It’s an understatement to say that the Middle East is a real mess these days. Admittedly, this part of the world has always been a contentious place, and having spent time in the region during the General Schwarzkopf Traveling Road Show’s “Highway of Death” tour, I can understand why these people are constantly fighting; it’s because they have to live there. Large parts of the Middle East are certainly no less barren than the surface of the moon.
But the Middle East also has a great strategic resource: oil. So when things get out of hand in the Middle East, as they currently seem to be doing, many eyes turn to the United States. All of this has led former President (and current Republican presidential candidate) Donald Trump to ask a very good question: who the hell is responsible for American diplomacy in this region?
He’s right! Let’s not have a third world war. Deal? pic.twitter.com/nqL9Jb57kp
— Buzz Patterson (@BuzzPatterson) 25 August 2024
If you can’t see Trump X’s post, it reads:
Who is negotiating for us in the Middle East? Bombs are falling everywhere! Sleepy Joe is sleeping on a beach in California, brutally banned by the Democrats, and Comrade Kamala is doing a campaign bus tour with Tampon Tim, her really bad vice presidential candidate. Let’s not have a third world war, because that is the goal we are heading towards!
That’s a very good question.
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These are not just regional problems. We know that Iran is the biggest state sponsor of Islamist terror, not just in the Middle East, but worldwide. Hamas, Hezbollah, all these groups bear the Iranian signature everywhere. Iran helps them with recruitment, training and logistics. And Iran has an ally in the north, an ally with whom it is strengthening its military coordination – Russia:
….[F]Former Russian Defense Minister and current Secretary of the Russian Security Council Sergei Shoigu was in Tehran on August 5, where he met several politicians, including fresh Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian. During their meeting, Pezeshkian reportedly said: told Shoigu said Iran was “determined to expand relations with its strategic partner Russia.” Various media sources indicate that Tehran had renewed its requests for Russian supplies of advanced air defense systems and that Moscow may have supplied radar equipment, Iskander missiles and other goods, although this could not be verified.
According to reports, Iran is also in North Korea And China.
A military alliance between Russia, China, North Korea and Iran would be damaging to the world order, to say the least. These four countries have several things in common: they all face a demographic abyss, they all have ailing economies and they all have powerful, if in some cases dated, armed forces. If they were to join forces, they would pose a stern problem for the rest of the world.
Meanwhile, in Washington DC, the commander-in-chief of the world’s most powerful army is absent without permission, and I don’t have my thoughts under control And what’s more, his deputy, who is fighting for his position, is celebrating on a campaign bus and is largely refusing to answer unprepared questions from the media.
If you wanted to present the world with a picture of a tender, withering America, you could hardly do better than with the current state of affairs. Of course, this is all part of a larger question: who is in charge in the White House? Because it is clearly not Joe Biden. Nature abhors a vacuum, and “who is really in charge?” is a question we should have been asking and answering long ago.
