Former NATO chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen is urging the Democrats to make concessions to the GOP on border control — if only to secure further funding for the Ukraine war and ensure Joe Biden is re-elected.
“If I were asked by Democrats what to do, my advice would be to accommodate Republican views on the border issue and create a package with four elements: support for Ukraine, support for Israel, support for Taiwan, and solve the border issue,” said Rasmussen, who is also a former Prime Minister of Denmark.
“President Biden has an interest in solving [the immigration] issue before the election campaign starts in earnest,” he added.
Rasmussen’s stress was not on securing the U.S. southern border for the sake of the country or its people, but for the sake of keeping Donald Trump out of office: “If I were in the leadership of the Democratic campaign, I would not hesitate to close this issue — to accommodate Republicans to make it a non-issue in the coming election campaign,” he explained.
The Dane also saw fit to comment on the GOP primary, expressing his support for war hawk neoconservative Nimarata ‘Nikki’ Haley as someone “very much in line with my thinking about world affairs.”
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