UPDATED: China To Taiwan: America Will Abandon You…

 

Op-Ed: Our withdrawal from Afghanistan signals to the world that the U.S. can't be relied upon

Opinion | Biden’s Taiwan Policy Is Truly, Deeply Reckless  . . . "Media coverage of President Biden’s foreign policy tends to focus on his efforts to withdraw from Afghanistan, get tough on Russia and negotiate with Iran. But none of those may prove as consequential as Mr. Biden’s quiet, incremental moves to establish official relations with Taiwan. Because only his policy toward Taiwan is meaningfully increasing the risk of world war.

"He’s doing so by undoing a diplomatic fiction that for more than 40 years has served the United States, Taiwan and the world exceptionally well. In 1978, when the United States established diplomatic relations with Beijing, it agreed to pretend that there was only “one China.” The arrangement was absurd: Taiwan was, and is, effectively an independent country. But to Beijing, its de facto independence is the bitter fruit of imperialism — Japan stole away the island in 1895; America’s Seventh Fleet prevented the mainland from taking it back in 1950. By keeping U.S. relations with Taiwan unofficial, the “one China” fiction helped Beijing imagine that peaceful reunification remained possible. Which gave it an excuse not to invade." . . .

'No Chance' U.S. Can Stop Chinese Invasion of Taiwan, Military Expert Says

Here’s What Could Happen If China Invaded Taiwan - Bloomberg

“I am increasingly concerned that a major crisis is coming,” said Ian Easton, senior director at the Project 2049 Institute who wrote “The Chinese Invasion Threat: Taiwan’s Defense and American Strategy in Asia.” “It is possible to envision this ending in an all-out invasion attempt and superpower war. The next five to 10 years are going to be dangerous ones. This flash point is fundamentally unstable.”

 Chinese state media sends 'ominous' warning to Taiwan after U.S.'s Afghanistan exit (yahoo.com)  

Tim O'Donnell, Contributing Writer

In an editorial from The Global Times, the Chinese state media outlet sent what appears to be an 'ominous' message to Taiwan, which China claims as its territory, amid concerns that Beijing may one day launch an invasion of the island. The gist of the message? That the outcome in Afghanistan shows that the U.S., Taiwan's closest and most powerful ally, won't be around to help when the island needs it most.

Taiwan's political leaders "need to a keep a sober head, and the secessionist forces should reserve the ability to wake up from their dreams," the editorial reads. "From what happened in Afghanistan, they should perceive that once a war breaks out in the [Taiwan] Straits, the island's defense will collapse [within] hours and the U.S. military won't come to help. As a result [Taiwan's Democratic Progressive Party] will quickly surrender, while some high-level officials may flee by plane."

"In the lead up to the U.S. exit from Afghanistan, several foreign policy analysts predicted that Washington's adverseries, including Beijing and the Kremlin, would push such a narrative as a way to undermine the United States' role on the world stage. It appears the ball is already rolling.

"Afghanistan today, Taiwan tomorrow? US treachery scares DPP" - Chinese Communist Party Global Times    . . . "Yesterday's Saigon, today's Afghanistan, and tomorrow's Taiwan?" read some online posts by internet users in the island of Taiwan, implying that the so-called alliance that Taiwan has forged with the US is nothing but an empty promise that will eventually "leave the Taiwan people hurting alone."

"An Op-Ed in local Taiwan news site udn.com said that the unexpected end in Afghanistan has "shocked" US allies and partners, who have become wary of putting the safety of Taiwan in the hands of the US, as the latter may pull the same tricks played in Kabul." . . .

Big Media belatedly catching on to Obama's phoniness

We already knew Obama gravitated to stars but it was disillusioning to see it on such a grand scale last weekend.

 American Thinker  "New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd stirred up something of a tweet storm in leftist quarters last weekend with a hit piece on Barack Obama's super-spreader birthday bash, titled, without subtlety, "Behold Barack Antoinette."

"The reference is to Marie Antionette, the soon-to-be-beheaded French queen who reportedly dissed the revolutionary masses with her classic brush-off, "Let them eat cake."

"In reading the column, I found myself amused at Dowd's discovery that Obama is "a diffident debutante with a distaste for politics."  Given the access to power provided by her lofty perch at the Times, I had to ask myself, "How had it taken her so long to grasp the obvious?"

"In comparing Obama to F. Scott Fitzgerald's party-giving Jay Gatsby, Dowd writes, "Barack Obama gave a big, lavish, new-money party at his sprawling mansion on the water because he wanted to seem cool.  Being cool is important to him.  One difference is that Gatsby opened his house to the uninvited."

"Had Ms. Dowd simply looked at the cover of my new book, Barack Obama's Promised Land: Deplorables Need Not Apply, she would have known that her thesis is not original.  Barack Obama's "promised land" had no room for the uninvited or the "disinvitado," let alone the deplorables.

"Some background.  In Obama's 2020 memoir A Promised Land, he expressed his fears of climate change at great length.  "I pictured caravans of lost souls wandering a cracked earth in search of arable land," he wrote, "regular Katrina-sized catastrophes across every continent, island nations swallowed up by the sea."

"Wrote I in response, "Yet despite these fears, Obama somehow found the courage to buy a seaside estate that gobbled at least three times the energy of the average American home.  The purchase calls to mind another memorable quote from a doomed French royal, 'Qu'ils mangent de la brioche.'  Let them eat cake.' " . . .

America's demise as a world leader and protector

 

AfterMath - Home (terrellaftermath.com)

Pompeo Calls Out Biden For Blaming Trump For Afghanistan, ‘Pathetic Blame Shifting’

Joe Biden's Afghan fiasco   "Secretary of state Antony Blinken has insisted that the Afghan situation is "manifestly not Saigon."  This has been suggested because helicopters are being used to evacuate embassy personnel.  Perhaps it is more like Benghazi.  In both cases, the commander-in-chief left the scene: Obama to bed and Biden to Camp David." . . .

Joe Biden Retreats Back To Camp David After Scolding Ungrateful Nation That Doesn’t Understand Why He’s Smarter Than Us…

Pelosi Praises Biden’s Handling of Afghanistan Debacle, ‘The Wisdom of His Actions’

. . . Pelosi’s statement comes as the Taliban has rapidly seized control of Afghanistan following a disastrous pullout by the Biden administration. The Taliban now controls the majority of the country, has seized a significant amount of U.S. military hardware and weapons, and is reportedly carrying out atrocities and human rights abuses. […]

Hope Solo Says Megan Rapinoe Would ‘Almost Bully’ Teammates Into Kneeling During The National Anthem

  The Daily Caller  "Hope Solo recently had some harsh words for her former teammate Megan Rapinoe.

"Solo and Rapinoe spent several years together on the USWNT, and the former goalie isn’t overly impressed with the national anthem protests that have swept through the team. In fact, she thinks Rapinoe pushed players to do it.

“I think the kneeling thing can be very divisive. I’ve seen Megan Rapinoe almost bully players into kneeling because she really wants to stand up for something in her particular way,” Solo said on Goal’s “All of Us: The U.S. Women’s Soccer Show” when discussing Rapinoe and the national anthem protest.

"She also added, “I think the rhetoric surrounding this team has been both divisive and inclusive. I guess it’s kind of where we are in politics in this day and age.”. . . 

US Soccer's Megan Rapinoe at the White House:

"I've been disrespected and dismissed because I am a woman. I've been told that I don't deserve any more than less because I am a woman. Despite all the wins, I'm still paid less than men who do the same job that I do." pic.twitter.com/QC7N2g4OJp

— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) March 24, 2021

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Our Military Is A Woke Joke

 

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Our Military Is A Woke Joke by Kurt Schlichter (townhall.com)   

"Ignore those pictures of the Afghan army that our military senior leader geniuses spent 20 years and zillions of dollars on disintegrating in the face of a pack of glorified mountain banditos from the Seventh Century – the real story is that, finally, America’s fighting men and women are fully aware of the urgency of accepting and validating the trans experience. And it's even better if said trans people are BIPOC. Plus differently abled. 

"Our broke, woke armed forces would be a hysterically funny punchline if the joke wasn’t, “The greatest military in human history walks into a bar, puts down trillions of dollars and buckets of American blood, and asks the bartender, ‘So, what would it look like if all the generals and admirals sucked-up to the garbage establishment that has totally failed the people of the USA?’”. . . 

. . . "Look at us now. Look at the generals, in their stupid throwback uniforms from the Forties that are supposed to make the gender studies seminar we call the US Army think it’s the same force that broke Hitler. It’s not. A serious organization does not alternate its designation of America’s most serious threat between the weather, “racism,” and other Americans who dissent from the generals’ bosses’ political priorities.

Afghanistan: Images that will dominate our memories for generations

The moment when several people in Afghanistan fell from the plane because the[y] were stuck to the tire of the plane. We did not deserve this misfortune. O Allah have mercy on us poor people.#Afghanistan #Afganistan #AfghanWomen #USA #america #Kabul #kabulairport #taliban pic.twitter.com/fs3n32M2a5

— Musawer khalil andarabi (@MusawerAndarabi) August 16, 2021

Cartoons - American Thinker

"Can’t believe my eyes. Men holding lower part of the US aircraft moments before it took off from #Kabul airport. pic.twitter.com/bT97WrNa12

— Sudhir Chaudhary (@sudhirchaudhary) August 16, 2021

 Afghanistan Fall: Joe Biden’s Foreign-Policy Disaster | National Review  "In yielding Afghanistan to the Taliban, Joe Biden has engineered the worst foreign-policy disaster in a generation". . . 

Taliban Terrorist Leader Zabihullah Majahid Is on Twitter – President Trump Is Banned

 ENEMIES OF THE PEOPLE: Taliban Terrorist Leader Zabihullah Majahid Is on Twitter - President Trump Is Banned (thegatewaypundit.com)

. . . "Afghanistan’s new de facto leader Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar has issued a congratulatory message to his fellow Taliban on the declaration of the “Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan.”

"Mullah Baradar’s statement was given from the presidential palace in Kabul on Sunday.

“ 'We have achieved an unexpected victory,” he said. “Now is the time to test, to show how we serve our people and ensure their future in the best possible way.' ”. . . 

'Whatever Happened to "America Is Back"?': Allies Fume at Biden Failure in Afghanistan

In Britain, the Daily Mail blared the front-page headline alongside a military coffin: “What the hell did they all die for?”

  Breitbart  

. . . “ 'Whatever happened to ‘America is back’?” said Tobias Ellwood, who chairs the Defense Committee in the British Parliament, citing Biden’s foreign policy promise to rebuild alliances and restore U.S. prestige damaged during the Trump administration.". . . 

. . . " 'What’s happening in Afghanistan is raising alarm bells everywhere,” said Riad Kahwaji, who heads the Inegma security consultancy in the United Arab Emirates, which hosts one of the biggest American military contingents in the Middle East.

“The U.S.’s credibility as an ally has been in question for a while,” he said. “We see Russia fighting all the way to protect the Assad regime [in Syria], and now the Americans are pulling out and leaving a big chaos in Afghanistan.”

Dear Media: You got what you wanted and what you worked for. Happy now?

  

Biden is purposefully altering the demographics of the U.S. with the single-minded goal of making the Democrat party the ruling party in perpetuity.  He and his partners in crime care not a bit about the American people.  They care only about cementing their control over the 330 million citizens who call his nation our home. 

AfterMath - Home (terrellaftermath.com)

Dear Media: You got what you wanted and what you worked for. Happy now?

"Our despicable mainstream media did everything in their vast and coercive power to see Joe Biden elected president.

"President Trump was a madman, they said, a Hitler, and a host of other ridiculous charges that were patently untrue.  He was, and history will show, that he was the best president since Ronald Reagan.

"But the media hated him because he wasn't one of their imagined exalted elite.  So they lied, cheated, and stole an election in order to put the dementia-ridden Biden in the Oval Office. " . . .

Former Ambassador to Afghanistan Questions Biden's Ability to LeadOur Nation’  . . .

"Overall, Crocker had serious doubts about President Biden’s ability to lead.

“I’m left with some grave questions in my mind about his ability to lead our nation as commander-in-chief,” Crocker said. “To have read this so wrong – or, even worse, to have understood what was likely to happen and not care.' ” . . .

 Nolte: Biden's Presidency Collapsed with Afghanistan  

1. Joe Biden Lost Entire Country in a Single Day

After 20 years, thousands of American lives, and trillions of dollars, Afghanistan collapsed in a single day. Think about the extent of that failure. All those years, all that treasure, all those precious lives, and in one day, it’s all over.   . . .

CNN Reporter in Kabul: "They’re Just Chanting ‘Death to America’ But They Seem Friendly at the Same Time" (thegatewaypundit.com)   "A CNN reporter in Kabul asserted during a live shot that “they’re just chanting ‘death to America,’ but they seem friendly.”

"The ridiculous segment reminded many of when a CNN anchor reported that the riots in Minneapolis were “fiery, but mostly peaceful” as the city burned around him." . . .

BOMBSHELL REPORT: Biden Refused to Listen to Top Generals' Warnings, Pulled Out of Afghanistan Anyways(sp) (trendingpolitics.com)

BREAKING: Jen Psaki TAKING NEXT WEEK OFF Amid Afghanistan Fiasco (thegatewaypundit.com)

9/11 museum scrapping 20th anniversary memorial is a disgrace

 9/11 museum scrapping 20th anniversary memorial is a disgrace

"Remember all the talk that if we didn’t rebuild after 9/11, the “terrorists would have won?” The museum has raised the white flag to the virus and there’s no turning back"

"As the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attack looms, the National September 11 Memorial & Museum is crying poverty for the second year in a row. This time, it says it can’t afford to mount special exhibitions planned to mark the two-decade milestone. 

"In 2020, the twin-beam “Tribute in Light” was canceled only to win a last-minute reprieve after soon-to-be-ex Gov. Cuomo pitched in state resources. But no such bailout appears in the offing this time. 

"In fact, this year, the museum is shamefully restricting the reading-of-the-names ceremony exclusively to the families of 9/11 victims. No hero firefighters, cops, first responders or emergency workers, who were normally welcome until the pandemic eliminated last year’s event, are invited. 

"It’s simply outrageous that the great museum — a “humanely crafted engine of catharsis,” as I wrote at its 2014 opening — plans to sit out the 20th anniversary with a diminished acknowledgement of America’s worst terrorist attack and more pleas to pay a visit with tickets starting at $28 each." . . .

Schools and leftists

 

Image by Max Benjamin.

Campus Reform | WATCH: Sen. Cruz explains Marxist origins of CRT in new LI training "Senator Ted Cruz's speech is part of a new Leadership Institute training that coaches people on how to run for school boards.

"During his speech, Cruz analyzed the Marxist origins of CRT and the past statements of its proponents, including Ibram X. Kendi." . . .  Watch the video here.

"There is no question that all students need to learn about the evil of slavery, about JC about the horrible racial discrimination we've had in our country. But to reinvent the story of the American founding...and to characterize slavery as the beginning of and the heart of America, is to distort what America is all about."

. . .  "Cruz also addresses how to identify Critical Race Theory, the ways in which it discriminates, and the harm that is done to children by teachers unions that insist on keeping Critical Race Theory in the classroom. 

CNN Demands School Kids Wear N95 Masks in School – Watts Up With That?

CNN Medical Analyst Wen: Kids Need Weekly Testing, N95 Masks ‘Cloth Masks Are Not Enough’

"CNN medical contributor Dr. Leana Wen said Tuesday on “The Situation Room” that when children return to school, they should wear N95 or at least a three-ply surgical masks and be tested weekly for coronavirus.

"Anchor Wolf Blitzer said, “Dr. Wen nearly 94,000 cases of coronavirus in children were reported in the past week alone here in the United States. What is it going to take to get kids back to school safely?' ” . . .

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An American apocalypse – why people of all classes, races are filled with fear

What started out as elite woke nonsense now warps everyone’s daily life

                                                                Earl of Taint

Scientists Rename Climate Change 'COVID' So Americans Will Immediately Give Up All Their Rights To Fight It  "COVID is going to destroy us in less than 12 years," said Al Gore to a packed house. "We must stop this by purchasing as many of my books as possible, so I can fly to more places to spread the word about COVID."

 Victor Davis Hanson   "Americans are growing angrier by the day in a way different from prior sagebrush revolts such as the 1960s Silent Majority or Tea Party furor of over a decade ago. 

"The rage at the current status quo this time is not just fueled by conservatives. For the first time in their lives, all Americans of all classes and races are starting to fear a self-created apocalypse that threatens their families’ safety and the American way of life. 

"The border is not just porous as in the pre-Trump past. It is nonexistent. Some 2 million people may cross illegally in the current fiscal year—with complete impunity. 

"There is zero effort to stop them. Officials daily hector Americans to get vaccinated and tested for COVID. But they are mute about illegal entrants, some of them infected with the virus.

"Have we ever had a president who made no pretense about destroying federal immigration law and asking of Americans what he does not of illegal aliens?

"Joe Biden has also conceded that his hold on housing evictions deliberately defied a Supreme Court ruling. He added that he probably did not have the legal authority to ignore the court, but did not really care. 

"As in the case of demolishing immigration law, the president seems either unaware or proud that he is insidiously dismantling the Constitution.

"America has also never quite seen such overt and multifaceted efforts to undermine the foundations of free-market capitalism." . . .