There’s nothing more awkward — or potentially disastrous — in political life than the short amount of time between one administration and another. Following an election, we’re left with a bizarre no man’s land of power without consequence, where it seems the outgoing leader can do whatever they want — including high jinks and sabotage — to undermine their incoming replacement.

In 2010, for example, Gordon Brown’s Labour Party government was defeated and replaced by David Cameron’s Conservative Party. On his first day, the new chief secretary of the Treasury discovered a one-line letter left by his predecessor, Liam Byrne: “Dear chief secretary, I’m afraid to tell you there’s no money left.”

In the final days of his administration, Barack Obama refused to veto what was simply the latest anti-Israel resolution to be concocted by the United Nations Security Council. Then, mere hours before leaving the White House, Obama sent hundreds of millions of dollars to the terror-supporting Palestinian Authority.

And now, it seems like the Biden/Harris administration is dedicated to finally beating the Obama administration at something: setting fire to the curtains before being forced to abdicate power.

This week, days after awarding $230 million in funding for Palestinians — meaning that American taxpayers have essentially handed terrorists more than $2 billion since Oct. 7 — and after reversing its policy on an American nonprofit hosting terrorists at an international conference, the Biden/Harris administration spat in the eye of its ally Israel by announcing unprecedented sanctions targeting Israelis, heavily influenced by sources tied to Islamic terrorist groups.

But oscillating between packing up his favorite slippers and lashing out at Israel pales in comparison to Biden’s final departing act of insanity: giving Ukraine the greenlight to strike Russia with American long-range missiles, pushing Russian President Vladimir Putin to approve changes to Russia’s nuclear doctrine.

Even in isolation, this decision is as dangerous as it is preposterous, moving well past the pretense that American support for Ukraine is defensive in nature by providing an ally — albeit a deeply corrupt ally — with the ability to strike Russian targets in Russia. While Ukrainian citizens remain the only boots on the ground, when they are firing American guns, driving American vehicles, dropping American bombs, flying American planes and now firing long-range American missiles, make no mistake: the United States is at war. We’ve just outsourced the manpower part.

Regardless of the fact that Russia remains the aggressor, under Biden’s disastrous leadership, Ukraine’s war against Russia is nothing but an obvious proxy war for the United States’ counterproductive (if not pointless) war against Russia.

“The 1980s are now calling to ask for their foreign policy back,” quipped Barack Obama in response to Mitt Romney in 2012 when the Republican candidate suggested that Russia was the biggest geopolitical threat facing America. In the years that followed, Obama and his geriatric protege Biden proceeded to drag the 1980s into the 21st century by spearheading a foreign policy that ignored our actual geopolitical foe — China — and emboldened the world’s greatest funder of terrorism — Iran — while focusing all of our energy on Russia, a nation that may still be a gas station with nuclear weapons but — whether you like it or not — has legitimate grievances over the absurd expansion of NATO along its borders.

It’s one thing for an administration with a democratic mandate to drag the world into war. It’s another for a lame-duck administration to set fire to the world on its way out as a final screw-you to Donald Trump and the next generation.

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