What Do the Bidens Think They Are Doing on Ukraine, Taiwan?

I asked a military acquaintance about the Obama Iran Deal: did he have any information about what the Obamis thought they were doing, back in the days Before Trump. He came up with some notions, but nothing that really stepped inside their thinking.

So what do the Bidens and the Europeans think they are achieving by normalizing relations with Iran? Especially when it seems like the whole of the Sunni world is making peace with Israel.

Now Victor Davis Hanson is worrying about mixed signals and confusion from the Biden administration on the Russians massing on the border of Ukraine and China invading the airspace over Taiwan. Are they going to get us into a war?

Do they even know what they are doing?

And, by the way, do we really want to Do Anything about Ukraine and Taiwan?

Put it this way. The Global Threat if communism is over. But Russia certainly wants to secure it's non-Arctic access to the sea. And just generally remind everyone that they are the big dogs in the region.

I'm sure that China has a similar agenda, to end the 200 years of humiliation and restore the Han people to their rightful place as the boss of East Asia.

Ok, but then what?

I'd say that it wouldn't hurt to have Russia embroiled with their neighbors, and it wouldn't hurt to have China riling up its non-Han neighbors from South Korea to Japan to the Philippines to Vietnam.

That's because I think that the world is now in a post-imperial age. It doesn't make any sense to have an empire. The Brits figured that out over half a century ago, after more than a century of knowing that "these chaps don't like us" in India; we Yanks are in the middle of figuring it out, as in: why are we paying to defend Europe? From what?

Problem is, of course, that everyone in the political arena believes in the importance of political power. It must be important, right? Because if it weren't then why are you politicians politely listening to the dumb voters just so they'll reelect you, or think you are a great leader saving them from some existential peril. Why are you wasting your lives being "some damn politician?"

Yes, politicians, why are you wasting your lives trying to pretend that there is some existential peril out there, from climate change to systemic racism to anti-Asian hate to the Russia threat to the China threat? The world would like to know.

See, the way I look at it, all these emergencies and existential perils and hates and oppressions come down to one thing: you guys get to spend more of my money on your power trips.

And I don't see any percentage in any of that for me. And that's how politics works, right? The politician gotta pay off the rubes for their support.