China has branded Joe Biden’s reception in the Middle East “lukewarm” and “embarrassing,” stating that it “did not appear to result in any concrete agreements or benefits for America.” Biden traveled to the Middle East on the back of Donald Trump’s Abraham Accords. His goal was the hope of promoting a “kind of regional NATO.” But instead, he has yet again set America back on the world stage — which happens everywhere Biden goes.
America is declining on the world stage as fast as its leader is declining personally. While Biden may still appeal to the woke blokes of the West where Critical Race Theory and over-the-top transgenderism are top priorities, the rest of the world is focused on economic and political expansion. A mega-shift of global alliances is happening while Biden and the Democrats continue to humiliate and permit the unraveling of America. And they do it in the presence of America’s worst enemies, including China.
“China: Biden’s Saudi Trip Proves U.S. Influence in Middle East ‘Declining,’” by Frances Martel, Breitbart, July 18, 2022:
China’s state media arms mocked leftist American President Joe Biden on Monday for what Beijing branded a “lukewarm” and “embarrassing” trip to the Middle East that did not appear to result in any concrete agreements or benefits for America.
Biden visited Israel and Saudi Arabia last week, culminating the trip with meetings with King Salman and the nation’s de facto ruler, Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman. Biden’s visit to Saudi Arabia, a longtime U.S. ally in the region, was especially controversial because Biden had vowed as a presidential candidate to turn the country into a “pariah” in response to the brutal killing and dismembering of Islamist dissident Jamal Khashoggi.
Reports also indicated that Biden was visiting the country to ask Riyadh to increase its oil production – potentially lowering gasoline prices in America – which Saudi officials denied they had the ability to do. Biden denied that he was visiting Saudi Arabia to request more oil in a column titled “Why I’m Going to Saudi Arabia,” published in the Washington Post before his trip. The article did not provide an answer regarding why Biden was going to Saudi Arabia, instead condemning Russia for its escalation of the eight-year-old war in Ukraine that began in February.
China’s government-run Xinhua News Agency condemned Biden on Monday for allegedly trying to “cajole” Mideast countries into behaving in ways that benefit the United States.
“No matter how the U.S. side cajoled and nudged, the countries in the region responded tepidly,” Xinhua proclaimed. “Biden neither succeeded in his bid to form a regional military alliance against Iran nor convinced Saudi Arabia to act immediately to raise its oil output.”…
CogitoErgoSum says
The Koran makes it clear that the Muslims of Saudi Arabia (and all Muslims everywhere) are to fight until everyone in the world has submitted to Islam. Do you think Joe Biden knows this? If he did he would not be expecting Saudi Arabia to help him keep the U.S. from declining in power and influence. Biden knows (when his memory is working) that the U.S. has enough oil reserves of its own to be energy independent and yet he goes begging for oil from the Saudis – while at the same time accusing them of murder. What a complete moron. Embarrassing does not even begin to describe the man.
CogitoErgoSum says
Oh, things just keep getting worse. Now it seems that Joe Biden casually announced today that he has cancer and it was caused by oil refinery vapors floating through the air in Delaware. He blames an oily residue that would be on his car windshield every morning and that having to wipe it from his windshield each day gave him and his many friends cancer.
However, once again the White House says he misspoke and he was actually referring to some non-life-threatening cancerous spots on his skin that were removed without incident before the election and which were caused by exposure to the sun when he was much younger.
The man is losing his mind and he is not going to make it to the end of his term. Things are not going to get any better either when Kamala takes over. Along with embarrassing the words tragedy and disaster also come to mind.
somehistory says
evidently, he was referring to his skin cancer he had some time back…caused by exposure to the sun. At least, that is the story from the wh press. his doctor said they were not melanoma, so probably basil or squamous. but who can be sure. It wouldn’t be out of the question that he has cancer and they don’t want anyone to know. after all, the doc said there was no ‘reason he couldn’t handle the duties of president.’
CogitoErgoSum says
It has to be obvious to everyone now that Biden is a very confused man. But the charade and the stupidity will go on. At first I thought this cancer announcement was his way of preparing us for his resignation but I guess not. The question is how much more damage can our society endure before it collapses. It’s for certain this country will never be the same as it was before 2020.
somehistory says
for many years, as things proceeded from bad to worse and much worse, I would tell my kids, that it can’t get much worse, and then, it always got much worse.
Check Burry says
What logic, or common sence if he has any, make ole joe sell or was it give chinka millions of barrels of US oil, and then go to saudi and buy some, its nuts, not that he has any.
CogitoErgoSum says
Joe Biden to the U.S: I’m going to shut the oil companies down.
Joe Biden to Saudi Arabia: Could you murdering pariahs please pump some more oil?
Saudi Arabia to Joe Biden: What????
China to the world: Ha ha ha ha.
Me: Has anybody seen my country?
James Lincoln says
CogitoErgoSum,
Apparently, Biden’s handlers do not want to drill for oil in the United States because of “environmental factors” and “climate change”.
Apparently they do not care about these issues if it occurs in Saudi Arabia…
Infidel says
One thing that one of my friends told me about Dems is that they don’t think of the consequences of any action beyond one step. For instance, if you raise taxes, revenues will increase in year 1, but fall in year 2 & beyond b’cos of the actions taxpayers will take to minimize their taxes. But someone who comes in w/ a proposal won’t think beyond year 1: they’ll just assume that it’ll continue indefinitely
It’s the same thing here: they don’t think about what happens if oil is drilled and refined in the US and then distributed and consumed, vs if it is drilled in Saudi Arabia, transported in ocean liners across the Atlantic to the US, and then distributed & consumed. In fact, the Saudi route results in more global warming, due to the ships heating up the oceans enough to increase the water vapor in the air. Water vapor is an even bigger factor in climate then CO2, NO2 and so on
Arguing w/ Leftists, like arguing w/ muslims, is like banging one’s head against the wall
somehistory says
a psychopath never can see the consequences of his actions. he may envision how he wants them to be, but can never see how they actually will be, and won’t recognize that he is responsible for the bad outcome He will do the same thing again and again, never learning from his mistakes, and not acknowledging his mistakes as his…but always blaming others when complaints are made.
James Lincoln says
Thank you for your reply, Infidel.
To your point about taxes, bills typically sponsored by Democrats often come up in state legislatures to raise the cigarette tax.
The intended purpose is to financially punish the smoker to the point where they will either stop – or at least cut back – on their smoking. And any increased revenues for the state is a bonus.
This type of legislation typically has three “smoking” outcomes:
1. Lower income people quit smoking / cut down because of the cost.
2. Lower income people who are hopelessly addicted to cigarettes continue smoking the same amount – and end up even more broke.
3. Higher income people are not affected by the increased taxes. They will retain their personal decision to smoke – or not to smoke.
CogitoErgoSum says
No, they don’t care, James. Climate change is what they talk about but their main goal is to “fundamentally change” the United States from being based on capitalism to being based on socialism. The death of capitalism comes first so a few years of begging for oil from the Saudis is worth it to them. They figure getting rid of cars and oil companies here will eventually cause the Saudis to sell less oil anyway. They can still get to where they want to be and Saudi Arabia is mostly sand anyway. It doesn’t matter to them if some oil is spilled in the desert far away from the U.S.
somehistory says
they are having the epa go after the oil in the Permian Basin….largest oil field in the world located in TX and NM. gonna’ try to keep them from drilling cause it makes “smog.”
James Lincoln says
Sounds about right, CogitoErgoSum.
Westman says
The whole idea of oppressing/forcing American citizens to reach unreachable climate goals is insane. The Saudis must think the Biden admin has lost its marbles – they shoot themselves in the foot and then come looking for a cure.
Who won’t fight “global warming”? Russia and China. Russia gets more usable farmland from warming and more water from arctic melt – at the same time drought makes some of the world’s previously arable land, unusable. The world will become more dependent on Russian agriculture.
Why would Russia want to join in to suffer trying to change a climate system that may be beyond human control? It appears that climate change is real but there is no proof that humans can change it. We may simply be swamped by a natural phenomenon.
China has already signaled that it won’t stop using coal or petroleum fuels. What is the point of the climate change panic if the new economy #1 will not cooperate?
Wellington says
Joe Biden is a disgrace to America, to the West at large, to scientific accuracy, to solid fiscal policies, to fair elections, to just truth and honesty in general, and to…, to… to…
America now has a shell of a man, and a very deficient man at that, as now titular leader of still the strongest nation on Earth (but for how long?).
Many share the blame for this. Democrats aplenty. RINOS aplenty and thanks, among so many others, to Kasich, George Will and Whitman for nothing—and they will never redeem themselves, so foul was their opposition to a man in Trump who stood up for America—and thus he had to be destroyed by the putrid and ignorant element of America overall—the decrepit and highly biased MSM serving as just one example, which would include Fox News not allowing any questioning of the 2020 election steal—thanks to rubes like Bret Baier, whom I will never watch again, and a whole host of other complicit culprits.
Much going on in America today. Almost all of this not good for liberty and common sense. For now, I rest my case. Will be back with full venom (the best kind for real enemies) for Leftism, Marxism, Neo-Nazism, Islam and other major errors. Count on it.
You gettin’ any of this, Rarely or Rod?
Westman says
Good words, Wellington.
The Dems aren’t hiding their dictatorial ambitions, Biden outright saying he’ll use executive orders anywhere he can get away with it to push the Dem agenda. I’m not sure if this is like Rome before the fall, or Germany 1933. It’s starting to feel ominous.