Former vice president of the United States Mike Pence He assured this Thursday that Israel must continue fighting the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas until it destroys it “once and for all,” and also He anticipated that the Jewish State will respond to Iran’s attack last weekend.
“I believe that Israel must continue fighting the Hamas terrorists until it hunts them down and destroys Hamas once and for all.”Pence declared at a conference organized by the think tank German Marshall Fund.
Pence stressed that the Hamas attack against Israel on October 7, 2023 was “the worst” committed against the Jewish people since the Holocaust in World War II.
He added that he hopes “as has been said publicly, that Israel also act against Iran, simply make it clear that they will not tolerate 300 missiles and drones being launched against innocent civilians in Israel”.
“Just because the attack was thwarted does not change its intention” of the attack,” he stressed.
Support package
Pence also called on members of the US Congress to support the support package for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan.
The president of the United States House of Representatives, Republican Mike Johnson, presented this Wednesday a $95 billion foreign aid package that provides financing for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, after days of pressure exerted by the historic attacks of the end of Iran week.
Pence said he is confident that this package will be approved and repeated the words of former US President Ronald Reagan that isolationism “is never the answer to tyrannical regimes with expansionist intentions.”
“I think most members of Congress understand that,” he said.
Pence rejected the idea that supporting Ukraine could lead to a new world warand declared that he had no doubt that If Russian President Vladimir Putin is allowed to impose himself on Ukrainian territory, “the time will come when he will cross the border” of a NATO country and the US military will have to fightafter the activation of article 5 of the Alliance Treaty according to which an attack against one Member State is equivalent to an attack against all of them and the response is joint.
Axis of evil
He noted that we are witnessing the emergence of a “new axis of evil” formed by Russia, China, Iran and North Korea, and added that Chinese President Xi Jinping is watching to see if the West “falters”.
In fact, he added that if Russia prevails in Ukraine, in addition to the fact that it “would not be long” until Moscow attacked a NATO country, it would also not “be long until we saw action in the Taiwan Strait or somewhere else.” part of the South China Sea.
Pence, vice president of the United States during Donald Trump’s term (2017-2021), assured that the pressure he exerted on NATO allies to increase their defense spending had an effect, with an increase in military investment during the four years of his administration.
«NATO allies today are in a better position to have supported Ukraine in the last two years due to these increases in defense spending»he asserted.
He also stressed that if the United States does not exercise its role as a leader, “the free world is not being led.”
“We are the indispensable leader,” he declared.
Assault on the Capitol
Pence also referred to the assault on the Capitol on January 6, 2021 by a mob of Trump supporters, who did not accept his defeat in the November 2020 presidential elections in which the current president of the United States, Democrat Joe Biden, won. .
The former vice president stated that he opposed the assault on the Capitol and that that day he fulfilled his duty “to defend and support the Constitution of the United States.”
He acknowledged that American politics is now “more divided than ever,” but assured that he does not believe that the country’s population is “so divided.”
On the other hand, he considered that the withdrawal of the United States and its allies from Afghanistan in 2021 opened the door for Russia to decide to invade Ukraine.
On the other hand, he pointed out that the social network TikTok represents “an unprecedented propaganda platform.” EFE
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