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Former US defense secretary says Trump has many ‘strange’ foreign policies

Memoirs of former US Defense Secretary Mark Esper reveal proposals policy Foreign Affairs of former President Donald Trump.

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Former President Donald Trump and Mr. Mark Esper (left) in 2019

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According to the sheet Politico Excerpt from the memoirs of the former US Secretary of Defense Mark Esperformer president Donald Trump proposed many “strange” foreign policies when he was in the White House.

Among his proposals were the withdrawal of troops from Korea and closing embassies in Africa, according to the memoir “A Sacred Oath” (rough translation: Sacred Oath) published on May 10.

The former minister shared that after he became head of the Pentagon in 2019, President Trump focused on NATO and corruption in Ukraine, two personal matters that security and diplomatic officials The US said it was not a top concern at the time.

Trump also wants to “completely withdraw” forces in South Korea and wants to “bring our people home” from embassies in Africa.

“None of this is in the national interest and I have calmly responded to information, data and arguments, some of which angered him. I knew at the time that this job was going to be a lot more challenging than I thought it would be,” Esper wrote.

In addition, Esper also said that former President Trump also proposed to launch missiles into Mexico to attack drug processing facilities of criminal syndicates.

In 2019, Mr. Esper joined Mr. Trump and other officials including former National Security Adviser John Bolton, the former Vice President. Mike Pence and former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo discuss a peace deal with the Taliban in Afghanistan.

The discussion is part of Trump’s plan to end the “endless war” and withdraw troops home.

Mr. Trump’s idea of ​​meeting the Taliban near Washington at the time left everyone “bewildered for a moment”, when he proposed, according to former Secretary of State Esper.

“No one likes the idea. As the president walked around the room, each of us tried to convince him in different ways,” he wrote in his memoirs.

While Trump’s meeting with the Taliban was scheduled to take place at Camp David in Maryland, a bombing in Kabul later caused the US side to cancel the meeting.

Mr. Esper wrote that former President Trump had ignored the group’s advice and continued to plan to meet and said “will have tea with these terrorists, especially when we still have soldiers in the area.” war zone”.

President Trump Fires Defense Secretary Mark Esper

According to CBS, Mr. Trump denied some of the unfavorable information told by Esper, and called the former defense secretary so ineffective that he had to personally “run the military”.

“Mr. Mark Esper is a tough guy and doesn’t want to lose his job. He would do anything I wanted… and I realized that very early on,” he said.

Esper was Secretary of Defense from 2019 to November 2020, when he was fired by Mr. Trump following controversy over police violence and protests against racism in the same year.

Mr. Esper said that the former President threatened to send 10,000 active-duty troops to Washington DC to deal with the protests in June 2020, but he stopped. Meanwhile, Mr. Trump denied that Mr. Esper had ever prevented him from doing his job.

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