But in retrospect, Trump is right on each and every major foreign policy issue. It’s the accredited elites who were wrong!
Former President Trump holds a campaign rally at the PPG Paints Arena on Nov. 4, 2024, in Pittsburgh. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
Here are Trump’s top six:
OUR LONG BIDEN NATIONAL NIGHTMARE IS ALMOST OVER. TRUMP INVICTUS IS NOW RELEASED
For decades, the consensus opinion was if the U.S. assisted China’s economic growth, it would become a friendly trading partner, and play by the rules – just like Japan, South Korea and the European nations. Trump disagreed. Experts laughed when he claimed China had ripped us off for decades. “China raided our factories, offshored our jobs, gutted our industries, stole our intellectual property, and violated their commitments under the World Trade Agreement.”
As recently as 2019, Joe Biden scoffed at the idea that China could overtake the United States as a world leader, telling the crowd in Iowa City, “Is China going to eat our lunch?Come on, man. The experts were wrong, Trump was right.
Long before he ran for president in 2015, Trump learned that recent advances in oil and fuel production would be a strategic turning point for the United States and the world. When President Barack Obama left office, oil was at $120 a barrel and experts warned that the world was running out of oil.
TRUMP CAN POWER THE US INTO THE FUTURE WITH A MUSCULAR NUCLEAR ENERGY POLICY
Trump’s embrace of the US energy sector has boosted US production and driven oil down to $40 a barrel. This not only stimulated ordinary economic expansion in the United States, but also devastated the economies of Russia and Iran, as those countries needed a source of oil. with a value of more than 90 dollars a barrel to finance their governments. When their energy export revenues fell by about two-thirds during the Trump years, Russia and Iran were forced to tighten their belts; They may simply not be expensive wars.
Biden reversed Trump’s power politics and, unsurprisingly, oil costs rose to $100 a barrel. Iran used those providential gains to finance its nuclear program and arm its proxies to attack Israel. Russia has used its new wealth to attack Ukraine. explanation of why Russia invaded Ukraine under the Obama and Biden presidencies, but not under Trump. During the Trump years, they had no money to finance expensive wars.
Democrats and Republicans supported the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq for 20 years. Trump disagreed. Already in 2003 he described the war in Iraq as a “disaster. ” Turns out he’s right. We have shed American blood and spent billions on two eternal, unwinnable wars.
THE THREAT OF RADICAL ISLAM IS NOW ON OUR DOORSTEP. BIDEN IGNORED IT. Trump will have to act
Trump pulled out of Obama’s flawed Iran nuclear deal, because it made Iran rich and didn’t stop its nuclear weapons program. He ordered the assassination of Gen. Qassam Soleimani, commander of Iran’s Quds Forces. Instead of fruitless endless negotiations, Trump set out to bankrupt Iran with his energy policy and oil sanctions.
By the time Trump left office Iran was nearly bankrupt, and its proxy armies weakened. But President Biden threw Iran a lifeline. He reversed course on American energy production, paid Iran billions and refused to enforce sanctions. Iran used this $100 billion windfall to fund Hamas and Hezbollah in renewed proxy wars against Israel.
For decades, American leaders said we had to settle the Palestinian problem as the first step to a wider Arab-Israel peace. But time and again, the Palestinians refused to negotiate seriously, so peace proved elusive.
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Trump took the opposite approach, and focused on Arab-Israeli peace as the first step. His energy policies lowered global oil prices. Arab leaders realized they could no longer count on oil export revenues alone to fund their government. They needed to diversify their economies, which required peace with Israel.
Trump also recognized that the younger generation of Arab leaders, schooled in the West and comfortable with more open societies, would be amenable to dramatic social change and to developing economic ties with Israel. The Abraham Accords were the first peace agreements between Israel and the Sunni Gulf states – ever. Trump succeeded where all the experts had failed for decades.
American presidents since John F. Kennedy have complained that our NATO allies are not paying their fair share of our usual defense. Obama called them “freeloaders. ” Our allies have always made excuses, saying that they cannot pay the 2% of GNP they promised and that they are counting on the United States to foot the bill for their defense.
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Trump harassed, reprimanded, and threatened them until our NATO allies finally increased their defense spending. Turns out, they had the cash after all.
For years, Washington bureaucrats, politicians and experts have been wrong about the major foreign policy problems confronting the nation. It took an outsider who saw things from a different perspective. Instead of endless rounds of fruitless diplomacy and an open checkbook, Trump used a combination of trade, economics and common sense to reestablish American security. And his second term will be even better.
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K. T. McFarland was President Trump’s deputy national security adviser. He serves on the board of directors of the American Conservative Union and the best-selling e-book Revolution: Trump, Washington, and “We the People. “
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