Morning Glory: Trump's short list for vice president all agree on one thing

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"President Trump himself is a deterrent."

That’s what North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum told me as we discussed the threat the People’s Republic of China poses to Taiwan and to the United States and indeed to all of the West. I had already cited to Governor Burgum former Trump National Security Advisor Ambassador O’Brien’s new essay for Foreign Affairs "The Return of Peace Through Strength," the April piece by Admiral Mike Studeman (USN, Ret.) for "War On The Rocks" titled "China Is Battening Down for the Storm Over Taiwan," and Sir Niall Ferguson’s essay for The Free Press: "We’re All Soviets Now." Burgum completely understands the deep chasm at the edge of which we stand as a consequence of the pitiful weakness of President Joe Biden.

America has lost the ability to deter the alliance of evil autocrats around the world. Think about it: The Houthis have the United States Navy tied down and unable to defeat them. The Houthis! To get deterrence back we need to do many things, all of them laid out by Ambassador O’Brien in his important statement of America’s urgently necessary new goals and changes in national security policy.

(There’s no wonder why Ambassador O’Brien is so widely admired across the political spectrum—he’s as serious about the threats to America as Trump is. That’s why O’Brien worked in sync with Trump so