6 Things Trump’s Foreign Policy Got Right and the Experts Got Wrong

As a New Yorker, I’ve been paying attention to Donald Trump for years, long before he got involved in politics.

People mocked him when he commented on foreign policy. What did Trump know? National security was the exclusive domain of the experts, not real estate developers or reality TV stars.

But in retrospect, Trump was right about almost every major foreign policy issue. The ones who are wrong are the truth-tellers!

Here are Trump’s top six:

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China

For decades, the consensus view was that if the US supported China’s economic growth, it would become a friendly trading partner, and play by the rules – just like Japan, South Korea and European countries. Trump disagreed. Experts laughed when China ripped us off for decades. “China raided our factories, invaded our jobs offshore, burned down our industries, stole our intellectual property, and broke their promises in the World Trade Agreement.”

As recently as 2019, Joe Biden told a crowd in Iowa City, “Is China going to eat our lunch? Come on, man,” he scoffed at the idea that China could overtake America as world leader. The experts were wrong, Trump was right.

American energy dominance

In the year Before running for president in 2015, Trump understood that recent developments in oil and gas production would be a strategic game changer for the US and the world. When President Barack Obama left office, oil was at $120 a barrel and experts warned that the world was running out of oil.

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Trump’s embrace of the U.S. energy industry has boosted U.S. production, sending oil down to $40 a barrel. Not only did America’s extraordinary economic growth, but it destroyed the economies of Russia and Iran because they needed oil prices above $90 to fund their governments. During the Trump years, Russia and Iran were forced to tighten their belts as their energy export revenues fell by nearly two-thirds; They could not afford expensive wars.

Biden reverses Trump’s energy policies, oil prices likely to hit $100 per barrel Iran has used these windfall profits to finance its nuclear program and arm its proxies to attack Israel. Russia has used its newfound wealth to attack Ukraine. There is a reason why Russia invaded Ukraine during the Obama and Biden presidencies but not under Trump. They didn’t have the money to pay for expensive wars during the Trump years.

Iraq and Afghanistan wars

Democrats and Republicans have supported the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq for 20 years. Trump disagreed. In the year In early 2003, he called the Iraq war a “mess.” He was right. We have spilled American blood and spent trillions on two endless wars.

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Iran

Trump pulled out of Obama’s flawed Iran nuclear deal, because it made Iran rich and didn’t stop its nuclear weapons program. Iran’s Quds Force commander, General Qassam Soleimani, ordered his death. Instead of fruitless endless negotiations, Trump has set Iran up for bankruptcy with his energy policies and oil sanctions.

By the time Trump left office, Iran was nearly bankrupt, and its proxy army was weakened. But President Biden threw Iran a lifeline. He reversed course on US energy production, paid Iran billions and refused to enforce sanctions. Iran used this $100 billion windfall to fund a new proxy war against Israel for Hamas and Hezbollah.

Abraham’s covenant

For decades, US leaders have said that we must resolve the Palestinian issue as the first step toward a broader Arab-Israeli peace. But repeatedly, the Palestinians refused to negotiate seriously, so peace became difficult.

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Trump took the opposite approach and focused on Arab-Israeli peace as the first step. His energy policy has reduced global oil prices. Arab leaders realized that they could no longer rely solely on oil export revenues to support their governments. They had to increase the economy that required peace with Israel.

Trump recognized that the young generation of Arab leaders, educated in the West and with more open societies, would be amenable to dramatic social change and economic ties to Israel. The Abraham Accords were the first peace agreements between Israel and the Sunni Gulf states – ever. Trump has succeeded where all experts have failed for decades.

NATO

US presidents going back to John F. Kennedy have complained that our NATO allies are not paying their fair share for our common defense. Obama called them “freeloaders.” Our allies always made excuses that they could not pay the promised 2% of GNP and relied on America for the defense bill.

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Trump talked, blamed and threatened our NATO partners until they finally increased their defense spending. After all, they got the money.

For years, Washington bureaucrats, politicians, and pundits have been wrong about the major foreign policy problems facing the country. It took an outsider who saw things from a different perspective. Instead of endless rounds of fruitless diplomacy and an open checkbook, Trump has used trade, economics, and common sense to rebuild American security. And his second time will be even better.

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