That’s the Israeli Air Force, not the USAF or US Navy, who could have done this last year, and should have.

Almost a year ago this article predicted that the 2024 US Presidential election was going to cause instabilty around the world because of the Biden admnistration’s myriad weaknesses, starting with the senile old coot himself, but extending all the way down, and the first example in the argument came not from the Middle East but Mexico:

Blinken and Mayorkas traveled to Mexico City to meet with Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador to discuss how to stem the surge in illegal migrants crossing into the United States from Mexico. But instead of offering constructive proposals to address this crisis, López Obrador mocked Blinken and Mayorkas by dismissing the border crisis as a U.S. problem, called for opening border crossings, and urged the U.S. to strengthen its ties with Cuba and Venezuela.

A rookie mistake to attend such a meeting without knowing in advance what’s going to be said by the other party. But then Blinken had already been humiliated by Chinese diplomats at the start of Biden’s term when they castigated America using all the American Left’s language that the Democrats use, and of course they had figures like Iranian spy, Robert Malley.

The forecast continues to prove accurate even as “President” Biden has been shived by his own party as their nominee while keeping him in the saddle of the Presidency – because the Democrat Party winning is far more important than protecting the USA. From handing tens of billions of dollars to Iran and a billion or so to Hamas, the godawful disaster that was the Afghanistan withdrawal, letting the Ukraine situation turn into a war of attrition, watching China and Russia buddy up while the former intimidates the Phillipines, to North Korea’s greatly accelerated missile testing it’s just an endless tale of fuckups. Even the so-called success of NATO is more due to the EU leaders themselves than Biden.

A similar example emerged at the same time out of the US attempts to take on the Houthi rebels in Yemen as they shot missiles at cargo ships in the Gulf Aden, with France, then Italy and Spain refusing to participate in American’s Operation Prosperity Guardian. The twenty coalition members ended up contributing just two actual surface combatants, a slap in the face for the US and a worrying feature for a force that constantly talks of how important “allies and partners” are to the ability of the US Navy to perform its missions:

Now, when the chips are down, we see that our “allies and partners” have figured out what the rest of us have. The US is an erratic, unstable, and unreliable ally. It will abandon you at the drop of a hat. It will do profoundly stupid stuff without a second thought. American military leadership is so weak and feeble that you need to think twice about placing your men and ships under American command.

The result a year later is this situation:

The facts speak for themselves. We are losing control of one of the main trade routes because of Iran, and all of our vaunted high tech weaponry and overwhelming force has done nothing. There are many issues contributing to our navy’s inability to fight and win against a tiny opponent.

The first is the ridiculous idea of proportionality. The answer to the Houthis should be the total destruction of their fighting ability, not the carefully titrated destruction of a goatherd’s hut with a couple of AKs buried in the sand. The second is more serious…there is no political will to combat Iranian intransigence. In fact, a good portion of our current government is supportive of an ascendant Iran, hoping that it can act as a counterbalance to those difficult Jews in Israel.

No wonder the Israelis finally got sick of waiting and stepped up to the plate – and likely without telling Biden what they were going to do, as has been the case with their recent strikes against Hamas and Hezbollah.

American is sending more troops into the Middle East, to add to the 40,00 already scattered around there, but unless you’re willing to do something with them, what’s the point? The idea of deterrance is not to reach this point in the first place! (see also Ukraine).

And all of this fecklessness and chaos around the world could lead to worse before Biden is gone:

Xi Jinping has also been watching. He sees the sad state of our Navy — the result of one bipartisan failure after another going back more than 20 years. He sees that Biden and Harris have been tested repeatedly and been found wanting every time. Four years of Harris-Walz might be more than enough for Xi to decide that the time is right to take Taiwan, pacify the Philippines, and neutralize Japan — effectively booting the U.S. out of the western Pacific and cutting us off from some of our most vital trade.

A scythe would then cut from Ukraine through the Middle East and Africa and all the way across to the Pacific Ocean — a Third World War in every respect. Except, perhaps for nukes, one hopes, but hope is not a plan.

I haven’t been so concerned about the prospect of global war since the 1980’s, and probably moreso now because these wars could be waged without nuclear weapons, in which case MAD does not apply.

And if Harris is elected President all the current uselessness will be amplified.