The news from around the globe is grim. Evil is having its day in the
sun. We must be committed to confronting it. The core of the issue is
that the totalitarian fascist regime of Vladimir Putin has forged an
alliance of sorts with the radical Islamist theocracy in Iran. As we
discussed last week, Ukraine is on the frontline of this conflict in
Europe. And in the Middle East, it is Israel that is standing at the
barricade dividing good from evil.

**Putin's Plague**

Russia's approach to foreign policy is not complicated. The President
of Russia seeks to be a modern-day tsar and is fast approaching the
longevity and brutality of Stalin's rule. He's already amassed more
wealth than he could spend in 100 lifetimes by stealing from his people.
And he's already consolidated power in Russia in a manner not seen
since the heyday of the Soviet Union. So what's next? Continued
expansion. There is no satiating the appetite of evil and the people of
Ukraine are fighting and dying because of Vladimir Putin's fascist
megalomania.

For its part, Israel has sent 100 tons of humanitarian aid to the people
of Ukraine and is setting up a field hospital in the brave and
beleaguered state. In addition, Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett
traveled to Moscow and met with Putin in an effort to broker peace
followed by a visit to Berlin. Take a moment to appreciate the
historical context of this. That in 2022 an Israeli Prime Minister is
conducting shuttle diplomacy between Moscow and Berlin. Something
completely unthinkable 60 years ago.

Bennett is also in contact with the President of Ukraine and America's
leaders on a regular basis. It's worth noting that Bennett, an
orthodox Jew, made the trip on the Sabbath. Traveling on the Sabbath is
prohibited, but under Jewish tradition, one may do anything necessary
(and moral) to save human life.

**An Iranian Disaster**

For several days now we've been hearing that the world powers and Iran
are on the brink of signing a nuclear accord. These same reports make
clear that the Biden deal would be worse than the Obama deal. The
absurdity of the United States helping to birth a disastrous
Russian-Iranian agreement while Moscow is fighting a land war in Europe
is unthinkable if not immoral.

According to our friends at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies,
"Under the deal, Iran would get access to more than $100 billion,
which it could spend on terrorism, missiles, and the pursuit of regional
hegemony. Enforcement remains weak or non-existent, so there is no
barrier to Iran's crossing the nuclear threshold at a time of its
choosing. Terrorism sanctions imposed on the Central Bank of Iran, the
National Iranian Oil Company, and a host of other banks and companies
will be suspended without any evidence that these institutions are no
longer engaged in financing terrorism."

This description is as succinct as it is harrowing, but the ink wasn't
yet dry on the stories declaring an Iran deal imminent before new
stories started coming out that Russia was now making demands in the
context of the Iran deal that directly impact US sanctions on Moscow for
their invasion of Ukraine. In sum, we're going from bad to worse.

**An American Disgrace**

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One might be led to believe that the new Russian demands could throw a
wrench into the works and undermine a bad Iran deal. That's possible
in a fingers crossed kind of way, but given successive American
capitulations to the worst regimes in the world one should not hold out
such hope. Rather, it is more likely that the Biden administration will
once again give the enemies of freedom what they want and fecklessly
declare "peace in our time," all in the same breath.

We are a bipartisan organization. We've condemned those on the fringe
left, like the "Squad" for their blatant antisemitism and hatred for
Israel. And we've condemned those on the right, like Sen. Rand Paul
for his wrongheaded approach to foreign affairs and Rep. Marjorie Taylor
Greene for her appalling antisemitism. But none of these people (praise
God) sit in the Oval Office. 

Joe Biden is the President of the United States. When he makes a
mistake, it's huge. It costs lives and can upend stability around the
world. President Biden's desperate, weak kumbaya approach to foreign
policy has emboldened the worst actors on the world's stage. Will he
reverse course before the entirety of Ukraine is subjugated by Russia
and more of Europe is threatened? Will he accept the astounding error of
his ways before Iran is on the precipice of acquiring nuclear weapons?

We pray he will, and in the meantime, we're going to fight this
disgraceful weakness with everything we have.

Sincerely,

CUFI Action Fund Team

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