President Biden is under heat, yet again, after the U.S. embassy evacuation in Sudan was announced on Saturday by the Biden administration.
“Today, on my orders, the United States military conducted an operation to extract US government personnel from Khartoum,” Biden said in a statement.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a separate statement that all U.S. personnel and their families had been evacuated and that operations at the U.S. Embassy in Khartoum have been “temporarily suspended.”
This is the fourth embassy evacuation made under Biden’s leadership in less than 3 years. In addition to Sudan, the United States also suspended embassy operations in Afghanistan in August 2021, in Ukraine when Russia invaded last February, and operations in Belarus – one evacuation due to President Alexander Lukashenko’s allyship with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
According to Blinken, the “widespread fighting … posed an unacceptable risk to our Embassy personnel. Suspending operations at one of our embassies is always a difficult decision, but the safety of our personnel is my first responsibility.”
“We do not have any US government personnel remaining in Khartoum at this time,” Undersecretary of State for Management John Bass said, but there are still “a substantial number of our local staff supporting the embassy in a caretaker status.”
What’s even more interesting out of all these current events, is that former President Trump was accused of spewing hateful rhetoric and overall divisiveness – yet there were no new wars, peace in the middle east and Russian President Putin remained in the doghouse.
Now that we have our “Build Back Better” president, structures seem to be collapsing, putting the United States and its citizens located in these embassies in extremely vulnerable and dangerous positions. Who’s dividing who?
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