President Trump’s Growing List of Foreign Policy Successes

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“It’s long past time for President Trump’s detractors to admit he has had quite a string of successes when it comes to foreign policy,” Martha Boneta writes in Townhall.

President Trump’s Growing List of Foreign Policy Successes

By: Martha Boneta, Townhall, August 25, 2020:

It’s long past time for President Trump’s detractors to admit he has had quite a string of successes when it comes to foreign policy, and some are finally relenting.

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The Washington Post’s David Ignatius, for example, had to admit President Trump hit a home run with the deal he helped negotiate for Israel and the United Arab Emirates to normalize diplomatic relations.

“This was, as he tweeted, a ‘HUGE’ achievement,” Ignatius wrote. It is viewed as an “icebreaker” that could open the door to other countries, such as Bahrain, Omar and Morocco, opening diplomatic relations with Israel.

Trump will go down as perhaps the most consequential president in terms of the Middle East in American history. He not only has stitched together this deal, he has gotten Israel and Saudi Arabia to cooperate on operations against Iran. He became the first president ever to fly from Riyadh to Tel Aviv.

He has defeated ISIS, moved the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem and taken out Qasem Soleimani, the Iran major general whose Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps is responsible for the deaths of hundreds of Americans and punished Syria – as opposed to the disappearing “red lines” of the previous administration – for using chemical weapons on its citizens.

He has withdrawn from the disastrous Iran deal and stopped sending plane loads of cash to the world’s leading state sponsor terrorism, and he has begun to withdraw U.S. troops from Afghanistan and Syria.

And the Middle East peace plan his son-in-law and adviser Jared Kushner has developed is said to be the best hope for resolving the Israel-Palestine conflict since at least Oslo.

And that’s just the Middle East.

In this hemisphere, President Trump has withdrawn the U.S. from the disastrous NAFTA deal and replaced it with the US-Mexico-Canada trade deal, which opened new markets for U.S. farmers and manufacturers and encouraged the return of manufacturing jobs to the U.S.

He has convinced Mexico to place 27,000 soldiers on its southern border to prevent caravans of immigrants from traveling through Mexico to the U.S. border, easing the strain on our border and saving enough money to finance wall construction. So in a sense, Mexico is paying for the wall.

He has forged new and stronger relationships with not only Mexico but Brazil, whose president won because he was the most Trump-like candidate in the race, as well as Guatemala and others.

President Trump has taken on China like no one before and no one running against him for president could hope to. He investigated China for unfair trade practices related to technology transfers, intellectual property theft, and stealing American innovations under the Trade Act. He also charged China before the World Trade Organization with discriminatory licensing practices.

President Trump has stood up to all the forced theft China inflicts on American firms and then some. He has negotiated an interim trade deal with the Chinese, one of which obligated the Chinese to buy rice from the U.S. He walked away from a Phase 2 deal because he held the Chinese accountable for not living up to terms of the first deal.

He placed 25 percent tariffs on $250 billion worth of Chinese products, which has made them less competitive in the U.S. and forced pressure on Beijing to reform. But thanks to his strong economic policies, unemployment and inflation were basically non-existent before the pandemic, so Chinese firms, not American consumers, paid the costs of these tariffs.

That streak of light you no longer see above the Sea of Japan is the end of North Korea’s previously rather regular missile threats to its neighbors and to the U.S. The president went where no president has gone before – to North Korea – and also held two summits with North Korea’s leader. They didn’t produce an agreement, but they did produce an understanding – and the world is a more peaceful, less anxious place because of it.

In Europe, the president has strengthened our allies and stood up for our values. He insisted all members of NATO meet their defense spending commitments, and the head of NATO, Jens Stoltenberg, has said the organization is in as good of shape thanks to this as it has been in a long time.

He is accused by the left of kowtowing to Russia’s Vladimir Putin, but the opposite is more accurate. The president scored a major military victory over a group of Russian soldiers fighting in Syria. He also achieved energy independence for the U.S., which means we control our fate on energy prices and world supplies have reached a surplus.

Earlier this year, world oil prices dipped below zero briefly, and they have remained historically low. Russia, which relies on energy for influence in Europe and cash reserves for Moscow, has been deeply wounded by America’s assertion of energy dominance.

In addition, President Trump has worked with countries from around the world to attack gang activity and human trafficking and to promote religious freedom.

Trump was elected on high-profile domestic issues – cutting taxes, closing the borders, and deregulation. He has addressed all of these. But he also has been perhaps the most consequential president in our lifetimes with regard to foreign policy.

And it’s time he get the recognition he deserves.

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TD
TD
3 years ago

ISIS caliphate is gone under Trump.
That was the number 1 issue in 2016.

That’s still his best foreign policy accomplishment.

BITE ME, Democrats
BITE ME, Democrats
3 years ago
Reply to  TD

I actually agree because this new Israeli peace deal will not last long, that is, if you know what the Bible says, which I do and believe. When Trump leaves office, probably in 2024, all hell will break loose against Israel UNLESS another GREAT person gets in the WH just like Trump and continues supporting Israel and Trump’s policies.

geirsmith
geirsmith
3 years ago

I think it all happens fast: the Bible’s idea seems to be that when the Peace Deal is signed it’s a fake peace and it actually blows up in their face.
But when it all explodes, that’s when the Messiah comes and keeps the world back from going over the cliff.
That’s how I see it: happening all at once, both the good and the worse, right?
What do you say?

BITE ME, Democrats
BITE ME, Democrats
3 years ago

https://www.magapill.com/

TRUMP/PENCE 2020

WadeBaker
WadeBaker
3 years ago

Would be nice if he can break China in his second term. I don’t rule it out.

WadeBaker
WadeBaker
3 years ago
Reply to  WadeBaker

I work in an industry where people have to labor under some idiotic conditions in an attempt to eliminate risk. In other words, to keep idiots from killing themselves. Glad I’m closer to the end than I am the beginning.

Michelle
Michelle
3 years ago
Reply to  WadeBaker

Yes find one 100 year old sheet of asbestos and they knock down the whole building. Idiots!

WadeBaker
WadeBaker
3 years ago
Reply to  Michelle

Good example. Most people don’t know that asbestos harm only comes from long term exposure, but everybody gets in their tyvek suits and respirators for one day removal.

geirsmith
geirsmith
3 years ago
Reply to  WadeBaker

It’s now looking like the lockdowns may have been a huge mistake
By Michael Barone September 6, 2020

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Were lockdowns a mistake? To that nagging question, the answer increasingly seems to be yes.

Certainly, they were a novelty. As novelist Lionel Shriver writes, “We’ve never before responded to a contagion by closing down whole countries.” As I’ve noted, the 1957-58 Asian flu killed between 70,000 and 116,000 Americans, between 0.04 percent and 0.07 percent of the nation’s population. The 1968-70 Hong Kong flu killed about 100,000, 0.05 percent of the population.

The US coronavirus death toll of 186,000 is 0.055 percent of the current population. It will go higher, but it’s about the same magnitude as those two flus, and it has been less deadly to those under 65 than the flus were. Yet there were no statewide lockdowns; no massive school closings; no closings of office buildings and factories, restaurants and museums. No one considered shutting down Woodstock.

https://nypost.com/2020/09/06/its-now-looking-like-the-lockdowns-may-have-been-a-huge-mistake/

Andrew Blackadder
Andrew Blackadder
3 years ago
Reply to  geirsmith

Actually according to the latest CDC Report “only” about 9500 people died of Wuhan Flu as all the others had other serious medical conditions and were over the age of 65, and they claimed people who died in car crashes or Motorbike accidents,even suicide, died of Covid because they were tested positive AFTER they died from car crashes and suicide…

The 9500 plus that really did die had a low immune system as they would be such people that would die of a bad case of Winter Flu as happens every year.

geirsmith
geirsmith
3 years ago

They probably died from wearing the masks. Also from being isolated…. old people don’t put up a fight and slowly go down the drain when their family are kept away from them by the COVID fascist doctors.

Andrew, do you also deal in other matters such as prophecy?

Because Obama’s a demonic that fits the Antichrist’s traits and nobody will talk about that, the ten ton gorilla in the room which is Satan-in-Person, Obama.

Why is that? Are people so superstitious that they won’t talk about the spiritual death awaiting them if they don’t stand up to witness against Obama?

Are you among the brave or the cowards, just like all the rest of these shills?

Andrew Blackadder
Andrew Blackadder
3 years ago
Reply to  geirsmith

I read somewhere that the day Obama became President the Lottery numbers in Chicago came up as 666.. Is this true?.
I am not a follower of the Christian Religion, though i was born us as such, but I can see what many Christians now speak of as The End Times as its all falling into place it seems.

geirsmith
geirsmith
3 years ago

I read somewhere that the day Obama became President the Lottery numbers in Chicago came up as 666.. Is this true?.

100% true. Next day after his election, Obama gave his victory speech I.e. his acceptance speech in Chicago. The same-day lottery draw in the Illinois Lottery was 666. That’s the Mark of the Beast i.e. the Antichrist. (there are lots of videos and articles saying it. Nobody’s talking about it. Suspicious, isn’t it? People should have yelled it from the rooftops. Christ!)

I am not a follower of the Christian Religion, though i was born us as such, but I can see what many Christians now speak of as The End Times as its all falling into place it seems.

Yes, you’re right, the Evangelicals in Israel, negotiating the peace are now creating the Bible’s prophecy from scratch, from their own efforts and by siding with Trump as their war-horse to achieve this peace-deal. The Apocalypse is taking shape fast and this Sept.15th’s Peace Accord signature in Washington should be the final touch to all these things. Its all falling before this peace effort, like a game of dominoes and heading straight into the end times. They’re expecting a miracle to occur and the Messiah and 2d Coming to appear out of the blue.

But we’ve got a responsibility in these events happening – and that’s by revealing the nitty gritty details about Obama. His real name, his real birthplace, his family and real father etc….we have to stand up and provide that to the world. (I met his cousin online who says she knows Obamas real name birthplace etc…she witnessed his birth at Forbes Air Force Base outside Topeka, Kansas she says. Rep. Ron Paul was MD at the base at that time. She says it’s her mother that drove Obamas mother out to the Forbes Air Force Base in their pickup truck.)

Even Trump can’t reveal the truth because he doesn’t have the same freedom as we do. We can blow the whistle on Obama. We can bring the Revelation of ALL his secrets.

I’m Buddhist myself Andrew and the Buddhist Apocalypse is in the Kalachakra prophecy of Tibetan Buddhism. I don’t follow Christianity because Buddhism is superior to all faiths (because like Hinduism, Buddhism never carried out war.)

I’m Anti-Islam just like Pam Geller is too. Because Islam is the worst thing existing in the world. That’s how I think.

The Buddhist Kalachakra describes a demonic being appearing in the end of times and he fits to the T with Obama’s description. Exactly!

Andrew Blackadder
Andrew Blackadder
3 years ago
Reply to  geirsmith

Great to meet you and I have seen other postings from you about Obama, I call him Obummer, regarding he and the Anti Christ and Im starting to see just how correct you are but this will never come to MSM light because that would be totally against the game being played against the American people today.
I was also born into the Christian faith, Church of Scotland , though I told them when I was about 10 or 12 years old that I didnt believe any of it, and I have embraced the Buddhist Dharma for the past 40 something years and thought along those lines even before I discovered the teaches of Lord Buddha. I am Scots, and I lived in the good old USA during the 1980s, and off and on during the 1990s, and since then I reside in South Asia where people live the Dharma as a normal way of life and this is where I live until my old world weary heart decides its enough already, getting closer every day and thats just fine.
Jesus was a Jew practicing Buddhism, and Hinduism, he just put his own spin on it.
Contcat me at [email protected]. Andrew.

geirsmith
geirsmith
3 years ago

Andrew, could you furnish a link to the CDC report, so Pam Geller could make an article about it.
Thanks.
We’re living under this God-dammed Medico-Fascism CRAP.
This has to stop NOW because the old people are dying from masks and they’re dying real FAST.

geirsmith
geirsmith
3 years ago
Reply to  WadeBaker

****
Don’t forget the Obama birth certificate. If Trump could reveal that. In 2012, he said to Meredith Vieira on the Today Show that “Obama’s forged birth certificate is the greatest con in world history that it was Obama that managed to pull off!”
—-
If Trump manages that in ihs second term then he’l have pulled off the Apocalypse and revealed that Obama’s the Antichrist. As Obama would approve, he’d say: “That’s a legacy!”

Michelle
Michelle
3 years ago
Reply to  WadeBaker

And it is the asbestos dust that causes the problems, almost always during ,manufacture or when it was sprayed as asolution so that any asbestos painted or not and not sawn should be no real problem. But! give a bleeding heart leftist a bone and they will eat the whole animal.

danE DanE
danE DanE
3 years ago

DON’T SKIP THIS URGENT MESSAGE!!!
THIS COULD BE YOUR LAST INVITE TO RECEIVE AND BELIEVE ON THE LORD JESUS CHRIST!!! AFTER THE RAPTURE, JESUS WILL BE COMING BACK AS THE LION OF JUDAH and ALL UNBELIEVERS WILL BE TORMENTED IN HELL, THE LAKE OF FIRE, FOREVER!!!:
WE ARE IN THE LAST DAYS OF GRACE PERIOD FOR GENTILES!!! The “END POINT” is ETERNAL HELL for ALL UNBELIEVERS, OR eternal LIFE with YOUR CREATOR the Lord Jesus Christ for ALL BELIEVERS!!! True DEATH is being SEPARATED FROM YOUR CREATOR!!! PREPARE TO MEET THY CREATOR!!! JESUS IS COMING!!! BELIEVE ON HIM!!! ON THE CROSS JESUS DIED AND SHED HIS BLOOD FOR ALL, HE WAS BURIED AND ROSE ON THE THIRD DAY, AND ASCENDED TO HEAVEN!!! PRAY AND TELL HIM YOU BELIEVE THIS!!! SEE bethelchurchmo.com, or Gene Kim, or Robert Breaker both on youtube, MORE INFORMATION on how TO AVOID HELL!

Andrew Blackadder
Andrew Blackadder
3 years ago

One Canadian guy told me that Trump may Nuke North Korea, but then later he told me the only reason President Trump met for Lunch in Singapore with the leader of North Korea is because Trump likes to hang out with Dictators so he can get some pointers.
An American guy told me that Trump may well have done all these various actions around the World but he only did it to enrich his own Bank Account.
Yet another American guy told me that Trump may drop a Nuke on Portland in order to stop the nonsense thats going on there as “That would be in keeping with his personality”… Ya just cant fix that kind of stupid..

geirsmith
geirsmith
3 years ago

I’m a guy telling you that Trump’s whole rise to power came about because of Obama. He said he saw how corrupted the US government had become he felt he had to step up and clean the house.
He said Obama’s birth certificate was forged and Obama has pulled off the greatest con in world history.

Trump wanted to keep his old life but gave it all up to save the USA and the world, to bring peace to Israel, and deliver the Apocalypse with the Antichrist Obama, so as to top it all off.

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