President-elect Donald Trump confirmed on Monday that he has nominated Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) to be his ambassador to the United Nations, a pick that is a victory for the hawks.
Stefanik is a staunch Israel supporter and Iran hawk who has said there should be no conditions on US military aid to Israel. “There is no excuse for an American president to block aid to Israel,” Stefanik told the Israeli Knesset earlier this year in a speech where she bashed President Biden for delaying a single shipment of 2,000-pound bombs.
Stefanik led the charge against college students protesting against US support for Israel, smearing them as “antisemitic” for opposing Israel’s onslaught in Gaza even though many demonstrators were Jewish themselves.
“I led the charge to expose this moral rot of antisemitism infecting our supposed most elite higher education institutions,” Stefanik told the Israeli Knesset.
Placing Stefanik at the UN is a clear sign that the Trump administration will continue Biden’s policy of covering for Israel at the UN. Stefanik has previously accused the UN of being “antisemitic,” a claim constantly made by Israeli officials.
Israel’s ambassador to the UN, Danny Danon, celebrated Stefanik’s nomination. “At a time when hate and lies fill the halls of the UN, your unwavering moral clarity is needed more than ever. Wishing you success in standing firm for truth and justice,” he said.
Stefanik was first elected to Congress in 2014. Before that, she worked for hawkish think tanks, including the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies and the Foreign Policy Initiative, which was founded by neoconservatives Bill Kristol and Robert Kagan.
Lots of neocons up for consideration.
From Ben Norton:
All of the likely candidates for Trump’s secretary of state and national security advisor are China hawks. These include neocons Marco Rubio, Robert O’Brien, and Mike Waltz. Three other possible choices, Ric Grenell, Bill Hagerty, and Vivek Ramaswamy are so-called “MAGA” Republicans who have distanced themselves from neoconservatism, but still share the neocons’ vehement hatred of China and would escalate tensions with Beijing.
Trump’s former trade representative Robert Lighthizer is coming back in his second administration. Lighthizer is another hawk who oversaw the trade war on China during Trump’s first term. Lighthizer started his political career in the Ronald Reagan administration in the 1980s, when he helped wage a similar trade war on Japan.
Taiwan war unavoidable then?
Sounds like it, right?
Definitory move. Those who had any hopes on Trump bringing "peace to the Middle East" should take notice.
The hawks have come in for the kill.
The “Usual Suspects”…
"Moral rot." Well, she certainly knows whereof she speaks.
Plus, she said this:
“The US is ready for a return to President Trump’s MAXIMUM PRESSURE campaign against Iran,” Stefanik, who addressed the Israeli parliament, the Knesset, in May and called for harsher sanctions on Iran, wrote on X on Saturday, a day before Trump announced he had chosen her. “For too long, our enemies have been emboldened by the weakness of the Biden-Harris Administration.”
Trump must be hoping Biden starts the war with Iran before he takes office so he, and his cult members, can keep claiming he hasn't started any new wars.
Be advised, all : while Stefanik does NOT appear on the authors/contributors list of PROJECT 2025, Trump's pick for "Border Czar", Tom Homan, DOES.
Homan is listed as a Contributor to PROJECT 2025 (on page xxviii of that document) AND is listed as a member of the Heritage Foundation, the organisation that published PROJECT 2025.
If you still believe that Trump "knows nothing about" P2025, you're either lying to us, or lying to yourself.
WHAT ARE the Stefanik Initiatives, and WHEN did Trump sign them into law?