{"id":59468,"date":"2021-09-24T12:08:57","date_gmt":"2021-09-24T17:08:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=59468"},"modified":"2021-09-24T12:08:57","modified_gmt":"2021-09-24T17:08:57","slug":"the-old-wars-are-over-welcome-to-bidens-new-wars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=59468","title":{"rendered":"The old wars are over. Welcome to Biden\u2019s new\u00a0wars"},"content":{"rendered":"

The old wars are over. Welcome to Biden\u2019s new\u00a0wars<\/a><\/h3>\n

Biden begins his first address to the UN General Assemble with a lie: \u201c\u2026the U.S. is not at war.\u201d \u2014<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Joe Lauria<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u201cJ<\/em><\/strong>oe Biden, in his first address to the United Nations General Assembly, told world leaders Tuesday: \u2018I stand here today, for the first time in 20 years, with the United States not at war.\u2019 According to the latest available White House war\u00a0<\/em>report<\/em>, the U.S. was involved in seven wars in 2018: Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Somalia, Libya, and Niger. The U.S. withdrew last month from Afghanistan, so the number of current U.S. wars is likely six.\u00a0 Likely because in an age of so-called counter-terrorism operations it\u2019s not entirely clear where U.S. forces are deployed. \u2026 In any case, the United States is not at peace, as Biden implied. With 800 military bases and installations around the world the U.S. remains perpetually on a war footing. \u2026 After leaving Afghanistan last month Biden indicated the Pentagon\u2019s attention would focus even more intently on Russia and China. The controversial, new U.S.-U.K.-Australia defense pact is clearly aimed at Beijing. Unlike Obama, Biden did not utter the words Russia or China in his speech.\u00a0 Instead he condemned them under the coded language of\u00a0 \u2018authoritarianism.\u2019 War is over. Welcome to the new war.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0\u2014Joe Lauria<\/strong>, Consortium News<\/p>\n

Joe Lauria is editor-in-chief of\u00a0Consortium News<\/em>\u00a0and a former UN correspondent for\u00a0The Wall Street Journal, Boston Globe<\/em>, and numerous other newspapers. He was an investigative reporter for the\u00a0Sunday Times\u00a0<\/em>of London<\/p>\n

\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The old wars are over. Welcome to Biden\u2019s new\u00a0wars Biden begins his first address to the UN General Assemble with a lie: \u201c\u2026the U.S. is not at war.\u201d \u2014 Joe Lauria \u201cJoe Biden, in his first address to the United Nations General Assembly, told world leaders Tuesday: \u2018I stand here today, for the first time […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[30675,6963,1320,12261,822,826,827,862],"class_list":["post-59468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-citizen-action-monitor","tag-consortium-news","tag-joe-biden","tag-joe-lauria","tag-un","tag-united-nations","tag-united-states","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59468"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59469,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59468\/revisions\/59469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}