Biden Preps America for World War Three?

President Joe Biden addressed the nation from the Oval Office last night. It felt as if the President had two agenda items – tie Ukraine to Israel, by equating the Islamic terrorist militia Hamas with Russian President Vladimir Putin, and then ask the country for more money.

As Biden stated in his address:

Hamas and Putin represent different threats but they share this in common: They both want to completely annihilate a neighboring democracy, completely annihilate it. Hamas’ stated purpose for exiting is the destruction of Israel and the murder of Jewish people.

While the President is correct in his summation of Hamas, I’m not sure he should compare them to Putin. Hamas is an Islamic terrorist organization. Putin, regardless of his heinous actions, is still the president of a major world power with nuclear weapons. Hamas does not have a nuclear arsenal at its disposal – at least not yet. It’s also not a country. It’s a terrorist army funded by another country that wants to see Israel destroyed – Iran.

But what made many people watching the speech uncomfortable was the sense that this particular address was only to prepare Americans for the next one – the one where Biden announces that the United States is now involved in a global conflict. We certainly hope that is not the case, but there were overtures in Biden’s speech that indicated our inevitable involvement in this conflict.

President Biden also announced his plan to send Congress an urgent request to approve his humanitarian aid package to the tune of nearly $105 BILLION in taxpayer dollars, of which $60 billion will be sent to Ukraine. Only a reported $14 billion will be earmarked for Israel. So the President used his Oval Office address on the war in Israel to ask for more money to send to Ukraine. 

It’s also interesting to note that President Biden wants $14 billion for securing our southern border with Mexico. And I say that’s great that he seems to finally be taking the humanitarian crisis in our own country seriously. Two years ago, it was Biden who canceled former President Trump’s border wall project which only cost $6 billion. Now he wants more than double what Trump wanted to finish the same job. If Congress approves this, can they at least add an addendum that Biden has to publicly admit that he was wrong about the border wall and Trump was right? We won’t hold our breath.

ACLJ Senior Advisor for Foreign Policy and National Security Ric Grenell joined me on the broadcast and I asked for his reaction to the President’s address:

I was struck by just how low the bar is for Joe Biden now. If he can complete a speech that is in a teleprompter in front of him . . . the media just hails it as an amazing moment, a Churchillian moment. I think that most Americans that live outside of Washington, D.C., are looking at this and saying what? This is ridiculous. Why are we putting Israel funding in Ukraine funding?

[Ohio Senator] J.D. Vance . . . came out very strong right away and said no, we are not going to put both of these together. You can consider them separately. They’re completely in separate parts of the world. They are different criteria. One we’ve been funding for more than a year at high levels. The other is a crisis right now. I think that what Biden is trying to do is just use the power of the media which always goes along with him and quickly get us to fund everything.

Is the President trying to pull a fast one on the American people? He knows that the majority of us believe in supporting Israel, especially in light of these most recent atrocities by Hamas. So it appears he’s using that empathy to somehow siphon off more funding for Ukraine, which many Americans might not be in favor of, especially given how many billions we’ve already sent.

Today’s full Sekulow broadcast includes more analysis of Biden’s address with Ric Grenell. We’re also joined by ACLJ Senior Counsel (and former U.S. Secretary of State) Mike Pompeo who shared his reaction to the Biden speech, as well as the President’s failures that may have led to this latest conflict.

Watch the full broadcast below: