From Japan to Ukraine to Poland, nations are rethinking Biden’s “ironclad” promises.
Biden recently visited the Holocaust Museum and delivered a speech in which he pledged an “ironclad” commitment to the “security of Israel”.
On Wednesday, Biden sat down with CNN and announced an arms embargo on Israel.
This is bad news for the Jewish State, but it’s also bad news for every nation to whom Biden had offered his “ironclad” commitments in the past. And that turns out to be much of the world.
In March, Biden had greeted Polish President Andrzej Duda and Prime Minister Donald Tusk at the White House and vowed that, “America’s commitment to Poland is ironclad.”
In April, ahead of a meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos, Biden promised, “The United States defense commitments to Japan and to the Philippines are ironclad. They’re ironclad.”
Then at a press conference with Prime Minister Kishida, Biden touted another, now discredited, ironclad promise. “As I told Prime Minister Netanyahu, our commitment to Israel’s security against these threats from Iran and its proxies is ironclad. Let me say it again: ironclad.”
And in troubling news for Ukraine, Biden agreed in a 60 Minutes interview that his commitment to that war was also ironclad.
But is there a country out there that doesn’t have an ironclad commitment from Biden?
Last year, Biden held a joint press conference with President Yoon Suk Yeol of South Korea and assured him that, “our mutual defense treaty is ironclad.”
Biden has been throwing out ironclad commitments around the world like a peddler selling secondhand goods. As Obama’s veep, he boasted to Jordan’s King Abdullah of “America’s ironclad support”. And he more recently told the Greeks of our “ironclad friendship.”
The Gulf nations looking for an “ironclad security pact” with America may get one, but the price of iron isn’t what it used to be. Especially iron out of the ice cold forges of Washington D.C.
While he has been offering a lot of “ironclad” commitments to the rest of the world, it’s not just individual nations that may be reevaluating the value of Biden’s ironclad assurances.
“My commitment to NATO and Article 5 is ironclad,” Biden had claimed in 2022 as Sweden and Finland had lined up to join the security alliance.
“Our sacred commitment to NATO remains ironclad,” the White House recently posted.
At a meeting with the leaders of 9 Eastern European countries and the NATO Secretary General, Biden assured them all of America’s “ironclad commitment to NATO’s Article 5.”
To paraphrase Oprah, you get an ironclad commitment, you get an ironclad commitment, and you get an ironclad commitment. And it’s worth about as much as those empty words.
The rest of the world has learned that Biden’s ironclad is rusted through, but what about his past “ironclad” promises to Americans?
Biden had described social security as “an ironclad commitment” and the White House claims that “President Biden’s 2024 budget shows an ironclad commitment to protecting Social Security and Medicare against all cuts.” The reality is that Biden’s inflationary wasteful 2024 budget further bankrupts Social Security. Biden’s iron isn’t good at home or abroad.
In further bad news for Americans, Biden also claimed that the budget “fulfills my ironclad promise that no one earning less than $400,000 per year would pay an additional penny in new taxes.” So assume that the tax hikes on everyone are coming.
Last year, we were told that “the President has an ironclad commitment to supporting communities across the Nation as they recover from disasters.”No wonder America has become a disaster area.
Ironclads were battleships impervious to the weapons of the day because they were covered in heavy armor. It’s not really the best metaphor for a commitment, but it’s a perfectly good metaphor for Biden’s imperviousness to telling the truth or remembering what he once said.
When you offer “ironclad commitments” to everyone you meet, they’re worthless. A commitment to everyone is a commitment to no one. That is one of the great gaping flaws of globalism.
Adding “ironclad” or any particular word to a commitment doesn’t make it stronger. Iron may add more armor to a warship, but it doesn’t add anything to a man’s word. What makes a man’s word count is the strength of his character and that is shown by his willingness to keep his word.
Biden betrayed Israel because he had made a lot of ironclad commitments. He had made commitments to Jewish voters in New York City and Hamas supporters in Dearborn, Michigan. His administration had made commitments to leftists and to moderates. In the face of escalating fire from leftists, his ironclad armor buckled and he sank in the shallow mud off Foggy Bottom.
This is a problem for America more than anyone else.
International relationships, like all human relationships, are built on trust. Treaties are just pieces of paper and handshakes are so routine that diplomats need wrist braces. The Pax Americana is more than anything else an empire of trust. And we held off WWIII for three generations because most of the world believed that we meant what we said about things like nuclear retaliation, NATO’s Article 5 or anything else. Whatever you believe about those policies, American power and influence would be a non-starter if the president’s word were worthless.
When a president draws a red line and then does nothing, more wars are likely to follow. If he offers defense commitments that he doesn’t keep, our enemies are more likely to attack. If America stops defending its allies, those enemies will then test if we will defend ourselves.
And if we don’t, they will attack the United States of America.
Our military is short of recruits, our Navy is short of ships and our Air Force has a whole lot of planes that won’t fly. In war games, China tends to win and we tend to lose. What keeps China from pushing farther is all those nukes sitting quietly under Iowa cornfields. Will we use them?
Beijing doesn’t know for sure, but every time Biden offers another worthless promise, the odds look better for the People’s Republic of China and all our other enemies. And worse for us.
Americans and the world have learned the worthlessness of Biden’s ironclad commitments. None of us know what the future will bring, the one thing we know is whom we can’t trust.
Wellington says
Biden is a rotten man. He was rotten before he started losing his mediocre mind (e.g., his plagiarism in 1988 which forced him to drop out of the Presidential race back then) and he is still rotten. Bad habits die hard even for people with dementia.
He is exactly the kind of politician that the Founding Fathers of America despised. And now he is nominally (hey, let’s face it, this is Obama’s third term and Obama, not Biden, is the chief problem in modern America to this very day) the occupier of the most powerful office on Earth. It’s an ongoing travesty as well as a colossal mockery.
No one should believe what Biden says until independent confirmation occurs and if he states one way or another he is “stalwart” in support of this or that, simply ignore him, do not trust him. That old line comes to mind here, with friends like him who needs enemies?
Biden has actually been such a liar throughout his life (examples being that he had three majors in college, graduated in the top half of his law class at Syracuse, marched in the Civil Rights movement, got arrested in South Africa and that inflation was 9% when he became President in 2021) that the only debatable issue is whether he believes his lies or not. After all, inveterate liars often begin to believe the rot they spout, so twisted and screwed-up is their psyche. Biden for example.
Yes, it’s come to this in America with a completely underwhelming human being as President and, assuming that Biden is still the Democratic nominee for President in November, anyone voting for him has something wrong with them—ignorance, the great and unfortunate error which is youth, actual malevolence, et al. Never count on Biden to do the right thing. Actually, you will be best prepared if you assume he will always do the wrong thing or screw things up one way or another.
Joe Biden has no virtues or wisdom or integrity. None.
James Lincoln says
Wellington says,
“He is exactly the kind of politician that the Founding Fathers of America despised.”
Yes.
At some point, someone as bad as him was likely to come along.
I consider him to be “stress-testing” the U.S. Constitution.
I just hope that the U.S. Constitution holds…
somehistory says
James, one of biden’s ‘kind’, nadler, said, “quote” and then proceeded to say what the Constitution has to say about the American people having guns, only he left out some of the most important words in his “quote.” nadler left out “the people.”
Some say it was unintentional….some say on purpose. After all, he did say “quote” before he began.
I believe all of the bobiden gang are “testing” to see just how much they can bend and break the Law of the land.
https://bearingarms.com/tomknighton/2024/05/09/nadler-omits-key-part-of-second-amendment-in-quote-n1224843
James Lincoln says
somehistory,
Nadler is a lot of things, but he is not stupid.
The omitted phrase in his quote was – in my opinion – deliberate.
tim gallagher says
Yes, Biden seems to me to be a disgusting, totally corrupt, and, these days, demented grub of a human being, Wellington. How do you see that debate going against Trump? I can’t imagine how the shit for brains, senile Biden could possibly turn up and debate anyone. Surely pretty well any sentient being would wipe the floor with Biden. To watch Biden and Harris in action really is like watching the decline and fall (hopefully only temporarily) of a country of great achievements..
Wellington says
tim gallagher: I’m not sure the debates will even occur in the first place (the Biden camp may very well try to weasel out of them on some technicality which will point to Trump as the villain). But if they do occur, Biden should be drug tested before them because of various drugs that can make a person with dementia (which Biden clearly has) temporarily more lucent, which is exactly what many suspect occurred with Biden’s State of the Union speech before Congress in March when his shouting and anger were two indications of this.
Also, too much criticism of Biden as a moral and cognitive idiot (which he is) could backfire as well, assuming the debates occur, because then all that Biden has to do is survive a very low bar of expectations and thereafter the highly dishonest MSM and other lackeys for him will, guaranteed, assert he was just fine if not terrific—“sharp as a knife” as one very dishonest commercial airing here in America has described him. .
Many pitfalls for Trump here, including as well having CNN and ABC hosting the two scheduled debates. Both networks are completely in the tank for Biden and have already compared Trump to Hitler. Yeah, oh yeah, Trump had better be careful because the deck is already stacked against him though I’m sure Trump knows this but…..
tim gallagher says
Thanks for that information, Wellington. I did hear a commentator out here mention that the debate might be rigged a bit in Biden’s favour because of the left leaning networks who were hosting it. Having seen Biden and his mental confusion a lot of the time, and the way he really is mostly just trying to read his lines off a teleprompter, I think that Trump will run rings around the hopelessly demented creature. I realise that Obama or others must surely be running the show but to have a person in Biden’s mental and physical shape in the position of President is sickening. If it weren’t so serious, it would be like some bizarre comedy with a plot line that is almost impossible to believe. Strange days indeed. I must say that i never thought I would see such a demented person in such an important position.
Phil Denny says
You are “right on” Wellington! And I mean every single thing that you said is absolute truth!
Biden is a demented old fool. You could have gone on and on even further, and been true in everything you said. Good job, brother!
somehistory says
The Book of Daniel, in describing for the readers of same, conditions with governments through his lifetime and through the years on down to what to expect in the “time of the end” lets us see what is to be, perhaps what is now.
In chapter two, the prophet tells King Nebuchadnezzar what the king’s dream meant. The king had dreamed of a great statue, with head of gold, other strong and precious metals down to the feet, which were made “partly of iron and partly of molded clay.”
Easily smashed and broken by a ‘stone’ cut out of a ‘mountain.’ Cut out, not by human hands and hurled at the feet.
With all of biden’s meaningless agreements and promises, his “ironclad” is much like the “feet, partly of iron and partly of molded clay.”
Perhaps the Prophet Daniel was describing biden’s part in that statue.
Phil Copson says
“Pine-clad promises”. – everyone who believes them ends up dead.
somehistory says
That’s a good one, Phil.
Phil Copson says
“Pine-clad promises” – anyone who believes them ends up dead.
FYI says
Imagine if there was a war on and Joe Biden was C-in-C?
Exactly.
Just doesn’t bear thinking about does it?
James Lincoln says
FYI,
From my perspective, there is already a low-grade – but pervasive – war going on in the United States called:
The weaponization of the US government.
But I get your point.
Taffy says
Any prime minister that would rely on any commitment that Biden makes, before it actually happens, should not be let outside without his mother.
All I can say is WTF? Civilization is in a tailspin, ubiquitous war is near, and the man with several firearms, several thousand rounds of ammo, and a preparedness plan will be the only survivor when the SHTF.
tgusa says
The clueless American establishment is riding the coattails of a bygone era. None of them seemed to have noticed that, courtesy of them, America is a shadow of what it once was. The majority of the world wants nothing to do with the shit-show US leadership has produced and I cant blame the rest of the world for that.
Wellington says
You state the truth, tgusa. I wish it weren’t the truth but it is.
The American people as a whole are still a wonderful and generous people (N.B., these are essentially the very “deplorables” and “extremists” that political vermin such as Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden have lied about). They believe in liberty and the capacity of America to become, per the Constitution itself—which four-time Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, one William Gladstone, called the single greatest document ever created by man—“a more perfect union.”
America as an ideal still remains. Even if America dies, a horrible prospect, I would still dream of her because, a la Abraham Lincoln, she is the last best hope of mankind. If America dies, the best of humanity dies.
But those now running America have, and as you noted, effectively betrayed it. Life-long politicians from both parties, the now simply horrible MSM, certainly the educational establishment in modern America and which is an utter disgrace, and other rank elements like Big Business, Big Tech, and even professional sports franchises that have bought into the Marxist DEI rot, are all guilty of trying to destroy the single greatest experiment in human history—and why I tend to study geological history more so recently because human history in our era is so damn depressing and then some. But I digress. In any care, thank you for your accurate (though tragic) comment.
tgusa says
“You state the truth, tgusa.”
As do you Wellington.
With each passing day I miss the country I was born in to more and more. I am actually quite angry about it and with good reason.
James Lincoln says
Biden: a narcissistic pathological liar and criminal.
In other words, a psychopath – and “resident” of the Oval Office.
Boy, are we in deep sh*t.
Wellington says
Strongly seconded, James.
You know, I at least wish that the simply horrible and destructive Joe Biden would realize before he dies all the harm he has done to America throughout his half century political career. But I think it almost a certainty that this lying, inept and corrupt bastard will actually go to his grave thinking he has been wonderful and a true gift to America.
If America gets a few more Bidens like Biden it will be finished. A certainty.
Walter Sieruk says
Maybe with Joe Biden’s feeble but treacherous mind the term ‘Ironclad” means something entirely to him ,as in contrast to the dictionary definition of that word.
Regardless if that’s a valid statement or not , Biden’s betrayal of the State of Israel takes many sinister forms From his efforts to lift sanctions on that “mullah regime” of Iran ,to supplying it with much money than more recently halting important and necessary shipments of arms to Israel in her war of self -defense against that vile heinous malicious and murderous jihad entity Hamas, that Iran supplies with deadly weapons.
Let’s face it, Joe Biden is a pathological liar and his empty and false promises and words about “Ironclad ” commitments mean nothing, nothing at all.
tgusa says
Walter Sieruk,
Translating leftist speak “Ironclad’ = blowin in the wind, all the strength of a wet noodle, flopping around on the shore like a beached fish. The only functioning neurons biden has are limited to pathological lying, false promises, commitments that in actuality mean nothing. In comparison, biden makes idiots look smart.
tgusa says
But lets never forget that among democrats biden is their top man. Top. Man. Sadly, it only gets worse as we go down the line.
tharmon says
Biden is crap
James Lincoln says
somehistory,
In my humble opinion, anti-gun Nadler purposely misquoted the Second Amendment for political purposes .
somehistory says
Thank you, James. And that’s my opinion, also.
OLD GUY says
Biden the worst of mankind, everything you don’t want your children to become.
40 rounds says
I still have to pinch myself to believe that a moron like Biden is president. I’ve often said here that he showered with his daughter and she has recently confirmed this. He is a total pervert and incestuous creep.
somehistory says
Ugly, inside and out. Disgusting to look at and listen to.
40 rounds says
Agreed, sh
Walter Sierik says
That treacherous rat , and liar ,Joe Biden, had said that with him and his administration America’s support for Israel is “Iron clad: did indeed betrayed Israel v as seen that he strive stop the shipment of weapons to Israel, No matter how important and necessary arms are needed in Israel’s self-defense against those vicious and murderous attacks of Hamas and Hezbollah.
This is because that fiendish villain Biden, has ,indeed, totally abandoned Israel , likewise he betrayed her. Biden even has the diabolical gall to attempt to impose sanctions on the Israel Defense Force all the while he’s providing that aggressive Israel and America hating hostile Islamic regime of Iran, which supports Hamas, with billions of dollars and then he wants to send Iran even more money Before this betrayal of the State of Israel and the United States ,Biden allowed that Islamic tyranny that to obtain billons of dollars . How terribly wicked of Biden .For that belligerent ”mullah regime” of Iran calls Israel “The little Satan and the US “The great Satan.”
We may be sure that either in a direct way or an indirect way will use that money to advance its nuclear weapons program and further its stooge terror/murder jihad organizations which are Hamas, Hezbollah , Islamic Jihad.
Some Westerners might find in a bit interesting that Ayatollah Khamenei as well as the other ayatollahs and mullahs who have so much terrible power in Iran , don’t ever engage in any shootings and bombings , they just have their useful idiots who are the Muslim terrorists those three horrendous jihad entities to the dirty work of murdering of people for them as their tools.
Some of that vast amount of money Biden those in power in Iran to obtain will , without doubt , also be given in support to further found Hamas and also Hezbollah and Islamic Jihad.
Truly, Joe Biden is a treacherous scoundrel.
Phil Denny says
I was waiting in a medical office a while back. There was a gentleman sitting across from me wearing a hat.
And on the hat were these words: “I miss the America I grew up in”. Wow. Bullseye. Right on.
And that is Exactly the way I feel.
I miss the America I grew up in.