Foreign Policy - Who is better?

Being the only Super Power on the planet, ever since the breakdown of the Soviet Union back in 1991, America definitely has a very special place in International Politics. As such foreign policy is important for every nation of the globe, but for a nation like America, it is extremely important. Any lapse here and there inside the American foreign policy can spread havoc throughout the globe and create risks of a World War in no big time, as we all witnessed when Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022. President Biden's foreign policy is much worse than that of President Trump. In fact, it is terrible. If the US foreign policy takes centre stage in the minds of the voters, Joe Biden's chances are not that great this time compared to Trump, although any election is always very unpredictable and so is this one. The reasons why I think that Trump has a better chance of winning are: 

Biden's "No Compromise with US Enemies policy" which has led to 2 unwanted wars in the last 3 years. There was no war when Trump was President. Was there any? Putin, the ever energetic and highly bullish, outrageous and outlaw type Russian President, was somehow tamed and made to remain silent by Trump. It was the result of Trump's  prudent strategy that Putin remained like a caged wild animal in front of him. If Trump was there in the White House even after 2021 (that is if he had won the 2020 Presidential Election), Russia definitely wouldn't have attacked Ukraine, the way it did on 24th of February, 2022. The Ukraine-Russia war, which has claimed lives of thousands of innocent Ukrainians and even Russians, would have never been there at all. Putin, with all his ambitions of Russian territorial expansions would have still remained silent. Biden has been providing so much aid to Ukraine in the last 2 years. This amounts to billions of dollars. Whose money is that, after all? It's the extremely hard-earned money of our American taxpayers. Masons, carpenters, crane-operators, farmers, truck-drivers, trolley-drivers and a whole lot - these Americans work blood and sweat to make their ends meet and still pay their share of taxes to the government. Then what does Biden do? Instead of thinking about their well-being he simply gives away billion of those dollars to a foreign country??? What a shame!!! Just because he is the President of this country, he thinks he can just give away our money to anybody just like that? This is totally unfair and he should be stopped. Why is he doing this after all? Just to keep Putin away? Just to make him feel that Ukraine is not alone in the senseless Russia-Ukraine war and the US has its back? What is the guarantee that Ukraine will not turn away from the US after a few years and stab America in the back? 

Aren't NATO allies of the United States like Germany too not stabbing it in the back? They are supposed to pay a regular amount to us for the protection they are receiving from us against the constant threat of a Russian attack. But they have not paid their dues since a long time. These unpaid amounts/ dues aggregates to millions of dollars. Why is President Biden silent on this? What is it that our country, with all our might should be scared of Germany drifting away from us? Under the garb of being an ally, Germany was receiving huge amounts of Natural Gas (110 billion cubic meters per year) from Russia via its Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2 pipelines passing from the Baltic region. It continued doing so till Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022. This goes beyond common sense. On one hand it pretends to be under threat from Russia and receives military support from the US by being a NATO ally. Whereas on the other hand it was receiving huge amounts of energy inflows from the same country, against which it was asking military support from the US. Even a 5 year old can judge what's going on here. Germany was fooling around with the US. How can it say that it was under any threat from Russia when it was receiving so much oil from it? Do enemies continue doing business with each other? Germany shouldn't have entered into any kind of business with Russia at all if it really was considering them as a threat to Germany's territorial integrity. This could have been a much rational argument for them on any international platform. The other option was they should have completely left NATO if they wanted Natural Gas from Russia. That would again be understandable. But, it's total hypocrisy on the part of Germany to do both simultaneously, viz. continue being a NATO ally of the US, thus receiving its military support and also keep receiving vast amounts of energy from Russia at the same time!! All this drama of Germany started when Barack Obama was the President of the US. I wonder why the Obama Administration failed to ask Germany about this double standards and ordered it to immediately shut down all its trade with a country which is the enemy number 1 of NATO. After all, what was it that prevented President Obama from asking this tough question to the then German Chancellor

Angela Merkel? However, Donald Trump did not waste any time in asking this question to Germany as soon as he had announced that he was running for the President's office in June, 2015. He bluntly and publicly told that the Obama Administration must make Germany pay all its dues as a NATO ally, failing which NATO should end its military assistance of all kinds which it gives to Germany. 

Some consider this point as an irrational and a hasty argument from Trump. In support they say that it's not good in America's interests to antagonize old allies. Really? Then, what does this mean? Has America gone so weak that it can not say the truth because it fears the end of an alliance? After all if Germany pays its huge dues to NATO whom would it favor? NATO, ofcourse. If NATO gets more money it will become richer and more powerful. It will better capacities of buying more weapons, artillery and other military equipments. That also means that America will also have to put lesser finances into it and thus ultimately this will save the all important millions of dollars, the money from American Tax payers' pockets from getting wasted. Isn't it? So, if an American leader loves his country he will not think twice about losing a foreign country's alliance if against that the money from American Tax payers' pockets was at stake. He would just let that country go away, if it wants to, from NATO and make it realise the fact that it is they who needs America more, rather than the other way around. Trump kept on acting on this lines during his 4 years in the White House. He did ask Germany to pay the dues to NATO, which it has not been paying for a long time. Obviously Merkel, the then German Chancellor did not like this new demand from an American President. So she too started disliking Trump, just like some other leaders from Europe. 

The same argument goes with the massive aid this Biden Administration is giving to Ukraine. Just before 3 months it authorised a bill inside the Senate which allowed a new military aid worth $ 60 Billion Dollars to Ukraine. Biden has been passing on these billions of dollars to Ukraine as if that foreign country is a part of the territory of the United States! He is acting as if he is trying to save some US territory from a Russian invasion. Some people on social media call President Zelensky of Ukraine as "Biden's another son" after Hunter, looking at the manner in which Biden is worried about Ukraine. Should he be so worried? Aren't there enough problems inside our country, that need much more priority, much more focus from him other than defending Ukraine? 

As said earlier, had Trump been at the helm of affairs in 2022, this whole senseless Russia-Ukraine war wouldn't have just occured at all. Neither do many innocents would have been killed inside Ukraine and Russia nor so many billions of American dollars would have been wasted so badly. It's all due to Biden's weak foreign policies. It's his fault. He has failed to present an aggressive American stance, which Trump was able to. Putin, Xi Jin Ping and lran's leader do think that Biden is a weak person. For a given brief period of time, a nation is known by its current leader and it's strength known by the posture taken that particular current leader. Not only is Biden a physically weak person but also that he fails to present a powerful image of a strong America in the eyes of its foes. After all, how can a man who keeps stumbling down here and there, in public life, present a powerful picture? Putin, who is a Judo fighter himself and still practises Judo as a sport regularly, must be mocking Biden whilst sitting with his Generals. How can such a physically weak man present himself in a rugged manner in front of America's enemies so as to make a shiver run down their spines when they think of damaging US interests somewhere? Clearly, Putin was not thinking about carrying out any attack on Ukraine until the time Trump was inside the White House. As a personal friend he couldn't afford to make him feel annoyed. Neither could he afford the aggression of the US forces, if a war broke out between the US and Russia. He was made to think like that because of the manner in which a strong man like Trump used to carry himself and speak. Trump's body language was not so intimidating but still it did have enough energy and potent power to make the crooked Russian leader feel that it's better not to displease this guy. Trump's aura was such. But once he was gone, who replaced him? A man who kept on falling down publicly and shamelessly, here and there. Sometimes on stage, sometimes from a bicycle, sometimes while climbing the ladder of an aeroplane. Putin must have seen all those and come to the conclusion that if Biden is so weak, so is America now. Let me just attack Ukraine, whilst threatening NATO that any counter-attack from the alliance will directly lead to an all out NUCLEAR WAR between Russia and NATO countries including America. Surprisingly and rather unfortunately, this strategy from Putin worked! NATO just Did Not retaliate back to the Russian invasion in the early days of its invasion on the Ukrainian capital Kyiv. Just imagine the scenario - on one hand a country which was yearning to become a NATO member was being mercilessly attacked. Yet, NATO was so helpless that it could not retaliate with a counter attack, just because of that threat of a Nuclear Attack from Russia. How did America become so weak all of a sudden, just within 13 months of Trump leaving the White House? Because Biden lacks in the mental fortitude which Trump has. In an hypothetical situation had Putin attacked Ukraine even when Trump was inside the White House in Washington DC, Trump would have definitely counter attacked, regardless of the lame threats of an alliance out NUCLEAR WAR by Putin. Trump would have categorically told Putin that "If Russia has Nuclear weapons, so does America. If Americans will be killed in thousands, Russians will get killed in tens of thousands. I will see to it that for each and every American killed, there are atleast 10 Russians killed, Mr.Putin....Am coming for you now .... You are going to die an ugly death, just like Adolf Hitler...your days are over...." With these kind of words, Putin would have understood what to do next. He would have quietly withdrawn all his forces from Ukraine and Belarus. This bloody and inexplicable war would have ended in just a few hours instead of stretching on and on for more than 2 years now. 

The second war that the world is witnessing right now is the one that's going on between Israel and Palestine's armed group Hamas, right now inside Gaza, a part of Palestine. This is also due to Biden. It's his second mistake in a row. Had Trump been inside the White House even this war wouldn't have ever happened at all. Let's just go through the chain of events that has caused this conflict to happen: On October 7th, 2023 (coincidentally the birthday of Vladimir Putin) Hamas, the fighting unit of the Palestinian government, provoked Israel in the worst possible manner when Hamas fighters entered Israel and butchered around 1500 innocent Israelites, mostly women and children. Clearly, there were massive and widespread repercussions to this on an international level. A few hours later Israel launched an extremely heavy aur attack on Gaza City, the capital of Palestine. Hamas fighters counter-attacked. From that day until today (May 29, 2024) this war is going on and on. It's about 8 months now but there are no signs of it getting over. IDF (Israel Defence Force) has already killed more than 32,000 Palestinians in these 8 months. People inside Rafah, a part of Gaza are starving for food. They do not have clean water to drink. There are very little medical supplies. Gaza strip looks like "a ghost town" with all the crumbled buildings everywhere. With such total lack of clean water and food, there is a huge possibility of the outbreak of an epidemic as per WHO (World Health Organization) officials in the entire region of Gaza, which has a population of around 2.5 million. If this war goes on and on like this, it's believed that the figure of 32,000 deaths will go up to 60,000 in the next 1 year. So, who is to be blamed for such a disastrous war? Again, it's Biden's fault. Here's why: Being the most powerful leader in the world, he could have just asked Israel to stop the ruthless killings after some time, instead of the continued massacres that it is inflicting upon the Palestinians since 8 months now. He could have told the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu "Look, they killed your 1500. Now you have already killed their 3000. It's time for you to stop. Be a human being. Don't be a killing machine. After all you are not a wild animal. Follow what is being said in the Torah, the Jewish scriptures that it is okay to punish the guilty but it is not okay to carry out the genocide of everyone related to those who are guilty. If Hamas was guilty, I think you have already killed hundreds of Hamas leaders by now. But now you are killing innocents - small children and women. You have no right to do so. You have killed 2 Palestinians for every Israeli killed. Now stop this killings immediately. This thirst for Palestinian blood is monstrous. I will not allow this genocide to happen any longer now." Such a strict warnings from an American President would have been enough for Netanyahu to order the withdrawal of all its forces from Palestinian territory. But Biden didn't just do it. God knows why he didn't ask Netanyahu for this. Had Trump been there in his place, he would have surely asked Netanyahu to do it, in a very short time after the IDF offensive against Hamas. This would have saved atleast 25,000 to 30,000 innocent lives and also the huge infrastructural damage caused by Israel's air strikes amounting to millions for the Palestinians. After all each life is important, what if Palestinians are muslims. Trump could have saved them. 

In short the weak foreign policy of Biden has caused a loss of billions of dollars to the American economy and led to 2 entirely unnecessary wars, killing tens of thousands in the last two years. A Trump presidency wouldn't have allowed that to happen at all. 

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