John Kerry is a terrible negotiator
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resident Joe Biden must not really believe in global warming. If he did, he would not have appointed the world's worst negotiator as his climate czar.
John Kerry, as President Barack Obama's secretary of state, negotiated the Iran nuclear deal. He handed the world's No. 1 terrorist regime cash with which to conduct further terrorist operations. In exchange, Iran's theocratic regime made several promises it never intended to keep and, in many respects, did not keep. But Kerry was so desperate to get a deal signed (any deal at all, no matter how bad) that he allowed himself to be outplayed by Iranian negotiators.
In August 2013, Kerry made a deal that essentially abandoned all hope of holding Syrian dictator Bashar Assad accountable for using chemical weapons against his own population. Through his bumbling brand of diplomacy, Kerry handed control of the situation to Assad's ally, Vladimir Putin, who went on to violate the deal repeatedly. It would take the election of a new president, Donald Trump, to enforce anything in the deal against the Russians. He followed this up in 2016 by negotiating a Syrian ceasefire that effectively handed control of Syria over to Putin's Russia. Several years and multiple hospital bombings by Russian forces later, it is evident that this was an unforced error. So was Kerry's humiliating joint press conference with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, which sent the message that the United States was on board with Russian atrocities in Syria.
In 2014, as Russian paramilitary forces consolidated their control over southeastern Ukraine, Kerry put his faith in his own rhetoric over the kinetic reality of Russian aggression. He opposed arms transfers to Ukraine to resist Russian aggression — again, it took Trump's election to fix this — and entertained Lavrov's effort to buy time. The Russians manipulated Kerry so deftly that he never even figured it out.
In short, experience has shown that if you want some serious negotiation, Kerry is the last man on Earth you would ever turn to.
When Biden turned to Kerry as his new special climate envoy, it became clear that the Biden administration's plan to deal with climate change was to sacrifice every possible American interest in exchange for nothing, except perhaps to make a few smug leftists feel better about themselves.
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The Iran deal Kerry and the Obama-Biden administration agreed to is one of the dumbest in world history putting a genocidal bunch of religious bigots on the glide path to nuclear weapons. So, it is not surprising that Biden and Kerry would agree to allow China to use slave labor and coal plants to make solar panels of dubious quality.
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Corruption, China and Green Energy
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