Unfortunately, it’s not just political fallout Biden is facing since the withdrawal. You can draw a line from the withdrawal to Vladimir Putin making the calculus that a move on Ukraine would not be met with resistance by the West, since Biden and the Americans were unwilling to commit long-term in a region where they actually had achieved relative stability when measured against the cost in dollars and lives. Plenty of left-leaning military analysts have tried to downplay Biden’s culpability in the war between Russia and Ukraine, but the Late Donald Rumsfeld, twice serving as Defense Secretary, first for Gerald Ford and then for George W. Bush, has an axiom of life if you’re in the national security realm.

All I can say is if history has taught anything, it’s that weakness is provocative. It entices people into doing things that they otherwise would not do.

So let’s talk about Joe Biden’s weakness being provocative. To date, under this administration, Iran has seen at the very least $70 billion-plus dollars flow in that would not have happened if Trump era sanctions remained in place. According to Former President Donald Trump in an interview with Hugh Hewitt last Friday, the money that has flowed into Iran is much more than that.

When I was president, Iran was broke. Anybody that did business with Iran couldn’t do business with the United States. And they were totally broke. They had no money. They had no nothing. And they would have made a deal if the election weren’t rigged, which you and I disagree with, which is fine. But they would have made a deal. I would have had a deal with them in one week to two weeks after the election. They were absolutely broke. I did such a job. No money for Hamas, no money for Hezbollah, no money for anybody. In fact, you once did a story on the fact that there’s very little money going out to these terror groups. Under Biden, he took away all the sanctions. Anybody, under me, anybody that did any business whatsoever, including especially the buying of oil, and I told President Xi, and I told everybody, anybody buys oil, India, France, anybody buys oil, we don’t do business with them. They were down to just selling literally drops of oil, and they were bust. They had almost no money. They were in big trouble. And then Biden came in and he made them rich. He took all the sanctions off. Now, they have $250 billion dollars. They have more money than most countries, and they’re loaded up with cash. On top of, and this is peanuts. You know, everybody talks about the trade that we made for the hostages a few weeks ago where they got $6 billion dollars for that, and then they got another $10 billion dollars because they sold some electricity to Iraq which we gave them. $10 billion dollars. Think of that. $10 billion. So, but I’m not even talking about that. The big one is they have $250 billion dollars in cash. Biden gave it to them over a three-year period by taking away my sanctions. And now, you can’t talk to them, because they’re rich as hell, and they won’t talk to the United States.

So what have we gotten for all that money? The worst attack on Jews since the Holocaust on October 7th. Hamas doesn’t have the resources, the weaponry, the training, or the permission to pull off an attack like that without direction from Tehran. And the arming of Hamas in Gaza by Iran has been going on for years.

After dispatching two carrier groups to the Middle East in a show of solidarity for our ally, Israel, and to protect American assets all over the Middle East, something that could have also been handled largely by keeping Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan, Houthi terrorists armed, trained, and coordinated by Iran began rocket attacks. But it didn’t end with fireworks. They’re now engaging in piracy in the Red Sea to the extent that several large cargo shipping companies and governments have decided to avoid the area entirely. Biden Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin announced with great fanfare two weeks ago that he was assembling a coalition of the willing in order to provide security against the growing Houthi threat.

They don't want Biden deciding if they can shoot back or not https://t.co/B5kHmjTq9B

— FilmLadd (@FilmLadd) December 23, 2023

Naturally, the coalition is already in trouble because of infighting over rules of engagement. Our now-former coalition partners recognize that what’s breaking out in the region is in fact war with Iran, and instead of meeting the threat with overwhelming force, they’re unhappy with having to bicker over whether they’re allowed to fight back, and if so, how much. France is bailing out on the alliance because they believe we’re not being tough enough.

Meanwhile, in Syria, Brig. Gen. Razi Mousavi, the senior missile commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, tasked with coordinating supplying and training by Iran for Hezbollah in Lebanon, was taken out by Israel on Christmas Day in an air strike.

So if you’re keeping score at home, pre-Biden, we have a maintenance force suffering no casualties in 18 months there as a backstop to willing Afghani fighters keeping Taliban and al Qaeda terrorists from regrouping, ISIS having their caliphate in Raqqa destroyed and their command and control dismantled, and Arab nations formerly hostile to Israel lining up to engage in economic agreements as part of the Abraham Accords. Post-Biden inauguration, we have a hot war in Eastern Europe, a hot war in the Gaza Strip, riots and hot zones in the West Bank, Syria, Southern Lebanon, and Yemen. Add into that China continuing their provocation over Taiwan, including telling President Biden at a recent summit in California that Taiwan will be reabsorbed into mainland China, it’s just a matter now of timing. But wait! There’s more!

Since the war in Gaza began on October 7th, Iranian-backed terror groups have launched attacks at U.S. personnel and assets in the region well over a hundred times. Most recently, again on Christmas Day, three U.S. service personnel were injured, one critically, in an attack at Erbil Air Base in Iraq. Biden, now facing attacks orchestrated by Tehran that are actually getting our people hurt, responded by a series of strikes at Kataib Hezbollah, another terror group that just so happens to get their funding and training from the same common denominator – Iran.

Barack Obama and his foreign policy college team that seem to have learned their foreign policy while playing beer pong convinced themselves that buying off Iran was the only way to achieve peace in the Middle East. Donald Trump’s team showed that isolation, enforced sanctions, and crippling their economy while driving Iran’s enemies into the hands of Israel via economic agreements actually worked. Biden, staffed with remnants of the Obama team, undermined the Abraham Accords at every turn while simultaneously reversing the sanctions against Iran in order to restart the nuclear deal. Iran responded…by declaring war through their proxies all over the region. It’s not just a war against Israel. It’s a war against the United States. They know it, our coalition partners know it, and Joe Biden knows it.

The violence originated in Southern Israel at the hands of the Hamas Nazis. The operation was greenlighted by Iran. The fighting no longer is in the Gaza Strip. It has now spread to four additional countries in just a smidgeon over two months. Ask yourself what the world is going to look by next Christmas. Thus far, Joe Biden’s inclination since cutting and running and declaring preemptive defeat in Afghanistan has been to try to buy off our enemy, Iran. It has never worked any time it’s been tried. So we of course sent them more money. It still didn’t work. Once the rockets started firing in October,  Joe Biden said, “Don’t, don’t, don’t, don’t”, which was supposedly meant to deter Iran without  identifying to whom he was referring. They did anyway. They are still doing. Biden’s response now seems to be limited to responding in kind. You hurt one of ours, we’ll try to only hurt one of yours. It’s a combination of tit for tat, along with offering up more cash.

Biden has become paralyzed in how he’s handling this growing crisis not just because he’s old and corrupt, but because his political base is rapidly becoming more openly anti-Semitic by the day, which conflicts with the Democratic Party’s long-standing relationship with American Jews. Iran’s escalation curve is not bending. It’s still climbing. Americans currently serving in harm’s way will eventually die at the hands of one of Iran’s proxies, using Iranian weaponry. What then?

You might think that responding to a serious attack on American interests in earnest would benefit a president in a general election. The country typically rallies around their leader in a time of war, especially after they’ve been attacked. But with the state of today’s Democratic Party, if Biden were to go full tilt and prosecute a war going right at the head of the snake in Tehran and end this once and for all, he may not politically survive to the general election because his own political base will desert and destroy him.

Ronald Reagan left the country a peace dividend with his military buildup. It resulted in the fall of the Soviet Union a couple years later during George H.W. Bush’s tenure. Bill Clinton spent that peace dividend, which helped lead to the 9/11 attacks in 2001. That process happened over the course of two decades.

Joe Biden has managed to spend Donald Trump’s peace dividend – a stronger military and a stable Middle East, and get us to the precipice of war on four continents, and done so in just two years. Imagine what the world will look like with Joe Biden at the helm for four more years. And if that thought isn’t frightening enough, imagine a world where Kamala Harris makes foreign policy for three of those four years. About the best we could hope for in that eventuality is that our enemies would be so confused by her daily speeches about being able to imagine what can be without being unburdened by what has been that they forget what it is they’re trying to destroy in the first place.