Former NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen told Democrats that President Biden must make the border issue a “non-issue” for Republicans in the run-up to the 2024 election, saying the unchecked migrant crisis is causing problems for both countries. “It will incite extremists,'' he warned. side of the passage.
“When Democrats ask me what to do, my advice is to incorporate the Republican perspective on the border issue and create a package that includes four elements: support for Ukraine, support for Israel, support for Taiwan, and resolution of the border issue,'' Rasmussen said. Ta. he, who led NATO from 2009 to 2014, told Politico in an interview published Wednesday.
“President Biden is interested in resolving that issue before the campaign begins in earnest,” he added.
Rasmussen, Denmark's former center-right prime minister, highlighted how European governments who failed to ease immigration are feeling the effects of their failure to ease immigration in opinion polls, saying that Democrats who oppose tightening border policies are “insane.” “We should go back to the country,” he said.
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Former NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen has warned President Biden about his campaign activities ahead of the 2024 election. (Getty Images)
Specifically, he pointed to the November elections in the Netherlands, where the center-right government was frustrated by the growing political power of the far-right, largely due to immigration issues.
“If I were the leader of the Democratic Party, I would not hesitate to end this issue in order to make sure the Republicans don't make this issue an issue in the next campaign,” he said, adding that the border crisis acknowledged how it poses political vulnerabilities. Democratic Party ahead of the election.
“If we don't effectively address immigration and border issues, we're going to fuel extremism on both sides of the political spectrum,” Rasmussen told Politico during a recent visit to Washington, D.C. He will meet with the House Freedom Caucus to persuade them about further support for Ukraine.
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Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Founder and Chairman of the Democracy Alliance Foundation, attended the Copenhagen Democracy Summit on June 10, 2022. (Ole Jensen/Getty Images)
Republicans are resisting Democratic demands for billions of dollars in additional aid to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan without a deal on border issues, but Rasmussen said the country's response to a nearly all-out Russian invasion in February 2022 He blamed this on the failure of the United States to provide further support to Kiev's forces, even though two years had passed. It would be a withdrawal from Afghanistan on steroids. ” He refutes Republican claims that the United States is bearing too much of the war burden, noting that European countries have spent $59 billion in aid to Ukraine, compared to the $48 billion provided by the United States. He said he intended to do so.
“The claims that Europeans are not actively participating and are not sharing their fair share of the burden of supporting Ukraine are not true,” Rasmussen said.
“I'm not a liberal in the American sense,” he said, urging members of the House Freedom Caucus to read his 1993 book “From the Social State to the Minimal State.” “I think I'm one of the most pro-American politicians in Europe.”
Former NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen during his visit to the 590th Congress in Warsaw, Poland, June 22, 2023 (Andrzej Ivanchuk/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
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Speaking the day after former President Trump won the Iowa caucuses, Rasmussen also expressed hope that former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley would make a comeback in New Hampshire.
Haley said the former South Carolina governor's momentum in the 2024 election is “very consistent with how I think about the state of the world,” adding that “despite Trumpism within the Republican Party, there is a classic Republican He argued that this shows that there are “feelings of concern, and that Mr. It should be considered. ”
