Americans rang in the new year with an ISIS-inspired terrorist attack on the streets of one of our iconic cities, spreading fear about the possibility — and, given our porous border, the unfortunate likelihood — of terrorist sleeper cells lying in wait around the country. When Donald J. Trump was in office a few short years ago, it was the terrorists who lived in fear.
From Qasem Soleimani to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi to the entire ISIS caliphate, every terrorist on Earth knew that at any moment Trump could bring their reign of terror to a violent end. Of all President Joe Biden’s failures, allowing fear to shift from America’s enemies to the American people themselves may be the most disgraceful of all.
As Trump prepares to take office in a few weeks, his first challenge will be to reestablish the credible deterrence that kept bad actors in their box during his first term. Only this time, the stakes are even higher. Because whether most Americans realize it or not, we are closer to nuclear war today than we have been at any point since the Cuban Missile Crisis, or at least since 1983, when a Soviet early-warning system malfunctioned and falsely alerted their Air Defence Forces of an impending U.S. nuclear strike.
If that statement sounds hyperbolic, take a moment to survey the mess Biden is leaving behind for Trump to clean up.
In Eastern Europe, the Russia-Ukraine war rages on. Russian President Vladimir Putin has threatened the use of nuclear weapons numerous times and even authorized field exercises to train his troops to use tactical nukes against Ukrainian or NATO forces. […]
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