No Janet, We Can't "Absolutely" Afford to Fund Two Wars
Are we prepared to take on the entire Arab world, which includes Iran, Syria, Lebanon, and Jordan.
Janet Yellen, the dangerous fraud currently serving as the U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, recently insisted that the U.S. can “absolutely” afford to fund two wars — one in Ukraine and now another potentially in the Middle East. She’s a liar.
The United States is dead broke. We don’t have any money. We are $33 trillion dollars in the red. In the hole. The interest payments alone on that debt are set to total 10.6 trillion over the next decade.
Nor do the American people have any money, which of course is where the U.S. government gets its money. We are their piggy bank. But we’re as empty as the strategic petroleum oil reserves that the same Government and administration already pilfered. Our Government stole $3.97 trillion from the taxpayer in FY 2023. They rob us so they can give it to someone else — like the “Palestinians.”
As a matter of fact $75 million of our tax dollars were just sent to provide food to Jew and America-hating “Palestinians.” That’s right. Secretary of State Blinken signed off on this payment on October 3rd, despite knowledge at the time that Hamas was preparing to ramp up missile attacks targeting Israel. The U.S. takes care of its enemies, just not its own citizens.
Of course, $75 million is nothing compared to the $6 billion — exactly 80 times $75 million — that Biden paid to the Iranians not long ago to free 5 American prisoners. The Biden administration is now claiming that the U.S. and Qatar have agreed to block Iran from accessing the money, although details of how they intend to do that have not been provided. The $6 billion is sitting in a bank account in Qatar.
Make no mistake, Iran will end up with the $6 billion. Qatar has no problem with either Iran or Hamas. It harbors terrorists. As a matter of fact, it’s harboring one right now. Ismail Haniyeh, the leader of Hamas, lives in Qatar. He celebrated the recent Hamas terrorist attack in Israel from his office in Qatar.
And of course $6 billion is nothing compared to the $113 billion — nearly 19 times $6 billion — which has been approved for Ukraine. But the Ukrainian billions are nothing compared to the $1.4 trillion in social security benefits paid in FY 2023.
Only an idiot would pretend that the United States is flush with money and can absolutely afford to fund two wars; which, of course, Janet Yellen is — an idiot.
It wasn’t too long ago that Yellen was telling us inflation was transitory. That was in 2021. Then a year later she admitted she’d been wrong. (Lied is a more accurate explanation). According to Yellen the U.S. economy is doing just great — another lie. Yellen, of course, has never been right about anything.
Perhaps Yellen was celebrating the same graph as the Nobel Prize winning “economist” Paul Krugman — who tweeted the below — as “evidence.”
Notice anything? The graph excludes the very necessities that eat up our budgets. In other words, inflation is over if you exclude food, energy, and automobiles. Sure, if you just pretend food, energy, and transportation costs haven’t skyrocketed, nothing has changed! These people are idiots. And idiots are running and ruining both our economy and country.
Hamas’ unprecedented attack on Israel on October 7th was absolutely an act of war. Hamas is the de-facto “Palestinian” government operating in Gaza. Their slaughter of more than a thousand people and seizure of innocent hostages must be punished.
However….
While I unequivocally support Israel, it’s important that we also ground our feelings in reality. To be clear, I won’t shed a tear for the death of any medieval cockroach and Islamo-nazi, who would gleefully behead any child, or rape and murder any other innocent.
But many, who share this attitude and sense of justice, are already prematurely and foolishly playing out some World War 3 scenario (fantasy even for some) and broader conflict in the Middle East with the jubilance of a gamer — who kills Nazis in a video game without any thought of the real world costs; both in blood and treasure.
The two decade war on terror that followed the September 11th attacks in the U.S. cost us $8 trillion dollars — not to mention the estimated 900,000 or so dead. Let’s say war does break out in the Middle East — between the islamo-Nazis and the United States and Israel. The U.S. debt in 2001 was just over $3 trillion. Even then, we balked at the figure.
Today, of course, our debt is ten times that number. But Yellen and other economic terrorists, intent upon blowing up the entire U.S. economy via insurmountable debt, insist that we have plenty of money, even while the tax payer begs for relief from inflation and taxation—government induced torture.
Are we prepared to take on the entire Arab world, which includes Iran, Syria, Lebanon, and Jordan? (Look at a map if you must, the Arab world is massive). Russia, China, and Iran have already developed an alliance. Is there any doubt the Russians and Chinese would back the Islamo-Nazis over the United States?
Can the EU afford to enter such a conflict? More importantly, would they? It’s questionable. The French have already embraced China and committed to distancing themselves from the United States.
Is the new and woke U.S. military prepared for such a conflict? Will our Marines, who are now told not to use “sir” or “ma’m” to de-emphasize gender and create a more inclusive environment pick up their weapons and attack the enemy, which BLM supports? How many of these recruits supported BLM during the summer of love?
How many in our military are ideologically aligned with those we are today witnessing on college campuses praising Hamas and calling for the extermination of Jews? Even if it’s lost on these indoctrinated persons that Hamas and “Palestinians” stand against gay rights, women’s rights, and virtually every other so-called “progressive” belief these social justice warriors claim to champion.
What happens when we have to choose between sending ammo to the frontlines of the Middle East or to the frontlines of Ukraine? Already, the U.S. has reported shortages of varying ammunitions because all supplies have been depleted — sent to Ukraine.
Where will we find the bodies to fight this war? Every branch of the armed services is expected to report or has already reported recruitment shortfalls. Will there be a draft? Do you want your son or daughter to die in the desert?
How much will such a conflict cost? Certainly trillions. Where will this money come from? Are the ten million imported illegals going to fund this war? Will they fight in it? Of course not. On the contrary, these criminals that invaded our country at the Biden administration’s invitation have already and will continue to exponentially add to our debt.
Or how about the million Palestinians many on the left insist we now absorb into the U.S. Who might these “refugees” side with should the U.S. go to war with Iran, Hamas, and the rest of the Arab world?
How long would such a war last and what is the objective? The erasure of radical Islam from the Middle East?
And should such a war begin in earnest under the current “leadership,” what realistic chance of victory do we have given our own military’s focus on defeating “climate change.” Already many on the left and throughout the world — who hate America more than any other foe — condemn Israeli retaliation, downplay or ignore the barbaric and evil attack from Hamas that precipitated it, and use terrorist propaganda and the “Proportional response” talking point to demand Israel stand down.
Can we win a war against such barbarians, who use their own women and children as human shields? Who use western and even Christian concepts of fairness and morality in war against their moral foes to defeat them?
After twenty years in Afghanistan, the Biden Administration handed it back over to the Taliban. Is the Middle East a safer place today than it was in 2001? It was under the Trump administration, when Trump negotiated an historic peace deal known as the Abraham Accords.
But all that real progress was short-lived and has been effectively erased under the Biden Administration, which seems to create instability and then exploit such crises to impoverish the United States of America and send our tax dollars elsewhere.
Israel not only has the right to exist but also to defend itself. It has every right to raze Gaza to the ground, if it should desire. My objections aren’t to any actions thus far taken by Israel but to those future actions which people like Janet Yellen seem to be determined to take, or even orchestrate.
Why are Yellen and others already eager to pledge unlimited support for yet another war? As if they hope to manifest such a terrible reality? Already JINO’s (Jews in name only) like Senator Chuck Schumer are demanding the immediate passage of “an emergency supplemental to give Israel tools they need.”
But what tools does Israel currently lack and which will we provide? The specifics appear not to matter. Israel is in a conflict and we must send them the “tools” they need immediately, without thought and without even an account of whether or not they need it — or we even have it in inventory. Nor do the American people need to understand. No details will be provided.
The Biden Administration has a history of transparency and trustworthiness — that’s sarcasm. We recently learned, for example that $33.7 million from the American Rescue Plan mysteriously went to a Palestinian relief organization widely known as a branch of Hamas.
The United States has both a moral and strategic imperative to defend Israel. As a great but waning world power, the U.S. also has a unique responsibility to exercise what remains of its strength and influence to negotiate and orchestrate those outcomes, which result in peace, stability, and are yet still in the best interest of America. The well being and ambitions of any foreign nation, no matter our deepest attachment and sympathies, can never supersede that of our own.
We can defend and support Israel without leading them to war with all of the Arab world or otherwise being led by Israel into a broader conflict.
My concern isn’t moral but practical. I’d love to see Iran overthrown in a revolution — its theocrats forced to their knees before their enslaved citizens, who will determine their fates. But Democrats — from the Obama administration to the Biden administration — have done everything in their power to prop up Iran and support the terrorist regime.
Obama sent them pallets of cash and “negotiated” a nuclear agreement to speed up their access to a nuclear weapon. Biden has effectively restored the same policy. Our Government is funding Hamas directly through their various aid packages and indirectly through their payments to the Iranians.
If the Democrats historically have supported the terrorists, why now would they suddenly “defeat” them?
Where is U.S. diplomacy? By diplomacy I don’t mean Israel should put down its weapons and shake hands with Hamas. But the leader of Hamas lives in Qatar. Secretary of State Blinken was just in Qatar, where he made no mention of the reality that Qatar is providing refuge to a terrorist. Are efforts being made by the Biden administration to punish, sanction and threaten those nations, which give shelter to such monsters? Have we demanded the extradition of these terrorists to Israel and threatened the wrath of America should they refuse to do so? Why not?
Of course, the Biden administration has left the U.S. vulnerable in any negotiations with most nations in the Middle East. Biden’s war against American oil and gas production has left us reliant upon Middle East oil. Surely the Emir of Qatar and other tyrannical leaders of the other barbaric but oil rich Arab nations understand their threat of withholding oil is the Achilles’ heal of the Biden administration.
Biden needs Middle East oil in relative abundance so as to continue his own war against U.S. energy production — to keep prices in relative check so as to complete his overt but largely ignored objective of eradicating reliable fossil fuels and forcing the transition to wind mills and solar panels.
Very soon we are going to come face to face with reality. Those in America eager to escalate the conflict in the Middle East — whether moral and justified or not — bang the war drums without realizing perhaps that America is not what it once was. The Rome that conquered at will the entirety of the Italian Peninsula in the 3rd century B.C. and expanded into Britain in the centuries after was not the same Rome that fell to the Germanic barbarians in the 5th century A.D.
Neither is the America today the America of the 50s, 60s, 80s, or even between 2017 and 2020.
Those who think the U.S. ought to go to war in the Middle East — even while simultaneously funding another war in Eastern Europe — may be proven morally correct as events unfold, but America is now in an uncomfortable position. The “right” or “moral” decision or action may no longer be realistic or possible.
This is my grave concern.
If the U.S. doesn’t get its financial affairs in order — not only making drastic reforms to welfare programs but also enacting economic policies to stimulate GDP growth — we won’t have the luxury of doing the right thing.
Currently Americans lament the endless bad decision making on the part of the deranged Biden Administration. But one day soon we may be forced to lament the inability to make good decisions because we lack the means to do so.
Thus far the U.S. has naively spent without restraint with few repercussions. But no nation can sustain such a debt forever and the greater and more unreasonable the debt grows, the more vulnerable a nation becomes and the more certain its eventual collapse. How long until our enemies can attempt to manipulate our own actions and abolish our own sovereignty with the threat of “sanctions.”
Already our politicians are manipulated by their corruption — their common, accepted and never investigated payments from foreign nations and special interest groups to purchase their loyalty; not to country but to company or highest bidder.
The attack on our ally Israel has highlighted — amongst many other things — the vulnerability of the U.S. Adding to the list of unprecedented actions or scenarios experienced under the Biden administration is the sense that the U.S. may be prohibited from doing what is “good” or “necessary” because we cannot afford to do so: a lack of troops, a lack of will, a lack of money, equipment, etc, for example.
For too long Americans — particularly in our corrupt Government — have become accustomed to the most obscene political culture of never saying “no” to anything that is irresponsible and harmful while exclusively saying "no” to everything that is sensible and in the best interest of the United States.
We won’t secure our own border, for example, because $10 billion is too great a financial burden but we will send more than $100 billion to Ukraine to secure its border.
Right now our attention is on foreign terrorism in Israel. More than 2,000 terrorists invaded Israel and murdered roughly a thousand civilians at a music festival. How many terror cells exist in the United States. How many of the ten million unvetted illegals who have already invaded America will one day commit similar acts of atrocity in this country?
We’ve seen the fearless display of Hamas supporters take to the streets of America and on college campuses around the country voicing their support for the terrorists and celebrating the murder of those “dirty Jews.” Will we address this problem? Will we do what is moral but difficult and strip such threats of citizenship and deport them from America? How about the ten million illegals? Will we kick then out of the country for being criminals?
It is imperative that the U.S. defend itself against its many enemies, that we secure our own border and deport the criminals who came here illegally; that our Government radically reforms our entitlement programs, makes our military vicious and lethal again, and our Government learns to live within its means. All of this requires money, will, and a degree of sacrifice.
Currently we seem to have the luxury of “choices” — even if our Government insists on exclusively making the wrong ones. But choices or options begin to disappear as one loses autonomy; which in the case of the U.S. is derived from our vast wealth, resources, strength, and our inheritance from our much wiser ancestors — an intellectual and financial inheritance, which is rapidly being squandered.
After relative stability since World War II — a miracle in the grand scheme of human history — frequent war, instability, violence, and the worst vices of mankind threaten to thrust the entire world into a new Dark Age.
We can’t afford to fight two wars. But if we hope to restore a world order defined by peace, prosperity and freedom and to enjoy the relative comfort that comes from the knowledge that we are in control of that fate and our own future, we better prepare ourselves to fight them.
That requires hard decisions and courage, including the courage to admit that we can’t afford to go to war in the Middle East.