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(77WABC) — Former Brexit leader Nigel Farage slammed President Joe Biden Thursday for his foreign policy failures, saying the U.S. is no longer being taken seriously following the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan.
Farage blasted both Biden’s handling of the exit from the middle eastern country without the U.K. — as well as the ongoing crisis with Russia and Ukraine.
“[I]n terms of its presence on the international stage, and what it says as the leader of the free world being taken seriously, America right now is no better than a bad joke,” Farage told the John Solomon Reports podcast.
“Nobody wanted it to go on forever, but there had to be the right way, and the right moment, to leave,” he continued. “For Biden to unilaterally withdraw the biggest force — the American force — without even referring to your closest allies in the world since 1917; and when the British prime minister calls to have an urgent conversation, not to return that phone call for 30 hours, how on earth could we trust America again?”
On the Russia-Ukraine conflict:
“How on earth can NATO, frankly, continue to operate?” he said. “Is it any wonder, given that situation, and given that collapse of leadership in the free world, that Putin is now taunting us from the borders of the Ukraine?”
Farage also criticized U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson for breaking his own COVID-19 lockdown rules prior to lifting them.
“If you’re the ones setting the rules by which the rest of the population has to abide, you cannot shirk those rules yourself, because, you know, you are responsible for them,” he said. “Boris’ personality problem is that he’s a cheerleader, not a leader.”
