Donald Trump's Foreign Policy is 'Silly': Former Bush Advisor

A former senior advisor to George W. Bush has criticized Donald Trump 's ambiguous stance on global issues, calling them "silly."

Karl Rove also expressed concern over presidential candidates Trump and Kamala Harris ' handling of America's mounting list of security challenges.

With long-frozen conflicts in the Middle East at risk of spilling into all-out war , Beijing's recent provocative actions towards Taiwan and the Russia-Ukraine war becoming increasingly marked by nuclear threats , foreign policy should arguably stand foremost in Americans' minds.

However, this has so far played second fiddle to the domestic issues of inflation, immigration and abortion in the campaigns' of both candidates heading into the final stretch of the 2024 election .

"Mr. Trump occasionally asserts he alone can keep the peace—a claim so vague as to be silly," Karl Rove wrote in a Wednesday column for The Wall Street Journal.

While Trump has spoken about the foreign policy issues in the Middle East , Eastern Europe and the Indo-Pacific on the campaign trail, he has faced criticism for offering only brief and cryptic insights into his actual foreign policy agenda .

He notably promised that brokering a deal between Russian president Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky would "be easy," and that he could have this done within 24 hours, without outlining how this would be achieved.