The Biden administration’s management of wars is basically a hope that it can draw to an inside straight. From Ted Snider at antiwar.com:
The Biden administration has seemingly adopted a foreign policy doctrine in which they nurture a war while attempting to manage it, preventing it from becoming a wider war.
The doctrine has been applied in both Ukraine and Gaza. In Ukraine, war has been nurtured by snuffing out the possibility of a diplomatic settlement while feeding the war with weapons, training, intelligence and funding. The war has been managed at a micro level and a macro level. At the micro level, the strategy was to permit Ukrainian strikes in Crimea sufficient to scare Russia into negotiations but insufficient to provoke them into escalatory strikes to defend what they see as Russian territory: a fine and dangerous balancing act. At the macro level, the strategy was to provide Ukraine with weapons sufficient to wage war but not to provide weapons that would draw the U.S. into a war with Russia or that would lead to a nuclear response.
In Gaza, the U.S. has nurtured the war by defying the will of the international community at the United Nations and by the continued provision of weapons. It has managed it by manifestations of force and frantic diplomacy to stop the war from spreading to Iran through Lebanon and Yemen.
This strategy of the management of war is proving costly to U.S. interests in at least three ways.
The Biden administration’s mismanagement of war is costing it the world. Whatever fading delusions of hegemony it held onto are rapidly being pushed aside by the emerging multipolar world. The rejuvenated non-aligned movement is exploding since the start of the war in Ukraine, and there has been a mass exodus to the doors of organizations like BRICS and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, two Russian and Chinese led international organizations that exist to balance U.S. hegemony in a unipolar world. BRICS has built up its membership from five countries to eleven and now spans every region of the world, accounting for 46% of the world’s population. The also expanding SCO now represents at least 43% of the world’s population. The non-aligned movement, growing in numbers and in confidence, has resisted U.S. pressure to join it in its support of the war in Ukraine and its sanctioning or Russia.
Saw a headline at aggregator US will investigate Israeli WAR crimes and laughed out loud.
At least the trains derail on time and almost $6 for a gallon of diesel explains the sticker shock at the grocery and gas pump.
Too bad so sad for those who wanted to make America Great Again, the mob rules and wants steaming fourth world turd status.
May the cargo cult czars be generous to all comrades of the glorious New Civility collective.
No we can’t. (sad trombone)