Former United Countries ambassador Susan Rice warned that President Trump’s movements with finishing the Russia-Ukraine battle will have attainable repercussions with China and Taiwan.
Rice joined MSNBC’s Jen Psaki for an interview on Sunday, the place she used to be requested concerning the president’s dating with Russian chief Vladimir Putin and the way he’s sidelined Ukraine in peace talks.
“Not only are Trump’s comments ludicrous, they’re extremely dangerous and they portend, I think, a very ominous shift in the United States’ approach to the world,” Rice mentioned about Trump calling Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky a dictator.
She argued that the message Trump is sending to the arena is that he’s “explicitly” aligning himself with Putin.
Trump and Putin held a decision lately to speak about finishing the three-year battle between Russia and Ukraine, and individuals of his management met with Russian officers however now not Ukrainian ones.
Trump previous this week mentioned he’s purposely sidelining Zelensky, who he mentioned “has no cards” in terms of negotiations.
“Donald Trump is aligning himself very explicitly with Vladimir Putin, a dictator, as you pointed out in your intro, and also, Jen, with Xi Jinping of China,” Rice mentioned. “Because understand that Putin and Xi, along with North Korea and Iran, are an axis of authoritarians. They work together.”
Rice — who served within the Clinton, Obama and Biden administrations — famous that Trump, who has lengthy been towards the North Atlantic Treaty Group (NATO), is difficult different allies thru his reciprocal tariff plan and want to procure Greenland and Canada.
“What message does that send to Xi Jinping when Donald Trump says to Ukraine that they are the aggressor, they who, are in fact victims of an invasion, are somehow the ones who started the war?” Rice wondered.
She later added that if she have been the Chinese language chief, she could be taking a look at this example and say it is China’s flip to invade Taiwan.
“This is really, really a dangerous realignment of U.S. national interests,” Rice concluded. “And it’s just shocking to me that Republicans in Congress who know better are seemingly taking a pass as all this seems to be transpiring.”
