President Joe Biden dispatched a Marine Corps unique system last week to protect the departure of nonemergency personnel as well as brother Marines from the U.S. Embassy in the nation’s capital, Port des Prince, as a carnivorous group war rages through Haiti.
With that removal of the military in Haiti, the Biden presidency has presided over more evacuations of U. S. embassies—a full of 11—than any other political leadership in U. S. story.  ,
Since Biden took office in January 2021, his State Department has voluntarily evacuated 11 U.S. embassies using orderly or authorized departure directives.
President Barack Obama presided over the second- most embassy evacuations of any administration with a total of eight over two terms ( Egypt, Libya, Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Central African Republic, and South Sudan ), or about one a year. In his four years as president, Donald Trump presided over three partial evacuations.
The State Department has authorized departure advisories, which include the State Department’s recommendation that diplomats, their families, and other Americans leave the country in question frequently through special travel arrangements made by the department.  ,
Ordered departures are State Department directives for all Americans and essential embassy staff to leave the country immediately.  ,
Military protection was required to ensure that Americans were escorted safely in the evacuations of America’s embassies in Kabul, Afghanistan, Port- au- Prince, Haiti, and Khartoum, Sudan.  ,
Here are some details:
Burma, 2021
On March 30, 2021, the State Department ordered its first embassy evacuation during the 2- month- old Biden administration.  ,
More than two months after a military coup in Burma, also known as Myanmar, the agency mandated the removal of “non-essential diplomatic personnel and all personnel family members.”  ,
A number of improvised explosive devices detonated within a mile of the U.S. Embassy in the capital of Rangoon in the year following Biden’s threat to sanction the military junta there. No injuries or casualties in the United States were reported.
Chad, 2021
In April 2021, the U. S. Embassy in Chad issued a statement that the “reported death of the Chadian president” likely would result in unrest, ordered staff to” shelter in place”, and predicted that no evacuation would be necessary.  ,
The following November, however, the State Department ordered nonessential staff to leave Chad as rebel fighters approached the capital, N’Djamena.
Afghanistan, 2021
The war-torn nation was awash with chaos after Biden announced on July 8th, 2021 that the United States would suspend all military operations there.  ,
The telegraphed U. S. evacuation gave antagonists, including the Taliban and other fundamentalist, radical Muslim groups, time to prepare a triumphant march through Afghanistan’s capital, Kabul.  ,
The U.S. Embassy’s evacuation in Kabul, captured in painful memories, as did the faulty Saigon, South Vietnam, evacuation in 1975. In a desperate attempt to flee the incoming Taliban, some Afghan civilians clung to the landing gear on the final plane.
During the final evacuation on August 26, 2021, over 150 Afghan civilians died in a terrorist bombing outside the airport, along with thirteen American service members.  ,
Biden promised to take retaliation for the terrorist attack, but he abstained.
Ethiopia, 2021
The State Department established a special task force to remove “nonemergency government personnel” from Ethiopia and the United States Embassy in Addis Ababa in response to threats from rebel forces in the country’s civil war, known as the Tigray War.  ,
The Ethiopian government criticized the State Department’s decision as “playing into rebel propaganda” . ,
Rebels did n’t enter Addis Ababa, and although a tenuous peace deal was signed a year later, the region remains in conflict.
Ukraine, 2022
On Feb. 12, 2022, the State Department issued” Do Not Travel” notifications to American citizens for Ukraine. It also closed the U. S. Embassy in Kyiv on Feb. 14, evacuating most staff.
Ten days before Russia invaded Ukraine, when 30, 000 Russian troops were conducting a staging exercise on the Ukrainian/Belarusian border, the department relocated a small team to work from Poland.
The U. S. Embassy reopened in Kyiv on May 18, 2022, after the Russian advance toward Ukraine’s capital stalled.
Belarus, 2022
Four days after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022, largely using Belarus ‘ border with Ukraine as a staging ground, the State Department ordered Americans to evacuate Belarus.
The State Department also closed the U. S. Embassy in Minsk on Feb. 28. It has not reopened.
Russia, 2022
On the same day as its Belarus announcement, the State Department issued an authorized departure for “non- emergency employees and family members” from the U. S. Embassy in Moscow.  ,
Before airlines stop operating in Russian airspace, American citizens were also advised to leave Russia “immediately” on commercial flights.  ,
The U.S. Embassy in Moscow is still operational and has issued warnings to the Russian government regarding terrorist threat threats, in contrast to the U.S. Embassy in Minsk.
Nigeria, 2022
In Abuja, the State Department ordered the removal of nonemergency U.S. government employees and family members on October 27, 2022, citing an “elevated risk of terrorist attacks.”
In May 2023, “unknown attackers” fired on an American convoy, killing four, including two staffers at the U. S. consulate. The bodies were set on fire.
Two American mission staff members were also abducted, but it appears that the State Department made a wise decision to ignore the media or the general public.  ,
According to State Department statements to CNN and the department’s official website, the two hostages were n’t mentioned until they were rescued two days later.
Sudan, 2023
Following an April 18, 2023, attack on an American convoy in Khartoum, Sudan, the situation at the U. S. Embassy there deteriorated rapidly.
Over 100 special operations forces were sent by the U.S. Defense Department to escort diplomats, their families, and the Marine Corps détachement whose embassy is being guarded.
Before other Americans were successfully evacuated, two Americans were killed in terrorist attacks in the Sudanese civil war.
Niger, 2023
In August 2023, the State Department issued an ordered departure to “non- emergency U. S. government personnel” of the U. S. Embassy in Niamey, the capital of Niger.  ,
Since commercial flights were constrained, the department coordinated the staff’s evacuation using military aircraft.  ,
Although violent demonstrations had been occurring near the U.S. Embassy for two years without eliciting departure orders, the State Department was forced to issue the ordered departure after violent attacks on the nearby French embassy and an attempted coup.
Haiti, 2024
In Biden’s last presidential campaign, he paid special attention to Haiti, promising in 2019 that he would “press for dialogue to prevent further violence and instability” . ,
Haiti has become even more disorganized since the Biden administration first took office in January 2021 as a result of prison gangs that broke out and laid waste to the Caribbean nation.
U. S. embassies elsewhere were evacuated only once during the Biden administration. But the State Department ordered the partial “authorized departure” or “ordered departure” evacuation of the U. S. Embassy in Port- au- Prince four times: in 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024.
The department issued an alert to embassy employees in early February to “avoid demonstrations and any large gatherings of people.”
A gang leader and cannibal known as Barbecue has taken control of the nation as Haiti’s prime minister is under U.S. protection in Puerto Rico. Nonessential U.S. Embassy staff were airlifted out by the Marine Corps during a nighttime operation on March 10.
As the situation worsens further, hundreds of Americans are still stranded in Haiti. However, the Biden administration has n’t mentioned the island’s residents ‘ needs or made any announcements about their rescue. It has announced, however, that the U. S. will provide support for a U. N. mission based in Kenya.
The world stage does n’t seem to be relaxing any time soon. Around the world, there are more than 110 armed conflicts in progress, and over 30 of them are civil wars and coups that have erupted recently.
According to Simon Hankinson, a senior research fellow in the Border Security and Immigration Center of The Heritage Foundation, many of these evictions of American embassies were caused by “weakness and indolence.” The Heritage Foundation’s news and commentary outlet is The Daily Signal.
” World events are unpredictable, and no U. S. administration can be blamed for each and every wild- card coup in Africa or blowout in the Middle East”, Hankinson said, adding:
However, the Biden administration has always portrayed weakness and indolence toward both allies and foes. The pattern is one of hedging and hoping, from the botched Afghanistan pullout, which cost unnecessary American lives and left equipment and people in the dark.
The White House contacted The Daily Signal for comment. Although Andrew Bates, the deputy press secretary, responded to the inquiry and directed The Daily Signal to the White House Office of Public Engagement. He also declined to respond to any questions.
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