During an interview with The Daily Wire this week, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) slammed Democrat President Joe Biden over the numerous foreign policy crises that have originated since he took office last year.
“Literally, every region on Earth has gotten markedly worse since Joe Biden became president and worse from the perspective of U.S. national security,” Cruz said. “Biden combines radical leftist ideology with manifest incompetence. And it’s a toxic brew, last seen with Jimmy Carter, and the debacle of foreign policy that unfolded under his disastrous administration, Biden’s administration in just a year is already worse than Jimmy Carter.”
“Biden systematically undermines our friends and allies and Biden systematically shows weakness and appeasement to our enemies,” he continued. “Last year, when the Biden administration disastrously withdrew from Afghanistan, surrendering to the Taliban, abandoning Americans behind enemy lines, abandoning the Bagram Air Base before the evacuation, which resulted in 13 American servicemen and women being murdered by terrorists released as the direct result of the Biden administration’s incompetence. That catastrophe had enormous consequences in Afghanistan. But the consequences were felt around the world. Every enemy of America looked to the Oval Office and took the measure of the man in the Oval Office. And they concluded that Joe Biden is weak, feckless, and utterly ineffective. And as a result of the disaster in Afghanistan, the chances of a Russian invasion of Ukraine increased tenfold, the chances of a Chinese invasion of Taiwan increased tenfold.”
“The enemies of America have determined that the Commander in Chief of the United States Armed Forces is too weak to do a damn thing about their hostile intentions,” Cruz added. “And as a result, those hostile intentions are far more likely to manifest in hostile activity. The left believes in appeasement. There is a reason that nobody studies at the Neville Chamberlain School of Foreign Affairs. Appeasement doesn’t work and it’s provocative. Appeasement increases the chances of military conflict, because bullies and tyrants are far more likely to engage in bad conduct in the face of weakness. I believe in peace through strength. It is worth asking, why did Russia not invade Ukraine in 2017? Why did Russia not invade Ukraine in 2018, in 2019, in 2020? And the answer is we had a president, we had a commander in chief who they didn’t want to mess with.”
Cruz’s comments come as Russian President Vladimir Putin continues to amass soldiers near Ukraine’s border in an apparent preparation for an invasion – while falsely claiming that he is withdrawing troops.
On Wednesday night, a U.S. official revealed that Russia had secretly placed an additional 7,000 troops near Ukraine’s border.
“Yesterday the Russian government said it was withdrawing troops from the border with Ukraine,” the official said. “They received a lot of attention for that claim, both here and around the world. But we now know it was false.”
“In fact, we have now confirmed that in the last several days, Russia has increased its troop presence along Ukrainian border by as many as 7,000 troops with some arriving as recently as today,” the official added. “Every indication we have now is they mean only to publicly offer to talk and make claims about de-escalation while privately mobilizing for war.”
