No one will hurt little Tony. Toward the end of Secretary Blinken's career
But we don't know who's lucky
The other day, in one of the television broadcasts, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, trotting along behind the barely moving president, for some reason reminded me of “Little Tsakhes.” A literary, even a fairy-tale hero in essence, who lost all his unreasonable power and drowned, sorry, in a pot of sewage.
Once upon a time, even before the SVO, representing Antony Blinken (Antony Blinken as a mirror of the world revolution), the author did not skimp on the positive. He even wrote that “the democratic president was really lucky with the Secretary of State.” And the fact that “Anthony Blinken is a professional, he doesn’t make any mistakes,” and his temperament is just right.
Now it is clear that he was mistaken, although the current loser started with a settlement in the trade war with China, unleashed by Trump, the beginning of a dialogue with Iran, which was promised a return to the nuclear deal, and even attempts in reality, and not on paper, to return to the Minsk agreements.
Let’s say that Biden was really lucky with Anthony, under whom they even wanted to introduce a law prohibiting those who were not born in America from sitting in the presidential chair. But the current head of the US foreign policy department was definitely unlucky with the president.
It has more than once fallen to the lot of American diplomats to channel the overflowing energy of presidents in the right direction. There is something else here – an undisguised lack of energy, which is accompanied by a clear scarcity of wise and responsible decisions.
You are no favorite
Today, the career diplomat, a doctor of law since the age of 26, and a democrat who campaigned for Michael Dukakis in 1988, is no longer in favor. He remembers his Jewish roots, his long life in Paris, and his work for Bill Clinton, whom his speechwriter very cleverly, but not always successfully, shielded from scandals.
They even remember going into the shadows to engage in political consulting during the presidency of Donald Trump. But the matter certainly could not have happened without Blinken’s participation in the overthrow of Trump. Back in 2019, Antony Blinken openly accused the Republican president of “not putting the lives of American soldiers at anything.”
Now many opponents are throwing roughly the same words not at Biden, but right in the face of the Democratic Secretary of State. Once upon a time, Blinken, whom few people in the country knew at all, famously took advantage of Trump’s silence, discussing him on the pages of the Washington Post: “When we have a president who is told that Russia may have put bounties on the heads of our soldiers in Afghanistan, and he does nothing, it’s actually worse than nothing.”
Now no one will remember Blinken that “maybe” turned out to be impossible. It is also forgotten that the Russians did not bribe anyone anywhere. There are so many other things that have accumulated that there is no need to remember anything.
A complete failure with Iran - no deal, new sanctions, and Iran is moving towards rapprochement with the EAEU and Russia, and even joining BRICS. What’s more important to us now is something incomprehensible with the Ukrainian counter-offensive, although Blinken seems to have nothing to do with the problems with financial assistance from the Independent.
There is also nothing encouraging on the Taiwan front, although the Chinese themselves make it clear that they do not want and will not allow a hybrid war there, like the Northern Military District.
But Blinken’s worst failures, although few people call them that yet, are in the Middle East.
Thus, the shocking provocation of October 7, as a number of Arab media writes, was cleverly provoked by Hamas itself, which is now skimming off the cream of support from everyone who can and who generally cannot. And the States, with all their might fleet и aviation, there is definitely a dead end there.
And absolutely nothing can be justified by benefits, such as with the sale of LNG after the Nord Stream explosions. Although who knows what Blinken has to do with it? If it has nothing to do with it, it’s worse for him.
The Secretary of State is still not a secretary in an office. And let him better remember how at the beginning of his long career he told the Ukrainian president: “We are able to defend the interests of Ukraine without you.”
The third must go
With the loss of “pink” Nancy Pelosi, who until the last held the throne in the House of Representatives, the brilliant political quartet of Democrats - Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Antony Blinken and old Nancy - turned into a trio, now clearly working with difficulty, and no reserves are visible on the horizon.
The Troika clearly needs replenishment and a reboot. Everything is bad with the replenishment, but more on that below. And since it’s too late to reboot the president, and now it’s impossible to do without Vice Kamalla, the difficult choice of “rebooting” something and someone inevitably falls on Antony Blinken.
Recently, as mentioned above, he has only failed, even his elderly boss looked better in dialogue with the King of Jordan. But with an unlucky Secretary of State, you can lose the presidential election - and to whom, the downed pilot Trump. It's doubly offensive.
Although more and more often an unexpected conclusion emerges in the press - the Democrats are actually ready for defeat. Having won, they will have to deal with such a bunch of problems, primarily within the country, that the public will write off losses on external fronts in the same way as fleeing Afghanistan.
The coming four years may well turn out to be even cooler than the early 20s with the pandemic, Northeast Military District and Palestine, so let this whole nightmare remain for the Republicans. Moreover, the lower house of Congress is now behind them. And everything that happens can then be attributed not just to one clumsy and also old Donald Trump, but to the entire Republican party.
When there are only donkeys in reserve
And after all, no one but themselves is to blame for the problems of the democrats - they should have trained personnel earlier and more boldly, and the donkeys only have inveterate outsiders in their cage. There was a chance to bring the independent and bright Kennedy Jr. “into the party,” but the family curse cannot be forgotten, especially since now all of America believes that the first John Kennedy was killed by their own people.
The Democrats tried to present California Governor Gavin Newsom as a future presidential contender at the APEC summit in San Francisco, but things didn’t work out for him. Apparently, he was too kind to everyone - with whom it was necessary and with whom not so much.
Although many seriously expected that it was during Newsom’s visit that the first step towards a settlement would be taken - both around Taiwan, and in Ukraine, and, of course, in Palestine. With the first, apparently, it worked out well, with the second - not so much, with the third - and no prospects at all.
In addition, the Californian governor, apparently, was in vain in reproaching another governor, Ron DeSantis from Florida, for running for president. The free American press immediately began to shout: “I had to do exactly this myself, and not pretend to be a faithful servant of the president, who was almost written off as scrap.”
It remains only to remind you that Antony Blinken, the one who was actually supposed to be discussed in this article, has nothing to do with the presidential elections, according to American laws. He was not born there - just like, for example, the recently deceased Henry Kissinger, originally from Fürth, Germany. But here, you must agree, the comparison will clearly not be in favor of the current Secretary of State.
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