National security rating #4: Restore American sovereign leadership

Nothing says more about a strong national security strategy than restoration of sovereign American leadership worldwide.

Under previous administrations of both parties, the United States has seen the international institutions it created for its own interests degenerate into globalist governmental bodies that diminish American strength and elevate the power of our adversaries.

Restoring American sovereign leadership is topic #4 on the Center’s 2020 National Security Voter Guide.

Globalism erodes and destroys American sovereignty, as well as the sovereignty of all other countries with representative government. Globalism has also facilitated the rise of the Chinese Communist Party and stretched American defense resources beyond their limits. Consequently, restoration of sovereign American leadership worldwide is another metric for the 2020 election.

We look at the following factors: pursuit of an America First agenda worldwide, while supporting others seeking to strengthen their own sovereignty; help other countries to help themselves instead of the US intervening needlessly; challenging and breaking up the globalist strategies, institutions, and policies that have ceased to serve the American interests for which they were designed (United Nations and its subsidiaries, International Criminal Court, multilateral lending organizations, etc.); pushing adversaries out of the nodes of control of international organizations that can be salvaged for US interests, or, failing that, withdrawing from those organizations; and keeping the US dollar supreme, to ensure that nothing competes with the petrodollar.

Joe Biden. Biden has spent his entire career in federal government – especially on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and as vice president – promoting and funding globalist organizations and policies that have eroded American sovereignty and built up adversaries like Russia’s gangster state and China’s Communist Party. He has been an outspoken supporter of the European Union that rose from a sensible common market to a superstate that rivals the US in international institutions, undermines NATO, and fuels the Kremlin and Beijing. He has promoted policies like the Iran Deal that gave China the window to work with Saudi Arabia to rival and defeat the petrodollar.

Donald Trump. Trump has spent his 3-1/2 years as president pursuing an unabashedly America First strategy that builds up friends and allies by helping them help themselves to assert their own sovereignty. He is the first president in 39 years not to start a war or send combat troops into foreign conflicts. He has been challenging, de-funding, and even withdrawing from certain globalist organizations that no longer serve US interests. He supported Brexit against the EU and strengthened NATO by pressuring its members to live up to their alliance commitments in the interests of mutual security. He has beaten back attempts by others to compete with the petrodollar.

Restore American sovereign leadership verdict – Trump: Strong. Biden: Weak.