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Trump chooses a loyalist, a figure already known to the Republican Party and an exponent of its more conservative wing on immigration, the fight against crime, foreign policy, but also an official who knows the services very well...
The most conservative former congressman from Texas will lead the CIA in the Trump era, replacing William Burns.
John Ratcliffe, 59, the former Director of National Intelligence at the end of the first Trump administration and from 2015 to 2020, the representative of the 4th district of Texas, will head Washington's main intelligence agency. After the Burns era, in which the marriage between diplomacy and intelligence took shape under the leadership of the former ambassador to Russia, a professional politician returns to lead Langley.
Trump chooses a loyalist, a figure already known to the Republican Party and an exponent of its more conservative wing on immigration, the fight against crime, foreign policy, but also an official who knows the services very well, having already worked on the committees of Congress who have overseen and served as coordinators of federal agencies. Above all, Military.com reminds us that Ratcliffe has the "stamp" of iron-clad anti-Chinese credentials on his side, a basic requirement for gaining accreditation in the deep state of Washington.
"Ratcliffe has repeatedly raised the alarm about China, calling the country the primary threat to the interests of the United States and the rest of the free world," the national security news outlet wrote, adding that this puts him in line with appointments to others of Trump.
"Beijing aims to dominate the United States and the rest of the planet economically, militarily and technologically," Ratcliffe wrote in late 2020 in the Wall Street Journal. His appointment to the CIA will make him a direct projection of the White House's security agenda or fit into the path taken by Burns.
The first approach would increase the operational role, the second the informational role of the espionage agency par excellence. Trump seems to want a cohesive team, able to steer in the same direction as him on major policies, and to date it is still unclear how much and to what extent different global scenarios will weigh on Donald's superpower agenda. Trump.
Right now, two things unite Ratcliffe: incoming Defense Secretary Pete Hessgeth, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and national security adviser Mike Waltz: absolute loyalty to Trump and the priority given to China as a strategic rival. The "quadrilateral" represented in the Biden era by Burns, Lloyd Austin, Tony Blinken and Jake Sullivan as the frontline of strategic development seems to be disappearing and an administration in which the commander in chief is the one who directs every plan seems to be emerging and the government represents its operational arm. But this will be confirmed only after January 20, the day of the start of Trump 2.0 which is already being talked about before it is born. / Adapted "Pamphlet" from "Inside Over"
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