After four years of former President Joe Biden’s foreign policy, it’s “refreshing” for the world to see the United States “leading from the front” under President Donald Trump, U.S. Ambassador to NATO Matthew Whitaker told Newsmax on Monday.
From bringing Russia and Ukraine to the negotiating table to broker an end to the “needless killing,” to getting China to agree to roll back recent tariffs and call a 90-day truce in the trade war between Washington and Beijing, Whitaker said Trump’s leadership is scoring wins for America.
“There’s only one person that could put this deal together and to urge both sides to come to the table, and so, on Thursday, [Russia and Ukraine are] going to meet in Turkey, hopefully, and begin that end to the war,” Whitaker said on “Wake Up America.” “This has been going on for three years, but that last comment on the trade deal with China, I think that’s huge. But remember, that was also because Donald Trump reopened lines of negotiation. The Biden administration not only had let those atrophy with China, but also the same lines of communication had atrophied with Russia as well.
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