid on time and in full.

The fate of the Biden administration and much else rests on how quickly it masters these truths.”

Instead of getting the orderly devolution and withdrawal from Eurasia that we wanted, we’re probably going to get humiliated and evicted like we did in Afghanistan. We’re going to go bankrupt as a superpower in a fit of self-righteous rage and moral indignation on Twitter.

Note: I can see the day coming when the Ukrainian flags are dropped for Taiwanese flags on Twitter and China is cancelled and the global supply chain crumbles and the petroshekel is a thing of the past.

9 Comments

  1. A feature and not a bug for Jo Jo Brandon’s handlers.
    The pivot to Eurasia means third world turd status for the Kwanstain but that is redundant as it is already there.

  2. The decline of the American empire didn’t start with Biden but it might end with him. The decline started long before the Alzheimer’s patient took over.

  3. Yes. Taiwan is next on the menu. I have much more mixed feelings about that one because Taiwan is the place where traditional Chinese culture survived while massive swaths of treasures were burned under the Cultural Revolution along with all manner of butchery and murder (a la BLM and Antifa). Yes they’ve sadly allowed Globopedo to gain a foothold there but much of the ancient China remains even so. Hopefully those who run the show in Taiwan will hold talks with Xi on how to become part of China again. They need to get back to the principles of Sun Yat-Sen instead of embracing those of Larry Fink. It’s not as if Uncle Schmuel can defend them with the Imperial Wokeundan Dindu-Guard. Their small military is quite good but they can’t take on something the size of China.

    • No, Taiwan will not be attacked by China. That’s just a neocon wet dream. This is over sea, not land. China and Taiwan are strongly tied together economically and China lacks the means to invade Taiwan. Furthermore they’d be cut off from their huge investment in the U.S.

      Read “Taiwan Is Not About China” by Peter van Buren, in The American Conservative, October 25:

      -Taiwan has invested $188 billion in China – more than the U.S. has done. Their businesses are in Beijing, Shanghai and Hong Kong. They are on the Shanghai stock market. And China invests in Taiwan.

      -China has invested more than $1 trillion in the U.S. They are betting on American success. This record-high economic path would be gone if they attacked Taiwan.

      -2.68 million Chinese visited Taiwan before corona. The two countries are very close.

      -China has absolutely no capacity to take Taiwan, even if they’d try. They’d need to land hundreds of thousands, even a million soldiers, on the first day. They have three modern ships that can carry 1,000 each.

      -Taiwan has anti-ship missiles that can reach Chinese ships almost as soon as they leave port. In a few months they’ll have even more far-reaching missiles. Any Chinese leader who allowed ships to sink and thousands of sailors to die would be forced to resign.

      -Taiwan has a vast network of mine fields and armed islands the Chinese ships would have to pass by, and great air defenses. They could easily hold out until aided by the U.S. Navy.

  4. I see little ‘chaos’ — re Ukraine, to me it seems pretty consistent with US regime policy toward eastern Europe and Russia as practiced for the last twenty years or more: expanding western influence, along with thinly veiled hostility toward Russia, including creeping encirclement via NATO expansion in eastern Europe (Trump also sold weapons to Ukraine).

    I would go along with describing it as irrational, undiplomatic, or maybe even arrogant and belligerently stupid — but then those descriptions also fit most of American foreign policy since the dissolution of the USSR.

  5. Again: not ‘chaos’, rather organized stupidity.

    link — There is a mass transfer of American armored vehicles from Germany to Poland. On video, the train with M2 Bradley IFV

    At the link above: purported video of American armor on the way to Poland from Germany.

    Assuming the description is correct: What is the plan? Is it to reinforce the Polish military? A show of force designed to impress Putin?

    Putin does not intend to attack Poland — but I believe the Russian military will not hesitate to defend itself and its soldiers engaged in Ukraine — does the West really want to force such a confrontation? — is it reasonable to risk it?

    In contrast, Hungary is a sensible country:

    link — Hungary will not send any weapons to Ukraine and will stay out of the war, Prime Minister Viktor Orban told a rally of his supporters on Tuesday, accusing the opposition of trying to drag Hungary into the conflict on its eastern border — Reuters

  6. I really don’t like those daily maps, which say “invasion” (pro-Khazar bias) and don’t show a lot of things that are happening. The Khazarkrainian propaganda maps are too obviously inaccurate in the Donbass area, making it seem that there is no envelopment, no cauldrons. Yesterday the map didn’t show any of the missile strikes that destroyed a U.S. weapons depot and a mercenary training base near the Polish border. Today the map didn’t show the very important push into the cauldron near Donetsk: “The big news of the day is that the Russian forces finally decided to, shall we say, change pace, and by all account the intensity of the artillery, aerial bombing and missile barrage which hit the Ukie forces in the town of Avdeevka was absolutely unprecedented and following this barrage the LDNR forces broke through 8 kilometers of just about the most heavily defended sectors in the entire theater or operations. The Ukrainian 95th Airmobile Brigade (one of the most combat capable units of the Ukrainian Army) was defending this sector. According to reports, this entire brigade was basically wiped out. Here is what you need to know about Avdeevka: this is the very heavily defended location from which the Ukronazis could unleash their terror against the civilians in Donetsk. Now that this entire town has been flattened, the people of Donetsk can now finally hope to live in relative peace. So, not only did Russia encircle the entire Ukrainian force in an operational cauldron, she then proceeded to cut that single force into two smaller cauldrons (…) and now as a show of force, she destroyed the most combat capable Ukrainian unit in the most heavily defended town”: https://thesaker.is/russian-special-military-operation-in-the-ukraine-day-19/

    Yesterday, the Zio-Nazi forces had launched a missile with cluster armaments into downtown Donetsk from the Avdeevka area. Russian air defenses managed to disable and deflect the missile but one of the one hundred cluster bomblets did detonate, killing at least 20 civilians (including children). If all of the cluster bomblets had reached the crowded target area, there would have over one thousand civilian casualties – and you would never have heard of it on Fox News, or MSNBC or CNN.

    The use of cluster bombs against civilians is a very serious war crime punishable under international law. There was no military infrastructure in downtown Donetsk. It was a pure terror attack, attempting to kill as many Russian civilians as possible. And not only cluster bombs, the propaganda-brainwashed and drug-crazed Zio-Nazi terrorists have also used white phosphorus!

    • The New York Times map shows “refugees” to Poland, but “people moving to” Russia from Donbass. And that arrow is made grey like the background to be less visible, and it is smaller than it proportionally should be.

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