March 17, 2022
Joe Biden's crash-and-burn foreign policy exposed
By Francis P. Sempa
Writing in the Wall Street Journal, the Hudson Institute's Walter Russell Mead pronounces the Biden administration's great power diplomacy an unmitigated failure. Mead's criticism cannot be dismissed as a partisan attack — he is a member in good standing of the U.S. foreign policy establishment. Mead is also steeped in history and geopolitics — two subjects that appear to have eluded the stalwarts of President Biden's foreign policy team.
"Most ... of the ideas Team Biden brought to the White House," Mead writes, "failed to work," and most of the changes that U.S. foreign policy will require today and in the immediate future "will be toxic to much of the Democratic base." And while Mead suggests that Team Biden was right about NATO and "democratic values" as necessary elements of U.S. foreign policy, he understands that providing peace and stability in the world requires paying more attention to hard-headed and emotionally unsatisfying geopolitics.
And it is here — on the playing field of geopolitics — where Mead rightly claims that Biden's approach to great power politics has "comprehensively failed." Mead criticizes Team Biden for focusing on a globalist foreign policy agenda: human rights, disarmament, and climate change. And that focus, Mead notes, has not produced any significant results in those areas. "Mr. Biden's climate agenda," Mead writes, "has collapsed into utter incoherence." His disarmament agenda stands exposed as a failure as both Russia and China engage in military build-ups, and Iran seems destined to become a nuclear weapons power.
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