Project 2025: The 2025 Presidential Transition Project: on Foreign Policy
Barack Obama:
OpEd: Iran nuclear deal gave a crucial monetary lifeline
Unfortunately, the Obama and Biden Administrations have propped up the brutal Islamist theocracy that has hurt the Iranian people and threatened nuclear war. For example, the Obama Administration's 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, commonly
referred to as the Iran nuclear deal, gave the Islamic regime a crucial monetary lifeline after the Green Movement protests in 2009, which, while ultimately unsuccessful, did succeed in weakening the regime and showing the world that younger
Iranians want freedom.Instead of pressuring the Iranian theocracy to move toward democracy, the Obama Administration threw the brutal regime an economic lifeline by giving hundreds of billions of dollars to the Iranian government and providing other
sanctions relief. This economic relief did not moderate the regime. Former President Obama has admitted his lack of support for the Green Movement during his Administration was an error and blamed it on poor advisors.
Source: Project 2025, by the Heritage Foundation, p180-1
Apr 1, 2023
Heritage Foundation:
Pressure Iran away from nukes & toward democracy
Instead of pressuring the Iranian theocracy to move toward democracy, the Obama Administration threw the brutal regime an economic lifeline by giving hundreds of billions of dollars to the Iranian government and providing other sanctions relief.
This economic relief did not moderate the regime, but emboldened its brutality, its efforts to expand its nuclear weapons programs, and its support for global terrorism.The next Administration should neither preserve nor repeat the mistakes of the
Obama and Biden Administrations. The correct future policy for Iran is one that acknowledges that it is in U.S. national security interests, the Iranian people's human rights interests, and a broader global interest in peace and stability for the
Iranian people to have the democratic government they demand. The U.S. can utilize economic and diplomatic tools to ease the path toward a free Iran and a renewed relationship with the Iranian people.
Source: Project 2025, by the Heritage Foundation, p180-1
Apr 1, 2023
Heritage Foundation:
Dismantle USAID's DEI apparatus
The next conservative Administration should dismantle USAID's DEI apparatus by eliminating the Chief Diversity Officer position; issue a directive to cease promotion of the DEI agenda, including the bullying
LGBTQ+ agenda; and provide staff a confidential medium through which to adjudicate cases of political retaliation that agency or implementing staff suffered during the Biden Administration.
Source: Project 2025, by the Heritage Foundation, p. 256
Apr 1, 2023
Heritage Foundation:
PRC actions sound like conspiracy theories because they are
The reality is that the PRC's [People's Republic of China's] actions often do sound like conspiracy theories--because they are conspiracies. In addition, some knowingly or not parrot the Communist line: Global leaders including
President Joe Biden, have tried to normalize or even laud Chinese behavior. In some cases, these voices, like the global corporate giants BlackRock and Disney, directly benefit from doing business with Beijing.
Source: Project 2025, by the Heritage Foundation, p.180
Apr 1, 2023
Heritage Foundation:
Focus foreign aid on advancing the Abraham Accords
During the Trump Administration, USAID's allocations reflected the new opportunities created by the Abraham Accords. Under the Biden Administration, however, USAID has returned to a model that deepens the region's dependence on aid.
A new conservative President should reset USAID's programming in the Middle East in line with our national security interests and committed to the goal of ending the need for foreign aid through development that is led by the private sector.
Specifically: Foreign aid must advance the Abraham Accords. Increased trade and investment between Israel and its Arab neighbors represent the most effective path toward reducing poverty, fostering the emergence of a middle class, and solidifying peace.
USAID should therefore focus its development assistance on countries such as Morocco and Sudan through joint investment collaboration with the more economically advanced economies such as the UAE and Israel
Source: Project 2025, by the Heritage Foundation, p.274
Apr 1, 2023
Heritage Foundation:
Refocus Africa policy to Counter malign Chinese activity
Africa's importance to U.S. foreign policy and strategic interests is rising. Its explosive population growth, large reserves of industry-dependent minerals, proximity to key maritime shipping routes, and its collective diplomatic power ensure the
continent's global importance. Yet as Africa's strategic significance has grown, the U.S.'s relative influence there has declined. America's competitors are making significant gains: The PRC's companies dominate the African supply chain for certain
minerals critical to emerging technologies.The new Administration can correct this strategic failing of existing policy by:- Shift strategic focus from assistance to growth.
- Counter malign Chinese activity on the continent.
- Counter the
furtherance of terrorism [including] African country-based terrorist groups like Boko Haram.
- Build a coalition of the cooperative.
- Focus on core diplomatic activities, and stop promoting policies birthed in the American culture wars.
Source: Project 2025, by the Heritage Foundation, p.186-7
Apr 1, 2023
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