Only Donald Trump can offer voters the kind of strong foreign policy the US needs now
As America’s enemies increasingly align in an anti-democratic axis, the choice in the 2024 election is clear: Only Donald Trump offers a strong foreign policy that serves US interests.
One of the central fictions of the Kamala Harris campaign is that she has not been in office for the past 3½ years; even a cursory look at the foreign-policy disaster she’s helped oversee reveals why Camp Harris and its surrogates are so desperate to pretend away that “service.”
Start with Iran: From the start of their administration, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris did everything possible to cater to the regime.
The administration was desperate to entice Tehran back into a resuscitated version of Barack Obama’s disastrous nuclear deal.
Biden and Harris offered endless bribes, including tens of billions in sanctions relief and billions more in overt cash payments for hostages.
Giving Tehran free rein
Washington did nothing while Iran and its proxy forces waged war on allies and American assets in the Middle East, killing US soldiers, strangling shipping and sowing chaos in an already volatile region.
The culmination of Iran’s hegemonic play came in the terrorist butcheries of Oct. 7.
Again, Biden and Harris at every turn hindered Israel’s humane and justified counterattack against Hamas, Hezbollah and their masters in Tehran.
And Harris, again and again, on the campaign trail and elsewhere, has echoed leftist slurs against the Jewish state.
Most recently, she agreed that Israel is committing genocide in response to a heckler at a campaign event.
And her core foreign-policy advisers are even more pro-Iran-appeasement than Biden’s.
Don’t forget she also kicked the best VP choice, Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, to the curb — very clearly because she feared picking a Jew would hurt her chances.
Every available piece of evidence suggests Harris would adopt a Biden-style, Obama-on-steroids posture toward Iran.
She’d let the regime pursue its imperialist project unchecked, inviting more chaos and more bloodshed.
Donald Trump always understood that Iran is our enemy and that Israel and the Saudis are our best potential allies in the region.
He governed according to that correct understanding, slamming Tehran with sanctions, pulling out of the nuclear deal that empowered the regime and taking out Gen. Qassem Soleimani, the head of Iran’s vicious paramilitary wetwork agency, the Quds Force.
His critics said his aggressive stance toward the Islamic Republic would start World War III.
Instead, we had four years of stability in the Middle East, capped off with his historic Abraham Accords between the UAE, Bahrain, Sudan, Morocco and Israel.
Another conflict looms for America, albeit still heating up: China.
The Biden-Harris administration has been utterly supine toward Beijing.
This weakness is evident at the geopolitical level: China has offered large-scale provocation after large-scale provocation, via military exercises and increasingly strong rhetoric about its intentions toward Taiwan.
It has played a major role in helping Mexican cartels flood America with fentanyl, by serving as a global supermarket for the precursor chemicals necessary to mix up fent.
Neither Harris nor Biden offered the slightest meaningful resistance to any of these developments, beyond a few peevish communications with supreme leader Xi Jinping.
Meanwhile, Chinese hackers with government ties took a run at the phones of Harris campaign staffers, Trump and Trump running mate Sen. JD Vance.
Where is the outrage?
Where are the reprisals?
Harris is the sitting vice president, for God’s sake.
Her non-action here shows that the clearest prediction of what our posture toward China would look like under Harris.
Recall, too, the ugly saga of the spy balloon: China’s roving eye in the sky wandered over sensitive military installations for days in early 2023 before news coverage forced the White House to admit it had known about this naked espionage all along.
But Harris-Biden still did nothing, only shooting it down after it had finished its run and then praising themselves for that.
Followed by more nothing: China faced literally zero meaningful consequences for its egregious violation of US territorial sovereignty.
And don’t forget the oh-so-cozy ties VP pick, Minn. Gov. Tim Walz, has with the People’s Republic.
He’s taken multiple trips there, some paid for by China’s government; he creepily planned his wedding for the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre of pro-democracy protesters.
A Harris victory would mean (at least) four more years of appeasing Beijing.
Trump?
Even his worst enemies will admit the man has been laser-focused on the threat China presents for decades, across both economic and military domains.
Trump has already promised to retaliate against China with crushing tariffs if it invades Taiwan, and showed during his presidency he was unafraid of slapping the Middle Kingdom with them.
He sent Cabinet officials to Taipei for the first time since 1979 and was himself the first US president or president-elect since ‘79 to speak directly with the head of the Taiwanese state.
He sold Taiwan billions in weapons.
He’s made it abundantly clear he knows who our friends and our enemies are.
And that is the crucial element to US foreign policy posture as the nation moves forward.
Remember: It’s not merely that China and Iran are emboldened or that Russia felt empowered to invade Ukraine.
It’s that the major players outside the liberal order are forming an ever tighter network of alliances and allegiances.
Witness the recent assist North Korea provided to Russia’s flailing ground campaign with new troops.
Or the massive thaw in relations between India and China, who very publicly patched things up at the recent BRICS conference — recall that Indian PM Narendra Modi and Trump were close allies, and that four years ago the two Asian nations were engaged in what seemed the first skirmish of a hot war.
Indeed, the fabric of the US-led postwar order is under assault on all these fronts, and we are (thanks to the pusillanimity of Biden and Harris) failing the test.
Badly.
And Harris has shown repeatedly that she — like Biden — would rather capitulate to the elements within her party that hate American power on principle than stand up for our national interest.
Four more years of that represent an existential danger.
The choice is clear.
