President Donald Trump has tapped former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton has the next National Security Adviser, replacing General H.R. McMaster has the White House shake up continues.
Bolton has served in two previous administrations, is involved with a number of conservative think tanks, and was also foreign policy adviser to Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney in 2012.
Bolton has a record of being a hard-liner in international politics and issues surrounding U.S. national security. As a harsh critic of former president Obama’s lackluster approach to encroaching motives on Western allies from Russia, China, and the Middle East, most see him as a “war hawk.” Nonetheless, he is a definitive addition to to the Trump Administration which is forwarding the effort of U.S. supremacy on the international stage,
The newly-nominated adviser will have to deal with the beginnings of talks with the North Korea regime. Bolton has long-held a tough stance on dictator Kim Jong Un and his historic Communist state. He has said the U.S. should not rule a use of military force, but has since warmed to Trump’s open negotiations with Pyongyang.
He may also follow the lines of Trump in calling on China to become more involved in keeping North Korea from building nuclear-tipped intercontinental ballistic missiles. As a supporter of tariffs, Bolton is also opposed to the decades-long journey of a rising China that seeks to hold geopolitical dominance over the Eastern Hemisphere.
As a staunch critic of Putin’s government, Bolton will undoubtedly take a tough stance on the Kremlin-backed aid to war torn Syria and other areas in the Middle East, as well as its military efforts that resulted in the annexation of Crimea. With the former ambassador at the helm of national security department and Russia’s hostile and aggressive moves towards domestic energy infrastructure and election system, Putin’s motives will not go unchallenged.
On the lines of policy in the Middle East, the U.S. will most likely see the end of the Iran Nuclear Deal, with which Bolton was infuriated after the controversial Obama Administration-led agreement. Bolton has been completely opposed to nuclear proliferation of the Iranian state for years, dating back to his time in the George W. Bush Administration in his hunt to deter the nation from securing weapons of mass destruction.
With Bolton the newest addition to Trump’s ever-changing White House leadership, he will add years of diplomatic experience and political intelligence. As the shake up continues, Trump inarguably has an aggressive foreign policy team that will led with him on his international agenda.
