The US is basically facing World War III, but Biden & Co. aren’t acting like it

opinion

by Jonathan Sweet and mark toth

General Omar Bradley is said to have left behind the maxim, “Amateurs talk strategy.” Experts talk about logistics. ” The Biden administration will do neither.

In September 2022, we argued that Russian President Vladimir Putin’s “arsenal of evil” North Korea and Iran cannot help the Kremlin regain its precarious position in Ukraine.

we were wrong.

It does not take into account that Washington will throw in the towel after Putin’s “special military operation” is in crisis.

These two rogue states are each supremely anti-American, providing President Putin with drones, artillery, and cruise missiles to defeat the United States and its NATO allies in Ukraine, while pursuing unabated nuclear weapons programs. are doing.

To emphasize how far behind the United States is, Gen. Michael E. Kurilla, the commander of U.S. Central Command, testified before Congress that “the Russian military fires five times as many shells as the Ukrainian military.”

Kurila warned that Putin’s advantage in shells would increase to 10-to-1 “within a few weeks.”

Russia outstrips the United States and NATO, churning out 250,000 shells per month, while the NATO artillery coalition, led by France and the Czech Republic, is trying to secure a one-time purchase of 800,000 shells. They are forced to scour the open market.

According to a senior European intelligence official, the United States and Europe combined can produce only 100,000 rounds of ammunition a month.

And they don’t even do that.

The weapons of democracy are failing.

President Franklin Roosevelt is likely to bury his grave in Hyde Park, especially given that the current occupier of the White House is Joe Biden, a Democrat.

We have long urged Biden to put the country on a war footing to defeat Putin in Ukraine, deter future Russian aggression in Europe, and check Chinese President Xi Jinping’s plans for Taiwan and the Indo-Pacific region. I’ve been asking for it.

Democracy is in real danger of succumbing to tyranny.

The war in Ukraine has currently been going on for 777 days.

But there is no plan to win or enough to deal with a series of violent conflicts cascading around the world, including attacks on U.S. troops and commercial ships in Syria and Iraq backed by Ukraine, Israel, and Iran. Here we are without any level of weapons or ammunition production. , Jordan and the Red Sea.

Taiwan is more at risk than ever.

The Chinese government will undoubtedly see this opportunity and are poised to take advantage of it.

We are no longer in either realm.

Biden lost that opportunity by failing to corner Putin by allowing Kiev to retake Crimea.

Just as World War II required an “all of the above” response, so too will this increasingly intense World War III.

But Biden, along with Secretary of State Antony Blinken and National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan, has been completely lax in his approach.

He has left this country severely exposed to Russia and China, a process that began when he prematurely withdrew US troops from Afghanistan.

Emergencies such as Russia’s attack on Ukraine’s power grid and the growing possibility of all-out war between Israel and Iran require bold new commitments from Mr. Biden.

The White House must focus on winning this global war with Moscow and China and their arsenal of evil partners.

Instead of recognizing the gravity of the overall strategic situation and aligning with the American people that we are, in effect, facing World War III, the White House has decided not to risk fighting America’s enemies. advises U.S. allies to restrain. Biden lost in Michigan or elsewhere.

Biden and others have instructed Israel to refrain from defeating Hamas in Rafah.

Similarly, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, in order to avoid a spike in global oil prices and perhaps a dimming of Biden’s re-election prospects in November, told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky that Russia advised them to stop attacks on refineries.

Instead, Austin urged Ukraine to focus on military objectives.

Sorry, Russian refineries teeth Military objectives: They are used to facilitate the transportation of Russian troops and munitions to the front lines in Ukraine and generate revenue to finance the war.

Biden, Blinken, Sullivan, and Austin lost the plot.

They are aware of the dire state of military production in the United States. They borrow ammunition from Israeli and South Korean forward-deployed arsenals to support Ukraine’s war effort.

But Biden’s overall national intelligence strategy recognizes that all the dots it draws are connected and, allegorically speaking, clearly form a map of Russia, China, North Korea, and Iran. do not have.

Former President Barack Obama was right to warn Americans never to underestimate Biden’s ability to disrupt things.

The president is doing just that at the national security level and at the worst possible moment.

Col. Jonathan Sweet (retired) served as a military intelligence officer for 30 years. Mark Toth writes about national security and foreign policy.