Biden’s ‘Trump-proofing’ foreign policy revolves around Ukraine and NATO
By
Mike Brest
August 9, 2024 6:00 am
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Having withdrawn from his reelection bid and acknowledged the possibility that former President Donald Trump may succeed him, President Joe Biden has worked with Democrats and his federal agencies to lock in a legacy that won’t be easy for Trump to erase. From pumping out regulations to insulating government scientists to enshrining foreign policy commitments, the Biden administration is leaving behind policies that will be procedurally difficult or politically costly to abandon. In this series, the Washington Examiner will take a look at how Biden is Trump-proofing parts of the government. Part Three will look at his effort to “Trump-proof” foreign policy.President Joe Biden has roughly six months left in his 50-year political career, and what he decides to do between now and then could define his foreign policy legacy and have lasting impacts.
During his presidency, he held up, strengthened, and unified NATO in the face of the largest ground war in Europe since World War II and attempted to shift the government’s attention to the Pacific region as his administration continues to try to prevent a regional conflict in the Middle East.
With Biden no longer seeking reelection, a new commander in chief is guaranteed to be sworn in on January 20, 2025. Former President Donald Trump has the experience having served as president once already, though the world looks much different than when he left office, whereas Vice President Kamala Harris’s foreign policy stances and perspectives are largely unknown, but she was an a participant in carrying out the Biden administration’s foreign policies.
“I think that if Trump wins, he will enter his second term dealing with a very different world than the world he entered during his first term,” Alexander Hamilton Society Executive Director Gabriel Scheinmann told the Washington Examiner, whereas Harris is “incredibly untested,” he added. “She doesn’t have much of a foreign policy or national security track record in any way.”
Last month, before Biden dropped out of the election, Washington, D.C., hosted NATO’s 75-year anniversary summit. A major theme of the summit was limiting Ukraine’s reliance on U.S. support, instead providing some roles to the alliance in the event Trump wins in November given concerns that he could limit or end U.S. support for Ukraine.
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