In an unique interview with Breitbart News, Rep. Mike Waltz (R-FL) blasted the Biden administration, claiming the world now “sees weak point in the White House,” while calling Biden the “worst president for human rights in modern American history” and cautioning “pattern lines” suggest the U.S. might deliver its superpower status to China.
Consulting With Breitbart News on Thursday, Republican Politician Rep. Mike Waltz, a Florida native who represents the Sunlight State’s 6th congressional district, weighed in on present problems, offering his unique viewpoint.
A colonel in the National Guard along with a previous White House and Pentagon policy consultant, Rep. Waltz was the first Green Beret to be chosen to Congress.
Biden Administration
Waltz began by blasting the current administration, highlighting human rights abuses taking place on its watch regardless of the president having actually assured when taking office to make the problem a centerpiece of his policy.
“I think Biden has actually been the worst president for human rights in modern-day American history, and I don’t believe that’s an overstatement,” he said.
“If you take a look at the quantity of ladies coming over our southern border that are being sold into human trafficking– upwards of 40% according to Physicians Without Borders; if you take a look at what’s occurring to minorities and females in Afghanistan that he just deserted; if you look at the continuous genocide in China, and we could keep going around the world– he has actually done nothing for human rights!” he asserted.
Waltz described why he is barely shocked by the outcomes produced by the present administration.
“You have the very same group around Biden that was around [previous President] Obama and they have the same underlying philosophy, so you’re going to get much of the very same results as we had back then,” he said.
He then criticized policies of the Obama administration that the team advising President Biden supported regardless of the unwanted results of each.
“Back then this group believed the [U.S. Army deserter Bowe] Bergdahl trade was an excellent concept; believed the Iran deal was a great concept; believed providing everything away to Cuba and Venezuela with nothing in return was an excellent idea,” he stated.
“We can walk around the world not responding to a land invasion in Europe of Crimea and eastern Ukraine, was the ‘best approach,'” he included. “The march throughout the South China Sea, we can go on and on.”
As an outcome, he argued, the exact same results might be expected.
“So you’re visiting that very same outcome now and we are seeing the very same results,” he stated, adding that, “We have actually gone from the Abraham Accords to literally rocket violence on Israeli cities, Iran is on the threshold of having a nuclear weapon, and Russia [is] generating on the Ukrainian border again.”
Waltz went on to explain that the administration’s approach is seen as “weak point” amongst U.S. foes.
“They know they can get away with it and it’s all highlighted by an approach of appeasement and concessions and ‘if we can simply get individuals to the table with diplomacy initially, then we can fix issues,'” he said.
“And we all know that our foes see that as weak point and will take full advantage of it, which’s exactly what they’re doing,” he included.
China
Declaring “the world sees weak point in the White Home today,” Waltz cautioned that “our foes are going to keep up it and take as much benefit of it as they can” in the next two years.
“I believe with China in specific, we remain in an extremely harmful duration between this summer,” he stated, “so that will seek the Olympics and after the Communist Party conference, where [Chinese President] Xi [Jinping] will essentially be re-elected for life.”
“After this summer season and in between Summertime ’22 and November ’24 when they will see a chance to benefit from this perceived weakness,” he added.
Waltz said that he thinks the “trend lines” are heading in the instructions of a United States ceding its function as a superpower.
“All you need to do reads Xi’s unfiltered speeches– not the watered-down translations they launched to the public but the real translations– where he openly talks about changing the United States as a superpower,” he stated, “and all the trend lines are heading because instructions.”
“Their navy is larger than ours now,” he added. “The typical age of their ships is half ours; they have actually introduced more into area than the remainder of the world combined.”
However what makes China the greatest threat, according to Waltz, is its having “co-opted” a lot of American society to achieve its ambitions.
“I believe the most significant threat is how they’ve co-opted numerous aspects of American society and that’s what makes them unlike any other danger the United States has ever faced and more harmful and a big hazard that we deal with,” he said.
Declaring that uses “from Wall Street to Hollywood to the sports industry to our politics,” he regreted how the U.S. is “awash” from Chinese funds.
“We are awash from Chinese cash and the variety of organizations, from Jamie Dimon at JP Morgan to [Jeff] Bezos at Amazon, that are willing to turn a blind eye for their next quarter balance sheet is really honestly disgusting and troubling,” he said.
2022 Beijing Olympics
Noting he was the very first Congressmember to introduce a resolution calling for a “complete boycott” of the 2022 Beijing Winter season Olympics “back in February prior to it became cool,” Waltz declared he at first pressed for modifying the games’ venue.
“We’ve been pushing the IOC (International Olympic Committee) and I want to be clear: the choice was for it to move the games,” he said.
“Senator Rick Scott (R-FL), myself, and others had been asking the IOC in letter after letter, engagement after engagement, to move the video games when there was still a lot of time,” he included, “but once we were 12 months out it ended up being clear that the IOC was not going to do that so we required a full boycott.”
Waltz expressed frustration with other prominent figures for what he considered hypocrisy on the matter.
“I would ask those conservatives, I would ask the professional athletes, I would ask the sponsors: did any of you who say, ‘well we should not introduce politics into sports’– number one: that ship has sailed– but number two: did they disagree with the IOC introducing politics when it concerned apartheid? Did they believe that was a misstep?” he asked.
“Because the IOC prohibited South Africa for the much better part of 3 decades from any Olympic event taking place in South Africa and even their team contending anywhere else,” he included.
Attributing the hypocrisy to money, Waltz highlighted his introducing of steps to restrict Olympic sponsors.
“Why was it okay for apartheid but not now with China with a continuous genocide?” he asked. “The answer, we all know, is how much cash everybody is making.”
“So I have actually introduced procedures to prohibit Department of Defense (DoD) airplane from transporting anyone to the Olympics and banned the Olympic sponsors from offering their products on military bases,” he included, noting his assistance for the Uyghur Required Labor Prevention Act, “which finally, thanks to [Sen.] Marco Rubio’s terrific work finally passed.”
“Extremism” within the U.S. Armed force
He likewise attended to the Biden administration’s fixation with targeting the military to purge it of “extremism” along with a recent Defense Department report detailing efforts to thrashing out “extremists” and guarantee “just the very best qualified employees are chosen for services.”
“A lot of it, if you look at the language around it and you look at [Defense] Secretary [Lloyd] Austin’s language around it, they say extremism but then it’s followed extremely carefully by white supremacism,” he stated. “And much of this language came out in the wake of January 6 and is feeding into that narrative.”
But, according to Waltz, the information does not validate that story.
“The fascinating thing is the real data doesn’t support their story so that’s point one,” he said. “Due to the fact that the report mentioned 100 circumstances of extremism– I haven’t actually dug through it to break that down– but I bet you a good number of that 100 were gang-related or Islamic extremism-related and not all white supremacy.”
Regardless, that number, he stated, must likewise be seen in proportion.
“However even just take that 100 number on its face value out of the two and a half million in our military– It’s something like.005 percent,” he said. “Yet this is the number one priority of the Defense Secretary and the administration when it pertains to the military, regardless of all of those other hazards.”
Stressing the overall requirement to root out extremism, Waltz indicated the uncommon prioritization of the problem.
“I wish to be clear: we ought to constantly root out extremism at every circumstances,” he stated. “Because [Oklahoma City bomber] Timothy McVeigh and [Fort Hood shooter] Nidal Hassan, we’ve needed to deal with a number of prominent cases, and we ought to constantly root it out.”
“But the data does not support it being the number one priority of the Defense Department,” he added.
Waltz declared the fixation on a continuous danger of extremism “fits into the wider narrative,” though it isn’t reflective of the reality.
“We had a hearing in your house and I asked the chairman about the growing danger and the rising tide of white supremacy in the military and I asked both the Democratic chairman and every witness where’s the information that supports that narrative,” he said.
“It’s not there,” he included, “but yet they’re pressing this story.”
He regreted the decrease in Americans’ self-confidence in the armed force.
“What is so disturbing is we’ve seen a significant drop in self-confidence in the U.S. military among the American public, which is probably the last bastion of confidence when it comes to a federal government organization,” he said.
“According to the Reagan Institute: from 70% [confidence] to listed below 50%,” he added, “therefore this story that they’re pushing is incredibly hazardous and I’m going to press back on it up until someone shows me the real information, however [according to] their own report:.005%.”
Iran
When asked whether he trusted President Biden to satisfy his stated promise to prevent the Iranian routine from achieving nuclear weapons, Waltz responded he did not.
“I don’t have 100% faith in him backing that up, not with a military choice,” he said. “The Biden administration– from [Secretary of State] Tony Blinken to [National Security Consultant] Jake Sullivan to [President] Biden himself– the common very first card they play is taking a military option off the table,” he stated.
“They just did it with Russia and Ukraine,” he added, “therefore that makes diplomacy that far more hard when you do that.”
Claiming that such a technique belongs to their “underlying viewpoint,” Waltz said, “they simply do not appear to understand that you constantly leave all alternatives on the table, especially when you’re handling autocratic dictatorial programs.”
“I do not know how this ends up well at this point,” he included.
Waltz surmised that President Trump, in case he ‘d have continued to a 2nd term, would have forced the Iranians to negotiate a far better offer.
“I believe if [former President] Trump had had a 2nd term and continued the full maximum pressure project, even though there was some leakage with China in terms of oil sales, I do think the Iranians would have concerned the table from a position of weak point and we might have struck a better offer,” he stated.
But with “the very same team now around Biden that they handled with [former President] Obama,” Waltz claimed the Iranians “see opportunity [and] advantage.”
“We have actually seen that in how they have actually approached the negotiations and all they appreciate is informing us what we wish to hear,” he stated. “They’re tricking the world so that they can get sanctions dropped and those billions will stream right into the regime and right into their terrorist proxies and right Into their nuclear program.”
Waltz also claimed he feared Sullivan, on a recent trip to Israel, “made it clear to the Israelis we won’t provide the military assistance for them to take a military choice, so that they, the Israelis, have no option.”
“So I believe that’s a big question mark sitting out there,” he included. “What took place in those conversations, and what message did the administration convey to our biggest ally in the Middle East?”
International terrorism
Because the start of the Biden administration, Waltz declared worldwide terrorism “has gotten a huge shot in the arm.”
“The message across the Middle East is jihad has won, democracy has actually lost,” he said, alerting that terror groups might be preparing further attacks on America.
“I believe al-Qaeda completely intends to assault us again,” he alerted. “They’re establishing the capability to do so.”
“I completely anticipate the United States to have to go back and deal with that either on the periphery or actually in Afghanistan, and today, I believe we’re seeing an axis of terror developed from Hamas to Iran’s proxies and ISIS in Syria and Iraq to Iran itself to the Taliban caliphate,” he included. “And it’s just not a great scenario at all.”
Waltz has been a regular critic of the Biden administration and its policies.
Last month, Waltz blasted President Biden’s “incorrect method” on Iran, calling a partial Iran nuclear deal weaker than the one struck under the Obama administration.
In September, he accused President Biden and Defense Secretary Austin of “selling this country a fiction” that the U.S. could manage a resurgence of al-Qaeda in Afghanistan “with nothing” there, following the U.S. pullout of soldiers from there.
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