Biden’s Weakness, to a Degree That’s Almost Risible, Is Leaving America Increasingly Outgunned, Diplomatically Speaking
The White House seems incapable of charting any kind of course correction in America’s — or Israel’s — favor as the outlook in the Middle East darkens.
The declaration from the G7 summit in Japan on Wednesday morning was almost risible: The group’s members are “working together” to deny Hamas “the ability to raise funds to carry out atrocities” by “imposing sanctions and other measures.” How much America’s top diplomat, Secretary Blinken, had to do with that weasley wordsmithing is not clear.
Yet as with President Biden’s studious sanctioning of Russia after it invaded Ukraine and not before, this looks like the tail wagging the dog. Endless parleys of world leaders like the one under way at Tokyo might actually be worthwhile were there any payoff, but increasingly they look like so much grasping at diplomatic straws.
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