The Biden Administration is dangerously reluctant to protect American national security. It ignores the reality of Chinese, Russian, North Korean, Iranian and criminal cartel adversaries who so clearly seek to harm the U.S.A.
The President has utterly refused to address the open southern border. Indeed, it appears to favor allowing vast and unprecedented numbers of people to enter the country illegally, despite the plague of fentanyl deaths, human trafficking, and cartel violence that results.
It has submitted budgets that force the U.S. Navy to shrink at a time when it should be growing, particularly now that China has the world’s largest navy and the Russians are sending out dangerous new submarines to directly threaten American shores.
The balloon incident opened many eyes. It appears that no action would have been taken against the intrusive Chinese aircraft, until a local media outlet raised an alarm by publishing pictures of it.
Even some of the non-Progressive members of the President’s own party recognize Biden’s bizarre pacifist philosophy. In July, the then-Democrat dominated House of Representatives felt forced to add $37 billion to the White House’s proposed defense budget. Mike Rogers, then the ranking Republican of the House Armed Services Committee, warned that Biden’s 2023 budget would accelerate the retirement of 24 ships, shrinking the U.S. Navy to 291 ships. He noted that “The Biden administration’s 30-year ship-building plan also reduces the Navy’s ability to protect its aircraft-carrier strike groups and eliminate enemy minefields, reduces the Marine Corps’ ability to conduct forcible-entry missions, and reduces by almost 10 percent our Navy’s capacity to launch missiles. Public estimates indicate that China will eventually develop a global force of submarines capable of launching ballistic missiles, posing an obvious risk to the U.S. And China’s surface-combatant forces already greatly exceed ours. It is unsettling, to say the least, that the Biden administration is shrinking our naval force under these circumstances.”
Russia, thanks to an Obama-era deal, now fields the world’s largest nuclear arsenal. China now has more ICBMs than the U.S. and has doubled its arsenal of atomic warheads in just the last two years. Despite that, the Biden White House reversed the 2018 decision to develop a submarine-launched nuclear cruise missile and seeks to retire the B83, a thermonuclear gravity bomb.
Biden’s irresponsibility became evident early in his Administration in the botched withdrawal from Afghanistan. While there was general agreement that most American forces would be withdrawn, it was considered that the powerful and nearly impregnable U.S. Air Force Base in Bagram would be maintained. This would provide the backbone for the Afghanistan civilian government to survive and keep the Taliban from gaining power. The President chose, however, to close it down, and with very little warning to our international allies fighting alongside us or Afghanistan citizens aiding us, completely, recklessly, and rapidly withdrew American forces.
Biden’s incompetence was also observed in his bizarre statement before the Russian invasion of Ukraine. He predicted that Moscow would invade, but stated that he wouldn’t respond to a “minor incursion.” Rather than clearly stating that the U.S. would provide the weaponry Kyiv needed to survive, the White House slow-walked assistance. In December of 2021, Congress reported frustration at the Administration’s sluggish pace.
As the potential of military threats across the globe has exponentially increased, Biden’s Department of Defense concentrates not on developing a ready deterrent, but on instituting woke policies that have demoralized America’s fighting forces and impaired recruitment. The U.S. Army will miss its recruitment goals.
The United States has never faced a threat on the current scale, with opponents possessing larger geography, population, and industrial capabilities. Nor did those adversaries possess weapons capable of devastating the American homeland.
The President needs to reverse course immediately.
Photo: Naval ships assigned to flotillas with the navy under the PLA Eastern Theater Command steam in formation to conduct alongside and astern replenishment-at-sea during a comprehensive replenishment training exercise on February 10, 2023. (eng.chinamil.com.cn/Photo by Zhang Weile)