Seemingly rational people of the world are the ones not getting it when so many of them appear perplexed at what are the actions, or inaction, of those in positions of authority in America, or when seeing or hearing what takes place daily.

A failure to include and begin inserting the Holy Bible into any equation attempting to find the answer to a problem results in noting but one wrong conclusion after another, always asking why and how appearing stymied, and questioning the reasons everything is happening.

The enemy is within. The Enemy is within.

The enemy within and the Enemy within are growing like cancer in the perfect environment unchecked and unbridled. While so-called good people, exhibiting what seems rational minds, good minds, logic, and critical thinking are aghast.

Because until and unless in everything that transpires those events, those places, the people involved are viewed through a Biblical lens, a Biblical view whatever is seen or heard otherwise is faulty. Like attempting to receive a message with a lot of static and dead spots in the transmission of the message thereby never really understanding, being the ones not getting it.

Tragically.

We live in a very lost land among a very lost people. Wherein the words of Isaiah ring so true;

Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; Who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; Who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!

Isaiah 5:20

Having been given over by God to their reprobate, wicked, unrighteous hearts and minds.

The enemy within, the Enemy within…

Ken Pullen, Saturday, November 11th, 2023

Biden Keeps the Billions Flowing to Iran

November 10, 2023

By The Editorial Staff

Reprinted from The Wall Street Journal

You’d think the Biden Administration would have realized by now that enriching the Iranian regime is a dangerous mistake. You’d be wrong. Relaxed U.S. enforcement of oil sanctions continued through October, refilling Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei’s coffers even after the Oct. 7 slaughter and the more than 40 attacks on U.S. troops by Iran’s proxies in the weeks since.

Iran exported nearly 1.4 million barrels of oil per day in October, sustaining its average for 2023. This is up 80% from the 775,000 barrels per day Iran averaged under the Trump Administration’s “maximum pressure” strategy, according to United Against Nuclear Iran, the group of former U.S. Ambassador Mark Wallace and Sen. Joe Lieberman, whose Tanker Tracker generates the best public data we have.

The Iranian surge in oil exports since President Biden took over has brought Iran an additional $32,000,000,000 to $35,000,000,000, according to the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. The calculations are tricky, but the cause of the Iranian windfall is clear: As part of Mr. Biden’s quiet diplomacy with Iran, the U.S. has curtailed sanctions enforcement. Customers and middlemen have concluded the risk is low and the discount on Iran’s oil is too good to pass up.

This transfer of funds to Iran is cumulatively more significant than the President’s recent $6,000,000,000 ransom payment in return for five hostages. And it keeps growing, even as the money fails to moderate Iranian behavior. Instead, it finances Iran’s aggression abroad via proxies such as Hamas in Gaza, Hezbollah in Lebanon, the Houthis in Yemen, and the front groups in Iraq and Syria that shoot at American bases almost daily.

In 2020 the State Department assessed that Iran sends $100,000,000 a year to Palestinian terrorist groups, arming and training them to attack Israel and murder its civilians as Hamas did on Oct. 7. Last year Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh said that his group receives $70,000,000 from Iran, plus long-range rockets.

Citing an Israeli security source, Reuters reports that Iran’s funding for Hamas ballooned in the past year to $350,000,000. Hamas’s new capabilities took Israel and the U.S. by surprise, but they didn’t come from nowhere.

About 70% of Iran’s oil exports are to China, which helps explain the blossoming Russia-China-Iran axis challenging world order. Iran sends China cheap oil and Russia new military drones. It may export missiles too, now that the Biden Administration allowed international missile sanctions to lapse.

In return, Iran receives the money and diplomatic cover it needs to advance its war on the U.S. and Israel. Russian military support in Syria shields Iranian arms transfers, and the potential for nuclear cooperation should keep Western policy makers up at night.

If the Biden Administration wants to limit the flow of oil money to Tehran, it knows what to do: enforce the law and sanction the complicit banks, purchasers, insurers, tankers, ports and other players that facilitate the trade. Does the President have the will to break from his strategy of appeasement?