Opinion
Ken Timmerman’s Threat Watch, www.kentimmerman.com 12-6-24
| Politics abhors a vacuum. And international politics mocks simpletons. As I watched Jake Sullivan perform the “full Ginsberg” of Sunday morning talk shows this week, I couldn’t help thinking how utterly outclassed the Biden national security team has shown itself to be these past four years. Little Jake was taken aback by the lightning advance of ISIS affiliated terror groups in Syria over the past ten days, calling it a “complicated” situation. We don’t like Assad, and we don’t like his Iranian and Russian backers. But we don’t like those ISIS groups either. Gee whiz, Jake! It never occurred to you that when Hezbollah got smashed by the Israelis, who pounded them and their Iranian backers into a ceasefire, that there might be repercussions on Hezbollah’s other battlefront in Syria? Sure the Iranians and the Russians are playing three-dimensional chess, but Little Jake and Sleepy Joe haven’t even learned how to play checkers. It’s complicated! They didn’t seem to understand that allowing Zelenskyy to launch US-controlled ATACMS long-range missiles into Russia would be taken by the Russians as an escalation. But just in case they missed it, Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov reminded them in an interview with Tucker Carlson released on Thursday. And spare me the nonsense about Tucker being Putin’s sock puppet. Lavrov is the longest-serving foreign minister in the world today, and understands geopolitics. He also understands American politics, something Putin does not. He berated Team Biden for thinking they could cross Russian red lines with impunity, noting that Putin’s launch of a nuclear-capable hypersonic glide missile, the Oreshnik, was a warning to the US to back off its latest escalation. Lavrov was careful to say that Russia did not consider itself at war with the United States, even with the Biden-Harris-Jake Sullivan amateurish provocations. “We would like to have normal relations with all our neighbors, of course… especially with a great country like the United States,” he told Tucker. I can hardly wait for the grown-ups to return to the White House. Even worse than war is an unnecessary war, caused by the idiocy of simpletons who think they can take world leaders out to the woodshed and “beat the hell” out of them. There’s instability enough to go around as it is. In South Korea, you have an anti-Communist president being threatened with impeachment by a pro-North Korean faction of his parliament. In France, President Macron’s prime minister predictably lost a no-confidence vote, throwing the country into chaos. Macron, another sorcerer’s apprentice, brought the current political crisis on himself by arrogantly dissolving parliament last June after losing the European parliamentary elections in a landslide to the National Rally party of Marine LePen. He called on the French people to “bar the way” to LePen by voting for the neo-Communist left, and they did. The result was a parliament with one-third hard-core leftists, one-third loyal to LePen, and one-third in the squishy middle. And the law prohibits Macron from dissolving parliament for a year after the last elections. This will be fun! President Trump is telling us that America under his presidency will be respected again on the world stage. He intends to fill that vacuum quickly, and with skilled operatives; and unless a few squishy Republican Senators get in the way, he will succeed. Who knows, we may even get tired of winning! I discuss these issues in my weekly segment on Prophecy Today Weekend. As always, you can listen live at 1 PM on Saturday on 104.9 FM or 550 AM in the Jacksonville, Florida, area, or by using the Jacksonville Way Radio app. If you miss us live, you can listen to the podcast here: https://podcasts.apple.com/fr/podcast/prophecy-today/id132427025 Yours in freedom, Ken PS: Don’t forget to leave a comment or review of my latest book on Amazon. As you will see, it is full of surprises! |
| Ken Timmerman’s 14th book of non-fiction, THE IRAN HOUSE: Tales of Revolution, Persecution, War, and Intrigue, can be ordered by clicking here or by viewing my author’s page, here. Raising Olives in Provence, can be ordered by clicking here. – Senior Fellow, America First Policy Institute (current) – Republican nominee for Congress, Maryland District 8 (2012) – President & CEO, Foundation for Democracy in Iran, www.iran.org – Nobel Peace Prize nominee, 2006 Cell: 904-817-8584 NEW NUMBER Follow me on Twitter @kentimmerman Facebook: ken timmerman New personal email: [email protected] Website: kentimmerman.com |
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