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As a New Yorker, I cared Donald Trump For many years before he became involved in politics.
When he ventured to comment on foreign policy, people laughed at him. What did Trump know? National security The field used to be the domain of experts, not real estate developers or reality TV stars.
But if we look back, Trump was right on all major foreign policy issues. It was the approved elites who got things wrong!
Former President Trump holds a campaign rally at PPG Paints Arena on November 4, 2024 in Pittsburgh. (Chip Somodevila/Getty Images)
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China
For decades, the consensus view was whether the United States provided assistance Economic growth in ChinaIt will become a friendly trading partner, playing by the rules – just like Japan, South Korea and European countries. Trump disagreed. Experts laughed when he claimed that China had deceived us for decades. “China has raided our factories, offshored our jobs, destroyed our industries, stolen our intellectual property, and violated its obligations under the global trade agreement.”
In 2019, Joe Biden mocked the idea that China could overtake the United States as a global leader, telling a crowd in Iowa City: “Is China going to eat our lunch? Come on, man.” The experts were wrong, and Trump was right.
American energy dominance
Long before he ran for president in 2015, Trump recognized that recent advances in oil and gas production would be a strategic game-changer for the United States and the world. When President Barack Obama left office, the price of oil was $120 a barrel, and experts warned that the world was running out of oil.
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Trump's embrace of the US energy industry has increased US production and pushed oil down to $40 a barrel. Not only did it stimulate extraordinary American economic growth, but it also destroyed the economies of Russia and Iran, because they needed oil prices higher than $90 per barrel to finance their governments. When energy export revenues fell by about two-thirds during the Trump years, Russia and Iran were forced to tighten their belts. They could not afford expensive wars.
Biden's opposite Trump's energy policiesOil prices are expected to rise to $100 per barrel. Iran used this windfall to finance its nuclear program and arm its proxies to attack Israel. Russia used its newfound wealth to attack Ukraine. There's a reason Russia invaded Ukraine during the Obama and Biden presidencies, but not during Trump's. In the Trump years, they didn't have the money to pay for expensive wars.
The Iraq and Afghanistan wars
Democrats and Republicans have supported the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq for twenty years. Trump disagreed. As early as 2003, he described the Iraq War as “a mess.” It turns out he was right. We have shed American blood and spent trillions on two wars that cannot be won forever.
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Iran
Trump withdrew from Obama's flawed nuclear deal with Iran because it made Iran rich and did not stop its nuclear weapons program. He ordered the assassination of General Qassem Soleimani, the commander of the Iranian Quds Force. Instead of endless fruitless negotiations, Trump has set out to bankrupt Iran With energy policy and oil sanctions.
By the time Trump left office, Iran was on the verge of bankruptcy, and its proxy armies were weakened. But President Biden threw Iran a lifeline. He reversed course on US energy production, paying Iran billions and refusing to impose sanctions. Iran used this $100 billion windfall to fund Hamas and Hezbollah in renewed proxy wars against Israel.
Abraham Accords
For decades, American leaders have been saying that we should settle the Palestinian problem as a first step toward broader Arab-Israeli peace. But time and again, the Palestinians refused to negotiate seriously, and thus peace proved elusive.
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Trump took the opposite approach, focusing on Arab-Israeli peace as a first step. His energy policies reduced global oil prices. Arab leaders realized that they could no longer rely on oil export revenues alone to finance their government. They needed to diversify their economies, which required peace with Israel.
Trump also recognized that the younger generation of Arab leaders, educated in the West and comfortable in more open societies, would be amenable to dramatic social change and the development of economic ties with Israel. the Abraham Accords The peace agreements were the first between Israel and the Sunni Gulf states – ever. Trump has succeeded where all experts have failed for decades.
NATO
American presidents, since the era of John F. Kennedy, have complained that our NATO allies have not paid their fair share of the costs of our common defense. Obama called them “freeloaders.” Our allies were always making excuses, claiming that they were unable to pay the 2% of GDP that they promised, and they relied on America to foot the bill for their defense.
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Trump became angry, rebuked them, and even threatened them Our NATO allies Finally they increased their defense spending. Turns out they got the money after all.
For many years, bureaucrats, politicians, and experts in Washington have been wrong about the major foreign policy problems facing the nation. It took an outsider who saw things from a different perspective. Instead of endless rounds of futile diplomacy and an open checkbook, Trump used a combination of trade, economics, and common sense to reestablish American security. His second term will be better.
