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[Order Daniel Greenfield’s new book, Domestic Enemies: HERE.]
The Biden administration and the Saudis are reportedly cooking up a deal.
Under the terms of the agreement, the Saudis will get nuclear capability, defense guarantees and a terrorist state inside Israel. And what will the United States get? Temporarily lower prices.
The Saudis are not offering to boost oil production to bring down prices as a favor to America, but to Biden. And it’s an election quid-pro-quo that may cost millions of Americans their lives.
After draining the strategic petroleum reserve ahead of the midterms, Biden has been unable to refill it because his environmentalist allies and the Saudis have kept prices high. The Saudis had rejected requests to lower oil prices for anything short of assistance in building their own nuclear program. Shortly before the Hamas attacks of Oct 7, the Saudis had offered to temporarily boost production if it would make it easier to sell Congress on a defense agreement.
Back then the Saudi deal had been portrayed as an extension of the ‘Abraham Accords’ and offered ‘normalization’ of diplomatic ties with Israel. Whether the Saudis were ever serious about normalization is debatable but since Oct 7, any such agreement has been conditioned on an internationally recognized.Islamic terrorist ‘Palestinian’ state affiliated with Saudi Arabia.
The current expectation is that a deal between Biden and the Saudis will drop the Israeli component and focus on a defense agreement and nuclear power in exchange for cheap oil.
Whether Israel is or isn’t on board, a Saudi nuclear agreement is a bad deal for America.
The United States is more than capable of producing its own oil. The only obstacle in the way of American energy independence is Joe Biden and his party who are determined to push ‘green energy’ that only makes us equally dependent on Muslim terror states and Communist China.
Nuclear energy could help solve our energy problems, but the Saudis, who are the world’s largest oil producers, certainly don’t need to go nuclear to fix any energy shortfalls. Nor do they care about the environment. A civilian nuclear energy program makes about as much sense for Saudi Arabia as it does for Iran. And the only reasonable argument for enabling the Saudis to go nuclear would be to counter Iran’s nuclear weapons program, but rather than averting a nuclear attack, that could double the risk and the possible vectors for nuclear armageddon.
The trouble with letting either Iran or the Saudis go nuclear is not just the direct nuclear threat, but the indirect one that will come from Islamic terrorists getting their hands on either nuclear weapons or materials. Saudi Arabia has made some progress under the MBS monarchy, including allowing women greater rights and backing away from some of the terrorist groups and movements that the kingdom has traditionally supported, and even purged some of the old guard who oversaw the Jihadi war against America (this led to Jamal Khashoggi’s death).
But the Saudis have always played multiple angles and there’s still plenty of money going to Islamist groups and terrorist organizations from the kingdom’s wealthy elites. Even if the Saudis were to truly clean up their act (an unlikely scenario since financing terrorism remains one of the most reliable power plays in the region), it will only take MBS being overthrown to change that.
Had the coup advanced by Jamal Khashoggi, Qatar and other regional players succeeded, the same political figures who financed Al Qaeda and other terrorist groups would once again be in control. A nuclear deal cannot be based on reforms implemented by one man and opposed by significant elements in the Saudi power structure. What happens if that one man goes?
Nuclear capability is a threat for generations. It should not be an agreement made lightly.
Biden is proposing to swap nuclear capabilities in exchange for the Saudis providing cheap oil for his election. The Saudis have made it clear that they can’t offer long term price guarantees which means they’d be doing little more than providing a temporary market fix long enough to get a presidential candidate his second term in in office.
After all the talk of impeachable quid-pro-quos, here’s one that could get millions killed.
Nuclear materials in the hands of Islamic terrorists is the ultimate nightmare and Biden is risking mass death, the destruction of entire American cities, in exchange for an election day bribe.
By emptying the strategic petroleum reserve to bribe midterm voters, Biden already dangerously endangered our economy and our national security. The cost of his illegal student loan debt bribes is already approaching an estimated $1 trillion and that may just be the beginning.
But there’s a big difference between stealing money to bribe voters and making a deal with an enemy nation that can cost the lives of millions. One is corruption while the other is treason.
The safety and security of the United States of America depends on keeping nuclear materials as far away from terrorists as possible. Biden’s proposed quid-pro-quo deal with Saudi Arabia risks putting nuclear materials in the hands of Islamic terrorists for his own political benefit.
That’s not a deal Congress should approve, it’s a deal that Congress could impeach him over.
Sure it’s a terrible idea, but to Biden the only relevant question is whether it is good for his re-election campaign. As I’ve been writing here, that is his only principle.
The worst USA president in history of course only gets worse and more frightening and pathetic evil and demented when will this cadaver quit functioning to save America
Correction, his HANDLERS not him. He’s just the face paid millions.
The description of “face” or puppet (which I and many others have use) does not cut it.
Call Biden what he is. He is a SHELL Politician.
A SHELL POLITICIAN is like SHELL CORPORATION.. It does not do much except to act as a holding company or to hid ownership.
The people running things are Clinton and Obama alums. with occasional or continual input by Obama and Hillary.
Trump should call Biden out to a debate by calling him a SHELL politician and a SHELL of man.
Trump should say that Biden a SHELL of man cannot possibly debate because he is hollow mentally.
So now the preposterous idea of American nuclear weapons for the Saudi “Royal” Family is being touted.
Might as well provide the Taliban and Hamas and Qatar and Lebanon and Egypt and Morocco with 500 US Minuteman ballistic missiles. Obama and Biden and the democrats will present all kinds of rational reasons for the nuclearization of the entire depraved psychopathic murderous berserk delusional Islamic world.
Betrayal and Stabbing Israel and America and US citizens in the back is now the sacred policy of the Biden/Blinken/Obama/Pelosi/Schumer/Clintons woke leftist anti-American democrat party.
If America and its ruling political class do not recognize that Islam is a depraved psychopathic murderous berserk evil hate-filled cult,
then eventually America’s ruling class will come to rationalize and promote the idea that depraved psychopathic murderous Islam is really a friend of America and that it is really Israel who is America’s enemy.
Ohh … I forgot … Biden and Blinken and Obama and the Clintons and Pelosi and Schumer and the rest of the leftist democrat administrative state scum are already doing that.
Already, America and the West bend over backwards to accommodate Islamic aggression intimidation crime murder terrorism and violence …. because the Islamic Saudi Royal Family and Qatar and other Royal Families of the Islamic/OPEC middle east control the chokepoint of the world’s energy/oil supply.
The American ruling class now does what the Saudi and Qatar and other Islamic Royal Family orders it to do..
What must now be done is for the USA and Europe and the West to recognize that Islam is its true and never-ending enemy, and to crush the depraved psychopathic murderous berserk lunatic Mohammedans.
1400 years of depraved psychopathic murderous berserk Islam is enough already.
The policy of betrayal and stabbing Israel and America and US citizens in the back must end.
America and the US government and patriotic leaders and patriotic US citizens must now defend and protect themselves and their own kindred spirits.
And Israel must not be abandoned, which is the real policy of Biden and the democrats.
Make no mistake about it.
Islam is the vile insidious enemy of America and Patriotic US citizens.
That fact alone should be the basis of America’s foreign policy.
Sure it’s a terrible idea, but to Biden the only relevant question is whether it is good for his re-election campaign. As I’ve been writing here, that is his only principle.
In 1st semester freshman calculus class we studied derivatives before integration. We studied global and local minimums and maximums. That is where the slope of the graph is zero (=0).. We learned how to tell global ones from local ones..
Okay, so I lost half of you and pissed off the other half.. Here is the point (3 points actually).
Someone or some few people made the analogy between finding or setting the maximum and politics/the economy. the axis could be the variable that you set to get the highest value of y . Say GDP. What these wags said was that politicians would set x not to get a global maximum in y (GDP) but a local maximum where while the GDP is lower, but their own bank account is higher.
It was cynical but I think dead on accurate. I wish i had thought of it myself.
Point #2. the wags? Service academy cadets and graduates.. Patriotic? Not extremely. but they are loyal to each other and will fight for country. But they will bow out if the president, ruling class etc are SOB’s..
If they are well lead with a decent plan, they will be loyal. Otherwise, they might not be disloyal, but they will put it in neutral.
Point #3. i suggested to an English PhD that he study calculus as an autodidact. I told him that it would open up his view point,. He told me to go to H, E, double toothpicks. The point in suggesting it was not to be condescending. It was so you can relay analogies like the above. Or to argue supply and demand curves of calculus based economics.
What is the point of calculus or calculus based economics, if all that is going to happen is a bunch of stupid, ignorant grifting politicians won’t use it and treat the country like their piggy bank? It just leads to frustration.
It seems to me that psychopath Biden and his depraved democrat administration are playing with the idea of arming the Saudi “Royal” family and other hate-filled anti-Semitic Islamic freedom suppressing dictatorships with American nuclear weapons for protection against Israeli “aggression.”
Just think of it … The Saudi “Royal” family armed with American built 260 kiloton Minuteman III nuclear missiles for the Islamic “defense” against Israel and Jews.
I hope people now see how depraved and insane and anti-Semitic and anti-American Biden and the democrat party have become.
Biden and the democrat party are spiraling down the rabbit hole of total insanity.
They absolutely must be removed from the government of the USA.
The Saudis will soon stop accepting US dollars in payment for oil. That will break our backs. BO conspired with the Saudis years ago. And this is his 3rd term.
“A man such as our current president [Obama] is far more dangerous to the survival of the United States than any terrorists from the Mideast.
Obama is an unprecedented threat to America. Romney is a precedented one.
As I have explained in The DIM Hypothesis, Obama is in essence a destroyer for the sake of destruction, a nihilist, the first such to become President. The object to be destroyed is America. Given the academic and popular support he has received, he has been able to pursue this goal methodically and, to many observers, with astonishing success.” – Leonard Peikoff, 2012
For once I agree with you.
Obama Rama Lama Ding Dong is the great prevaricator par excellence.
He advanced the current democrat policies of treachery and hatred against America and US citizens and against Jews and Israel to a high art form.
With his election in 2008 America can date the beginning of its “transformational” collapse.
Obama should be charged arrested convicted and sentenced for treason and other high crimes against America and US citizens.
If America does not soon get its head screwed on straight
and recognize Islam and the Mexican illegal alien horde INVASIONS,
and the Mexican murders of more than 100,000 US citizens every year
with Mexican manufactured drugs/fentanyl,
then America and US working and middle class citizenry are doomed.
Obama and Biden and the democrats are the embodiment of pure unadulterated evil and treachery in America.
American Patriots … rise up and fight before it is really too late.
Forget the trial, just round ‘em up and string ‘em up.
Every last one of them.
“Nuclear materials in the hands of Islamic terrorists is the ultimate nightmare and Biden is risking mass death, the destruction of entire American cities, in exchange for an election day bribe.”
When criminals are in charge of an organization or a government, it should not be surprising that the organization or government acts criminal. The Democrats led by Hussein Obama stole the 2020 US Presidential Election from the real winner, Donald J Trump, and got away with it thanks to a corrupt DOJ and FBI. Proof that the 2024 election was stolen would be if Biden wins.
I would love to see a miracle happen and Trump wins in 2024. But in case the criminals steal the 2024 election, then two questions come to mind: 1) Will the American government treat its citizens like in China or in North Korea? 2) How long will it take the American standard of living to fall to the level of Venezuela?
According to philosopher Benedict Beckeld, the rise and fall of civilizations is a law of nature that cannot be changed. See his essay, “The Dangers of Oikophobia” in the American Conservative online.
Am Yisrael Chai!
Imagine a guy who White house officials cluster around, so they cannot see how he walks, because he walks like a dementia patient.
Imagine a candidate who will not debate, because he simply can’t or adderall no longer works for more than 5 to 15 minutes..
I hope the WH quack over stimulates FJB.
And the mainstream media is complicit in covering up the extent of Joe Biden’s dementia. It’s one of the myriad of reasons why the mainstream media cannot and should not be trusted–ever.
Supermarket tabloids are truthful far more often than mainstream media news outlets and now, the internet.
It’s one thing to tart up and doll up the news for clicks, eyeballs and ratings but what the MSM does goes beyond the pale. They’ve become expert at twisting the facts and distorting the truth to fit whatever narrative they’re paid to push and now they’ve enlisted the convenience of artificial intelligence (AI) to support them or as I like to put it “to expand the frontiers of ignorance and misinformation.”
Worst of all, they have legions of loyal, obsequious morons in the entertainment industry and Marxist academia to aid and abet them. A well (and truthfully) informed populace is detrimental to the goals and objectives of the Marxists/democrats and their puppet masters, the globalist elites.
Would the rest of his life in Prison be too easy for Bidem? Maybe he should have a Cellmate like Obama of Clinton(Bill)or perhaps his Son Hunter
He’s a traitor.
The punishment should be the traditional one.
Isn’t most of Saudi Arabia covered by a desert that gets sunshine 320+ days of the year?
Why do they need nuclear power when there is all that free solar available?
And, the United Nations International Panel on climate change told me in the eighties that the world would run out of oil in twenty years.
As I remember it, the academics said that “Peak Oil Production” would happen in 1976.
And it was downhill on the right hand side of the Gaussian curve forever.
The academics have long ago swept that brilliant forecast under the rug.
Because of
1 Dust storms
2 Degradation due to just age, sunlight
3 Input cost more than or very close to economic benefit.
Stuff that everyone here knows
Could the Saudi’s not simply get nuclear technology from China instead?
China is largely self-sufficient in nuclear reactor design and construction. China also has a policy of ‘going global’ with exporting nuclear technology and the “heavy components” in the nuclear power supply chain.
China and Saudi Arabia signed a Strategic Partnership in 2022.so it is not a stretch to see the CCP transferring nuclear technology to the Saudi’s rather than from the US.
This is yet another terrible deal by this administration
Perhaps. But you can rest assured that the neocons are onboard. They smell M-O-N-E-Y money and there’s plenty of money to be made by the rag heads,… uh… pardon me… the Saudis acquiring nukes.
IRAN, SAUDI’S, OPEC HAVE BEEN BLACKMAILING THE U.S. FOR DECADES and especially now that they have the goods on The Biden Crime Family and those goods are also from Russia and China.
IRAN does what it wants in the world because they’ll shut off the pumps and others will join in. Israel is afraid too since they depend on Biden who sides with their enemies. 300 ROCKETS and they retaliate with a pinprick? Now, BIDEN HAS STOPPED WEAPON SHIPMENTS TO ISRAEL as they plan to rid Gaza of Hamas. If Hamas, then Hezbollah, are allowed to remain, more October 7’s will occur and here we go again but forget about blaming Biden, never Biden!
JOHN MCCAIN: “BOMB BOMB BOMB IRAN!”
IMAGINE A WORLD WITHOUT THE MULLAHS and their terrorist proxies.
Iran can easily shut down the Gulf and could close the Straits of Hormuz, including by sinking ships in the lanes making them impassable. A mosquito rag-tag group in Yemen proved that a few rockets will shut down shipping too.
ALL ABOUT OIL. YES, the U.S. has its own oil and The Orange Man Drilled Here Drilled Now but Biden had to cancel everything “on day one” (who’s the Dictator) and then beg the Saudi’s and Venezuela, both who stab us in the back, for oil, and now using OIL AS A POLITICAL STUNT!
All of it, the alphabets, WOKE, anti Israel protests, Biden’s arbitrary non enforcement of immigration law, etc. are clear signals that America is under the judgment of God. Without a sweeping renewal of the Judaeo Christian ethic and the spiritual strength growing from faith in Christ “in the churches”, America will continue her quick time march to the garbage heap of failed nations. 2Chronicles 7:14
This INSANITY has to stop!! CONGRESS needs to get their heads out of their butts and put an END to this discussion BEFORE it even proceeds!! BIDEN is NOT GOD! He should not even be IN the office and 80% of AMERICA KNOWS IT!! A question was asked about if a President could order a MILITARY COUP – legally. In all sincerity and sanity, IF we had a COMPETENT, SANE Military it would certainly be a consideration for PRESIDENT TRUMP. He’s going to need TREMENDOUS SUPPORT to clean up the destruction caused by the segment of excrement oblama and his hand puppet pooper Joe! GOD, PLEASE HELP OUR NATION and the WORLD!
Where are the bold leaders who used to stand up to tyranny?? Reagan would never have put up with this kind of support for terrorist regimes. Trump wouldn’t stand for it either! As soon as Reagan was elected, Iran let hostages go because they knew Reagan would be one tough leader! Those were the days my friends!
“Nuclear energy could help solve our energy problems, but the Saudis, who are the world’s largest oil producers, certainly don’t need to go nuclear to fix any energy shortfalls.”
Don’t look now, but Daniel Greenfield is trying to construct an actual argument. Too bad the argument is reliant on nonsensical speculation. The Saudis, in fact, do have an interest in exploring nuclear alternatives to oil. Unlike Daniel and his troglodyte readers, the Saudi leadership understands basic science, the limited nature of fossil fuels, and the dangers posed by global climate change.
Just FYI.
If the Saudis have an interest to explore other energy alternatives as you say, then why haven’t they invested in solar panel farms yet? Most of Saudi Arabia is hot desert wasteland, yet you wish us to believe in such an environment that nuclear power is the most viable option?
Last I checked, you cannot create a fission bomb by investing in solar power. Do you think that has anything to do with this decision?
Is that the climate change that the UN’s IPCC told us would end the world by the year 2000 and then told us that oil was running out and we wouldn’t have any by 2020?
That makes the Saudis smarter than your average liberal or Democrat politician.
The Saudis will probably have the all of the above policy when it comes to energy (oil, solar, wind, nuclear,…) Like Sarah Palin advocated. Unlike Democrat p9licies.
Perhaps the vaunted intellect, Mickorn, should study the Abiogenic petroleum origin theory.
But science is always settled, so why bother.
Can the mighty Miickorn define what a planet or a species is? They keep going back and forth on a definition of a planet.
How about the definition of species? Is the erudite Mickorn a splittist or a lumpist?
If the abiogenic theory is correct and I am not saying it is relying on it is not wise.
Remind me, who in their right mind would ever vote Democrat again? If the Biden administration has done such a wonderful job, why don’t they just run on their record and let the voters decide? But nope – they have open borders with the cynical motivation to pass mass amnesty in order to ensure generations of new Democrat voters. The Biden administration also wants the federal government to payoff post secondary education student loans to undeserving spoiled brats in order to buy their votes. The Biden administration also demonizes Israel for defending itself from Hamas and Hezbollah attacks not for any logical foreign policy decisions but to garner the radicalized Muslim vote. The same reason goes for the Biden administration’s cowardice in the face of foreign Muslim agitators radicalizing and indoctrinating students across the nation. The same reason goes for the Biden administration’s threat of cutting off of weapon supplies to Israel. The final nail in the coffin of the Biden administration is to garner the Muslim vote by offering the Saudis civilian nuclear power technology (cough – cough…wink -wink) just as Iran used the same premise to build its nuclear weapons program. Iran has so much natural gas that it could power its nation with electrical generation for decades yet it’s so-called civilian nuclear reactor is still not producing any electricity for its national power grid.
Am I missing anything, is there nothing the Biden administration won’t stoop to in order to win an election? Oh well…they could always fall back on trying to imprison Donald Trump.
There is always a chance of a coup in a Muslim country, where radicals get control of the nukes.
This just gets worse and worse and Biden isn’t really the elected leader. He has one blunder after another, and Obama is part of the decisions. What an abuse of power, and total ignorance of any laws or security issues.
Such stupidity leaves one nearly speechless.
So these guys probably summed it up best:
Obama: “Don’t underestimate Joe’s ability to f**k things up.”
Obama Sec of Def Robert Gates: Joe Biden has “been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades.”
The Branson Administration is an enemy of the state. The United States.
Please stop OBAMA,OBAMA,OBAMA and the Saudis.
Yet another reason I hate this government and all the simps in office everywhere.