Biden Cuts Wuhan Financing, Which Didn't Exist, Right?

[Kathianne]

https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2023/07/19/potatus-totally-cuts-off-wuhan-funding-we-totally-werent-funding-to-begin-with-n565622

[Gunny]

https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2023/07/19/potatus-totally-cuts-off-wuhan-funding-we-totally-werent-funding-to-begin-with-n565622Fancy that :rolleyes:

Four years later. Didn't take him that long to cut Keystone.

[Kathianne]

Sort of related along the lines of Biden Sucks!

https://pjmedia.com/vodkapundit/2023/07/19/well-biden-screwed-us-forever-on-another-damn-thing-n1711962

Just a bit, not even the full punchline:


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The SPR was created under President Gerald Ford in 1975 following the 1973–1974 Arab oil embargo, which turned out to be just the first of that decade’s two major oil shocks. Set in massive salt caverns in Louisiana and Texas, the SPR was supposed to hold enough crude oil—714 million barrels— to help us weather any future embargo. While it was never large enough to do that for any significant time, the SPR’s very existence strengthened our geopolitical position versus some very nasty oil producers in places like Iran and Russia.


It took until about 2010—35 years!—to fill those reservoirs all the way up. It took Dementia Joe just two years to cut our reserves in half, down to levels not seen since 1983.

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[Gunny]

Sort of related along the lines of Biden Sucks!

https://pjmedia.com/vodkapundit/2023/07/19/well-biden-screwed-us-forever-on-another-damn-thing-n1711962

Just a bit, not even the full punchline:Don't have a link right now, but there's also enough light on his letting our military stockpiles dwindle the leftist MSM can't avoid covering it.

Everywhere one turns there's another Biden-Dem disaster to behold that don't have to be.

[Kathianne]

Don't have a link right now, but there's also enough light on his letting our military stockpiles dwindle the leftist MSM can't avoid covering it.

Everywhere one turns there's another Biden-Dem disaster to behold that don't have to be.


Related?

https://www.wsj.com/articles/ron-desantis-military-plan-china-defense-culture-wars-pentagon-b3eb2211?mod=hp_opin_pos_1


OPINIONREVIEW & OUTLOOK


Next Target for Ron DeSantis: the Military
Fighting the culture war is important, but so is arming for a real war.
By
The Editorial Board


July 19, 2023 6:44 pm ET

Ron DeSantis is gradually laying out his presidential agenda, and on Tuesday he unveiled a plan to build a “Mission First” U.S. military. The Florida Governor has several worthy ideas to restore American confidence in the armed forces, though fighting the culture wars isn’t a substitute for preventing an actual war.




One good priority is reviving American military education. Gov. DeSantis is right that the service academies ought to be “narrowly focused” on disciplines such as engineering or military history and leadership. Civilian academics have taken over most military educational institutions such as war colleges, and the instruction is often, as Gov. DeSantis says, “substandard.”


The Governor, a Navy veteran, also says he would review the performance of every four-star flag officer and remove those who aren’t focused on lethality. There is reason to wonder if the services are producing the war fighting talent the country needs by picking leaders on the merits. More aggressive civilian oversight would help.


Case in point: In 2021 a Navy admiral suggested the service should bring back photos as part of promotion boards to achieve more diversity. Gov. DeSantis said he’d ban “race and gender quotas in military recruiting and promotions.”


The perception that the military is a political institution may be hurting enlistment, and the Army looks likely to come up at least 10,000 soldiers short this year. Gov. DeSantis says he will “restore national pride” in the armed forces, to include a school program explaining that the U.S. military “has been a force for justice and good in the world,” which is at least a start.


But an under-appreciated reason the services are struggling to recruit is that the force is too small and ill-equipped to fulfill its current missions. This wears out troops. President Trump boasts that he rebuilt the U.S. military, but he offered a one-time increase that only started to rebuild the readiness burned in President Obama’s two terms.


The defense industrial base also continued to erode on Mr. Trump’s watch. Contractors are now recalling retired engineers in their 70s to teach new workers how to build Stinger anti-aircraft missiles that haven’t been in production for decades.


Gov. DeSantis’s special operation against wokeness will thrill his base, and he has correctly identified China as the top threat to U.S. security. His harder task will be building public support for a larger and more capable U.S. military that can deter the Communist Party from a terrible mistake such as invading Taiwan.


That will require convincing skeptical Republicans to increase defense spending—for example, building two attack submarines a year for the U.S. Navy, up from 1.2 now. Or speeding up the new Air Force strategic bomber. Or building a long-range missile inventory that can last more than three nights of fighting in the Taiwan Strait.


An aide to the campaign says Gov. DeSantis still plans to offer a broader defense agenda. But on U.S. support for Ukraine he’s too often catered to the isolationist right that would, in Ronald Reagan’s words, play innocents abroad in a world that’s not innocent.


Still, the Pentagon’s growing preoccupation with identity politics is corrosive to an institution built on cohesion and self-sacrifice. The country would be better prepared for a fight if a new President started to right the ship.

[Gunny]

Related?

https://www.wsj.com/articles/ron-desantis-military-plan-china-defense-culture-wars-pentagon-b3eb2211?mod=hp_opin_pos_1Good article, but not the exact topic I was thinking. It was the cluster bomb one. They approved and sent (or are sending) cluster bombs to Ukraine. That's digging deep into our stockpiles for weapons preferably not used.

Wonder what this moron thinks he's going to use in war after the initial hostilities take out the forward battle units. He who has the best reserves can maintain a fight. We would currently be in a hurt locker.

[Gunny]

The other thing I read I posted right after the Russia-Ukraine War began. It was about Raytheon, and how it had no plans resuming the production of stinger(?) missiles. Last produced in the 90s and apparently we had an over abundance. I guess el jeffe has given most of our surplus to Ukraine and whoever else we hand out weapons to because Raytheon is having to reinvent the wheel. Seems there are components no longer commercially available that used to go into them.