During tonight’s debate, President Joe Biden said that nobody wants to mess with America. He is wrong. Under his leadership, our international foes feel more confident to challenge and harm the United States.
As Trump hammered throughout the debate, the pullout from Afghanistan was an international embarrassment. American citizens were left behind to face the Taliban. Seven billion dollars of American equipment was left behind. Other powers noticed this disaster and smelled blood in the water.
It is not a coincidence that after the pullout from Afghanistan in September 2021, Putin ordered a military buildup on Ukraine’s front. Putin was only encouraged to invade as Biden explicitly declared that U.S. troops would not be involved in the event of a full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine. This open predictability combined with Biden’s passivity has proved to be a disaster for American foreign policy.
This passivity was also seen when Biden attempted to appease Iran. Biden released billions of frozen dollars for the Iranian government in September 2023. Now we are in a proxy war with Iran through Israel’s war in Gaza and the conflict with the Houthis. This conflict threatens to expand with a second front against Hezbollah, a close ally of Iran. This war has directly hurt Americans, as some of Hamas’s hostages are American citizens and Iranian proxies killed three American soldiers in a drone strike.
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Opposing Biden, Trump’s foreign policy was the best contribution his administration made to the United States. His unpredictability kept foes of America on their toes. Putin made no advancements in Ukraine during his presidency, unlike the administrations before and after him. He finished the destruction of ISIS’s caliphate and killed its leader. Against Iran, Trump struck Iranian Gen. Quassem Soleimani with a drone strike and oversaw the negotiation of the Abraham Accords, the greatest American foreign policy triumph in recent history.
Under the Biden administration, the world has become a more dangerous place for the U.S. and our allies. Biden lied when he said that the U.S. is respected during tonight’s debate. The U.S. is now closer to entering a hot war than at any point during the Trump administration.