Donald Trump announced Tuesday the appointment of Republican elected official Mike Waltz to the ultra-strategic position of national security adviser at the White House, presenting him as an ‘expert on the threats posed by China, Russia, Iran’ .
The Republican president-elect, who will take office on January 20, continues to shape his administration after his resounding victory last week, placing his loyalists in key positions.
“I am honored to announce that Congressman Mike Waltz has been appointed National Security Advisor to my Cabinet,” Donald Trump said in a statement.
The ex-president presents him as an ‘expert on the threats posed by China, Russia, Iran and global terrorism’ as well as a ‘fervent defender of (his) ‘America of America’ foreign policy program. on board”.
Elected from Florida to the House of Representatives, Mike Waltz is a member of three strategic commissions devoted respectively to the army, foreign affairs and intelligence.
In recent days, the American media had already tipped him for this position of national security advisor, one of the most important in the White House.
End the wars
With Marco Rubio, expected to take the helm of diplomacy, he will be the architect of the foreign policy of Donald Trump, who promised to end the wars in Ukraine and the Middle East, without ever explaining how.
Asked on CNN about Ukraine, Mike Waltz said there was ‘a way to end this war’. ‘We can do it economically, we can do it diplomatically,’ he insisted, while Europeans fear American disengagement under the future Trump presidency.
As for China, he sees it as an ‘existential struggle’ that the United States must wage, as he writes in a book.
Mike Waltz served in Afghanistan during a 27-year Army career.
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