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David French, Lydia Polgreen and Bret Stephens
By David FrenchLydia Polgreen and Bret Stephens
Mr. French, Mrs. Polgreen and Mr. Stephens are opinion columnists.
Patrick Healy, the editor of the Deputy Opinion, hosted an online verbal exchange with Time Opinion columnists David French, Lydia Polgreen, and Bret Stephens about the greatest dangers and demanding situations facing the United States in the leadership and leadership of President Biden and Donald Trump.
Patrick Healy: President Biden is about to deliver national security and foreign policy to Donald Trump, and the elected president is already thinking of taking Greenland and the Panama Canal through the force of the army. Trump has great concepts in the position of the United States in the world, and that is where I need to start.
We started the new year with the truck attack in New Orleans by an Army veteran who had an ISIS flag. You have hostages and fighting still in Gaza, and a new Ukrainian offensive in Kursk. The Biden team portrays the world as safer than when the president took office, while Trump sees a world in chaos and is promising order and peace while making a lot of threats to other countries. Let’s start with a base-line question: Do you think America is stronger and more secure in the world today than it was four years ago?
Bret Stephens: The fault only lives with the Biden administration, yet it’s hard to claim that Pare Livingnt Biden leaves his tasks with the global more certain than he has discovered.
Iran, China, Russia and North Korea are now forming a new axis of repression and cooperation in a difficult way to believe a few years. NATO has some new members and spends a little more in defense, however, the war in Ukraine does not have a good time, partly due to the reluctance of the management to supply the arms it needed when necessary. China’s threatening habit towards Taiwan and in the southern China Sea has gone from bad to worse. And Islamist terrorism can be a resident. The only positive point is the weakening of Iran and its representatives in recent months, however, this has not yet been caused through the administration through the successes of the Israel Army, reached in front of the Opposition of Biden.
Lydia Polgreen: one thing that moves me about the management of Biden and this time in the global is the detail of the wonder and insufficient appearance. There was the withdrawal of Afghanistan, which weakened Biden. But I also think about the comment of the National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan on the Middle East “quieter” a week before October 7, 2023, and then the breach of management to influence the search for Benjamin Netanyahu of the War in Loop. And now we have the obvious wonder of the incredibly immediate fall of the Assad regime in Syria. Perhaps the most productive way to achieve strength and security is to anticipate, influence and shape the global occasions in the interest of the United States. And in this score, I think we had 4 years quite ugly.
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