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ORLANDO, Fla. – Jake Bequette, the U.S. Army veteran and former NFL player running for Senate as a Republican in Arkansas, told Fox News Saturday that Russia’s aggression in Ukraine is a direct “consequence” of the “weakness and incompetence” displayed by the Biden administration during the withdrawal of U.S. military assets from Afghanistan.
Bequette says peace in the world is “only secure through American strength.”
During an interview with Fox News Saturday on the sidelines of the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), Bequette said he knew the consequences of President Biden’s approach to withdrawing troops would “go far beyond” Afghanistan.
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“What’s happening in Eastern Europe is a direct result of the weakness and incompetence displayed by Joe Biden over the Afghanistan debacle,” Bequette told Fox News. “We’re seeing the enemies of this country in Eastern Europe, South China Sea, in Tehran — they’re making aggressive moves because they see a weak and incompetent commander-in-chief, and it is a shame to see President Biden react too late — too little, too late.”
Jake Bequette is running for U.S. Senate in Arkansas.
(Jake Bequette campaign)
“When we project weakness and fecklessness and incompetence, the world becomes a more dangerous place,” Bequette said.
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Bequette said he opposed the president’s approval on Thursday of the deployment of an additional 7,000 U.S. troops to Germany in the wake of Russia’s multi-front war on Ukraine. Biden, though, maintained that U.S. forces will “not be engaged in the conflict with Russia in Ukraine,” but rather are in Europe to “defend our NATO allies and reassure those allies in the East.”
“I don’t think we should be sending American troops into battle on the frontiers of Eastern Europe. We have…
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