The World Was Safer Under Donald J. Trump
Is Earth more peaceful now than it was four years ago?
No.
President Donald J. Trump left the world relatively tranquil. Nearly four years of Kamala Harris’ and Joe Biden’s strategic ham-handedness have made war the new normal.
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Consider this metric: The Jewish Virtual Library chronicles rocket and mortar attacks against Israel. During the first 45 months of Trump’s tenure—from Jan. 20, 2017 through Oct. 25, 2020—Israel’s enemies fired 1,171 rockets and mortars at America’s closest Middle Eastern ally. Across Kamala-Biden’s equivalent timespan, Israel’s foes shot 24,560 rockets and mortars at the Jewish state—up 1,997%.
Between Jan. 1 and Oct. 25, 2020—during Trump’s fourth year in office—such onslaughts totaled 128. Under Kamala-Biden: 11,441—up 8,883%.
Scholars, statesmen, and soldiers are appalled.
“The rise in rocket attacks on Israel in recent years, especially over the past 12-plus months, shows how Iran and its proxies like Hezbollah and Hamas become more emboldened as they see more strategic daylight between the United States and Israel,” said Michael Makovsky, president and CEO of the Jewish Institute for National Security of America.
“Confronting Tehran’s axis with the combined might and will of America and Israel is the best guarantor for Middle East stability.”
“From their first days in office, Kamala Harris and Joe Biden did everything they could to throw Iran’s terrorist leaders a lifeline after President Trump had them in a box, broke, and begging for mercy,” John Ullyot, Trump’s National Security Council spokesman, told me.
The author of “The Biden-Harris Betrayal: Weak and Woke on the World Stage” added: “They Venmo’d Iran’s leaders tens of billions of dollars by breaking Trump’s vise-grip of sanctions, and the Mullahs wasted not a second in passing this windfall on to their puppets—Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthis. Make no mistake: The shocking, nearly 2,000% increase in rocket and missile attacks on Israel by Iran’s proxies over the last four years is a direct and predictable result of Kamala Harris and Joe Biden pulling a 180 on Trump’s tough policies on Tehran. Nov. 5 cannot come soon enough.”
Trump signs the first two of four Abraham Accords peace agreements with the leaders of Bahrain, Israel, and the United Arab Emirates at the White House, Sept. 15, 2020. (Official photo by Tia Dufour)
“With President Trump, we had maximum pressure and the Abraham Accords. And now, with Harris and Biden, we have maximum chaos,” Brig. Gen. Anthony Tata, U.S. Army (Retired) told “Fox & Friends” on Oct. 26. Indeed, Trump brokered four peace agreements between Israel and Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates, Sudan, and Morocco. Tata added: “The whole region is on fire right now, because of the Harris-Biden incompetence.”
Thursday’s truly chilling bad news confirmed that the world was safer four years ago.
Trump nicknamed North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un as Little Rocket Man, amusing millions and annoying hundreds within America’s stone-faced foreign-policy establishment.
Trump and Kim shared a June 2018 summit in Singapore and, eight months later, a second huddle—in Hanoi. In June 2019, Trump journeyed to the Demilitarized Zone. Walking mere feet into the Hermit Kingdom, Trump ventured historical miles when he shook Kim’s hand on his own soil. Trump became the first sitting U.S. president to enter North Korea.