The Wisdom of a Seasoned War Correspondent

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Alas, the Best Outcome in Ukraine Now, May be a Relatively Quick Russian Victory

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The World Is on Fire, Yet a New DNI, DOJ Threat Assessment Prompts DHS to Target ‘Domestic Violent Extremists’

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Biden Repeats the Mistakes of Lyndon Johnson

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Putin is Committing War Crimes; What Can We Do About It?

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Iran, The Other Iranians

Ayatollah Khamenei

      During his sadly pathetic State of the Ukraine Union address, Joe Biden slipped up and accidentally let us know what his real priorities are.  As America’s and the world’s focus is on the Ukrainians, the Brandon regime’s focus is on the other Iranians, you know, the ones in Iran.  Americans would be rightly aghast at the amount of appeasement our negotiators are filling a new Iran deal with.  These negotiations remind me of labor negotiations between the government and government unions.  It’s neither’s money, so it doesn’t matter to either side what happens to our tax dollars.  Our negotiators over at Foggy Bottom seem to think they are playing with someone else’s money, as if they aren’t Americans looking out for America’s best interest.

 

      As some “wise” members of Congress call for the assassination of Vladimir Putin, our State Department is in the process of assassinating our safety and security vis-à-vis this new Iran deal.  This is par for the course with this administration.  The formerly mainstream media has shown no desire to explore the details of this disastrous dealmaking, much less report on it to the American people.  As with the ongoing invasion of our southern border, apparently members of the media believe if they don’t cover it, it’s not actually happening.  If they don’t investigate, there must not be anything to investigate.  In this case, what you don’t know can kill you and will.

 

      Newt Gingrich, former Speaker of the House, says it best, “There’s an anti-American pattern to this administration that is really weird.”  Why does Biden and company seem bent on hurting the country?  Why would the Biden administration want to renegotiate the failed Obama Iran Nuke deal, JCPOA (Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action)?  It didn’t work the first time.  Why would it work now, especially with the U.S. negotiating from a position of weakness?  The Mullahs in Iran know that our Green New Deal president is already begging them, Venezuela, and Saudi Arabia for more oil.  The Mullahs and other bad international actors have Joe surrounded while he pretends to demand their surrender.

 

      The JCPOA was destined to fail even before President Trump withdrew the U.S. from it on May 9, 2018.  It was purposely soft on Iran.  It lifted all previous sanctions with little likelihood of reinstatement, even for violations of the agreement.  Contrary to the Obama admin and its acolytes in the press, there were no real “snap back” inspections provided for.  The inspection provisions were so onerous that Iran had time to play “hide and seek” with its nuclear material.  No inspections of military bases were allowed.  These provisions enabled Iran to wantonly cheat

 

        Israel confirmed that its intelligence agents had pilfered hundreds of Iranian documents proving Iran had been cheating all along. 

“The stolen documents contained detailed information on dozens of nuclear weapons-related projects, some previously unknown outside of Iran. The documents indicated Iran’s nuclear weapons program was far more advanced than it had admitted to the IAEA, that Iran had misled and lied to the IAEA and the international community about its nuclear program in disclosures required by the JCPOA, and that the Iranian government had taken steps to deceive IAEA inspectors after the JCPOA was implemented. The documents also suggested some covert Iranian nuclear weapons activities were still under way.”

       

      In addition, Obama never submitted this international treaty to the U.S. Senate for ratification by a 2/3 majority vote, as required by our Constitution.  He didn’t have the votes to pass it, so he did an end run ‘round the Senate and the Constitution with the help of feckless RINO’s led by Sen. Bob Corker of Tennessee.

 

      Regardless of all the evidence of cheating, President Brandon is plowing ahead with negotiations with Iran AND Russia on a new deal.  The very same Russia we are supposedly at war with over Ukraine and oil is brokering this deal in secret negotiations.  The Neville Chamberlain of 2022 has Iran right where they want him. The leaked highlights of the sweetheart deal:

  • No accounting for cheating, previous or current
  • Lifts sanctions on the Central Bank of Iran and the National Iranian Oil Company
  • $60 billion in judgments owed to American victims of Iran-sponsored terrorism, erased
  • Sunsets of earlier deal provisions remain and begin as early as 2025
  • Still no inspections of military bases allowed

 

      This horrendous deal would allow Iran to continue in its role as the world’s number one state sponsor of terrorism.  The billions of dollars in sanctions relief will go toward terrorism and Iran’s secret nuclear weapons program.  And as an added bonus, Iran will sell hundreds of millions of barrels of oil to the U.S., keeping the Mullahs swimming in cash.  What could possibly go wrong?

 

      Will Biden attempt another end run around the Senate like his mentor Obama did?  Thirty-three Republican Senators have sent a letter to Biden warning him to submit any new Iran treaty to the Senate for approval.  Why only 33 Republicans instead of all 50?  The uni-party RINO’s are as feckless as Biden and his Democrats.  Biden will assert that this deal isn’t new, and no Senate vote is needed.  A Republican majority Senate didn’t stop Obama and Biden knows a 50-50 Senate won’t stop him.

 

      No one in the Biden administration is looking out for the security interests of the U.S.  Biden will betray America and our closest ally in the middle east, Israel.  With the eyes of the world on Ukraine, the Biden regime will sneak this deal through with the help of his media pals.  Only a handful of Republicans will mouth any toothless opposition.  And once again, the minions of the left who control Biden will have won another victory over common sense and over the U.S.

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