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2024-01-09 Home Front: Politix
Biden has dangerously decayed deterrence — and every American is at risk
[NYPOST] As Americans rang in the new year, regimes hostile to the United States made clear just how much President Biden has let US deterrence decay.

In his end-of-year presser, Russian President Vladimir Putin
...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances...
reiterated his commitment to subjugating Ukraine in his effort to rebuild the Soviet Union — emphasizing, "The level of our ties with China is at an all-time high."

North Korea
...hereditary Communist monarchy distinguished by its truculence and periodic acts of violence. Distinguishing features include Songun (Army First) policy, which involves feeding the army before anyone but the Dear Leadership, and Juche, which is Kim Jong Il's personal interpretation of Marxism-Leninism, which he told everybody was brilliant. In 1950 the industrialized North invaded agrarian South Korea. Twenty-one countries of the United Nations eventually contributed to the UN force opposing the invasion, with the United States providing around 90% of the military personnel. Seventy years later the economic results are in and it doesn't look good for Juche...
’s Chairman Kim Pudge Jong-un
...the overweight, pouty-looking hereditary potentate of North Korea. Pudge appears to believe in his own divinity, but has yet to produce any loaves and fishes, so his subjects remain malnourished...
laid out his plan to accelerate nuclear-weapons production in 2024, saying conflicts elsewhere compelled his nation to "sharpen the treasured sword."

And amid Iran’s multifront attacks on the Jewish state, the ayatollah’s officials declared America "will not be spared" if Israel’s campaign to eliminate Hamas
...a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",...
continues — and we’ll be "faced with extraordinary problems" if we oppose Iran's Houthi sock puppets
...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him...
disruption of commercial shipping in the Red Sea.

Four years ago, such statements would have been rightly seen as mere bluster.

Kim had stopped long-range-missile testing, Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
was isolated and weak, and the Trump administration’s model of deterrence kept Putin’s Ukraine ambitions at bay.

But the Biden administration’s complete lack of commitment to maintaining deterrence has encouraged these dangerous actions and placed the American people in peril.

Posted by Fred 2024-01-09 00:00|| || Front Page|| [23 views ]  Top

#1 We need more nuclear weapons? No we sucking don't

These are bitter elites who would rather start a nuclear eat and end the world than admit defeat in Ukraine.

Posted by Vortigern Phert8938 2024-01-09 04:40||   2024-01-09 04:40|| Front Page Top

#2 ...a nuclear era?
Posted by Skidmark 2024-01-09 06:49||   2024-01-09 06:49|| Front Page Top

#3 Looks at the amount of guns and ammo that Obama and Biden have sold in America, most formal foreign threats would go "I'll pass" on any threat to the mainland. Now these clowns in Deep State don't get the implications of that.
Posted by Procopius2k 2024-01-09 10:13||   2024-01-09 10:13|| Front Page Top

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