Assessing national power, your own or that of other nations, is how smart leaders can effectively advance their nation’s interests. This process can also be effective in helping ensure their nation is not the victim of another, more powerful nation’s designs. Donald Trump gets it. Neither Biden nor Harris do.
We are watching the results of this play out in Ukraine, as Vladimir Putin attempts to exploit his country’s powerful position to gobble up their territory. Since Russian forces crossed the Ukrainian border being all but invited in by President Biden, billions of dollars worth of Ukrainian infrastructure and other property has been destroyed by wanton Russian attacks. There have been thousands of Ukrainian casualties, and an inordinate number of them civilian. This, again, due to the Russian practice of targeting civilian population centers in an apparent effort to browbeat the Ukrainians into submission.
1300 miles to the South, another war has been raging for almost a year. Last October, Hamas terrorists invaded Israeli territory murdered over a thousand of its citizens, raping some and kidnaping several hundred to use as hostages. President Biden, as usual did exactly the wrong thing, attempting to pressure Israel to agree to some sort of compromise with the animals who carried out this brutal attack. This conflict has now spread to Southern Lebanon, inviting Hezbollah and its state sponsor, Iran to engage.
Sadly, ALL of this was preventable. All it would have taken to avoid this bloodbath, especially Ukraine’s and Israel’s civilian populations, was an honest election and inauguration of President Trump for a second term. “How so?” one might ask. Simple. Trump gave a master class in foreign policy, culminating in the Abraham Accords and a path forward for Mideast peace. How did that happen?
The answer can be found in any undergraduate text in foreign policy. The DIME model of assessing national power helps leaders not only assess their own nation’s power, but also that of their Allies, competitors and enemies. The two links below will lead you through these elements, while comparing/contrasting their application by both Presidents Trump and Biden.
Understanding DIME: Trump Gets it; Biden does NOT (Part 1)
Understanding DIME: Trump Gets it; Biden does NOT (Part 2)
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China Joey does not understand DIME but he surely understands DOLLARS, especially from Ukraine, China, and Moscow.