Once again, the former National Security Advisor of the United States John Bolton is criticizing the outgoing President Donald Trump for his recent decision on the Sahara.
In an article, Bolton called the decision «another low for [Trump's] administration». He recalled that the president’s policy is «imperiling even long-standing formal U.S. alliances like NATO».
«It is perfectly appropriate for a nation to modify its responsibilities in light of changed national-security circumstances, but it is quite another to gratuitously destroy a commitment, with no consultation, just to make a so-called deal in a completely separate context».
To Bolton, «Trump’s decision to throw the Sahrawi people under the bus ditches three decades of U.S. support for their self-determination via a referendum of the Sahrawi people on the territory’s future status».
On December 11, Bolton reacted to the US decision indicating that «an Israeli-Moroccan agreement was possible without abandoning the United States' commitment to a referendum on the future of Western Sahara».