When Is Blowing Up the World A Success? Recently, Secretary of State Antony Blinken bragged in an op-ed that “The Biden administration's strategy has put the United States in a much stronger geopolitical position today than it was four years ago.” What? This is the latest campaign fantasy narrative also served up by Harris-Walz—analogous to the four-year untruth that “the border is secure” and “the economy is strong”—as they try to explain why the world utterly blew up on their watch and due to their own actions. And the mythologies continue. Harris just refused to concede that the Netanyahu elected government of wartime Israel is an ally of America. Walz on Sunday would not answer whether the U.S. approves of Israel hitting Iran hard in response to their recent massive barrages. Blinken ended his political op-ed by adding, "As secretary of state, I don't do politics; I do policy.” Actually, he proved far more adept at politics than at policy. Remember this apolitical fiction comes from Biden’s 2020 campaign foreign policy “expert,” who was rewarded with the appointment as Secretary of State after working with former interim CIA Director Michael Morell to round up “51 former intelligence officials” to lie in a public letter on the eve of the final 2020 debate that the Hunter Biden laptop (at the time in the possession of the FBI and authenticated as genuine) had all the “hallmarks” of a Russian disinformation operation. That letter was an orchestrated flat-out lie that was used, as intended, by a prevaricating Biden in the debate. It may have well warped the 2020 election, as the FBI operators further conspired with social media to suppress accurate news reports of the laptop’s incriminating authenticity. I suppose Blinken defines “a much stronger geopolitical position today than it was four years ago”, as believing the Putin 2022 invasion of Ukraine was preferable to him keeping inside his borders during the Trump administration. Did lifting the Trump terrorist designation of the Houthis, scuttling the Abraham Accords, and Biden’s campaign demagoguing the Saudis as a “pariah” all lead to a calmer Red Sea? Did restoring fungible funds to the West Bank and Gaza terrorists and tunnel builders ensure there would not be an October 7? Perhaps lifting sanctions on Iran, resulting in a $100-billion oil revenue windfall to Tehran, or arranging a payment to the theocracy of some $6 billion to return hostages, or begging Iran to reenter the Iran Deal, all meant that Iran so far has only sent 500 ballistic missiles, drones, and cruise missiles into Israel? Did the humiliating 2021 retreat from Afghanistan discourage Putin to keep out of Ukraine? Maybe abandoning $50 billion in American munitions and supplies to the Taliban terrorists scared Vladimir Putin, Jinping Xi, and Ayatollah Ali Khamenei into their current supposed nonaggression? Did Biden stating that America’s reaction to a Russian invasion would depend on whether it was a major or minor offensive deter Putin? Did putting a hold on approved munitions to Ukraine in early 2021 or offering to fly Zelensky out of his country in the first days of the invasion dissuade Putin? Did the March 2021 Chinese communist public dressing down of Blinken and Jake Sullivan in Anchorage, Alaska prevent China from serially threatening Taiwan the last three years, or from sending a spy balloon with impunity across the United States for over a week? Did Biden’s 2019 campaign assurance that China was not in competition with the U.S. detour China from its subsequent combative stance toward Taiwan? Did giving millions to the Palestinian Authority, Hamas, and Hezbollah persuade them not to send some 20,000 rockets and missiles into Israel after October 7? Will giving Lebanon some $157 million in “extra” aid persuade the population to turn on Hezbollah that has stored some 150,000 rockets and missiles aimed at Israel in their midst? Did prior aid result in only 9,000 missiles being launched from Lebanon at Israel? Did the DEI mandates and advertising, the new woke protocols, and the vaccine expulsions all explain why the Pentagon was only 45,000 short in its targeted manpower recruitments? So please, Secretary Blinken, President Biden, a Vice President Harris, and candidate Walz, do not in the last weeks of the election gaslight us, the American people, that a world now in freefall and on the threshold of multiple theater-wide wars, all involving nuclear powers, is somehow a sign of a “stronger geopolitical position.”

Who Is Running America at the Abyss? Ukraine, recently up-armed by NATO and America, has just successfully crossed the border into a stunned Russia—prompting a panicked Kremlin version of our DEFCON 2. Rumors swirl that Iran plans to strike Israel sometime this week—with outside opportunistic bullies like Hezbollah and Turkey threatening also to intervene against the Jewish state. U.S. naval and ground forces in the theater are purportedly readying themselves on orders from someone? to either be prepared to become further attacked or again to help protect the homeland of Israel. And meanwhile in the U.S., President Joe Biden has hardly been seen or heard for weeks—other than a photo-op bicycling in Delaware, sunning on the beach, or trying to explain why he was removed from his party’s nomination. He apparently has at least obtained permission from his stealthy handlers for the time being to stay at his other job as President. Vice President and now anointed Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris equally avoids journalists, impromptu speaking, and news conferences‚ as she focuses on next week’s Democratic convention. But Harris is at least savvy enough not to say anything to anyone that is not teleprompted or scripted. Harris also continues to act and talk as if she is not currently Vice President of the United States serving a debilitated president. But she does promise that she will reanimate in six months to fix things that went wrong under her current tenure when she believes she will become the President. Tim Walz, Harris’s vice-presidential running mate, is still caught in his growing summer web of fantasies. He avoids all questions about why for years he has lied about his rank in the National Guard, has lied about his avoidance of deployment in Iraq, and has lied about carrying a gun in war. Seventy percent of Americans (presciently) poll ignorance of who Walz really is. But they are slowly learning that he let Minneapolis burn for three days in 2020, while his wife opened the widow to appreciate a whiff of arson, and while his daughter tipped off the violent Antifa and BLM rioters to be reassured her dad would not call out the Guard on them. If in these scary times the President and Vice President are AWOL, and the Democratic nominees to replace them are hiding from the media, then who really is in charge in extremis? Who, if anyone, will make existential decisions should a Russia, Iran, Hezbollah, or Turkey decide to start a wider war this week? President Joe Biden—if only these wars break out during his one hour awake each day and at work? Our Edith Wilson, Dr. Jill Biden? Recent congressional presidential kingmakers on their August vacations? The machinating Michelle and Barack Obama and their agents and appendages deeply embedded in the Biden administration? The teleprompted Kamala Harris, Vice, and yet not quite Vice, President, barnstorming on script far from Washington? The coup plotters Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer—and George Clooney? The now hubristic and overweening bicoastal billionaire leftwing donor class, fresh on the heels of deposing Biden from their ticket? Our only shred of reassurance is that our stunned enemies are probably as confused about who is in charge of America as we are.