Looking over the past 16 years:
2009 - 2017: Obama got the US involved with many new conflicts. He actually didn’t end any intervention at all, with the exception of the Iraq war which he ended up sending troops back anyway. Here is what he did:
Syria Intervention (2014)
Re-intervention in Iraq (2014)
Libya intervention (2011)
Niger intervention (2013)
These are the physical interventions he started but In addition, he also did this:
He sent troops to Cameroon and Kenya as well.
He removed no troops from Somalia and actually intensified operations there.
We had the most troops in Afghanistan under Obama (110,000 in 2011) and after Osama bin Laden was finally killed he promised to withdraw all troops in Afghanistan in 2016. Obviously, he never did that and actually didn’t end the operations in Afghanistan at all.
Russia invaded Ukraine
The Muslim Brotherhood uprising in the middle east happened under Obama
So there’s your Nobel peace prize winner right there, sending troops all over the world and getting involved with numerous conflicts. Drew a lot of red lines but never did a thing when the enemy crossed the red lines.
2017 - 2021: Trump: From the Hill...
As the policy blunders mount, the
Donald Trump presidency is looking better. Even Rich Lowry at the National Review, no fan of the former president,
admits in a recent column that Trump’s “relatively crisis-free presidency in foreign affairs” might not just have been good luck, but also occurred because “adversaries feared [Trump] and therefore acted with a measure of restraint.”
Nothing makes the case better than remembering
Trump’s first meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping, which took place in 2017 when they dined at his Palm Beach Club Mar-a-Lago. Over what Trump described as a “
beautiful piece of chocolate cake,” he informed Xi that U.S. military forces had just sent 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles to bomb a military airfield in Syria. This was punishment for Syrian President Bashar Assad
poisoning 77 of his own countrymen, including 23 children, and also for Xi
blocking U.N. condemnation of those horrific murders. With the advice of his military leaders, Trump chose to attack the airbase from which the deadly poison had been launched.
The message to our enemies was clear. Trump was ready to deploy the United States’s massive military capability if needed, and he actually had red lines our adversaries would cross at their peril. Peace through strength. Simple and effective.
Under President Trump, Iran’s foreign currency reserves
plummeted from a high of $122 billion to $18 billion"
NO NEW WARS IN THE WORLD. 4 years of peace and prosperity. Peace through strength and not letting Iran and Russia sell their oil to wage war.
2021 - 2024: Harris (Biden): Since Biden took office, there have been
more than 80 attacks on U.S. facilities and troops stationed in Iraq and Syria. The Pentagon has responded in kind on only four occasions.
Former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates recently told Axios that the U.S. “is facing
the most crises since World War II ended 78 years ago.” It was Gates, who worked in both the George W. Bush and Obama White Houses, who
famously declared that
Joe Biden has been “wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past 4 decades.” The streak continues, and the world is paying a heavy price. "
Russia attacks Ukraine killing maybe millions. Iran supports Hamas and Hezbollah with the money Biden has allowed them to have and make through the sales of oil that Trump stopped. 94 regulations taken by Harris-Biden that have cause millions to die in wars including many Americans.
