Wednesday, July 21, 2021

The two latest fiasco moves by the Biden administration are unfortunately all too characteristic

 Biden foreign policy, in its own way, has been as damaging as that "guided" by the Very Stable Genius. In the current case, though, there's a consistent vision, and it's not a good one. Biden, Blinken et al think the world can come together in some kind of Great Reset mind-meld and make the lessons of history null and void. 

For instance, what in the hell is up with this?

On July 13, Blinken issued a “formal, standing invitation” to various U.N. functionaries to analyze “contemporary forms of racism” in the U.S. and applauded the U.N. Human Rights Council’s adoption of a “resolution to address systemic racism against Africans and people of African descent in the context of law enforcement.”

The reasoned mind recoils. The misnamed U.N. Human Rights Council is a festering blight, no more appropriate as a moral arbiter than the 1970s Soviet Politburo. 

Today’s Human Rights Council includes representatives of such murderous regimes of China, Russia, Venezuela, Cuba, Libya, and Somalia. Of the 47 member nations of the Human Rights Council, 11 are ranked “not free” at all by the respected arbiter Freedom House, and only 15 are rated as “free” (rather than only “partially” so). 

For the Human Rights Council, or indeed for the oft-benighted U.N. as a whole, to investigate or sit in judgment of U.S. practices is not just insult but abomination.

And then there's this:

The US announced Wednesday that it has reached a deal with Germany that would allow completion of the controversial Nord Stream 2 pipeline opposed by the Biden administration as a "malign influence project" that Russia could use to gain leverage over European allies.

"While we remain opposed to the pipeline, we reached the judgment that sanctions would not stop its construction and risked undermining a critical alliance with Germany, as well as with the EU and other European allies," a senior State Department official said Wednesday. 
The announcement is unlikely to end bitter divides over the pipeline, with US lawmakers condemning the agreement, Ukrainian officials immediately weighing in to say they are lodging diplomatic protests and even the US acknowledging their opposition to the project remains firm.
    "I would just say emphatically that we still oppose Nord Stream 2, we still believe it's a Russian geopolitical malign influence project, none of that has changed," the senior official said.

    These two moves send signals onto the world stage that are not at all good. In the case of the latter situation, consider that the Biden administration thinks fossil fuel pipelines within the North American continent are icky. But a Russian pipeline that is capable of enhancing Russia's ability to extort from Ukraine and any other European country it wants to is apparently just fine.  

     

     

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