In an address this week to U.S. military forces at the Royal Air Force base in Mildenhall, England, President Joe Biden tried to convince troops climate change is “the greatest threat facing America.”
“You know, when I went over in the Tank in the Pentagon, when I first was elected Vice President, with President Obama, the military sat us down to let us know what the greatest threats facing America were — the greatest physical threats,” Biden said. “And this is not a joke: You know what the Joint Chiefs told us the greatest threat facing America was? Global warming. Because there’ll be significant population movements, fights over land, millions of people leaving places because they’re literally sinking below the sea in Indonesia; because of the fights over what is arable land anymore.”
While some might be shocked at such a claim — one that ignores a whole host of legitimate foreign and domestic threats facing America today — Biden’s rhetoric aligns with his prior remarks, as well as the sentiments from his administration.
In October 2020, in an interview with Dan Pfeiffer, a former senior advisor in the Obama administration, Biden said climate change is the “number one issue facing humanity.” Forget Russia, Communist China, the U.S.-Mexico border crisis, the Black Lives Matter organization, Antifa, Islamic terrorism, or the nation’s suicide and mental health crisis. There is no shortage of items more threatening than an issue both highly politicized and steeped in ambiguous science.
Vice President Kamala Harris noted in her May commencement speech at the Naval Academy that there are three notable threats our military will be tasked to deal with: COVID-19 and preventing pandemics, intelligence hacking, and — you guessed it — climate change. Of course, Harris has yet to take seriously her role as a world leader, and America eagerly awaits her presence as border liaison.
Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman General Mark Milley and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin testified Thursday before the Senate Armed Services Committee soon after Biden’s address. Foreseeably placed in an odd position by the president, Milley was unwilling to take a firm stance against Biden.
“The president is looking at it from a much broader angle than I am,” Milley testified. “I’m looking at it from a strictly military standpoint. And from a strictly military standpoint, I’m putting China and Russia up there.”
But in a more clear fashion, Austin aligned with Biden. Indeed, his opening statement mentioned the phrase “climate change” 15 times. It was nothing out of left field for the defense secretary, however. After all, it was Austin who spoke at the Leaders Summit on Climate in April and called climate change an “existential threat.”
“Today, no nation can find lasting security without addressing the climate crisis. We face all kinds of threats in our line of work, but few of them truly deserve to be called existential. The climate crisis does,” Austin said, in addition to, “climate change is making the world more unsafe and we need to act.”
Milley and Austin’s remarks are more guarded than Biden and Harris’s but still point to a White House inadequately communicating what represents the greatest crisis facing the United States. Still, while migrants cross the border in numbers unseen in decades, the White House blames climate change for the surge instead of its Remain in Mexico repeal and flimsy stance that signals to illegals that they will face fewer consequences for breaking the law in Biden’s America.
Biden has been more focused on appeasing the far-left wing of the party that thinks we will drop dead if we don’t start devouring insects or buying exorbitant electric cars. To the administration, killing jobs over climate orders, joining a costly international agreement, offering climate change as infrastructure, touting trillion-dollar federal plans, and appointing John Kerry as a climate envoy with no scientific experience are all deemed as more pertinent than any legitimate threats.
Even the U.S. Army has joined the energy bandwagon, releasing a memo titled “U.S. Army: Addressing Climate Change Threats” that states climate change is a “serious threat to U.S. National security interests and defense objectives” and “The Army has a lot to be proud of, yet there is a lot of work to continue to operate efficiently across extreme weather and climate conditions.”
Still, data indicates climate change is not the threat that members of the Democratic Party claim it is. As energy expert Marc Morano pointed out to the Federalist in March, “The alleged ‘climate emergency’ is merely a premise for achieving the political goals that the left has sought for decades.” The aim? Expanding the role of government until it has been involuntarily injected into our homes. And as long as the left operates in a vacuum of idealism and denial, it will continue to hurt the American people.
It is no wonder Biden joked to the troops and said, “I keep forgetting I’m president.” It’s long past time for him to start remembering.
via thefederalist
Biden’s Climate Change Stance Exposes A Delusional Administration
So he thought he would try this in England first. I hope they laughed him off the Island.
They aren’t very bright over there.
The greatest threat to America is Joe Biden, Kamala Harris and the democrat/communist party.
Delusional???? This administration makes the Keystone Cops look like Einstein. Pedo Joe has the IQ of a piece of Granite. He cannot grasp the idea that his administration are not his friends and are not concerned with his best interests nor those of this country. He is more than ill-equipped for having any responsibility in any undertaking regardless of how simple that may be. Congress had better do something before we pass that threshhold of no return.
Every decade, for going on forty years now, we’ve been told we only have 10-12 years to save the planet from the ravages of first “global warming”, and when that didn’t sell, “climate change”. In the meanwhile any changes in climate have been nearly indiscernible.
You’d think people would wise up to the scam by now.
I believe it was just before the 2020 election that AOC said we only had a few months left. And some crazy woman was telling her and other to eat their babies.
Would you like to know WHY Democrats push ‘Climate Change’ ? Simply look at Al Gore’s net worth and how shortly it too him to achieve it. Now you see their motivation. There is absolutely NO other reason.
The BUYING and SELLING of Carbon Credits will make many DUMMYCRATS very rich.
We must stop them from doing it.
Exactly! I have been saying this about that lying thief Al Gore for a long time! He is a corrupt lying phony!
BUT I THOUGH CHINA JOE XIDEN SAID. “The biggest security threat facing America is
WHITE SUPREMACY”?
Biden and his so-called Administration of CLOWNS are not just merely delusional, THEY ARE THE REAL THREAT AND DANGER TO AMERICA AND IT’S LEGAL CITIZENRY!
I’d like to forget that he is President too, but the disaster he has created in the country with the immigration mess, the loss of our energy independence, the mess of handing out money that is not needed and causing a severe worker shortage (not jobs, there are plenty of jobs, it is the people who don’t need to work because of the extra Covid money that are the problem!), inflation that seems to know no end, not to mention trying to weaponize the DOJ against the legal obligation a State has to audit its own elections! These are the messes that make it impossible for me to forget that he cheated his way into the White House and is a fraud of a President!!!
Don’t let a disaster go to waste. Isn’t that the dems montra? So they claim disasters all over the place. Dems and media lie! That’s all we need to remember.
LOL…drooling Joe IS a one man disaster.
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What we have that was Bought and Paid for to be in the Government right now is the Climate Change.The Socialist-Communist are the Ruin of this once Great Country. Starting with ObumDung, then trickled down to Beijing Joe. No it isn’t Climate Change that is a threat to this Country we have Climate Change already Destroting which is the Socialist-Communist Party
He’s a moron. Straight up and down has no clue or really does know China is taking over the world the no good sneaky cowards that makes them yellow bellied people and just wants to sit back and let them. After all with all the side deals he and his nim-witted son have with the yellow cowards, he stands to get richer and richer by letting them take over this once great nation. We need to form militia and take the government back from these America hating idiots. Anybody would be better running this country than dumb dumb Biden and Harris. My 5 year old grandson could do a better job.
You are so right! I agree!
I disagree with Joe Biden, The Biden administration along with Harris, Pelosi and company are the greatest threat to the United States of America.
It’s not an administration It’s a corrupt commie regime! And they are all unqualified hacks!