{"id":1327127,"date":"2022-02-22T12:55:59","date_gmt":"2022-02-22T17:55:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1327127"},"modified":"2022-02-22T13:07:57","modified_gmt":"2022-02-22T18:07:57","slug":"once-again-joe-biden-has-failed-a-basic-foreign-policy-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/once-again-joe-biden-has-failed-a-basic-foreign-policy-test\/","title":{"rendered":"Once Again, Joe Biden Has Failed A Basic Foreign Policy Test"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fonce-again-joe-biden-has-failed-a-basic-foreign-policy-test%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1327127&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/51846494056_8a8b667b79_o-1-scaled-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>When the Russian tanks roll westward, what defence for you and me?<br \/>Colonel Sloman\u2019s Essex Rifles? The Light Horse of the L.S.E.?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Philip Larkin wrote this little couplet in a letter to a friend in May 1969, not long after seeing those very tanks roll into Czechoslovakia, decrying the fact that the British expenditure on education had surpassed the budget for national defense. It is perhaps less well known than <a href=\"https:\/\/allpoetry.com\/homage-to-a-government\">\u201cHomage to a Government<\/a>,\u201d which you may have read before, in which the government\u2019s argument for bringing troops home is reduced to: \u201cWe want the money for ourselves at home\/Instead of working.\u201d Larkin made a distinction about the point of that poem that is important in context:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>That poem [\u201cHomage to a Government\u201d] has been quoted in several books as a kind of symbol of the British withdrawal from a world role. I don\u2019t mind troops being brought home if we\u2019d decided this was the best thing all around, but to bring them home simply because we couldn\u2019t afford to keep them there seemed a dreadful humiliation.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>What is happening in Ukraine is indeed humiliating, and humiliating for a host of reasons and parties involved, but it is at the moment most humiliating for the L.S.E. school of foreign affairs represented by the likes of Jake Sullivan and the J.V. team of policy handlers who seemed to learn nothing from the red line experience in Syria. Their policy of deterrence seemed based on the idea that one can wait and wait and wait, without understanding the lesson that deterrence must come in advance of such movement, before the goal is obtained. <\/p>\n<p>The timing of this move \u2014 coming as it does after the Olympics, and with the <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/opinion\/international\/593464-china-is-making-sanctions-on-russia-irrelevant\">tacit approval of China<\/a> \u2014 was also obvious. So steps should have been taken, in advance, to project strong deterrence if we as a nation and our allies in Europe didn\u2019t want to see this happen.<\/p>\n<p>Harold Ford and I got into it a bit on last night\u2019s Special Report on this very point, after which Fred Fleitz did some cleanup.<\/p>\n<p><noscript>Watch the latest video at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\">foxnews.com<\/a><\/noscript><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"yZ5ThxAsKUSqjWN1cJb3yTS6Lo9w9cl0tal1MPvYV56QgkJL8QeiBdwHiRIWbfrKr\"><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">3\/ The current Ukraine crisis is the result of a year of Biden&#8217;s weak foreign policy and appeasement of Russia.  My point was that the US threatening sanctions against Russia and drawing red lines wont make any difference now.  I assume this is what <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bdomenech?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@bdomenech<\/a> thinks.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Fred Fleitz (@FredFleitz) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FredFleitz\/status\/1495915753102524427?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 22, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Waiving sanctions on Nord Stream 2 allowed Putin to return to his original effort, one he\u2019s held in his mind since long before 2014. His <a href=\"https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?518097-2\/russian-president-putin-recognizes-independence-donetsk-luhansk-ukraines-donbas-region\">speech yesterday was impressive for how much it told us about his mindset<\/a> \u2014 this was his supervillain monologue, declaring his intentions and explaining why he is doing what he is doing.<\/p>\n<p>The narrative that as president, Biden represented a strong response to Putin was always ridiculous, but it was most ridiculous coming from the foreign policy elite who have been so wrong about so many things for so long. Donald Trump was a Russian patsy, in their frame, not just because of a story that now appears to be a totally invented tissue of lies involving high level Clinton cronies and the misuse of the most powerful tools of our government, but because his policies worked, and Biden\u2019s failed. The foolishness of this commentariat which argued Biden\u2019s mere presence would put fear in Putin\u2019s heart is total, and yet they still occupy positions of relevance to directing our policies.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><\/figure>\n<p>A large part of the case for Biden made by those \u201cmoderates\u201d or \u201ccentrist\u201d minded liberals was that he represented a return to healthy normalcy \u2014 a downgrade of the culture war at home, a return to traditional foreign policy relationships, an adult in the room after years of unqualified people being in charge. This was always a fiction. <\/p>\n<p>But in allowing Putin to go down this road, the Biden administration is turning out to be much worse than almost anyone could have believed: they could very well be the administration that lost the post-Cold War world order that had been maintained, carefully and not without error, for more than thirty years.<\/p>\n<p>This is how dangerous Joe Biden and his team have turned out to be when given the reins of power. They\u2019ve managed to do all this in just over a year. And they\u2019re just getting started.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<div class=\"article-author-description fst-italic\">\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/bdomenech\">Benjamin Domenech<\/a> is the publisher of The Federalist, host of The Federalist Radio Hour, and writes <a href=\"http:\/\/thetransom.com\">The Transom<\/a>, a daily newsletter for political insiders. He was previously a fellow at The Manhattan Institute and a senior fellow at The Heartland Institute; editor in chief of The City; and a speechwriter for HHS Secretary Tommy Thompson and U.S. Senator John Cornyn of Texas. He co-founded Redstate and co-hosted Coffee &#038; Markets, an award-winning economic podcast. His writing has been published in <em>The Wall Street Journal<\/em>, <em>The New York Times<\/em>, <em>Politico<\/em>, <em>Commentary<\/em>, <em>Reason<\/em>, and <em>GQ<\/em>, and he is a Fox News Contributor. He lives with his wife and daughter in Virginia. Email him at <b><a href=\"mailto:ben@thefederalist.com\">ben@thefederalist.com<\/a><\/b><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the Russian tanks roll westward, what defence for you and me?Colonel Sloman\u2019s Essex Rifles? The Light Horse of the L.S.E.? 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