Biden's new foreign policy: trading human rights for money and oil

Flopping Aces ^ | 11-30-22 | DrJohn

[Starman417]

Joe Biden made a big deal of promising to fight for human rights as a critical part of his Presidential campaign:

The United States is committed to a world in which human rights are protected, their defenders are celebrated, and those who commit human rights abuses are held accountable. Promoting respect for human rights is not something we can do alone, but is best accomplished working with our allies and partners across the globe. President Biden is committed to a foreign policy that unites our democratic values with our diplomatic leadership, and one that is centered on the defense of democracy and the protection of human rights.

Far left Biden sycophant Al Hunt wrote:

Donald Trump long looked the other way and may even have endorsed Chinese detention camps of ethnic minorities; he referred to the oppressive Egyptian leader Abdel Fattah al-Sisi as “my favorite dictator,” and bragged that he “saved” Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman (MBS), who ordered the murder of an American journalist.

There is a new sheriff in town.

Yeah, well, it's not working out so great. Biden said he was going to make Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman a "pariah" for his involvement in the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Despite evidence linking MBS directly to the murder, Biden has done compeltely the opposite. He first went to Saudi to grovel before the Prince and fist bumped him while begging for oil. MBS told Biden to shove it and then went on to cut oil production.

Biden then bowed to the Prince, giving MBS what he sought in return for more oil production- immunity in the murder of Khashoggi. This shocked left wing journalists

David Ignatius:

"What's disturbing here is that the decision to elevate him to prime minister…came three days before the deadline that Judge Bates had set for a ruling on this question from the Justice Department and the State Department of whether he was entitled to immunity. In other words, this was the only way he was going to get it, and it came in at the 11th hour. The Trump administration, for all of its embrace of MBS, never gave him the immunity he wanted. He has been seeking immunity since 2020, 2021. The Trump administration left office without acting on that request. And it's disturbing that the Biden administration ends up doing what Donald Trump himself wouldn't do."

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Axios correspondent Jonathan Swan tied Biden's decision to the fraught U.S. relationship with the Middle Eastern country over oil. Swan blasted the president for vowing to make Saudi Arabia a "pariah" on the campaign trail and then having this "dizzying reversal when gas prices rise," as one of the "most incoherent elements of Joe Biden's policy agenda."

"Then the fist bump, then the retraction, it's just completely incoherent. It's hard to know where he stands on this policy," he huffed.

 

The CEO of the Washington Post said it was granting MBS a "license to kill."

Desperately needing the oil Biden has said ad nauseum that he wants to end, rather than seek a boost in US production Biden decided give Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro a financial booster:

The Treasury Department granted permission Saturday for oil giant Chevron to produce and export oil from Venezuela following the South American country’s decision to restart talks with opposition groups.

The move could add supply to the global oil market, which may ease fuel prices and speed the declines in U.S. gasoline prices that have been a political burden for President Joe Biden since Russia invaded Ukraine in February.

But a senior administration official said the easing of sanctions was not driven by the oil market pressures and was instead a response the Venezuelan regime's decision this week to participate in the negotiations with opposition groups. Those talks, which were originally launched in Mexico City in September 2021, are expected to focus on humanitarian programs and setting future elections.

"was not driven by the oil market pressures"

Baloney

Biden's biggest bumbles are the ones benefiting China. It's as if China owns Biden.

As the Chinese people protest new draconian zero-COVID measures (that don't work) Biden is silent.

[HighSierra5]

The people that voted for him are stoopider than he is.

[robowombat]

At last, a foreign policy that does make sense.

[gibsonguy]

“It’s as if China owns Biden.“

Yeah weird huh?

[combat_boots]

We buy any number of CCP made goods. None of us are clean anymore, even though we've been sold out. They use slaves, forceably abort children, forcibly vaccinate, and weld people in buildings until they die from starvation or fire. They also practice forcible organ transplants.

[robowombat]

Some items seem an absolute CCP monopoly. An example is staples. Checked a half dozen places, all staples were made in China.

[combat_boots]

Exactly.

I used to know the owner of the last whistle factory in the US

[Organic Panic]

Joe Biden is the biggest human trafficker in US history.

[Chgogal]

Stupid voters, stupid politicians.

[frnewsjunkie]

I’ve lived a while. I’m no young thing looking at where we are and attitudes,, and decisions from ignorants.. It scares me .. They scare me.

They have no brain .. No conscience.. No heart. Pure evil reins. Gov is out of control.. There is no one to take the reins and right this sinking ship .

Trump could.. Buy the idiots
on both side would rather let it sink.

I know where I’m going. You on the left..keep it up and you will meet the one you tied your apron to.. And you will have much to answer for.
Yeah I’m disgusted .. Too much dumb in charge!

[sauropod]

bkmk

[jmacusa]

Time to get the guns out and clean up this mess. The Founders would’ve have strung these rats up. Every last one of them.