On Monday, President Biden delivered a speech at the State Department where he defended his foreign policy record despite the raging proxy war in Ukraine and Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza.
“The United States is winning the worldwide competition compared to four years ago,” Biden claimed. “America is stronger. Our alliances are stronger, our adversaries and competitors are weaker.”
The president claimed the US has not “gone to war to make these things happen,” but the US under his administration has intervened directly in several countries to support Israel in the Middle East, including Yemen, Syria, and Iraq.
Biden framed all of his foreign policy moves as a success, even the bombing campaign against the Houthis, even though after a year of US strikes on Yemen, the situation in the Red Sea has only escalated.
Discussing Gaza, Biden said Israel and Hamas are on the “brink” of reaching a hostage and ceasefire deal. He acknowledged that “so many innocent people” have been killed in Gaza but didn’t take any responsibility for supporting the slaughter of Palestinians.
Biden said that he helped Ukraine defend itself from Russia, although his administration discouraged peace talks in the early days of the war and has only fueled the violence in the country. Biden is leaving Ukraine with no path to a military victory but claimed he’s “laid the foundation” for the Trump administration to “protect the bright future of the Ukrainian people.”
The president also claimed he left the country in a better place to compete with China, touting the economic sanctions he imposed on Chinese tech industries. He closed the speech by complementing his foreign policy team.
“I put together one of the most competent foreign policy teams, I would argue, in American history,” Biden said.
President Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. And this too shall pass. https://x.com/MarkSimoneNY/status/1878899631998083528
Indeed, that is a great sight. The only thing that dampens it is that Trump will be moving in.
President Biden also praised the little blue sparkle ponies from Neptune that served his lunch.
I think that gives him too much of a pass. He may be demented, but he has always been behind blood and wars, so we can’t say he would ever be against it, if fully cognitive aware.
Soon after getting into office, he changed the Leahy Law so that Israel alone investigates its heinous crimes.
Crikey!!!
A laugh and a half.
”You can’t always get what you want! You can’t always get what you want! But, if you try sometime… You get what you need! You get what you need!”
“I put together one of the most competent foreign policy teams, I would argue, in American history,” Biden said.
If that don't make you upchuck, nothing will. If there was a god, Biden would have stroked out on the spot.
Apparently, the Lord works in mysterious ways … as does karma … or so we may hope.
I'm done hoping. It went over the edge.
"I put together one of the most competent foreign policy teams"
Indeed, as we cast our collective gaze back, who among us will not utter a sigh for the probity, the gravity, and – yay, verily – the estimable 'competency' of that departed epoch.
"A Biologist Reconstructs the Grotesque Efficiency of the Nazi Killing Machine" (Scientific American, 2019)
Lightning would be even better.
There’s a poignant poem on sonar about the names of children: Dead Children — A Poem by Michael Rosen
https://sonar21.com/dead-children-a-poem-by-michael-rosen/
I warn you that there is graphic imagery in the video. If you can’t take it, listen, but don’t watch.
It is reminiscent of Pinter’s lecture, posted on consortium news (at the end), his Nobel Prize speech is there too:
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/01/10/it-is-happening-while-its-happening/
Special thanks for that second link. I have to go there as well now.
me too.
You rock, ED! Checking links now and thanks for such efforts!
“Genocide!” Good word for the day and indeed the war…
https://www.politico.eu/article/nearly-half-the-worlds-population-holds-antisemitic-beliefs/
Oh noes … why that's the absolute worst thing that could possibly be happening in today's world, amirite?
Its not
If antisemitism has increased, it is the direct result of the US/Israel’s barbaric genocide, while conflating Judaism with Zionism.
This is a deranged goal of powers. Then people will cling to the false/paranoid victimhood idea that they can never truly be safe without Israel’s murderous place on the globe.
They reap what they sow. And they deserve it , if anything even more.
wow
just wow
Israelis are demonstrating against the prisoner exchange, they are the kind of people who never had to pay the price for the brutality and the consequences of their war.
To turn Tel Aviv into another Gaza is the only way they would learn and many innocent people, including children would pay the price for them. Some people never learn, Zionists are like that.
Turning Tel Aviv into Gaza is horrible, retribution is NEVER the answer
Israel will need to answer for their horrible crimes, but the solution is not inflicting the same crimes against the Israeli populace, which would be a war crime
Turning Gaza into rubble is horrible too, how can people demonstrate for more? Is it because they don’t know? What about your double standards, how do you ever get it in your head that what the Israelis are doing is cruel retribution of the worst? Lying and denying does not make the evil, the horror go away. What is wrong with the people who approve of the slaughter? How can they learn what they are doing is criminal?
The Israelis are teaching their children to hate and feel no mercy for a starving Palestinian child, with their parents they blocked food and medical aid for the people in Gaza.
WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE? HAVE YOU NO MERCY? I AM OUTRAGED about our congress giving standing ovations to Netanyahu, the mass killer, and objecting the arrest warrant against him, and outraged about our president a mass killer like him, he should be arrested. I feel no mercy, no sympathy for the mass killers in office in DC and Tel Aviv, including Berlin , London and Paris. I despise people like that.
And kudos to all the students and all the good Israelis opposing the inhumanity, the crimes against the Palestinian people. It is heartbreaking.
No. You have many Jews who are incredibly outspoken against the genocide and Zionism in general. There are writers, Holocaust survivors, etc.
And again my reply is waiting for approval.
I mean the powerful ruling elite, who owns and controls the government and has the publicity to manipulate the public opinion.
Yes, I agree with you. I mean the ruling elite, not the people. The Jewish people I know are wonderful people the same is true of my Russian friends. Their blood is as red as my blood and they feel pain as I do.
The same is true of the American ruling elite, they are not the people.
"They reap what they sow. And…deserve it , if anything even more."
Jews don't deserve it – the behavior of Zionist Israel has long been a source of great shame to decent Jews.
But Israel deserves blame for increasing this 'anti-semitism':
Declaring itself a Jewsh state?
Declaring that its three-quarter century oppression of Palestinians is in the name of Jews?
And wrapping itself in the flag of Judaism and the Holocaust – even as it carries out a bestial genocide?
Given Israel's conflation of its US-enabled, Zionist crimes against humanity with Jewry…
…and, at the same time, its denunciation of any criticism of Israel as 'anti-Jewish'…
…it should be no surprise that many people take Israel at its word, and MISUNDERSTAND Israel's crimes against humanity not simply as Israeli, but as Jewsh crimes.
From the ADF? It's a propaganda outlet for Zionism. Any protest against the Gaza genocide is called "anti-Semitism." Any suggestion that Zionism is anything but a settler-colonialist ideology is called "anti-semitism." The so-called "pogrom" they mention began with members of Israeli intelligence posing as members of a football team and rioting.
I would take anything the ADF says with a grain of salt.
Clearly you didn’t read the article
They don’t mention Gaza for most of it, instead focussing on common anti-semitic tropes
LOL, the lying liars at the ADL?
They manufactured a fake anti-semitism crisis by classifying all pro-Palestine protests as anti-Semitic events.
Getting a little desperate, Zionist?
1/ That's it in a nutshell – 'Anything anti-Israel or pro-Gaza is anti-semitic.'
2/ This is not only a propaganda point that – even when it is not declared, creates an 'attitude of suspicion' around anti-Zionist or pro-Gaza statements;
3/ it is also the basis for suppressing and punishing political speech – administrative and government acts shutting up resistance to US-government enabled war crimes.
I totally agree with you.
With "they" I MEAN THE RULING ZIONIST ELITE, not the people. I am aware that the elite uses every tool in the box to manipulate public opinion. It is stunning that Israelis don't like BIBI but support his policies, and Israelis are well educated people. I am old enough to remember that all Germans were NAZIS never mind that German socialists, communists, union members and others ended up in concentration camps too. Judaism is being politicized and misused like Christianity and Islam. To claim that any critic of the ruling political elite is anti-Semitism is the other side of the coin.
Your post gave me the opportunity to explain my position, thank you.
BTW, I follow Jeffrey Sachs, Mearsheimer, Blumenthal, Mate (both), and many more.
I could not post to your previous post because it was deactivated, so I was informed. Strange things can happen.
'deactivated,' that what they called it? 'removed' I got in red caps.
actually don't know why they PULLED DOWN , aka DELETED, a post of 3 factual news citations, wash post on Wikipedia calling adf unreliable (which existential managed to respond to) a second piece on adf staffers quitting when CEO greenblatt explicitly declared 'antizism is antisemism,' an intercept piece saying adf was linked to 'anti terrorist' lobbying and legislation that targeted Palestinians…bc I named the CEO, ie author of the deceptive antisemitism editorial?
“actually don’t know why”
You tried to get around moderation by purposely misspelling words you knew would cause the post to require a human look.
Otherwise I wouldn’t have deleted the post. Trying to get around our guidelines is a violation of our guidelines, and it will get you banned if you don’t knock it off.
Just don't look at it. You would be forgiven.
The electronic media is getting more chaotic by the day, add the chaos of official lies and propaganda it is difficult to know how the algorithm is programmed what words are permitted or kicked out.
It is not meant to be user friendly, that is for sure. I know one thing, criticism of Israeli politics is just that, no anti-Semitism involved just using the word J** is enough to call it anti-so- and-so.
it was called deactivated and then removed after I clicked to post it, nothing in red on my side.
i am not referring to those… incidents…. i am referring to the current article
The article you cited was written by the lying head of the ADF, Jonathan Greenblatt.
It's Zionist propaganda aimed at silencing Israel's critics.
Delusion is a powerful drug
Incompetent, corrupt, and demented, his legacy are the most brutal mass killings of unarmed civilians, including children. Death and destruction, scorched earth, is the legacy of old, demented genocide Joe Biden. He signed and funded the killings and does not show a shred of remorse. There should be an arrest warrant out for him, the mass-killer.
Hes immune
Biden is delusional numero dos…!
President BYDONE!!!
Even his dementia is not an excuse, he knew what he was doing, that is why he picked trash like Nuland and the others to advise him.
He certainly doesn't deserve a Presidential Library naming after him…!
What this SOB deserves is a lightning strike to that pointed, empty head of his. Come on God do us all a solid! How about some justice just this once.
Deeply satisfying
Protester to Blinken: "Your policy for the Middle East – kill, kill, kill, and kill, just like the Israelis say!"
"Secretary Blinken, your legacy will be genocide! You will be forever known as Bloody Blinken!"
https://x.com/MaxBlumenthal/status/1879201174953554338
https://x.com/MaxBlumenthal/status/1879201746234564873
This is the same "dark evil" as Netanyahu, to use the words of Sachs, as re-tweeted by even Trump.
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