{"id":2184185,"date":"2024-02-22T17:19:02","date_gmt":"2024-02-22T22:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/abject-failure-trumps-former-deputy-nat-sec-advisor-discusses-bidens-failed-foreign-policy-with-ben-shapiro\/"},"modified":"2024-02-22T17:21:37","modified_gmt":"2024-02-22T22:21:37","slug":"abject-failure-trumps-former-deputy-nat-sec-advisor-discusses-bidens-failed-foreign-policy-with-ben-shapiro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/abject-failure-trumps-former-deputy-nat-sec-advisor-discusses-bidens-failed-foreign-policy-with-ben-shapiro\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump&#8217;s ex-deputy Nat Sec Advisor slams Biden&#8217;s foreign policy as a &#8220;complete failure&#8221; in conversation with Ben Shapiro"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">36<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fabject-failure-trumps-former-deputy-nat-sec-advisor-discusses-bidens-failed-foreign-policy-with-ben-shapiro%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2184185&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Disastrous Foreign Policy: A Conversation with Victoria \u2062Coates<\/h2>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">On Thursday on \u201cThe Ben Shapiro Show,\u201d Daily Wire Editor Emeritus\u200c Ben Shapiro interviewed Victoria Coates, who served as former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bidens-2024-campaign-forced-to-make-major-changes-to-cover-for-inescapable-truth-about-his-age\/\" title=\"Biden's 2024 Campaign Adapts to Address Unavoidable Reality of His Age\">deputy national security\u200b adviser<\/a> for\u2064 former President \u2062Donald Trump, about the Biden administration\u2019s disastrous \u200dforeign policy.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>The Chaos on the Foreign Front<\/h3>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cLet\u2019s talk about the chaos that \u2062has engulfed the United\u200b States\u200d on the foreign front,\u201d Shapiro began. \u201cThere\u2019s just fires everywhere.\u200b Why don\u2019t we start with the situation between Russia and \u200cUkraine? The Biden administration has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kamala-harris-spokesperson-evasive-on-schools-reopening\/\" title=\"Kamala Harris spokesperson evasive on schools reopening\">sending mixed signals<\/a> over what\u2019s going on in Russia, Ukraine, for a very long time.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>A Missed Opportunity<\/h3>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cSo you start with the original intelligence failure that this was going to be quick and then we would support\u2063 an insurgency,\u201d Coates responded. \u201cBut the problem is the administration never pivoted\u2064 from that. And, you know, in\u200b April or May of 22, when the Russian economy was reeling, there was very unified international support for Ukraine. That\u2019s when I think the Biden administration should have leveled the truly crushing economic sanctions modeled on what we did to Iran \u200cduring the Trump \u200cadministration, where anybody who did business with \u200dRussia \u2014 you\u200b call \u200dthem secondary sanctions \u2014would also be subject to those sanctions.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>A Lack of Strategy<\/h3>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cWe \u2062could have cut it\u200c off then \u200cand\u200d they didn\u2019t,\u201d she noted. \u201cAnd instead we\u2019ve been dribbling and dribbling out tens of billions of taxpayer dollars in\u2063 a means that\u2062 has not been \u2063sufficient to win the war. So I think\u2064 we all have to\u2063 ask\u200b at this point, what is the strategy?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>The Long Game of Putin<\/h3>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Shapiro commented \u200dthat Russian President Vladimir Putin was \u2063willing to wait it out, believing that the West\u2019s resolve would eventually collapse.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cOnce he didn\u2019t get his three-day war, for him, a war \u2064of attrition is a winnable prospect,\u201d Coates said. \u2063\u201cHe has more people. He can rearm himself. \u2026 He\u2019s also getting supplies now much more openly from North Korea\u2064 and Iran both\u200b of whom are \u2062more or\u2063 less acting on China\u2019s orders. So for him, the long game is a winning plan.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>Draining Russia&#8217;s Resources<\/h3>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cAs you mentioned originally, that if\u2062 you remove this \u200dridiculous pause on U.S. LNG export licenses, you remove the deadly chilling regulatory regime that\u2064 the Biden administration has put in place,\u201d she told Shapiro. \u201cAnd you really reassure partners and allies the United States should be your reliable supplier of choice. You can really start to drain Russia\u2019s resources and again, make this as distasteful for the Chinese as possible. Do they really want to rescue Russia under those circumstances or do they want to make the best of a bad hand and try\u200b to get to\u2062 a resolution here?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>Fires in the \u2064Middle East<\/h3>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cMeanwhile, there are fires all over the \u200bMiddle East,\u201d Shapiro said. \u201cIran obviously has its hand in all of them from the\u2062 Red Sea, where shipping\u2064 has essentially been shut down, to the situation on\u2063 both the northern border of Israel as well as \u200dits southern border with the Gaza Strip. The\u2064 Biden administration once\u2062 again sending\u200b insane mixed signals. On the one hand, they suggest that \u2063they are supportive of Israel. On the other \u2062hand, \u200bthey\u2019re suggesting that they have to hold Israel\u2019s\u200c leash in some way and \u200dprevent Israel from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/u-c-irvine-to-pass-anti-semitic-divestment-resolution-against-murderous-israel\/\" title=\"U.C. Irvine To Pass Anti-Semitic Divestment Resolution Against \u2018Murderous\u2019 Israel\">committing human rights violations<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>A Confused Approach<\/h3>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cI think we\u2019re over-dignifying\u2064 the administration approach with the word policy,\u201d Coates answered. \u201cI think you\u2019re having a\u2062 series of kind of confused reactions to events and very much to \u200bpolitical pressures here in the United\u200b States. I think they\u2019ve come to the unpleasant\u200b realization \u200bthat full-hearted, unified support for Israel might cost\u2064 them a couple of thousand of very critical votes in areas like Dearborn, Michigan. And so they\u2019re trying to have it both ways.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>Choosing \u200bSides<\/h3>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cUnfortunately, if the events of October 7 \u200ctaught us anything is that you can\u2019t have it both ways,\u201d \u200cshe said. \u201cThere \u200care two sides here. There is good and there is evil. And it\u2019s time to put on a jersey and join a team, not to try to equivocate and say, \u2018Oh, you know, the Palestinians deserve \u200da \u200bstate.\u2019 No, they do not deserve a reward for what they did. They need to realize that Hamas is\u200b a deadly poison to them. If\u2062 they cannot relinquish Hamas,\u2064 they are going to\u2063 have to be defeated on the battlefield.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>The Iron\u2063 Wall<\/h3>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cI keep going\u2063 back to the 1923 Jabotinsky\u200b essay \u2018The Iron Wall,\u2019 which gives\u200c its name to things like Iron Dome and Iron Beam,\u201d she recalled. \u201cAnd the whole premise of that is that while the Arabs think that they can still conquer the Jews,\u200d Israel needs that iron wall\u2062 of security to convince them that Israel is not going away. The Jewish people are not going away. \u2062And in\u2063 my \u200cestimation, that\u2019s what the U.S.-Israel alliance should be: It should be that iron wall. You can\u2019t eradicate Israel because we\u2019re not going to let you. And\u200b when that is \u200bmade crystal clear to\u2063 the Palestinians, \u2064then they might become reasonable. They might be able to come \u200dto some kind of negotiated settlement. But while there\u2019s doubt in their mind\u200d  \u2014 and that\u2019s what \u200cthe administration is sowing is that doubt \u2014they\u2019re always \u2062going to go for the eradication of Israel; They\u2019re going to go for from that \u2018From the river to the sea\u2019 nonsense.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>The Houthis and Deterrence<\/h3>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cWhat exactly\u2062 should the policy be with\u2064 regard to\u2064 the Houthis?\u201d Shapiro asked. \u200c\u201cBecause this bizarre notion of deterring terrorist groups, I just fail to see how that has ever been an effective policy\u200d deterrence. Terrorist groups literally exist to not be deterred. It\u2019s a bizarre miscalibration \u2063to suggest that the Houthis are somehow going to act in the same evil but rational\u2062 fashion as the Iranians, who would prefer to remain in power. The\u2062 Houthis are an\u200c actual terrorist group whose slogan is Death to the Jews, Death to America. I fail to see \u200bhow you\u2019re going to deter these \u2062people.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>Acting Against\u200c Impunity<\/h3>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cIt does come back to the Iranians, Tehran, and what they think they can get away with,\u201d Coates asserted. \u201cAnd right now they are acting with impunity across the Middle East, attacking the United States, attacking our friends and\u2063 allies. It\u2019s particularly dramatic in Yemen, because, as you say, the Houthis are not 100 feet\u2064 high and, you know, they\u2019re not fully into the 21st century. \u200cAnd so as the United States military has demonstrated, we have all sorts of capabilities \u200bthat they \u2064don\u2019t have. And what they\u200d need is a \u200bvery\u200c clear demonstration \u2062in an offensive, not a defensive way, that we are going to use those capabilities to bomb them back into the Stone Age. And that is what is going to happen to the Houthis unless they cut this out.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>A Failed Strategy<\/h3>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThey are utterly undeterred\u200d by the response of the administration over the last six weeks,\u201d she said. \u201cThey\u200c call it their Houthi strategy; I would call it an abject failure. We just should not tolerate this kind of behavior out of a radical theological dictatorship in Yemen, which has ruined the country and is now \u200btrying to ruin global shipping. It should be intolerable \u2063to the administration. But they\u2019re so scared of provoking the Iranians, they won\u2019t take\u2062 any serious action.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> <\/p>\n<h2> How can the\u200b Biden administration effectively deter the Houthis in Yemen and prevent \u2062them from being emboldened by a potential return to \u200bthe Iran nuclear deal?<\/h2>\n<p><span>  Egard to the Houthis in\u200c Yemen?\u201d Shapiro asked. \u201cDeterrence doesn\u2019t seem to \u2063be working. The Biden administration seems to\u2063 be attempting to go back\u2063 into the Iran\u200c \u200bnuclear\u200d deal, which obviously is \u200bgoing to embolden the Iranians to fund and back\u2062 the Houthis. What do you think the strategy there should \u200cbe?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>A\u2063 Clear Message<\/h3>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cI think\u200b we should look to the example\u200b of what we \u2064did in Iran,\u200b right?\u201d Coates suggested.\u201cDeterrence is not just \u2063kind of a passive posture like a Maginot Line. Deterrence is something \u2062that you\u2062 actively have \u200bto enforce and you actively have to communicate. So when \u200cyou \u2063say, \u2018We are not going\u200c back\u2063 into the Iran\u200c \u200bdeal\u2019 \u2062\u2014 which I hope we can say with clarity and certainty \u2014 that should be repeated over and over \u200cand \u2064over again. There are\u2064 a number of things that the Biden\u200d administration\u2064 if it\u2063 wanted\u2062 to demonstrate them to the Iranians, if it had sufficient will, that\u200c it could \u200cdo. And\u2064 that\u2019s one of them.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>Understanding the Adversaries<\/h3>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Coates concluded by emphasizing the \u200cimportance of\u200d understanding the adversaries and their \u2062motivations in order\u200c to effectively counter their actions on the foreign front.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThe only way you\u2019re going to come to \u200ca sound and\u200b successful policy is if\u200b you take the time to really understand your adversaries,\u201d she explained. \u2063\u201cAnd you\u2063 have a good sense of their red\u2062 lines and their capabilities \u200dand their \u200cweaknesses, and all \u200cof \u2063that. \u2063And I just don\u2019t think that this administration\u200b has done enough of that work.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>A Wake-Up Call<\/h3>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">The conversation with Victoria\u200b Coates sheds\u200c light on the disastrous foreign \u200dpolicy of the Biden administration.\u200b From a lack of strategy in dealing with Russia and Ukraine to a confused approach\u2062 in the Middle East, the administration&#8217;s \u2063mixed signals and hesitancy to\u200c take decisive action have only emboldened adversaries. \u2064It is crucial for the Biden administration to recognize the importance \u2064of clear and strong messaging, as well as understanding the \u200ctrue nature of their adversaries, in order \u2064to effectively protect national interests and maintain peace and stability \u2062on the global stage.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On &#8220;The Ben Shapiro Show,&#8221; Ben Shapiro interviewed Victoria Coates, former deputy national security adviser for Donald Trump, discussing the Biden administration&#8217;s disastrous foreign policy. 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