{"id":2384179,"date":"2024-12-28T06:35:01","date_gmt":"2024-12-28T11:35:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-presidency-bookended-by-reactive-weak-foreign-policy\/"},"modified":"2024-12-28T06:36:17","modified_gmt":"2024-12-28T11:36:17","slug":"biden-presidency-bookended-by-reactive-weak-foreign-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-presidency-bookended-by-reactive-weak-foreign-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden presidency bookended by &#8216;reactive, weak&#8217; foreign policy"},"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\">16<\/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%2Fbiden-presidency-bookended-by-reactive-weak-foreign-policy%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=2384179&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--><p>The\u200b article discusses President Joe Biden&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-red-wave-of-conservative-women-elected-to-congress\/\" title=\"The Red Wave of Conservative Women Elected to Congress\">foreign policy<\/a>, describing it as &#8220;reactive&#8221; and &#8220;weak&#8221; as he\u200d approaches the end \u200dof his first term in\u2063 office.Despite his campaign promises to restore \u200cAmerica&#8217;s \u200cinternational relationships and end &#8220;forever wars,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">biden\u2064 faces ongoing conflicts abroad<\/a>,especially in\u2064 Ukraine and Israel. Although he managed \u200bto conclude\u2064 the U.S. involvement in Afghanistan, the withdrawal allowed the Taliban to regain control, threatening the\u200b rights of\u200c Afghan women and girls.<\/p>\n<p>The Biden administration&#8217;s\u200b approach has been characterized by support for ukraine\u200b against Russian aggression and for Israel \u2063in its conflict\u2063 with Islamic militants, which has \u2062been increasingly controversial. Former Biden officials\u2064 suggest that if a future president Trump successfully\u200d alters the\u2063 dynamics in\u2062 these conflicts, \u200dit coudl further tarnish Biden&#8217;s legacy.National Security Adviser Jake sullivan defends the administration&#8217;s strategy, claiming that\u200b diplomatic efforts can \u200dled to positive outcomes, highlighting the complexities of\u200d international \u2062relations.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Biden presidency bookended by &lsquo;reactive, weak&rsquo; foreign policy<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1909621\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/joe-biden\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Joe Biden\">Joe Biden<\/a> made a campaign promise to reinvigorate America&rsquo;s relationships abroad, restoring normalcy to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-logic-of-the-nuclear-triad\/\" title=\"The Logic of the Nuclear Triad\">international status quo<\/a> in the process, but he&rsquo;s ending his only term in office with wars abroad.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>In 2019 and 2020, Biden repeatedly vowed to end the &ldquo;forever wars&rdquo; in the <a href=\"https:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/middle-east\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Middle East\">Middle East<\/a>, and though the president made the hard decision to end the U.S. war in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/afghanistan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Afghanistan\">Afghanistan<\/a>, and it&rsquo;s become clear that his singular term in office will be characterized by a generally feckless foreign policy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3246847\/my-word-as-biden-joe-damages-public-trust-hunter-pardon\/\"><strong>&lsquo;MY WORD AS A BIDEN&rsquo;: JOE DAMAGES PUBLIC TRUST WITH FLIP-FLOP HUNTER PARDON<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Biden administration has spent the better part of the past 2.5 years subsidizing not only Ukraine&rsquo;s efforts to expel Russian invaders but Israel&rsquo;s increasingly unpopular war against Islamic militants, now spilling into multiple Middle Eastern neighbors. <\/p>\n<p>On top of these new wars, the telegraphed U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan allowed the Taliban a virtually unchecked path back to power, severely endangering the rights of Afghan women and girls in the process.<\/p>\n<p>The White House declined to comment on this story, but multiple former Biden White House officials told the <em>Washington Examiner<\/em> that Biden&rsquo;s inadequate foreign policy could prove a gift to President-elect Donald Trump once he&rsquo;s sworn in next year.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;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&rsquo;s legacy, I think,&rdquo; one former Biden White House official claimed somewhat dejectedly. <\/p>\n<p>Jake Sullivan, Biden&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/breaking-president-trump-to-pardon-gen-michael-flynn-per-report\/\" title=\"BREAKING: President Trump to Pardon Gen. Michael Flynn, Per Report\">national security adviser<\/a>, defended the president&rsquo;s policies during a Thursday interview with NPR.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Diplomacy is one thousand days of failure and one day of success. You have to keep working it tirelessly to ultimately produce a positive outcome,&rdquo; Sullivan <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2024\/12\/19\/nx-s1-5231966\/nsa-sullivan-positive-outcome-on-mideast-ceasefire-is-possible-before-years-end\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"said\">said<\/a> of Biden&rsquo;s efforts to secure a hostage exchange and permanent ceasefire between Israel and Islamic militants. &ldquo;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&rsquo;t promise that it will happen. I won&rsquo;t predict to you that it will happen, but I will say that there is that potential.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Sullivan also cautioned Trump, who has met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky multiple times since the 2024 election was decided, against removing Ukraine&rsquo;s &ldquo;leverage&rdquo; against Russia.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Ukraine needs leverage to get a good deal, and leverage means continued American support and a clear signal to Putin that if he&rsquo;s not prepared to do a good deal, the United States is going to continue to have Ukraine&rsquo;s back,&rdquo; he added in response to Trump&rsquo;s vow to end the war in Ukraine on his first day in office. &ldquo;If we pull the rug out from under Ukraine, right out of the gate, that is not going to set the conditions for a good deal.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Biden had previously made a number of Middle East policy missteps, dating back to his lengthy career in the Senate.<\/p>\n<p>In 1991, then-Sen. Biden opposed Operation Desert Storm, former President George H.W. Bush&rsquo;s military operation aimed at driving Iraqi forces out of Kuwait.<\/p>\n<p>A decade later, Biden, fresh off the 9\/11 terrorist attacks, voted to greenlight former President George W. Bush&rsquo;s invasion of Afghanistan. Two years later, Biden again backed Bush&rsquo;s invasion of Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>And during his first stint in the White House, Vice President Biden was reportedly one of the few senior administration officials cautioning former President Barack Obama not to carry out the raid that eventually killed Osama bin Laden.<\/p>\n<p>Matthew Burrows and Robert Manning, distinguished fellows at the Stimson Center, a foreign policy-focused think tank, argue that the president&rsquo;s general &ldquo;democracies vs. autocracies&rdquo; mindset is oversimplified and left America incapable of ending this latest outcropping of foreign conflicts, and possibly careening toward another global war.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/presidential\/3154530\/biden-trying-shape-legacy-with-months-left-white-house\/\"><strong>HOW BIDEN IS TRYING TO SHAPE HIS LEGACY WITH JUST MONTHS LEFT IN OFFICE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;By many measures, the &lsquo;Rules-Based Order&rsquo; (adhered to &agrave; la carte by the United States) is decomposing. The unmentioned debacle of the bungled exit&nbsp;from Afghanistan in August 2021 was a blow to American credibility. Today, the world is in a state of polycrisis<a href=\"https:\/\/polycrisis.org\/lessons\/where-did-the-term-polycrisis-come-from\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> <\/a>&mdash; interacting crises cascading downward and unraveling the global order,&rdquo; they <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stimson.org\/2024\/bidens-foreign-policy-legacy-a-troubled-interregnum\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">wrote<\/a> in November. &ldquo;This approach places the international system on a trajectory closer to where it was before World War I or during the 1930s when the international order was fraying.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The Stimson fellows added that Biden&rsquo;s inability to end either the war in Ukraine or Israel&rsquo;s military operations makes the U.S. appear &ldquo;reactive, weak, and overwhelmed, with no discernible strategy.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1909621\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1909621\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biden&#8217;s presidency marked by &#8216;reactive, weak&#8217; foreign policy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2645,"featured_media":2384180,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Biden-world-stage.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[3620,4551,32362,7723],"class_list":["post-2384179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner","tag-biden","tag-foreign-policy","tag-reactive","tag-weak"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Biden-world-stage.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2384179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2645"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2384179"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2384179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2384183,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2384179\/revisions\/2384183"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2384180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2384179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2384179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2384179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}