Quote of the Day: A Warning to Biden, Blinken and Sullivan About So-Called Allies

As Joe Biden galavants around Europe seeking to ingratiate the United States with a

gang of countries that are called the G20, it would serve him and the rest of his national

security team to think long and hard about who are America’s allies. Talleyrand, the

slippery French Foreign Minister who served many masters in the early Nineteenth

Century famously said “Nations don’t have friends, they only have interests”.

Joe and Company ought to wake up and smell the coffee. He isn’t President of the

world and his responsibility is to the American voters and taxpayers who put him into

office (oh well, mistakes do happen). Joe has just allowed millions of tons of European

steel and aluminum to be imported into the United States duty free, while the American

steel industry is at 85% capacity. The Monongahela Valley remains devastated. Biden

promised “build back better” and good paying jobs. Yes, for Americans. not

foreigners.. Joe apologized to one of our so called allies, France, for our daring to sell

nuclear submarines to Australia, enraging that third rate power who somehow has a

seat on the UN Security Council and has used it time after time to embarrass us.

Today’s quote tells us about the reliability of France. On April 22, 1934, French Foreign

Minister Jean-Louis Barthou visited Poland to propose to the Polish government an

“Eastern Locarno” Pact. He sought to convince the Polish leadership that France

would resist Hitler and not yield to his increasing demands on other European

countries. Marshal Pilsudski, the Polish leader said to Barthou:

“You will yield, gentlemen, you will yield. You would not be what

you are if you did not”.

Pilsudski understood whom he was dealing with. Barthou subsequently was

assassinated in Marseille together with Yugoslav King Alexander. France went on to

participate in the infamous Munich Conference (Sep. 1938) which led to the

dismemberment of the only democracy in central Europe, Czechoslovakia. As a result

of that conference, Poland was now surrounded on three sides by Nazi Germany. The

fourth side was dealt with by the Nazi Soviet pact (Aug. 1939). World War II started on

Sep. 1, 1939 and by the end of that month Poland ceased to exist. France, as an ally

proved to be utterly worthless. At the end of the day, the United States can only

depend on itself. Allies are abundant when the sun is shining. Not so much during foul

weather.

Garry S. Sklar

Las Vegas, NV

November 1, 2021