So where are we now? One of this blog's favorites, Victor Davis Hanson (VDH), looks at the big picture, and his column “Fiddling America Away” at American Greatness is not encouraging. He begins:
The last few weeks, the world had
been writing off the United States as either crazy or irrelevant as it watches
America cannibalize itself.
Friends tremble at our sudden
decline. Enemies rejoice. Neutrals make the necessary adjustments to join the
ascendant non-American side.
The symptoms of our decline abroad
appear everywhere. The more Joe Biden brags about the crippling oil sanctions
on Russia, friends like India and allies like Japan ignore them. And why not,
when Biden has no idea how long the war in Ukraine will last, or how much
wherewithal the United States can, should, or will give Kyiv, or how its
on-to-Red-Square blank check will finally end?
Big Biden talks about more solar
and wind farms, and green new deals won’t fill the gas tanks in Munich or heat
the homes of Kyoto, or lower the price of imported oil in the United Kingdom.
Claiming the Afghanistan mess was a success fools no one.
Allies ask who are our leaders. An
impaired Joe Biden who never is quite sure where he is, what he is doing, or
whom he is with?
And VDH concludes:
So America suffers the sins of
omission—squabbling over the nonessential—and commission—losing wars, going
broke, ruining its economy, flirting with civil war. We know these are all
self-inflicted wounds. But apparently, we believe their remedies are worse than
the original maladies. And so we fixate only on the irrelevant that we think we
can address while ignoring the existential we know we no longer can solve.
The world is terrified and stunned
at the result—and increasingly looking elsewhere to non-American solutions.
VDH’s full column is here.
RELATED: Just the News reports that “President Joe Biden promised that he would bring back the "good old days" in international relations, but instead Europe and much of the world seem to be leaving America behind to move forward to the China days.”
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