The election of President Joe Biden under extremely questionable conditions was hugely welcomed by many in America and Europe.... The leaders of countries that are the enemies of the United States seemed even more delighted. Iran's then President Hassan Rouhani said on November 5, 2020: "The next US administration will surrender to the Iranian nation". Communist China's President Xi Jinping said nothing but instantly stepped up military provocations against Taiwan and Australia, India, the Philippines and Japan.

From the first days of its existence, the Biden administration spoke of terrorism, but seemingly to refer only to "white supremacy" and "domestic terrorism" -- evidently meaning Republicans and other Americans who had voted for Trump. Concessions to Islamic terrorism quickly followed. On February 12, the Houthi militia was removed from the Department of State list of terrorist organizations and started to receive US humanitarian aid. A few weeks later, their attacks on Saudi Arabia resumed. On February 18, the UN sanctions on Iran reinstated by Trump were rescinded, and economic sanctions partially lifted. Iran could now deliver missiles to Hamas, which used them in May to launch a massive attack on Israel.

The Afghan disaster was put in place. The Biden administration, unlike the Trump administration, had shown the Taliban and al-Qaeda that they had nothing to fear. The American media and the rest of the Western world hardly commented on the deceitful, catastrophic and deadly way the United States surrendered Afghanistan.

An editorial of the French newspaper Le Monde spoke with joy of the "long list of humiliations suffered by the United States". Several European leaders said they feared a return of Islamic terrorism to Europe, and started to react as most European leaders have reacted for decades: by trying to appease those who threaten their countries.

Meanwhile, the only person under investigation for the completely avoidable strategic failure of America's surrender to the Taliban in Afghanistan is decorated US Marine officer, Lt. Col. Stuart Scheller. He is currently in pre-trial detention at the Marine Corps brig at Camp Lejeune, for violating a "gag order" to bar him from asking senior leaders for accountability.

"What do you call a party whose leaders require all of America's soldiers to undergo indoctrination in an ideology that calls for the 'dismantling' of America and tells them that their oath to defend the Constitution is an oath to defend a document that codifies 'white supremacy'?... You call it treason." — David Horowitz, author and former Black Panther, Front Page Magazine, September 14, 2021.

Raisi has not managed to impose some discipline on the few hundred mullahs and brigadier-generals who form the core of the ramshackle regime. Thus the mullah from back of the beyond and the brigadier-general who has never seen a battle except on television, continue to make foreign policy comments mostly to threaten the very neighbors that the Dr. Ayatollah hopes to seduce.

Tehran's disregard for Iraqi sovereignty came in other forms as well. The official media threatened Baghdad and Erbil with "consequences" unless those who had organized a private seminar on normalization with Israel were "dealt with". The fact that the seminar in question was in conformity with Iraq's constitution and law, guaranteeing freedom of opinion and expression, was conveniently ignored.

However, the biggest show of "good neighborliness" promised by Raisi came inside the (former Soviet) Republic of Azerbaijan and along its borders with Iran and Armenia.

What Tehran media described as "a multi-faceted task force" consisting of helicopter gunships, tanks, armored vehicles and elite Special Units under the personal command of IRGC's Chief of Land Forces Gen. Pakpur was assembled on full alert within sight of Azerbaijani troops and their Russian "advisers".