January 2, 2025
The Ugly Residue of the Biden Presidency
By Susan Quinn
Most people are counting the days until President Trump takes office—we’ll be restoring our reputation, overcoming our economic woes, eliminating the remainder of the woke agenda, and acting like America again.
But it’s not going to be that easy, and recovering from the past four years is going to be a serious challenge. Part of the difficulty is that the populace may grow impatient, even if they know rationally that making changes like these will take time. Inflation didn’t grow overnight; the damage to our international relationships took time to ruin; restoring our national security (between the border invasion and the shrinking military) will be a slow process. Even when Trump is enthusiastic, he still has a narrow margin in Congress to support him—assuming he does get support from the Republicans.
So just how bad is the damage Biden’s done?
On the international scene, we have disappointed a number of allies. Saudi Arabia has no idea where Biden is coming from, or what his motives are. Although Benjamin Netanyahu praises U.S. support of the Gaza War, Biden seesaws between his willingness and his refusal to send arms if Israel doesn’t comply with his demands for a ceasefire. Since it looks like a deal is imminent (although I don’t know how a deal can be imminent after several weeks of negotiating), Biden has backed off on his pressure. He can’t seem to decide whether to reject Iran or get in bed with them, so he’s made half-hearted attempts to impose sanctions, while he continues to supply them with cash. His ambivalent efforts to supply Ukraine with war materiel has compromised their fighting efforts. The embarrassing, costly and incompetent exit from Afghanistan will never be forgotten. And then there are the complications with the Russia/China/Ukraine relationships:
In fact, thanks to Biden’s actions (or inaction), the incoming Trump administration faces difficult policy choices on the Ukraine war and China’s aggressive expansionism in Asia, as well as containing the Middle East conflicts.
With Biden’s foreign policy having driven Russia and China into an ‘unholy alliance’ against the U.S., the new administration must also find ways to shove a wedge between these two nuclear powers, lest their growing collaboration unravel America’s global preeminence.
Biden has also showed signs of aligning with autocratic governments that don’t practice democracy:
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/01/the_ugly_residue_of_the_biden_presidency.html
