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Biden’s Weakness On The World Stage Is Dangerous
The new administration should take Mike Pompeo's advice: Strength deters bad actors and weakness begets war.
Biden's Weakness On The World Stage Is Dangerous (thefederalist.com) The new administration should take Mike Pompeo's advice: Strength deters bad actors and weakness begets war.
30 Mar 2021 ~~ Mollie Hemingway
A series of embarrassing incidents in recent days shows that while the left may control the media narrative, it’s not fooling Xi Jinping or Vladimir Putin into thinking President Joe Biden is strong.
Biden had a beyond-friendly interview with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos, former press secretary to President Bill Clinton, on March 16 in which he allowed Stephanopoulos to lure him into calling Russian President Vladimir Putin a “killer” with “no soul.” It would be one thing if there were some purpose behind Biden’s hostile utterance about his Russian counterpart, but it didn’t appear tied to any strategic foreign policy goal.
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The Biden team, which has largely maintained the Trump administration’s economic policies, including controversial tariffs, against China, went into the meeting thinking they could easily dunk on the prior administration and show how much better they were at diplomacy. They should have thought through their standing and strategy a bit more.
“Rather than staying focused on giving China-specific demands and conveying our seriousness, the U.S. team insulted half the Americans who voted for Trump and was glad for his administration’s foreign policy approach by saying ‘America is back.’ America never left. And it’s the approach from the last administration that returned our focus on China and power and away from merely abstract ideas when we deal with other nations,” said Hudson Institute Senior Fellow Rebeccah Heinrichs.
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Last week, Trump’s Secretary of State Mike Pompeo tweeted, “When it came to securing American freedom abroad, we treated the world as it was, not as we wished it to be. When the time came, we led and were TOUGH. Strength deters bad guys, weakness begets war.”
Instead of trying to manage American decline for the benefit of corporate America, Biden’s team should actually fight to secure America’s interests, to disassociate the U.S. economy from China’s, to recover critical supply chains, build back the military and U.S. economy, and to provide counterweights to China in the world.
Comment:
This is part of the total Quisling media propaganda and disinformation about how our allies hated Trump and love Obama, Biden and Hillary. Our allies hate American weakness and feel the Democrats are unreliable partners.... despite how “nice” they are.
The media have created and supported a monstrous lie and now have no way to back out of their stupidity. It ultimately will cost them their very existence.
One of the big things in US foreign policy has been the moral high ground. Obama began the downward slide and that was gone. Trump revived "America First" Any attempt by Biden/Harris to justify some foreign adventure, and Putin et al, will deftly point to that DC fiasco of a faux insurrection, possibly even with alarm, maybe even throwing in "rogue government" in there.