President Trump's foreign policy is mindlessly attacked by the "experts." Those would be the same experts that immersed the United States in the strange world of Middle Eastern politics, business and warfare. Nothing worked the way the experts said it would; the end of one war always brought the beginning of another. The one constant was the Terror Theocracy in Iran. They funded the militias and terrorists in pursuit of their official and daily repeated official policy of Death to Israel and Death to America.
The same critics shackled America to a corpse. After the Soviet Union fell Western Europe no longer had an existential threat along the Eastern European borders. That was almost 40 years ago. Europe became weaker and more feckless every year. By the time of President Trump's first term Europe had demonstrably lost the will to even defend themselves. All of the passing decades saw European military strength deteriorate in a linear relationship to Europe's loss of self esteem and cultural integrity. The United States spent billions of dollars every year to protect Europe from a ghost. The Europeans knew Russia was no threat because the Western Europeans bought as many petro products as possible from Russia. Russia used the Euros to build the weapons the Russians have used in their fruitless war in Ukraine.
President Trump saw a different world, a world based in postmodern realities and not a mystical history. General then President Eisenhower, General Marshall, General Bradley and the masterminds that won World War 2 thought the European engagement and NATO would last 10 years, not 80. President Trump saw the need to return American focus to the United States and our hemisphere, as was the American historic foreign policy.
President Trump's vision, evidenced in the Abraham accords and the decoupling from NATO and other international organizations and trading groups is refocus on American prosperity and hemispheric realignment. President Trump created the space for other regions to create their own environments. The Board of Peace was one such tool of regional self determination. Now the major Islamic powers are coming together to create their own multilateral group to police the Middle East and the oil game.
No change could have happened had President Trump followed his last six predecessors and stood by as Iran became more powerful. Iran has attacked every country it was able to attack. President Trump is grinding that regime into dust. Hamas has surrendered and Gaza has been turned over to regional interests. Hezbollah can no longer receive money or arms from Iran and no safe haven in Syria. Israel and Lebanon are now engaged in direct negotiations for the first time in decades. The Houthis in Yemen are now facing a mobilized Saudi Arabia on one side and the military power of Egypt on the other. Iran can no longer provide money or munitions. How long will the Houthis last?
The Trump policy has refocused the United States on our Hemisphere. Venezuela is no longer a safe haven and bank for anti American governments in the region. More South and Central American countries are lead by governments that embrace American economic military, diplomatic and economic reorientation on hemispheric partners. American trade is shifting from European frenemies, Chinese rivals and poverty wage nations as the source of American production. This is a seismic change in the world. A new age has begun. The US is no longer the global police force and American money is no longer designed to create prosperity for everyone but Americans. Every smart business leader knows that the repetition of failure is insanity but American politicians, academics and talking heads are never accountable for repeating failure. The "multilateral world" has not proven at all successful for the United States. Finally American leadership understands the need to end American dependence on imported energy and thus the need to protect the global oil supply. The Age of Trump has shown the way to new prosperity and peace. Iran marks the end of American military engagement in the Middle East; Iran is the last bad guy standing. After forty-seven years of war and 80 years of fruitless priorities the United States is finally looking out for itself and its actual neighbors.
Spot on. It seems like our left wing US politicians actually want our enemies to win. The Left wing politicians of Europe, who seem to be completely in charge of most countries, have similarly undercut their own sovereignty and ability to resist enemies to the point they can’t at this point. Europe needs a few Trump like leaders of it is going to survive.
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