Who feels as or safer under Biden versus Trump

[GMDino]

(10-11-2023, 12:20 AM)Luvnit2 Wrote: Look at the facts. Trump's foreign policy of peace through strength or Biden's foreign policy of appeasement to special interests and open borders.

Let's be real, Trump scared the hell out of foreign leaders that reside in NK, China, Russia, Iran and the entire middle east. Biden can't even pull out of a war without getting thousands of people killed and billions worth of equipment left in Afghanistan.  I have a hunch some of that equipment is being use by Hamas and other terrorists groups.

But, hey tell us any great foreign policy Joe Biden has executed as POTUS. Our border is a sieve and national security high risk all on Joe Biden and Democrats.

https://www.state.gov/reports/country-reports-on-terrorism-2019/

Quote:In April 2016, a Hamas member carried out a suicide attack on a bus in Jerusalem, killing 20.  The group was also held responsible for several Gaza-based rocket attacks, including a July strike in Sderot that hit a kindergarten and damaged several buildings.

Hamas-organized protests at the border between Gaza and Israel continued throughout much of 2019, resulting in clashes that killed Hamas members, Palestinian protestors, and Israeli soldiers.  Hamas claimed responsibility for numerous rocket attacks from Gaza into Israeli territory throughout 2018, and the Israeli military reported that some rocket attacks in 2019 came from Hamas launchers.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/north-korea-launched-no-missiles-2018-isn-t-necessarily-due-n949971

Quote:Before and after Trump's election and inauguration, North Korea was conducting a flurry of nuclear and missile tests.


The drumbeat reached a peak in 2017, when Kim Jong Un's regime launched its first intercontinental ballistic missiles — theoretically capable of striking the United States mainland. It also tested its most powerful nuclear weapon to date, which it claimed was a miniaturized hydrogen bomb.


Verbal sparring between Trump and Kim escalated and appeared to elevate the threat of a devastating war.



[color=var(--inline-video--info--color)][color=var(--inline-video--title-color)]Trump on North Korea: Rockets 'no longer flying in every direction'[/color]
SEPT. 25, 201801:58

[color=var(--social-share-inline--share-list--color)][/url][url=https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=Trump%20on%20North%20Korea%3A%20Rockets%20%27no%20longer%20flying%20in%20every%20direction%27&via=nbcnews&url=https://www.msnbc.com/hallie-jackson/watch/trump-on-north-korea-rockets-no-longer-flying-in-every-direction-1328700995816&original_referer=https://www.msnbc.com/hallie-jackson/watch/trump-on-north-korea-rockets-no-longer-flying-in-every-direction-1328700995816][/color][/color]
Then it all stopped. 


North Korea conducted its last nuclear test in September 2017 and its last missile launch a month later. Trump has gone from ridiculing Kim as "little rocket man" to saying he "fell in love" with the young dictator.


"The missiles and rockets are no longer flying in every direction, nuclear testing has stopped," Trump told the United Nations General Assembly in September.

The president has pointed to this as evidence that his strategy to defang Kim's government is working.
However, many experts point out that although the eye-catching weapons displays may have ceased, other more subtle parts of North Korea's weapons program continue apace. Tests are only part of the story.
"Kim has not changed his policy ... but claims that he's now moved from research-and-development and onto mass production," said Cristina Varriale, a research fellow at the Royal United Services Institute, a London-based think tank.



[color=var(--inline-video--info--color)][color=var(--inline-video--title-color)]North Korea still building ballistic missiles, say U.S. officials[/color]
NOV. 12, 201801:10

[color=var(--social-share-inline--share-list--color)][/url][url=https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=North%20Korea%20still%20building%20ballistic%20missiles%2C%20say%20U.S.%20officials&via=nbcnews&url=https://www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news/video/north-korea-still-building-ballistic-missiles-say-u-s-officials-1368698435834&original_referer=https://www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news/video/north-korea-still-building-ballistic-missiles-say-u-s-officials-1368698435834][/color][/color]
North Korea continues to produce fissile material and develop missile bases around the country, according to experts and analysis of detailed satellite images.
This transition from testing to production should come as no surprise — it's exactly what Kim told the world he would do at the beginning of the year.

https://www.militarytimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2022/10/13/trump-ordered-rapid-withdrawal-from-afghanistan-after-election-loss/

Quote:Trump ordered rapid withdrawal from Afghanistan after election loss[color=var(--isCover,var(--atype-theme-on-primary))][color=var(--isCover,#fff)]
[color=var(--bylineByColor,var(--atype-theme-grey-900,#111))]By [color=var(--authorColor,var(--atype-theme-primary,#000))]Leo Shane III[/color]
[color=var(--atype-theme-grey-800)][color=var(--atype-date-color,var(--atype-theme-grey-700,#333))] Oct 13, 2022[/color][/color]
[/color]
[color=var(--atype-theme-grey-800,#ccc)]President Donald Trump ordered an immediate evacuation of U.S. troops from Afghanistan and Somalia after his election loss in November 2020, according to multiple senior officials in his administration. (Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP)[/color][/color][/color]

President Donald Trump ordered a rapid withdrawal of all U.S. troops from Afghanistan and Somalia in the wake of his 2020 election loss, but senior officials never followed through on the plan, according to testimony released by the congressional January 6 committee on Thursday.

“The order was for an immediate withdrawal, and it would have been catastrophic,” said Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., one of two Republican members of the special panel. “And yet President Trump signed the order.”

Witnesses who spoke to the committee about the surprise withdrawal plan included Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Mark Milley, former national security advisor to the vice president Keith Kellogg, and several other senior officials in the Trump administration.


Committee officials played video clips of their testimony during Thursday’s 10th hearing on the attempted insurrection on Jan. 6, 2021. The event is expected to be the final public meeting of the panel.

Milley said he was shocked when he saw the withdrawal orders, signed by Trump on Veterans Day 2020, just four days after Joe Biden was declared the winner of the 2020 presidential election.

“It is odd. It is nonstandard,” Milley said in his recorded testimony. “It is potentially dangerous. I personally thought it was militarily not feasible nor wise.”

Kellogg, a retired Army lieutenant general, said after seeing the order he told senior staff the idea was “a tremendous disservice to the nation” and implementing it would be “catastrophic.”

At the time, about 8,000 troops were still stationed in Afghanistan, helping train government security forces and conduct counter-terrorism operations. Fewer than 1,000 U.S. troops were in Somalia on similar missions.

Journalists Bob Woodward and Robert Costa referenced the surprise memo in their book “Peril” on the Trump presidency, released last month. They wrote that the idea did not go through any of the traditional chain of command protocols, and ultimately senior staff believed it did not have legal standing requiring them to follow through with the plan.


But members of the committee argued the move showed acknowledgement by Trump that he had lost the election.


“Knowing that he had lost and that he had only weeks left in office, President Trump rushed to complete his unfinished business,” Kinzinger said.


“These are the highly consequential actions of a president who knows his term will end shortly.”

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/u-s-review-of-chaotic-afghanistan-withdrawal-blames-trump

Quote:U.S. review of chaotic Afghanistan withdrawal blames Trump

Politics Apr 6, 2023 2:34 PM EDT



Read the full report here.

WASHINGTON (AP) — A U.S. review led by the National Security Council of the chaotic 2021 withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan largely lays the blame on former President Donald Trump, saying President Joe Biden was “severely constrained” by the decisions of his predecessor.

The White House on Thursday publicly released a 12-page summary of the results of the so-called “ hotwash ” of U.S. policies around the ending of the nation’s longest war, taking little responsibility for its own actions during some of the darkest moments of Biden’s presidency.

The administration said most of the after-action reviews, which were transmitted privately to Congress on Thursday, were highly classified and would not be released publicly.

“President Biden’s choices for how to execute a withdrawal from Afghanistan were severely constrained by conditions created by his predecessor,” the White House summary states, noting that when Biden entered office, “the Taliban were in the strongest military position that they had been in since 2001, controlling or contesting nearly half of the country.”

READ MORE: A historical timeline of Afghanistan
[/url]
The report does fault overly optimistic intelligence community assessments about the Afghan army’s willingness to fight, and says Biden followed military commanders’ recommendations for the pacing of the drawdown of U.S. forces.

The White House asserts the mistakes of Afghanistan informed its handling of Ukraine, where the Biden administration has been credited for supporting Kyiv’s [url=https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/ukraines-zelenskyy-visit-tightens-bonds-with-poland-amid-russian-war]defense against Russia’s invasion. The White House says it simulated worst-case scenarios prior to the February 2022 invasion and moved to release intelligence about Moscow’s intentions months beforehand.

“We now prioritize earlier evacuations when faced with a degrading security situation,” the White House said.
In an apparent attempt to defend its national security decision-making, the Biden administration also notes that it released pre-war warnings over “strong objections from senior officials in the Ukrainian government.”

Republicans in Congress have sharply criticized the Afghanistan withdrawal, focusing on the deaths of 13 service members in a suicide bombing at Kabul’s airport.

Former Marine Sgt. Tyler Vargas-Andrews, who was badly wounded in the explosion, told a congressional hearing last month that the withdrawal “was a catastrophe” and “there was an inexcusable lack of accountability.”


WATCH: Mark Frerichs on what his freedom means after being held hostage in Afghanistan for years


National Security Council spokesman John Kirby credited U.S. forces for their actions in running the largest airborne evacuation of noncombatants in history during the chaos of Kabul’s fall.


“They ended our nation’s longest war,” he told reporters. “That was never going to be an easy thing to do. And as the president himself has said, it was never going to be low grade or low risk or low cost.”


Since the U.S. withdrawal, Biden has blamed the February 2020 agreement Trump reached with the Taliban in Doha, Qatar, saying it boxed the U.S. into leaving the country. The agreement gave the Taliban significant legitimacy and has been blamed by analysts for undercutting the U.S.-backed government, which would collapse so quickly a year later.


But the agreement also gave the U.S. the right to withdraw from the accord if Afghan peace talks failed — which they did.


The agreement required the U.S. to remove all forces by May 1, 2021. Biden pushed a full withdrawal to September but declined to delay further, saying it would prolong a war that had long needed to end.


AP writers Josh Boak and Seung Min Kim contributed to this report.

But then we have on the other side: