Donald Trump's former national security adviser John Bolton believes Joe Biden will pursue "Democratic establishment policies."
Even if the Republican's differences with the new president are clear, his action in the White House could cut through Donald Trump's appetite for “destruction”.
INTERVIEW
He is the one who turned his back on Donald Trump after defending tooth and nail his international policy.
At the end of an eventful presidency, John Bolton calls for a different policy than that pursued by the American billionaire since 2017. And according to the former National Security adviser, in office from April 2018 to September 2019, Joe Biden has the capacity to heal a deeply divided country.
"He can probably reconcile the country if he avoids the type of policy of destruction that was characteristic of Donald Trump's policy," he said at the microphone of Europe 1 on Wednesday morning.
"Return to a more normal presidency"
"I am very happy that the Trump presidency is coming to an end. I am not enthusiastic about the Biden presidency," nonetheless tempers John Bolton, "hawk" supporter of a hard line in foreign policy.
"It's important to get back to a more normal presidency with a more normal president."
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What does he think will be the face of the Biden presidency, which officially begins on Wednesday?
"It will be a center-left presidency of the Democratic establishment, with debates that will engage in a normal way with the Republican Party," predicted at the microphone of Sonia Mabrouk the former adviser to Donald Trump.
A few months after leaving the administration, John Bolton published
The Play Where It Happened: 453 Days in the Oval Office with Donald Trump
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No inflections on foreign policy?
On the other hand, if Joe Biden can, according to him, appease the country, the foreign policy of the United States should not know major inflections: "There is a very strong bipartisan vision in the United States, according to which Europe does not respect not its commitments. Barack Obama said the same thing, namely that Europe was not contributing enough to the NATO budget. I think that Europe must make fundamental decisions about its position in relation to Russia, to China. There are threats that are very strong. "
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What will Biden's position be on China?
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And in this area, on which he embodies the neo-conservative wing of the Republican Party, John Bolton is "not sure" that Joe Biden "is ready".
"Democratic policies, for many years, have been very weak in a number of areas. The signing of the Vienna nuclear accord in Iran in 2015, the negotiations led by Biden on the Non-Proliferation Treaty ... will be the position taken by Biden regarding China, the massive increase in its military capacity, its position in terms of intellectual property, its aggressive presence in South and Southeast Asia? This will ask from the allies from the United States a unified response and much stronger than it is. "