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"We’re not respected anywhere anymore. We’re laughed at. We’ve become a joke as a country."

That was former President Donald Trump’s single most important message in his CPAC speech last week. It previews the central issue of the coming campaign: Respect.

2024 is going to be the "Respect Election" and Trump has figured out that already. Part of the decision voters will have to make is whom do they respect more: an infirm Biden or an unpredictable Trump, and a huge factor in that evaluation is whom do other nations respect (and fear or follow) more?

As between President Biden and former President Trump, whom do our enemies respect (and thus fear) most, and whom do our allies respect (and thus follow willingly) most? It’s very obvious our enemies do not respect or fear Team Biden and that they did very much come to fear Trump.

Iran pushed hard against Trump and his red lines, and the Quds Force’s General Soleimani paid the price.

Putin invaded Ukraine first when President Obama was president and then when Biden was in the Oval. Putin did not provoke Trump in Ukraine as Trump was sending lethal aid to Ukraine already. It is pretty easy to decide whom Putin respected as an adversary.

China’s communists have berated Secretary of State Blinken and National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan in public. General Secretary Xi often clashed with Trump in private and over policy, but the dictator’s underlings did not treat Team Trump with contempt (though many on the former president’s team got sanctioned by the Chinese communists after they left power.)

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The national security team Trump would bring with him for senior posts in the White House and at State,