“What do you think, we’re a great power or something?”
In Afghanistan, the British and French took the lead in getting their people out while Biden’s generals yelled at them to stop rescuing their people because it made them look bad.
An American convoy came under fire in Sudan.
France and Italy are evacuating their citizens. The Democrat surrender monkeys in D.C. have a familiar message. “Sorry you guys, you’re on your own. What do you think we’re a great power or something?”
As the violent struggle for power over Sudan reaches the one-week mark, the Biden administration is sticking firmly to its warning for private citizens: don’t expect to be rescued.
While the administration says it is working towards evacuating American embassy staff still stranded in the country, it makes no promises about other Americans who could get let behind.
“It is not our standard procedure to evacuate American citizens living abroad,” White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said on Friday.
Unless they’re woke lesbian basketball players who hate America. In that case no expenses will be spared and no compromises of national security will be too great.
Everyone else can go to hell or Sudan which is much the same thing.
Principal Deputy State Department spokesperson Vedant Patel said that officials had been in touch with several hundred of the estimated 16,000 U.S. citizens in Sudan concerning “security measures and other precautions they can take on their own.”
Several hundred.
Meanwhile, Italy is evacuating not only its own people, but Swiss nationals.
The Swiss foreign ministry said seven staff and five companions had been evacuated for security reasons “thanks to a collaboration with our partners”.
The foreign ministry tweet thanked France for its assistance, but it emerged early that Italy had also provided support.
On Sunday, Italy said it had helped evacuate its own nationals, but also Swiss citizens and members of the embassy of the Holy See in Sudan.
Not to mention other Europeans.
Late Sunday evening the foreign affairs ministry said in a statement the “first phase” of the evacuation from Sudan had been carried out with the transfer of 105 Italians and 31 foreigners, including Portuguese, Australian, Greek, British, and Swedish nationals, on board an Italian Air Force C130 and a Spanish Air Force AM400 to Djibouti.
Relatively weak European countries are not only getting their people out, but also foreigners. Biden won’t even evacuate Americans.
On Friday, National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby discussed the challenges of evacuating the embassy, saying it’s “not as simple as jumping in a taxicab” and that all U.S. government personnel had not yet been consolidated in a single location.
If only we had some sort of globe-spanning military that we spend hundreds of billions of dollars on that could undertake such a process and then perhaps secure our borders against 2 million illegal invaders.
Oh well. If Americans left behind in Sudan want to get out, they need to learn to play basketball, go lesbian and burn the American flag.
Then Biden might do something.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
I guess Europe can now open itself to another wave of this time primarily Sudanese, but a whole bunch of other muslims from elsewhere thrown in! This time, it’ll be up to Egypt to let them across the Mediterranean
The Euro-Left parties can now throw out their ‘Refugees welcome’ mats while millions come rushing in. I suppose we could start them in EU centers like Brussels, Strasbourg, Geneva and so on?
tim gallagher says
That will probably happen. A new wave of the endlessly invading Muslim hordes. Here in Australia, the Sudanese have been a disaster with youths from that country providing very violent crime gangs, with often very young members, that were causing lots of mayhem (home invasions, carjackings, etc) particularly in Melbourne. I’m sure that they will be the same in western European countries if they are allowed to invade countries there.
Keith O says
Hey Tim, The Sudanese are a problem, but not as much as the Nigerians. The Sudanese are a mix of Christian and mudslime but the Nigerians are predominately mudslime,
I know from talking with a mate who is Vic pol that the use of knives went up dramatically with the influx of Africans into Melbourne, with some suburbs now being off limits to cops after work.
somehistory says
lesbians, and males who claim to be female; and of course, any mozlum who makes a plea of the fake phobia, while these same slam the Freedoms others use to express their feelings, feelings of questioning policy or just voicing some disapproval.
Any Americans who don’t fit in the special groups can just do the best they can do.
Much like Christians feeling the persecution in sudan.
It’s obvious biden and his fellow corrupt *officials* don’t have any morals, any ethics, any natural affection…but will bend over backward to assist the members of the special groups…and the chinese.
andrew kuncas says
I would imagine the majority of the 16,000 ‘American citizens’ in Sudan are of Sudanese origin and will fit right in. They are in Sudan enjoying a vacation to the Old Country reinvigorating their roots from a place they fled claiming to be refugees because it was so horrible – which it is actually.
Marz says
There are a fair number of Sudanese Brits, after having fled Sudan, got asylum then returned for a vacation. Leave them there I say.
maria says
Yes, the Sudanese are Sudanese even if some of them are European, Australian, American citizenship.And most Sudanese are muslims.
They must stay in their country
Drew458 says
Am I wrong in thinking that you get asylum because you’re in fear of your life due to the situation in you home country? So if you later go back there for a VACATION … haven’t you just shown and admitted that being there is no life or death threat to you any longer? So … say goodbye to the asylum. But I’m just a common person with common sense. It takes an expert like John Kerry to understand the nuances.
Kepha says
Evacuating people in a crisis spot isn’t always as easy as it seems from a few thousand miles away. While diplomatic personnel can be quickly concentrated in the capital, and perhaps other nationals nearby (at least the ones who have registered with the consular section), there are also the adventurous types who might be out in the bush, who have never registered with the consulate, and who may, perhaps, enjoy watching a crisis unfold.
When in Bangkok, a distragut mother called in the midst of peaceful, ordinary times, trying to find her little Jonny. Fortunately, little Johnny (aged 30) had registered with the consular section, but when I called him to tell him his mother was looking for him, he told me flat out that the reason he was living in up-country Thailand was to get as far as possible from a family he hated, and he would get me fired if I revealed his whereabouts to any of them. I could only confirm to the guy’s mother that her son was alive and in country, but Privacy Act considerations precluded my sharing anything else. While the movies and conspiracy theories would have us believe that NSA and CIA know exactly how much fecal matter we expelled this morning, the truth of the matter is that it is not hard to evade notice of the US government when you are living abroad. Afghanistan must’ve been a nightmare for US Consular officers tasked with notifying American expats at the time of the collapse; Sudan is probably not that different.
world citizen says
Difference is attitude. I was in Thailand “during” 2004 tsunami. Very BIG difference between European and American response to their citizens in country for whatever reason. European embassies had desk/tables manned 24/7 later on a shared rotating schedule in airports/bus terminals. American had a small, A4/letter size, message hung in airport arrival area with a number to call “during business hours”.
Billy Corr says
When Lebanon went through yet another crisis, the Canadians left no stone unturned in their efforts to rescue and care for Lebanese-Canadians.
Within a year, at least a quarter of those “rescued” were back in Lebanon.
OLD GUY says
If you are an American citizen who voluntarily travels or lives in Sudan you knew the risk before you traveled there.
The American government has an obligation to protect the men and women of our embassy and military that are there on behalf of our government.