Sen. Lindsey Graham said during an interview on Wednesday’s episode of The Water Cooler with host David Brody that he believes President Biden has “been one of the most destabilizing presidents on foreign policy in modern history.”

The South Carolina Republican predicted that Biden will regret his decision to pull U.S. troops out of Afghanistan: The president “wants to end the war before the 20th anniversary for political reasons. I think he’s gonna regret this,” Graham said.

The lawmaker warned that radical Islamists are bent on murder, and said that while former President Trump had kept such terrorists under foot, they are now being permitted to rise up again.

“Well, in Afghanistan, you may be tired of fighting radical Islam, they’re not tired of fighting you. If you’re listening to this program, if they could get you, they would kill you. They want to destroy the State of Israel,” Graham said. “And they want to kill every Christian they can get their hands on. These people are religious Nazis. We’ve had ’em at bay for the last few years. Trump did a hell of a job putting his foot on their throat. And now we’re gonna let ’em back up,” he said.

Graham mentioned the influx of migrants along America’s southern border and noted that terrorists could attempt to enter the U.S. along with other illegal migrants seeking to come into the country.

“The border is completely broken. How easy would it be for a terrorist to intermingle among all the illegal immigrants coming here and sneak into the border? We found four or five on the terrorist watch list,” Graham said.

The senator described the Iranians as “licking their chops because Biden is back into the nuclear deal again.” The Biden administration has appeared eager to make a deal with Iran to renew the JCPOA and lift sanctions on Iran that former President Trump imposed on them after pulling the U.S. out of the deal. 

(Reuters) – The United States will ramp up its forces in Germany amid the latest tensions with Russia over Ukraine, abandoning former President Donald Trump’s plans to withdraw around 12,000 of the 36,000 troops from the fellow NATO country.

“I briefed the minister on our intention to permanently stage an approximately 500 additional U.S. personnel in the Wiesbaden area as early as this fall,” U.S. Secretary of Defence Lloyd Austin told at press conference after meeting his German counterpart, Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, in Berlin.

Last June, Trump had announced his intention to cut the U.S. troop contingent in Germany by about a third, saying Berlin had been taking advantage of the United States while not meeting financial obligations to NATO.

Austin, who as a young lieutenant served in Germany and said he had fond memories of the time, struck a completely different tone, thanking Berlin for its contribution to NATO missions as in Afghanistan and taking steps to increase defense spending.

“I truly value what you bring. It is not lost on me that we share values, and that you are a very committed partner,” he said while Kramp-Karrenbauer welcomed his troop decision as an encouraging signal.

Austin evaded questions about whether the deployment of additional troops should be interpreted as a message to Russia amid renewed tensions over Ukraine but stressed the military value for NATO of having more boots on the ground in Europe.

“These forces will strengthen deterrence and defense, and they will augment our existing abilities to prevent conflict and if necessary to fight and win,” he said. “It will greatly improve our ability to surge forces at a moment’s notice to defend our allies.”

The West has expressed concern in recent weeks over a huge build-up of Russian forces close to Ukraine’s eastern border and in Crimea, which Russia annexed from Kyiv in 2014.

On Tuesday, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg called on Russia to withdraw troops that the alliance says Moscow is massing on Ukraine’s borders, ahead of an emergency meeting of allied foreign and defense ministers.