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More embassies have been evacuated under Biden than any other administration

Biden has presided over eleven partial or full embassy evacuations over the past three years, surpassing the three partial evacuations ordered by former President Donald Trump over four years.

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Trust in the military has dropped to the lowest level observed in two decades, a phenomenon which also accompanies perceived politicization among top military brass. File Image.

President Joe Biden has overseen more embassy evacuations than any other commander-in-chief in history, according to a new analysis from The Daily Signal, the news and commentary outlet for the conservative Heritage Foundation.

 

Biden has presided over eleven partial or full embassy evacuations over the past three years, surpassing the three partial evacuations ordered by former President Donald Trump over four years and the eight ordered by former President Barack Obama over eight years.

 

 

Biden administration officials have ordered the evacuations of American embassies in Burma, Chad, Afghanistan, Ethiopia, Ukraine, Belarus, Russia, Nigeria, Sudan, and Niger over the past three years. The most recently ordered evacuation took place in Haiti earlier this month as the troubled country descended into renewed lawlessness, spurred by gangs storming the main prison in Port-au-Prince and releasing several thousand inmates.

 

Heritage Foundation senior research fellow Simon Hankinson contended in the analysis that the Biden administration has “has projected weakness and indecision from the beginning.”

 

 

“From the botched Afghanistan pullout, which cost unnecessary American lives and left equipment and people in the lurch, to the current attempt to balance domestic political constituencies with heretofore bipartisan historical support of Israel, the pattern is one of hedging and hoping,” remarked Hankinson, himself a former foreign service officer.

 

The handling of the military withdrawal from Afghanistan, a move which resulted in the immediate collapse of the nation’s government at the hands of the Taliban even as significant amounts of American military equipment were left in the country, received particularly severe criticism. Trust in the military has dropped to the lowest level observed in two decades, a phenomenon which also accompanies perceived politicization among top military brass.

 

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