Biden’s Failed Deterrence: A Modern-Day Cuban Missile Crisis?
Paging Dr. Strangelove: A US attack submarine has arrived at Gitmo in Cuba in response to the worrying arrival of a Russian fleet in Havana.
It’s gallows humor indeed, but there is a dark hilarity in the fact that what could be the last major foreign policy disaster of Joe Biden’s term (though who knows?) is looking like a rerun of the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Except instead of JFK as president, we have (gulp) Geriatric Joe, going senile in front of our eyes.
And Secretary of State Antony Blinken ain’t exactly Dean Rusk, either.
How did we get to the point where Vladimir Putin feels comfortable sailing a state-of-the-art warfleet into the Atlantic to menace America?
Maybe it has something to do with the fact that the Biden administration has 100% given up on the idea of deterrence.
Like with its dribs-and-drabs strategy in Ukraine military aid and the insane restrictions it has placed on use of US weapons, rendering them effectively pointless in the face of Putin’s aggression.
Or its bear-hug of Iran as Tehran’s proxy forces launch attacks against American assets and kill American soldiers — with only utterly limp US responses that failed to degrade the mullahs’ military capacities.
Biden’s gotten rolled by China as well, letting that spy balloon roam across the nation and doing nothing as Beijing rattles its saber against Taiwan.
Even with our neighbor Mexico, Biden’s proven weak, dancing to the tune of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador as he blackmailed us with threats of an even bigger tide of illegal immigrants.
The media and (other) shrill, screeching Democrats painted Biden’s predecessor, Donald Trump, a harbinger of global chaos, a madman who’d touch off World War III.
Funny how that (along with every other bit of lib doomerism) turned out to describe Joe Biden’s “leadership.”
