Top Romney Adviser Thinks Trump Foreign Policy Is ‘Worrisome’

By JP Carroll

Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney’s 2012 campaign policy director and foreign policy expert, Ph.D. Lanhee Chen, finds GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump’s foreign policy to be “worrisome,” he told The Daily Caller News Foundation.

Language supporting arming Ukraine was removed from the GOP 2016 policy platform. The former Romney policy guru and current Hoover Institution David and Diane Steffy research fellow stated that “we’ve [Republicans] got a party that traditionally has stood very firmly in favor of freedom and certainly as a check against Russia in the [European] region, [so] this is very worrisome.

“Time and time again, Russia has stood opposed to U.S. interests. If you look at: Syria, if you look at Iran, you look around the world, and the different things that Russia has done, it’s one thing to sort of say, ‘Look, we’ve got to go along to get along,’ that’s not the case with Russia. Russia has proven to be, as Governor Romney said, a significant, in fact, maybe our [the United States’] top geopolitical foe.”

In Chen’s opinion, “to accede to them [Russia] in some way, I think is highly problematic, not just for the future of Republican foreign policy thinking, but also for the country more generally.”

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