This is the #DemPartyPlatform for 2020. This part is called: REINVENTING ALLIANCES Only one party understands that our allies offer an enormous strategic advantage that our rivals can’t match. 1/15

#Democrats believe America’s alliances are an irreplaceable cornerstone of our national security that should be cultivated, not cast away. 2/15 #DemPartyPlatform #OurAllies

Our allies offer an enormous strategic advantage that our rivals can’t match. 3/15
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#AmericanAllies multiply our influence, spread our reach, lighten our burden, and advance our shared interests and priorities much farther than we could ever do on our own.4/15 #DemPartyPlatform

President Trump has undermined our alliances in ways that our adversaries could have only dreamed of—sowing doubts about our commitments to diplomatic agreements, mutual defense, democratic values, and strategic purpose. 5/15 #DemPartyPlatform #AmericanAlliances

As a result, our alliance system today faces its biggest test since the end of the Cold War. 6/15
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President Trump has pushed to bring Russia back into the G7 while lambasting our #NATO partners and ignoring intelligence about Russian bounties for killing American troops and other coalition forces in Afghanistan. 7/15 #DemPartyPlatform #AmericanAlliances

He has undermined confidence in America’s commitment to the alliance’s Article 5 mutual defense provision, and threatened to pull troops out of Germany without consultation.8/15 #DemPartyPlatform #AmericanAlliances

In the midst of a nuclear crisis on the Korean Peninsula, Trump tried to extort our South Korean allies to dramatically increase their share of alliance costs.9/15
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#Democrats will not only repair our alliances, but reinvent them to advance mutual priorities and deal with new challenges. 10/15 #DemPartyPlatform #AmericanAlliances

#Democrats believe our alliances are strongest when they are rooted in shared democratic values. 11/15
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#Democrats know we need to signal clearly our profound concerns about democratic backsliding in a number of ally states, and why we need to work with allied democracies to end democracy’s global recession. 12/15 #DemPartyPlatform

#Democrats will make developing shared responses to non-military threats like disinformation, corruption, and economic coercion, priorities in our agenda. 13/15 #DemPartyPlatform

#Democrats will work with our partners to improve interoperability, and we will encourage them to build up their defense capabilities, take greater responsibility for regional security, and contribute their fair share.14/15 #DemPartyPlatform

But we will never treat our alliances like protection rackets. #Democrats will not only reinvent existing alliances but also work to strengthen and build new partnerships in regions of growing strategic importance, particularly in Africa and Latin America.15/15 #DemPartyPlatform