Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Wednesday that President BidenThe rate of collapse accelerated” U.S. Deterrence.
“President Biden has allowed that to happen.” [an] The rate of decline of the deterrence that President Trump and I built over the four years we were in office is accelerating, and it's having a really negative impact on the American people and it's dangerous,” Pompeo said in an interview on Fox News on Tuesday. .
“This is not only dangerous for Israelis and people in the Middle East, but it is also dangerous for people here in the United States,” Secretary Pompeo continued. “A wide open southern border, and a North Korean leader, a Chinese leader, a Russian leader who doesn't believe the United States will stand up and defend its most sacred values, is a very dangerous country here.” “A place where you can be,” even at home. ”
A senior Hamas official was reportedly killed in an attack in the Lebanese capital on Tuesday, putting Israel on high alert in case the conflict in the region escalates.
According to local news channels, Israel carried out a bombing in Beirut that killed Saleh al-Arouri, deputy head of the Palestinian armed group's political bureau. The Hamas official is the highest-ranking member killed in the ongoing war between Israel and the Hamas organization in the Gaza Strip.
There is also the question of how Israeli bombing in areas where Iran-backed Hezbollah is strong could affect the current fighting along the Lebanese-Israeli border.
Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah has in the past promised retaliation against all forms of Israeli targeting of his country's allied militant leaders, the Associated Press reported, but Nasrallah has so far been unable to respond to the escalation of fighting. seems to be reluctant.
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