Ohio Rep. says adversaries of the United States are benefiting from President Biden's weakness

Ohio GOP Rep. Warren Davidson says that President Biden's weak leadership has led to adversaries and possibly allies taking advantage of the U.S.

"Weakness invites aggression. Joe Biden, everything about him oozes weakness," Davidson said on the "Just the News, No Noise" TV show. "He's not persuasive anywhere to just about anybody. Our adversaries have taken advantage of him and maybe even worse, our allies have taken advantage of him."

Davidson and his colleague Florida GOP Rep. Anna Paulina Luna wrote a piece published in The American Conservative titled "Toward a Realist American Grand Strategy," which detailed China's rise in dominance and how that is the country benefiting most from the war in Ukraine. 

"The actual threat from our prolonged involvement in Ukraine is Beijing continuing to strengthen its position on the world stage," Davidson and Luna wrote in the piece published last week. "China is perhaps the biggest beneficiary of a long war in Ukraine. Proxy wars cannot be viewed as risk-free."

According to Davidson, Americans are very confused about what a victory in Ukraine would entail and what the U.S. gains from being involved. 

"Nothing excuses Putin's invasion,"  he said. "But we should be clear: when NATO adds members, they're not buying war insurance from America and somehow America will fight these wars and have an open checkbook so they can keep being fought with no defined mission. It means that you are pledging to be part of an alliance that will defend Europe."

Davidson also criticized the Secretary General of NATO Jens Stoltenberg who recently talked about increasing the power presence of NATO. 

"Why would a defensive alliance need to be a power projection platform?" he asked. "It's a defensive alliance. So all the messages there were confusing."