But in hindsight, Trump is right on each and every major foreign policy issue. It is 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 six most sensible ones:
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For decades, the consensus view was that if the United States helped China’s economic growth, it would be a friendly trading partner and respect regulations, just like Japan, South Korea, and European countries. Trump disagreed. Experts laughed when he claimed that China had let us down for decades. “China has attacked our factories, offshored our jobs, destroyed our industries, stolen our intellectual assets, and violated its commitments under the Global Trade Agreement. ”
As recently as 2019, Joe Biden scoffed at the idea that China could overtake the U.S. as a world leader, telling a crowd in Iowa City, “China is 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, the value of a barrel of oil was $120 and experts warned that the world was running out of oil.
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Trump’s embrace of the U. S. energy sector has boosted U. S. production and reduced oil to $40 a barrel. Not only did this spur ordinary economic expansion in the United States, but it 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 profits to fund its nuclear program and arm its proxies to attack Israel. There is an explanation for why Russia invaded Ukraine under the presidencies of Obama and Biden, but under Trump. During the Trump years, they did have cash to fund expensive wars.
Democrats and Republicans supported the Afghan and Iraq wars for 20 years. Trump disagreed. As early as 2003, he called the Iraq war “a mess.” Turns out he was right. We shed American blood and spent trillions on two unwinnable, forever wars.
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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.
When Trump left office, Iran was on the verge of bankruptcy and its allied militaries had been weakened. But President Biden has thrown Iran a lifeline. It reversed course on U. S. energy production, paid billions to Iran and refused to apply sanctions. Iran has used the handicap $100 billion to fund Hamas and Hezbollah in new proxy wars against Israel.
For decades, American leaders have said that we will accept the Palestinian challenge as a first step toward a broader Arab-Israeli peace. But time and again the Palestinians refused to negotiate seriously, making peace elusive.
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Trump adopted the opposite technique and pointed to Arab-Israeli peace as a first step. His power politics has driven down global oil prices. Arab leaders learned that they may no longer rely solely on revenues from oil exports to finance their government. They needed to diversify their economies, which required peace with Israel.
Trump also claimed that the younger generation of Arab leaders, knowledgeable about the West and comfortable in more open societies, would be receptive to radical social replacement and the progression of economic ties with Israel. The Abraham Accords were the first peace agreements ever concluded between Israel and the Sunni Gulf states. Trump has 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 for our customary defense. Obama called them “freeloaders. ” Our allies have always made excuses, claiming that they would not pay the 2% of GNP that they had promised and that they were counting on the United States to foot the bill for their defense.
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Trump hectored, scolded and threatened them until our NATO allies finally increased their defense spending. Turns out they DID have the money after all.
For years, Washington bureaucrats, politicians and pundits have grappled with the major foreign policy issues facing the country. It took an outsider to see things from another perspective. Instead of endless rounds of fruitless international relations and an open checkbook, Trump used a mix of trade, economics and common sense to repair American security. And his second term will be even better.
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K. T. McFarland was President Trump’s deputy national security advisor. He is a board member of the American Conservative Union and the best-selling e-book Revolution: Trump, Washington, and “We the People. “
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