Former National Intelligence Director John Ratcliffe said on Thursday that President Biden appears to be so focused on trying to prove President Trump wrong on various bills, including Middle East foreign policy, that it could fall back on him.
Ratcliffe told host Trey Gowdy on Fox News Primetime that foreign policy is a specific area where Biden and his government have adopted essentially the opposite way as Trump did during his presidency.
“The Biden government seems so intent on proving Trump wrong that they will prove him right for the sake of national security, and will literally snatch the defeat from the jaws of victory,” he said.
“We enjoy peace in the Middle East because Iran is poorer, weaker and less influential than in decades and no one else can reason with a straight face, and that is because we have withdrawn from the JCPOA (nuclear deal with Iran) and sanctions implemented what put the Iranian regime on the verge of real problems and prevented them from engaging in the kind of chaos across the Middle East that allowed the peace agreements, the peace agreements, to continue. ‘
“The [Biden administration] wants to go in the opposite direction. ‘
Ratcliffe said most Middle Eastern countries, such as those involved in Trump’s Abraham agreements, do not want the Iran nuclear deal returned or strengthened.
The only countries supporting the Biden-Kerry tactics on that front appear to be Russia and China, he said.
“Why the Biden government would listen to them and want to continue on this is surprising. But it endangers national security. I hope they will withdraw.”
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Over another key area in the world, Gowdy pointed out how Biden has said in the past that China “is not bad people” and “is not going to eat. [America’s] lunch. ‘
“After a call in February with Chinese leader Xi Jinping in February, Biden apparently turned the corner and said that if the US did not move, they would go and eat our lunch,” Gowdy added.
Biden and Xi meet on March 18 in Anchorage.
Ratcliffe said he could already propose the formal ‘reading’ of the forthcoming meeting between the two leaders, noting that it would say they were talking about trade, theft of intellectual property and other issues.
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Ratcliffe said that if he were the president, he would not go to another subject until he received a strong commitment from Beijing on full transparency regarding the onset of coronavirus in Wuhan province and other related answers. not.
“The concern is that the rhetoric about China was pretty good. But the action did not support it. Our concern is that we might not get the answers if they do not keep their foot on the gas,” he said.