Autopen

 

So I learned a new word this week: autopen. Thank you. 

Meanwhile, somewhere in Delaware...

 

These guys are still in charge, somehow.

Biden snaps at world leaders, forgets to introduce PM Modi 

Lawfare

 

The Trump campaign and the GOP want Biden to stay in the race, and will sue if he tries to drop out. To create chaos, obviously, since nothing stops the Electoral College from selecting another president. 

Will Ye return at the last moment, I wonder?  

Heritage Foundation vows to make replacing Biden "extraordinarily difficult"

Fake news?

 

Did Biden lie about Israel having made a peace proposal? Did the proposal actually come from Biden himself, or even from Obama?! 

Confirmed: Biden lied about peace "proposal"

Netanyahu: Hamas must be destroyed

At the precipice

 Déjà vu? 

"Things looking awfully much like 1968"

The parody president

 

This guy is really starting to grate on my nerves. The parody really does hit home here... 

Cannibal geopolitics

 

Breitbart News goes Woke? Or are they just trolling Joe Biden? LOL. 

Papua New Guinea slams Joe Biden for "cannibals" remark

Farleftmoneybags

Perennially pro-Trump Breitbart News are positively salivating over RFK Jr´s choice of running mate in the upcoming US presidential elections. The reason? She´s rich and she´s Woke, suggesting that RFK Jr will target Biden´s far left voters, making it more probable that Trump will be re-elected... 

RFK Jr´s VP pick should worry Biden

Color revolution

 

Is the Biden Administration preparing a "color revolution" in Israel? In the middle of Israel´s succesful war against the Hamas terrorists? Or is it just ridiculous rhetoric to appease "the Uncommitted" and the pro-Hamas Woke? 

So now we have the bizarre spectacle of the GOP being soft on Russia but hard on Hamas, while the Dems are soft on Hamas but hard on Russia?!   

Schumer demands ouster of Netanyahu

Coup plot: US intelligence community "expects" Netanyahu to be replaced soon

Is Biden trying to force the "collapse" of Israeli government mid-war?

Overlords of Antarctica

 

First, a somewhat curious Iranian threat against the United States:

>>>Iran’s Navy commander announced in a televised broadcast last fall that the regime owns Antarctica and will build a military operation in the South Pole. "We have property rights in the South Pole. We have plan to raise our flag there and carry out military and scientific work," Iranian Navy Commander Rear Admiral Shahram Irani said in late September, according to a translation by the Washington D.C.-based Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI).>>>

Probably just BS, but who knows? The second link goes to an even more peculiar conspiracy blog, which I link to mostly for fun. Think Nazis in Antarctica, Hollow Earth, Face on Mars, the Moon landing was a hoax, a dash of anti-Semitism ("banking practices" - yeah, he means the Jews, right?)...

Make of this material what you wish. 

Iran declares Antarctica its property in direct challenge to Biden, global treaty

Iran and Antarctica

 

No surprise

 

Russian foreign policy Owls 

That Putin prefers Biden as US president is hardly surprising. There is no deep mystery here, no 4D chess. 

First, Putin is right that Biden´s administration is more predictable than Trump´s ditto. Or Trump himself. For instance, despite his "pro-Russian" line, Trump actually strengthened US military presence in ex-Eastern Europe. He also tried to encircle and isolate Iran, a de facto Russian ally in the Middle East. *And* he did other things pointing in the opposite direction, all the while his administration was faction-ridden with new faces every six months or so. 

Above all, Putin probably sees the Biden admin as predictably weak. Which is something the liberal media doesn´t want to admit. Especially not now, when Biden´s cognitive decline has become an issue...

And why shouldn´t Putin do so? The United States withdrew from Afghanistan, can´t make India, Israel, Turkey or Hungary listen to them, and has a de facto open border to Mexico. And the US-planned and US-funded "Spring Offensive" in Ukraine last fall (?) was an abject failure. Add to that the economic crisis and crime crisis. 

So please indicate again why Russia should be afraid of the United States in its present state? If Trump becomes POTUS, however, you never know if he will push the button or invite you over for a quick snack at the local fast food establishment...and perhaps then push the button?

So Joe Biden it is.    

Unfit for office

 

It probably can´t become more official than this. A Special Counsel appointed by the Department of Justice more or less admits that Joe Biden is senile!

Special Counsel admits that Biden is senile

Peace in our time

 

So according to rumors, cited by Bloomberg, a secret Russian delegation recently visited the US with a "peace proposal" concerning Russia´s war against Ukraine. The deal would be to let Russia keep all the occupied territories. In return, the rest of Ukraine would be allowed to join NATO and (I presume) the EU. 

In other words: Western surrender. 

First, Putin has long advocated the partitioning of Ukraine, once even telling Poland that they can have the Western part. This was when Eastern Ukraine (including the ethnic Ukrainians there) still voted for pro-Russian parties. Western Ukraine, by contrast, has always been more nationalist. So Putin wouldn´t lose *that* much by effectively ceding most of Ukraine to the West.

Second, Putin has Trojan horses in NATO and the EU. Yes, in NATO, that would be Turkey and Hungary. And perhaps Slovakia. In the EU, that would be Hungary. And perhaps Slovakia. They could block Ukraine´s membership in NATO-EU even in the event of a "peace agreement".

Third, the occupied territories have the largest natural resources and access to the Black Sea. They could perhaps be integrated into the Russian economy (which is largely unhurt by the "sanctions"). The rest of Ukraine is an economic basket case and probably can´t be integrated just as easily into the EU. And while it´s possible that both parties have lost an equal number of men in the brutal war, Ukraine has a smaller population and may have lost its best fighters, while Russia has mostly lost dispensable cannon-fodder. 

Fourth, and following from the above, there won´t be any lasting "peace", just a temporary cessation of hostilities, until the Evil Empire decides it´s about time to resume the Drang nach Abendlandes...

"Peace in our time."   

Veklagan

 

Så Turkiet, som spelar under täcket med Putin och stödjer Hamas, kommer med stor sannolikhet att få F-16-plan från USA. Och Ungern, som verkar vackla mellan att vara Turkiets sista sandjak och Rysslands enda sovjetrepublik, leasar svenska JAS-plan?!

Och dessa stater har i *två års tid* blockerat Sveriges NATO-medlemskap utan att USA har velat eller kunnat göra något.

Det verkar vara en jäkligt trovärdig militärallians, det här...

Och presidentvalet i USA senare i år står mellan en senildement tomte som knappt vet var han befinner sig, och en tokstolle som ständigt appellerar till amerikansk exceptionalism och isolationism. 

Ja, vad ska man säga?  

Världspolitik

 

En av de här männen bekämpar terrorism. Den andre är med i NATO.

Gissa vilken av dem som snart kommer att få amerikanska F-16-plan?

Erdogans kommentar om Netanyahu: "Får oss att sakna Hitler"

Kan inte hålla tyst?

 

Som sagt var...

Lite märkligt ändå att Taylor Swift-memet fortfarande tas på allvar.

"Taylor Swift kan vara Joe Bidens räddning" 

End of the rope

 

A Biden spokesperson recently said that aid to Ukraine is "at the end of the rope", and that it isn´t indefinite. Just what Putin wants to hear. And just as I feared... 

Meanwhile, the United States seem willing and eager to aid Israel even though the Israelis has declared that they can defend themselves alone. And since Iran is probably behind the Hamas attacks (Hamas "helpfully" pointing in that direction themselves), chances are that we will soon see a major war between that nation and the US.

Since the US only barely "won" the Iraqi war and lost in Afghanistan, how does any of this help in the geopolitical confrontation with Russia and China?

Exactly.

And then we have all the crazy conservatives in America who evidently see this entire thing as "Biblical" somehow. Maybe somebody should tell them that "Gog and Magog" is Russia!

This could end even more badly than I expected just the other week or so. 

Without comment

 

Prophecy

Not his worst gaffe, tbh. And you don´t need to be a prophet to realize this. From December, 2021. 

Joe Biden refers to Kamala Harris as "president"

Biden is for regime change whatever

Joe Biden (I believe Styx called him the Gaffe Master) makes various senile pronunciamentos while visiting Europe in the middle of an, ahem, full scale Russian invasion of another contry, forcing his team to "correct" him all the time. 

Unless, of course, it´s all part of some well crafted plan to keep the Russians on the edge. I doubt it, however. Everyone knows Biden has cognitive issues, although his courtiers (and reporters) are still trying to hide it. 

But sure, judging by Trump´s bizarre statements during, say, the Turkish-Kurdish crisis of 2019, Biden´s gaffes might actually be "the lesser evil"... 

Biden´s blunders in Europe