'Possibility of failure' looms over Trump after being handed two gifts: conservative

In his column for the New York Times, conservative writer David French explained that Donald Trump will waltz into office in January with two gifts handed to him by President Joe Biden and suggested he will have to change the way he operates lest he throw them away.

Noting the president-elect will inherit a strong and growing economy as he did in 2016 due to the success of President Barack Obama, French pointed out that Trump will be coming into power at a time when America's enemies are in disarray with Russian President Vladimir Putin still mired is war in Ukraine that is going nowhere and terrorist organization Hamas also back on its heels.

According to the columnist, the president-elect has the opportunity to benefit from both if he doesn't let his worst instincts come into play.

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"If Trump wants to capitalize on our enemies’ weaknesses, he’s going to have to shed at least some of his isolationism. We will continue to need allies to advance our national interests. And he’s going to have to clearly see the underlying truth, that the conflict in Ukraine and the struggle against Iran in the Middle East are intertwined," he wrote before warning, "In other words, throwing Vladimir Putin a lifeline in Ukraine now would undermine American strategic interests across the world."

After elaborating on the decimation of Hezbollah and the collapse of the Syrian dictatorship, French suggested Trump is a "very fortunate man" to enter the White House with weakened foes, but there is a risk he could blow it by going forward with his proposed national security team.

"He’s inheriting the conditions for profound foreign policy success," he wrote. "But he’s also inheriting the possibility of failure, and the troubling reality is that his instincts are wrong, his national security picks are flawed, and he may well snatch a series of terrible defeats from the jaws of extraordinary military and diplomatic success."

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