Once again, the Biden Administration is factoring itself out of a critical global event.
With Russia demonstrating its determination by threatening to use nuclear weapons, along with its suspension of a nuclear arms control treaty and its threat to resume nuclear tests, there’s big reason to be concerned. Add to that the fact that Iran has issued a threat that designating its Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist group will be seen as ac act of war. And that China just brokered a groundbreaking deal that saw Iran and Saudi Arabia resume ties. Biden’s America remains as clueless as ever, and has now descended to the role of global jester.
The threat of a world war is real. Meanwhile, Kirby downplays the China-Russia-Iran deadly alliance that is holding joint military naval drills in the Gulf of Oman. Let’s also keep in mind Iran’s determination to obliterate Israel and China’s ambition to invade Taiwan.
Meanwhile, Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) also conducted military drills ahead of its call for a third intifada:
Speaking after large-scale military drills were held in the northern Gaza Strip on Monday, Abu Hamza threatened that “the Islamic Jihad will cause the stupid enemy to be worn down by launching rockets in its direction, since the organization has many other means of warfare that will hurt the enemy.”
Will Kirby claim that PIJ conducting drills is merely routine, too?
“China, Russia, Iran hold joint naval drills in Gulf of Oman,” Associated Press, March 15, 2023:
BEIJING (AP) — Naval forces from China, Iran and Russia — countries at odds with the United States — are staging joint drills in the Gulf of Oman this week, China’s Defense Ministry said Tuesday.
Other countries are also taking part in the “Security Bond-2023” exercises, the ministry said without giving details. Iran, Pakistan, Oman and the United Arab Emirates all have coastline along the waterbody lying at the mouth of the strategic Persian Gulf.
“This exercise will help deepen practical cooperation between the participating countries’ navies … and inject positive energy into regional peace and stability,” the ministry statement said.
U.S. National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby said Wednesday that the White House was not concerned by the joint training exercise. Kirby said the U.S. and other nations conduct training exercises all the time and this won’t be the first time that the Russians and Chinese have trained together.
“We’re going to watch it, we’ll monitor it, obviously, to make sure that there’s no threat resulting from this training exercise to our national security interests or those of our allies and partners in the region,” Kirby said on CNN. “But nations train. We do it all the time. We’ll watch it as best we can.”
The exercises scheduled for Wednesday through Sunday come amid heightened tensions between the U.S. and China over a range of issues, including China’s refusal to criticize Moscow over its invasion of Ukraine and continuing support for the Russian economy.
The U.S. and its allies have condemned the invasion, imposed punishing economic sanctions on Russia and supplied Ukraine with defensive arms. Iran and the U.S. have been adversaries since the founding of the Islamic Republic in 1979 and the taking of U.S. diplomats as hostages.
China has dispatched the guided missile destroyer Nanning to take part in the drills centered on search and rescue at sea and other non-combat missions. China maintains its only foreign military base, complete with a navy pier, in the Horn of Africa country of Djibouti, located just across the Gulf of Oman.
The three countries held similar drills last year and in 2019, underscoring China’s growing military and political links with nations that have been largely shunned by the U.S. and its partners.
Last week, China hosted talks between Iran and its chief Middle Eastern rival Saudi Arabia that resulted in an agreement between them Friday to restore full diplomatic relations after seven years of tensions…….
Wellington says
Kirby is just one more imitation Alfred E. Neuman—“What, me worry?” Oh yeah, there’s a shitload of Alfred E. Neumann’s in the federal government nowadays. Combine these with outright liars like Mayorkas and Garland, topped off with a morally depraved and intellectually deficient Puppet-in-Chief, who is also an inveterate liar, and one can see how America is working up to a perfect storm that will wreck the great experiment begun by the Founding Fathers of America.
And yes, that was back in the days, nostalgia time here, when men were men, women were women, biological sex and gender were synonymous and monogamous marriage was ONLY between a real man and a real woman. Ah, the good old days. Fading fast and as a culture rots everything else will rot, including its entire political, social, educational, economic, legal and military structures.
Well, American culture is rotting right now. Damn right it is. Kirby (a la Alfred E. Neuman) is dispositive of this. Not lookin’ good.
Westman says
How true, Wellington.
It seems when men have the wealth and peace to determine the course of their lives, too often they choose hedonism.
“The true value of man is shown when with all freedom possible, he sets himself limits.”
― Anonymous
It seems the BRICS are becoming BRICSAP with the addition of Arabs and Persians. If they dethrone the dollar as the World Reserve Currency it won’t matter who is conducting naval drills.
John Smith says
We certainly are living in dangerous times, with Iran, China and Russia holding joint naval drills together. Yet the one who seems to be going under the radar is Erdogan of Turkey. He is an extremely dangerous man, whose ambition it is to re-establish the ottoman empire and invade Greece and other countries. Several times he has addressed the Turkish people and asked them if they are ready for war. The last time was only a few months ago when he asked his people if they were ready for the attack in 2023. Erdogan is such a megalomaniac, that he actually believes himself to be the madhi, he’s a very, very, dangerous man indeed.
OLD GUY says
Agree with you on Erdogan being a dangerous leader in Turkey. He has a big image of himself ruling the world.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
All those armchair analysts in the State Department and the Pentagon who thought that Russia can be kept a virtually ‘landlocked’ country (given that its Arctic ports are mostly iceblocked, the Black Sea has a chokehold at Sea of Marmara, St Petersburg has a chokehold at Jutland and so on. Well, now both Russia and China have an outlet to the Indian Ocean via Iran (and China has one via Pakistan as well)
Although honestly, I don’t believe that we can be everywhere! We need to focus on the Indo-Pacific w/ a single goal of containing China. Allowing Russia to become our #1 enemy, in the process driving them into Beijing’s orbit, is the stupidest thing the uniparty has done. I just fear for Taiwan, thanks to all these ingenious moves that have hijacked most of our weapons to Ukraine, and leaving little for the Indo-Pacific
tgusa says
Good luck fighting wars leftists. I hope the left understands that us normie non leftist white males (traditional American fighting forces) are not going to sign up to defend them in war. We are all on vacation until they are neutralized by the enemy. Then and only then will we engage and knowing us we will begin the the road back by striking the enemy in a place that nobody has ever heard of. So we can just forget about any war planning the left has done as any of that would surely a losing proposition.