Joe Biden made a campaign promises to resurrect America’s relationships worldwide, reestablishing normalcy in the process, but he’s going to end his single term in office with wars worldwide.
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The Biden administration has spent the better part of the previous 2.5 years funding both Israel’s exceedingly unpopular warfare against Islamic militants and Ukraine’s efforts to eradicate Russian invaders, which is now extending to several Middle Eastern neighbors.
In addition to these additional wars, the telegraphed U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan gave the Taliban a nearly unchecked way back to power, severely impairing the rights of Afghan women and girls in the process.
Although the White House declined to comment on this story, several former Biden White House officials claimed that Donald Trump might receive a gift from him if his next year as president.
One former Biden White House official claimed somewhat dejectedly,” If Trump were to come in and quickly change the game in Ukraine or somehow get Israel to stop its genocide of the Palestinian people, that would basically be the nail in the coffin for President Biden’s legacy.”
Jake Sullivan, Biden’s national security adviser, defended the president’s policies during a Thursday interview with NPR.
One thousand days of failure and one day of success are considered to be diplomacy. You must work it tirelessly to end up with a successful outcome, according to Sullivan, who praised Biden’s efforts to secure a hostage exchange and a permanent ceasefire between Israel and Islamic militants. ” I do believe a positive outcome is possible, not just before the end of the administration, but even before the end of this calendar year, I can’t promise that it will happen. I won’t predict to you that it will happen, but I will say that there is that potential”.
Sullivan also cautioned Trump, who has met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky multiple times since the 2024 election was decided, against removing Ukraine’s “leverage” against Russia.
In response to Trump’s pledge to end the conflict in Ukraine on his first day in office, he said, “Ukraine needs leverage to get a good deal, and leverage means continued American support and a clear signal to Putin that if he’s not prepared to do a good deal, the United States will continue to have Ukraine’s back.” ” If we pull the rug out of under Ukraine, right out of the gate, that is not going to set the conditions for a good deal,” the statement reads.
Prior to his distinguished career in the Senate, Biden had made a number of Middle Eastern policy mistakes.
In 1991, then-Sen. Biden opposed Operation Desert Storm, former President George H. W. Bush’s military operation aimed at driving Iraqi forces out of Kuwait.
A decade later, Biden, fresh off the 9/11 terrorist attacks, voted to greenlight former President George W. Bush’s invasion of Afghanistan. Two years later, Biden again backed Bush’s invasion of Iraq.
And Vice President Biden reportedly one of the few senior administration officials to advise former president Barack Obama against carrying out the raid that led to the death of Osama bin Laden during his first year in office.
Matthew Burrows and Robert Manning, distinguished fellows at the Stimson Center, a foreign policy-focused think tank, argue that the president’s general “democracies vs. autocracies” mindset is oversimplified and left America incapable of ending this latest outcropping of foreign conflicts, and possibly careening toward another global war.
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” By many measures, the’ Rules-Based Order ‘ (adhered to à la carte by the United States ) is decomposing. The unmentioned debacle of the bungled exit , from Afghanistan in August 2021 was a blow to American credibility. Today, the world is in a state of polycrisis — interacting crises cascading downward and unraveling the global order”, they wrote in November. The international system is now on a trajectory that is more similar to what it was before World War I or when the world’s order was deteriorating in the 1930s.
The Stimson fellows added that Biden’s inability to end either the war in Ukraine or Israel’s military operations makes the U. S. appear “reactive, weak, and overwhelmed, with no discernible strategy”.
