Oliver North: Prepare for War to Avoid Having to Fight One

Last week’s column: “Our armed forces are woefully unprepared to deter war and therefore make war more likely.” It stated that the U.S. House of Representatives’ mission is to improve national security. Both statements have been proven correct by evidence this week.

Both in words and action, the Biden administration repeatedly demonstrated that senior policy advisers are not as capable of understanding how dangerous this world is. Fidelis Publishing has published its first book. “America’s #1 Adversary,” The People’s Republic of China represents the greatest threat to national security. Xi Jinping “dictator for life” Along with his allies from Moscow, Pyongyang, Tehran, and Beijing, he has the common goal of replacing America as the dominant global power.

Biden’s catastrophic withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021 has left his administration with little to assure our allies that they can rely on the U.S. in times of crisis. The aftermath of the disaster “Biden Bugout” As the U.S. troops described the event, the British government called it a “festival of the imagination.” “disaster” And members of Parliament said “… it inspired people like Vladimir Putin to believe that he could attack Ukraine …”

There are certain problems. “Biden Team” Are you experiencing symptoms? “cognitive disarray” In the head of our commander-in-chief. His inability or unwillingness to articulate U.S. policy and express himself is potentially dangerous to our allies. On September 18, last year, he was asked whether U.S. forces would defend Taiwan from an invasion of the PRC. His answer was: “Yes!” — sent diplomats to Washington, Taipei and Beijing to search for microphones and cameras.

According to the Communist Chinese, it was “a seriously wrong signal” And would be “resolutely opposed.” Their foreign ministry spokeswoman in Taipei thanked POTUS and thanked him for his kindness. “rock-solid” Taiwanese commitment Washington State Department also stated this. “What the president meant to say is that we are sticking to our longstanding policy of ‘strategic ambiguity’ regarding Taiwan.”

According to the “readout” Biden and Xi met in Bali, Indonesia on November 13, 2022. “transnational challenges — such as climate change, global macroeconomic stability including debt relief, health security,” etc., and our president “raised U.S. objections to the PRC’s coercive and increasingly aggressive actions toward Taiwan …” It is possible that we will never know the truth because there has not been a transcript released. It is possible that we will never know because Xi has not released the transcript. “information” Information about Biden’s alleged family connections with the PRC entities. Neither leader wants to know.

The “readout” Also, take a note “President Biden raised Russia’s brutal war against Ukraine and Russia’s irresponsible threats of nuclear use.” However, this document of just one-and a half pages does not make mention Beijing’s notorious and shameful collaboration with Vladimir Putin and the Ayatollahs from Tehran. This is what makes Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s hurried Middle East trip so interesting.

As the U.S.-Israel concluded their largest joint military exercise, CIA Director William Burns traveled unannounced to Israel last week. On the eve of Biden’s State of the Union address in Washington, our sec-state stopped by the Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi and then went to Jerusalem to have a chat with Benjamin Netanyahu. Why?

I called an Israeli friend with extensive experience in intelligence, counterterrorism and defense. He laughed at the idea that Blinken was there for unidentified topics “quadcopter ‘drones’ dropping explosives on an Iranian military building in Isfahan” During his visit. “The U.S. press blames Israel, but we never acknowledge any such an operation.”

“So why did Blinken come?” I was curious.

“To insist we de-escalate our response to Palestinian terror attacks against Israeli civilians and ease Netanyahu’s ‘paranoia’ about Iran building nukes and the means of delivering them on us — and you.”

Israelis realize that winning wars is the best way of preventing them. Why shouldn’t we?