Spineless Biden is edging us towards World War III
Story by Jake Wallis Simons • 15h •
Abracadabra is not a strategy. Will somebody please tell that to the White House? As the events of recent months have shown, simply declaring that you want a ceasefire deal in Gaza, or a nuclear agreement with Iran, or “de-escalation” in the Middle East, or a Saudi-Israel deal to counter the Iranian threat, does not conjure it into reality.
In fact, the opposite is demonstrably the case. The administration seems to have forgotten – if it ever held this knowledge in the first place – that when you berate an ally in public, your foes listen carefully and adjust their tactics. When you telegraph your goals and the limits of your stomach for pursuing them (“no American boots on the ground”), your enemies are taking notes. When you signal your desire to withdraw from the region, bad actors prepare for the vacuum. As a result, the Middle East, and indeed the globe, now finds itself closer to all-out war than it has been for decades.
“Abracadabra” is thought to be a corruption of the Hebrew, “ebrah k’dabri,” meaning “my words will create reality”. This is true, but in precisely the opposite way to what Joe Biden thinks. In Ukraine, his administration’s public insistence that American munitions would not fall on Russian territory has been seen as a green light by the Kremlin, leading to the opposite of his goal of “de-escalation”.
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