‘Weakness Is Provocative’: Thiessen Echoes Rumsfeld in Critique of Biden’s Response to Iranian Aggression

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THIESSEN: “It is no. And, look, Donald Trump was absolutely correct, what he said in that press conference today with Mike Johnson. The Iranians were broke when he came into office because of the crippling sanctions he had put on the regime. He also warned them that if you kill a — he drew a red line and said if you kill a single American, we will — either you or your proxies, we will not strike the proxy, we will strike you. And when they crossed that red line, he killed Qasem Soleimani. And that restored deterrence in the region and it lasted until Joe Biden came in and allowed them to kill Americans with impunity. They killed Americans on October 7th, there were Americans killed there. Their proxy, Hamas, is holding Americans hostage. And then they kept firing hundreds of missile attacks on U.S. troops and eventually killed an American. This is weakness, and you and I both served in the Pentagon when Rumsfeld was there and he said weakness is provocative. That is a very important lesson to remember and we are seeing how provocative it is right now.”