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Don’t let mainstream media’s response to President Donald Trump’s Oval Office meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy misinform. If Trump’s first-term international coverage serves as any indication of how “pro-NATO” and “anti-Russian” his second-term international coverage shall be, the report is overwhelmingly pro-NATO and anti-Russian.
No matter criticism – largely by perennial Donald Trump critics – the president is not any buddy to Russia and his first time period substantively displays that.
As a former navy officer and diplomat who served in Jap Europe throughout the vast majority of Trump’s first time period, I witnessed first-hand the tangible, unrelenting and efficient anti-Russian and pro-NATO insurance policies he directed American diplomats to speak, affect and implement.
Russian President Vladimir Putin and President Donald Trump (Contributor/Rebecca Noble/Getty Pictures)
The next is a listing of particular foreign policies I witnessed and supported beneath from 2017 to 2020.
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Rising NATO international locations’ navy spending to higher than 2% GDP
This coverage was of the very best precedence for navy diplomats serving in NATO international locations. The quantifiable coverage was personalized based mostly on the particular navy modernization wants of every NATO nation. Within the nation I served in, Bulgaria, the coverage resulted within the Bulgarian parliament approving the acquisition of eight U.S. F-16 jets to the value of greater than $1.3 billion as Bulgaria’s Air Drive required drastic modernization.
A extra modernized and succesful NATO (steered by American diplomatic stress) targeted on elevated navy spending… not good for Russia.
Deadly assist to Ukraine
Below President Trump – and in stark distinction to President Barack Obama’s Ukrainian coverage – the U.S. supplied lethal aid to Ukraine within the type of Javelins, aka tank killers. Javelins enabled the Ukrainians to achieve a combating likelihood on the japanese entrance of the battle the place they had been traditionally dropping. Ukrainian navy attaches, whom I befriended and labored intently with throughout my time in Bulgaria, typically embraced me and stated, “Thanks, brother, we lastly have an opportunity on the japanese entrance.”
A extra succesful and modernized Ukrainian navy armed with Javelins… not good for Russia.
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Largest expulsion of Russian diplomats in U.S. historical past
Following the poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal in Salisbury, United Kingdom, in 2018 by Russian brokers, Prime Minister Theresa Might implored President Trump to take a powerful and symbolic diplomatic stance in help of Britian and in stern rebuke of Russia. Trump replied, “What can I do?”
Along with 60 Russian diplomats being declared persona non grata and compelled to go away the U.S., Trump ordered the everlasting closure of the Russian Consulate in Seattle, Washington. On the worldwide entrance, U.S. embassies everywhere in the world additional influenced native diplomatic motion, leading to a number of expulsions of Russian diplomats.
Ordering the largest Russian diplomatic expulsion in U.S. historical past… not good for Russia.
Sanctioned Russian gasoline pipeline Nord Stream 2
In December 2019, Trump formally sanctioned all corporations concerned with the development of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, which sought to move Russian gasoline straight from Russia into Germany by way of the Baltic Sea.
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Trump, in an overarching diplomatic technique to weaken Russian affect in Europe, started shaping the problem during a NATO breakfast in Brussels in 2018 when he overtly acknowledged, “Germany is completely managed by Russia,” including the development of the pipeline was “dangerous for NATO.” Finally the pipeline by no means turned operational, and Nord Stream 2 declared chapter in 2022, shedding all 106 workers.
Spearheading the demise of Russian gasoline enlargement into Germany… not good for Russia.
Each time I hear the baseless criticisms of Trump’s international coverage – significantly the inconsiderate pro-Russian accusations – I’m wondering if the critics have any inclination to coach themselves on his precise insurance policies, which had been something however pleasant to the Russian authorities.
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Because the president precisely acknowledged in his handle to Congress, Democrats wouldn’t be joyful if he discovered a remedy for the deadliest illness; the identical may be stated of his international coverage critics. Coincidentally, the one U.S. presidential time period Putin has not invaded a international nation, relationship again to 2008, was throughout Trump’s first time period.
President Trump… not good for Russia.
