Ballooning towards Oblivion
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Ballooning towards Oblivion
The Biden Regime continues to address its stance on foreign policy with reckless abandonment. Is their reactionist style of governance really dethroning America as the world leader? - Commentary
Joe Biden’s national defense and strategic security response posture took some interesting turns this week, both at home and abroad.
At a time when the theater inside eastern Ukraine has been ramping up, with reports now confirming that Russian forces are advancing to take control of the strategic city of Bakhmut - the narrative that Ukraine is winning or even that Putin is losing is becoming more of an opinionated statement rather than documented fact.
This comes on the heels of the confirmation that the U.S. and her German allies would be sending (31) M1 Abrams tanks and (80) generation 1 and 2 Leopard tanks to the embattled European nation to bolster its frontline defenses ahead of forecasted Russian offensive set to kick off later this spring.
With their advanced weapon systems and reliance on jet fuel, the M1 Abrams tanks are a far cry from the aging equipment the Ukrainians are currently using in the field.
Even Israel is getting in on the action - now considering sending an Iron Dome missile defense system to Ukraine, a move that a lot of pundits and government officials did not see coming.
Then there was #balloongate.
A CCP surveillance balloon slipped over Alaska and portions of Canada earlier this week, before entering the continental United States on Thursday through Montana; home to some of our nuclear missile installations before floating across several states, then exited the U.S. over the Atlantic Ocean after passing over North Carolina.
Granted, we must consider the lack of action on behalf of the Biden Regime because of the unknown elements surrounding the satellite, for instance, was it carrying an explosive payload, or possibly a biological agent inside of it? Could it have been capable of delivering an EMP strike to our already taxed energy grid?
In this instance, we may never know.
The spyloon was finally shot down Saturday on Joe Biden’s order - once it reached a point to where civilian casualties and damages would be minimized.
Apparently.
Joe Biden and his security cabinet knew of the spy balloon since before it entered Alaskan airspace yet made no formal announcement to the American public until it became TikTok famous towards the end of this week.
The secretive levels that Joe Biden’s administration operates at, combined with the disorganized manner at which they maneuver have moved us further away from former president, Donald Trump’s strategy of “peace through strength” and into Biden’s more broad approach: “we will choose to build a better future.”
Honestly though, what the hell does that even mean?
The Biden Regime national defense braintrust that’s complied of China-loving, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, General Mark Millie, Secretary of Defense, and Darth Vader impersonator, Lloyd Austin, 90 lbs. soaking wet Secretary of State, Anthony Blinken, pee dossier enthusiast, and serial liar, National Security Chief, Jake Sullivan, masters of the word salad, Pentagon spokesmen John Kirby and incoming Biden Chief of Staff, Jeff Zients all have over the last two years have done their best to describe the state of our strategic defense and national response as strong while the entirety of the Regime has done their best to dismantle it behind the scenes.
This week just so happened to be particularly bad for Joe Biden and friends, with both geopolitical adversaries China and Russia taking the U.S. foreign policy experts “behind the gymnasium” as the 46th president has so elegantly put it.
Putin has worked to retool his frontline combatants and NCO cadres which was hurting his war efforts in eastern Ukraine late last year. Adding more experienced units, international mercenary groups and literally criminals to the front line forces has proven to be a good strategy for the Kremlin as they held key positions in Donbas, pushed Ukrainian forces back from the western regions of Crimea and advanced toward gaining full control of Bakhmut.
According to a recent Forbes article, “China’s state-owned defense companies have shipped navigation equipment and parts to fighter jets and other military technology equipment to Russian defense companies, according to Russian customs data.”
That report came earlier this week after Chinese officials said they had strengthened a “mutual political trust” with Russia, following the Chinese Vice Foreign Minister, Ma Zhaoxu’s meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov as was first reported by Reuters. This report arrives in the face of international sanctions, and at a time when both Turkey and UAE (who have also openly rejected sanctions against Russia) also have been providing technical and logistical equipment to the Kremlin to aide in their “special operation” effort.
If that wasn’t enough to frustrate the Biden White House, reports now out of China is that the CCP is very unhappy with the Regime for striking down its spy satellite after it cleared U.S. airspace. China responded to the takedown by stating that it reserved the right to “take further actions,” and criticized the U.S. for “an obvious overreaction,” and “a serious violation of international practice.”
In its national statement delivered Sunday, China’s Minister of Foreign Affairs said that “China will resolutely uphold the relevant company’s legitimate rights and interests, and at the same time reserving the right to take further actions in response.”
Does it mean more meddling in Ukraine, where the CCP is already jockeying for the rights for some of the national rebuild effort that will take place after the conflict? Or does it now legitimize their support of strategic ally Russia in providing them with military logistics and equipment?
Most likely, it’s both.
The CCP have become global masters of manipulating both sides of the fence in everything from international trade, the global currency markets and world wide infrastructure markets, and it seems that the constantly evolving situation in Ukraine is at this point, no different.
China will continue to meddle in American affairs as long as they can maintain generating revenue, while at the same time weakens the U.S. footing in the world overall.
At the moment, the CCP is winning that proxy war by a large margin, and in turn allowing Russia to gain strength while simultaneously courting Ukrainian leadership to rebuild the nation, post-conflict at a better than reasonable internet rate.
It didn’t have to be this way. It never did.
Joe Biden’s reversal on M1 Abrams tanks last week was his latest flip flop in his constantly changing policy on the conflict in Ukraine. It was just a few short months ago that Biden, in an exchange with reporters stated, “Sending tanks to Ukraine would be "World War III.”Before that, it was the folding on sending Patriot Missile Battery Systems to Zelensky and most predict that Biden’s “No” on F-16s for Ukraine will be the next in his progression towards escalating the conflict.
No one’s talking about the amount America contractors, civilian engineers and active duty soldiers that it’s going to take to train the Ukrainian forces on how to successfully operate and maintain this heavy equipment - which can take six months to a year to do proficiently.
Does that mean we are in this fight at this temperature (or higher) for at least that long?
Or longer?
The loneliest component of the now, year plus “special operation” in Ukraine has to be the negotiation table.
While both sides involved have propagated for victory or death in eastern Ukraine, sadly, only a very few journalists, pundits, members of Congress, and the 45th President of the United States have been the only ones calling for fiscal oversight and the acceleration towards direct peace talks.
Breaking this weekend, a Newsweek report alleges that the Biden Regime sent the current CIA Director, William Burns on behalf of Secretary of State, Anthony Blinken to the region with a plan to end the war by ceding a fifth (approx 20%) of Ukraine to Russia.
It also eludes that both Millie and Austin we not in favor of the move, however Blinken wanted to focus the State Department’s attention more on China, or whatever that means.
Imagine that.
Sanctions that would have had maximum impact on Russia and the overall war effort should not look like the current ones; lie. kicking them off of the SWIFT international debt resolution system and repossessing the yachts and vacation homes of its oligarchs.
While peace through strength didn’t mean launching the first missile or firing off the first round it certainly cut deep.
It meant that words mattered, and that our allies were such, regardless of whether or not the the policies of the State and Defense Departments were or were not popular domestically as long as the world was a safer place because of them.
Sometimes it meant showing the leader of the Taliban a picture of his home while informing him of what the consequences would be if another U.S. soldier died in Afghanistan, or suggesting to Putin that the U.S. would just nuke Moscow if he invaded further into Ukraine. That one time an Iranian general known for bounties against U.S. forces met his demise on an Iraqi tarmac, and another instance where we levied crippling taxes and tariffs on China while selling rice back to the CCP.
Often the media spun that Trump and American leadership looked like major assholes in doing so, but under the Trump administration we led from the front while the temperature of the global war on wars began to cool.
The Biden administration isn’t banning TikTok in the United States, or blanket suspending student and worker visas for those coming from coming from Russia, China and everyone else that’s collaborating with them. We are not closing back room channels designed to iron out a new Iran deal and we aren’t holding our strategic counterparts responsible for not paying their fair share towards the over $110 billions dollars that we have already funneled into the war effort.
With the planned meeting between Secretary Blinken and a delegation from the CCP in China now on hold for the immediate future amidst the spy balloon debacle and the allegations that China is providing the support Putin needs to continue is efforts in the face of pressure the future seems bleak in reaching a diplomatic solution to the crisis anytime soon.
Just goes to show you how the media, the justice department, domestic and international law enforce my agencies the defense industrial complex and members of Congress were quick to judge and persecute President Trump for trying to make the world a better place on his watch, doing it, his way.
Maybe next time we hear Joe Biden use one of his boomer-tailored, cliche catch phrases like, “America’s back” we shouldn’t be so quick to judge the man for when he’s being honest.
Because America is back - back in the business of forever foreign wars again.
Rone is the Executive Producer and a host on the Steak for Breakfast Podcast. You can subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts and Spotify at: