Never before in American history has a President so thoroughly ignored national security.
From border controls and defense budgets to anti-espionage efforts and preventing threats from a foreign power to originate on U.S. soil, the Biden Administration has disregarded key measures necessary to keep the nation secure.
The White House has eliminated safeguards on the southern border. It has repealed existing programs to stop enemy spying. It proposed inadequate defense budgets. It has opened the door to China’s purchase of land near vital military installations.
Singularly, any one of these actions would be dangerous and short-sighted. Combined, they constitute a stunning abrogation of duty to protect America from very real, very significant, and rapidly growing threats.
The White House’s actions have been breathtakingly absurd. One example: Gordon Chang, writing for Gatestone, reports that “The Biden administration just cleared a Chinese company to own 370 acres of land within 12 miles of Grand Forks Air Force Base in Grand Forks, North Dakota. As a result, China will be able to use a proposed $700 million corn milling plant on the site to spy on military communications and even disrupt them.
That inexplicable decision comes on the heels of other bizarre actions. The Biden Justice Department has scrapped the urgently needed “China Initiative,” a measure designed to respond to the massive spying performed by Beijing on American soil. It was established to stop the theft of military secrets, as well as roadblock the billions of dollars lost by U.S. companies in intellectual property theft. Desperate for an excuse for this strange decision, it was announced that targeting Chinese spies was, somehow, a civil rights violation of Chinese-Americans, a decision that itself casts aspersions on loyal Chinese-Americans.
Clear and immediate danger has resulted from the decision to ignore the massive illegal immigration across the southern border. In 2021, 71,000 deaths resulted from fentanyl, much of which came up through the unprotected border. 15,000 to 50,000 women and children are forced into sexual slavery in the United States every year, mostly placed into such condition by Mexican cartels up from the southern border. According to a Newsweek study, “Final fiscal year 2022 numbers show Border Patrol apprehended a whopping 98 watch-listed terrorists at the southern border, six times the record 15 caught there in 2021 (three were caught in 2020 and none in 2019). That’s also five times the number it took to carry out the 9/11 attacks that took America to war in overseas theaters for 20 years.” Not only has the Biden White House failed in its border duties, it has aggressively lied about its actions and unfairly punished border patrol agents for merely doing their duty.
It has moved against the state governments most directly affected, when they sought to address the hazard. American Military News notes that these anti-state government actions come as more than “500,00 illegal immigrantw crossed the US-Mexico border in just the first 74 days of the 2023 fiscal year.”
The neglect of danger extends to cyberspace, as well. As overwhelming evidence mounts that TikToc is being used by Beijing to gather data on Americans for nefarious purposes, According to some members of the House Committee on Armed Services, there is a possibility that Washington may approve an agreement that would allow China to retain significant influence over TikTok and control of its core technology, most importantly its algorithm despite significant objections from national security agencies.
Looming over all of these issues is the growing danger from Russia and China, and the Biden Administration’s inadequate proposed defense budgets. The Atlantic notes that “Russia has invaded a country on NATO’s borders, its leader has repeatedly invoked the specter of nuclear war, and its military is mercilessly bombing civilian targets. China, meanwhile, is ramping up its defense spending, has overtaken the United States in some important areas of defense technology, and just signed a treaty of ‘friendship’ with Russia. Elsewhere, North Korea is testing missiles that can reach the U.S., Iran continues to be a malign actor in the Middle East, and terrorist groups have not gone away. Yet in its latest budget request for defense, the Biden administration has sought to downplay the U.S. military’s role in national security, and the resources it has asked for are insufficient for even that reduced role.”
Photo: Warships from Chinese and Russian navies are pictured after a joint naval exercise, Joint Sea 2022, in the East China Sea on Dec. 27, 2022. Chinese and Russian navies concluded the seven-day joint naval exercise Tuesday in the East China Sea. (Photo by Sun Fei/Xinhua)