Get out the popcorn folks, Joe's going to address the UN tomorrow. What could possibly go wrong ?
Biden to Address UN Amid Strains With Partners, Fury From French President Biden is preparing to deliver his maiden address before the U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday at a time when several of his foreign policy decisions have set off alarm bells in allied capitals.
It should have been a triumphant moment for a new president who came into office vowing to use his decades-long foreign policy experience to reassert American leadership after what he characterized as his predecessor’s failings in that area.
Instead, the fallout from a chaotic end to a 20-year military engagement in Afghanistan continue to reverberate, a situation not helped by the Pentagon’s belated admission on Friday that a drone strike supposedly targeting ISIS-K terrorists in Kabul during the frantic evacuation mission had instead killed ten innocents, seven of them children.
Meanwhile America’s oldest ally, France, has recalled its ambassador from Washington for the first time ever, furious over a U.S.-Australia-U.K. security agreement that effectively scuppers a French contract to build submarines for Australia.
Beyond the financial blow, Paris views AUKUS to be sidelining its own deep interests in the Indo-Pacific, where its overseas territories are home to more than 1.6 million French citizens...............
https://cnsnews.com/article/international/patrick-goodenough/biden-address-un-amid-strains-partners-fury-french