Showing more proof that 81-year-old President Joe Biden has damaged U.S. foreign policy and national security, Iran announced today that it would get MI-28 attack helicopters and advanced Yak-130 fighter jets from the Russian Federation. Iran has been supplying Russia Shahed-136 attack drones, aiding Moscow’s battle with Ukraine. Iran’s Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu reported to Iran’s Tasmin semi-official news agency, that the purchase of Russian fighter jet would be the first fighter jets purchases in 35 years. Watching a new defense alliance between Tehran and Moscow is not welcomed news to the Pentagon but an unintended consequence of Biden’s reckless proxy war in Ukraine. Since Biden took office Jan. 20, 2021, the U.S. has watched a new military alliance between China, North Korea and now Iran with the Russian Federation.
Before Biden joined Ukraine’s war against the Russian Federation, prompting 71-year-old Russian President Vladimir Putin to pull out all the stops to sabotage U.S. foreign policy, the U.S. cooperated. Biden’s proxy war in Ukraine all but wrecked decades of diplomacy, détente and arms control with Russia, dating back to the end of WW II. Biden insists that if didn’t fund the Ukraine proxy war against the Kremlin, Putin would march on Eastern Europe, possibly Poland and the Baltic States of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia. Biden has no proof that Putin would actually challenge NATO, other that parroting the same rubbish as 45-year-old Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Zelensky told the U.S. Congress and European Parliament that the Ukraine War defends European democracy, something so implausible that it insults the EU and NATO.
Biden knows that Putin isn’t self-destructive enough to take on the NATO Alliance. Putin invaded Ukraine Feb. 24, 2022 after months of failed diplomacy with Biden, refusing Putin’s requests to rewrites new security arrangement with Ukraine. Biden and former President Barack Obama started arming Ukraine after Putin annexed the Crimean Peninsula March 1, 2014. Obama and Biden did nothing to help Ukraine in 2014, instead steadily armed the Kiev government. Before Putin invaded Ukraine Feb. 24, 2022, Biden was already arming Ukraine over the Kremlin’s objections. Zelensky provoked Putin asking NATO Secretary –Gen. Jens Stoltenberg for fast-track NATO membership. Zelensky argued that if Ukraine was a NATO member, Putin would not have gone to war. Zelensky changed his tune telling the Western Alliance that Ukraine defended European democracy.
Pentagon Spokesman John Kirby said Iran buying weapons from Russia was “increasing military cooperation,” stating the obvious that Iran and Russia were part of an increasingly close military alliance. Kirby said the Iran was already supplying Russia with its Shahed loitering munitions, used to terrorize Ukrainian cities. “In return for the support, Russia has been offering Tehran unprecedented defense cooperation, including on missiles, electronics and defense,” Kirby said, admitting Iran was asking for billions in Russian military hardware. Continuing his proxy war against the Kremlin, Biden has changed the U.S. strategic architecture with Russia going to other partners like Iran and China to confront U.S. military aggression. Putin went ahead with new military alliances. If Biden stopped his war with the Kremlin, normal U.S.-Russian diplomacy would be possible.
Kirby talks about all the countermeasures done by the White House to interfere with the new Russia-Iran military and strategic alliance. Kirby claims that new sanctions and working with EU partners would help counteract the new Russia-Iran military alliance. But without Biden’s proxy war against the Kremlin, Russia would not have been driven into a military and strategic alliance with Iran. Reports of Putin receiving North Korean munitions to help replenish battlefield losses have been noted in the press. Pushing Russia into close military alliances with China, Iran and North Korea has been an abysmal failure of Biden, endangering U.S. foreign policy and national security. Biden insists that the Ukraine War has helped U.S. national security, when, in fact, it has done the exact opposite. Going to war against the Kremlin has been a colossal blunder by Biden.
Pushing China, Russia and North Korea into a military and strategic alliance has been harmful to U.S. national security. Going to war against the Kremlin may help Ukraine defend its territory but at what price? Russia is no longer a cooperative partner with the United States, now a mortal enemy, no longer cooperating on global hot spots around the planet. When the Israeli-Hamas War broke out Oct. 7, the U.S. could have used Russia to help broker a return to Israeli, U.S. and foreign hostages held by Hamas. Now that Biden wrecked U.S.-Russian relations, Russia has been cooperating with Iran, a bitter enemy of Israel. Biden’s foreign policy pushed Russia, China, Iran and North Korea into a close military and strategic partnership, all opposed to U.S. foreign policy. Voters need to look carefully at Biden’s failed foreign policy that has damaged U.S. national security.
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John M. Curtis writes politically neutral commentary analyzing spin in national and global news. He’s editor of OnlineColumnist.com and author of Dodging The Bullet and Operation Charisma.
