{"id":15546,"date":"2024-02-14T12:49:43","date_gmt":"2024-02-14T12:49:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/14\/president-bidens-first-term-foreign-policy-called-a-fiasco-by-expert\/"},"modified":"2024-02-14T12:49:43","modified_gmt":"2024-02-14T12:49:43","slug":"president-bidens-first-term-foreign-policy-called-a-fiasco-by-expert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/14\/president-bidens-first-term-foreign-policy-called-a-fiasco-by-expert\/","title":{"rendered":"President Biden\u2019s first term foreign policy called a \u2018fiasco\u2019 by expert"},"content":{"rendered":"
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President Biden\u2019s first term in office has been marked by several foreign policy challenges, with some experts giving the president low marks as he seeks a second term in November.<\/p>\n

\u2018From the catastrophic surrender of Afghanistan to the brutal Russian invasion of Ukraine to the savage Hamas terrorist attack on Israel, President Biden\u2019s foreign policy has consisted of unanticipated disasters to which his administration has responded ineptly,\u2019 Victoria Coates, the vice president of national security and foreign policy at The Heritage Foundation, told Fox News Digital.<\/p>\n

The comments come as Biden continued to confront several complex global challenges, including ongoing wars in Ukraine and Gaza, continued attacks of U.S. troops by Iranian proxies, and the growing threat of China.<\/p>\n

Given the volume of challenges faced by the president in his first term, some experts have lauded his handling of foreign policy challenges, especially when compared to his most likely challenger in this year\u2019s election, former President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n

\u2018Trump\u2019s encouragements to Putin and attempt to blackmail [Ukrainian President Volodymyr] Zelenskyy by withholding weapons from Ukraine (for which he was impeached by the House of Representatives), more than anything Biden did, led to the Russian invasion of Ukraine,\u2019 David Tafuri, a foreign policy analyst who served as a foreign policy adviser to the Obama campaign, told Fox News Digital last week. \u2018Now, the front line for protecting democracy and rule of law runs through eastern and southern Ukraine.\u2019<\/p>\n

That front line was solidified by solid anticipation of the looming threat by Biden, Tafuri argued, noting that the president began readying Ukraine for a potential invasion months in advance.<\/p>\n

\u2018This gave Ukraine and its allies time to prepare for the invasion, which proved crucial in Ukraine\u2019s early success in defending Kyiv as well as most of the territory that Russia thought it would be able to occupy,\u2019 Tafuri said. \u2018Biden led NATO to work more collaboratively than it has in decades to provide billions of dollars in aid and sophisticated weapons systems to Ukraine, again flustering Russia\u2019s intentions.\u2019<\/p>\n

But not everyone is sold on Biden\u2019s handling of the war in Ukraine, especially as the war drags on and the Ukrainian resistance shows potential signs of faltering.<\/p>\n

\u2018Biden never authorized a sufficient amount of weaponry to Ukraine to win, opting for virtue signaling instead, or in his words, simply \u2018doing something,\u2019\u2019 Rebekah Koffler, a strategic military intelligence analyst, former senior official at the Defense Intelligence Agency and author of \u2018Putin\u2019s Playbook,\u2019 told Fox News Digital.<\/p>\n

According to Koffler, the Biden administration has lacked a clear strategy to combat Russian aggression from the start, instead opting to \u2018throw billions of dollars of weaponry to Ukraine and talk smack about Putin.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u2018Weaponry and technology don\u2019t win wars \u2013 we learned it in Afghanistan and many other places. Putin is not afraid of words \u2013 he fears action,\u2019 Koffler said. \u2018Biden announced in the very beginning of Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine that he will not authorize U.S. troops deployment into the theater to help Ukraine. It is insanity to give away a key deterrence element.\u2019<\/p>\n

Reached for comment by Fox News Digital, a White House National Security Council spokesperson pushed back against the idea that U.S. weapons aid has been insufficient to help Ukraine, pointing to American aid as being instrumental to Ukraine\u2019s success in the Battle of Kyev, where Ukrainian forces beat back Russia\u2019s initial invasion of the capital city in early 2022. The spokesperson also pointed to successes in the battle for Kharkiv and the retaking of more than 50% of seized Russian territory by Ukrainian forces, arguing U.S. weaponry was instrumental to the achievements.<\/p>\n

\u2018Assuming Congress passes the president\u2019s national security supplemental request, in 2024, we will enable Ukraine to both continue to conduct offensive operations to retake its sovereign territory and to strengthen its defenses against Russian attacks,\u2019 the spokesperson said. \u2018That includes creating and defending lanes for shipping in the Black Sea, and degrading Russian capabilities throughout the territory Russia occupies in sovereign Ukraine. Our aim through the totality of these efforts is to improve Ukraine\u2019s standing on the battlefield\u00a0and put Ukraine in the best position to win the war.\u2019<\/p>\n

Koffler also questioned the idea that Trump withheld weapons from Ukraine, noting that Trump was actually \u2018the first one who authorized lethal military assistance to Ukraine.\u2019<\/p>\n

As part of Trump\u2019s 2020 budget request to Congress, the former president did request $250 million in lethal aid for Ukraine that included Javelin anti-tank weapons, according to a 2019 report from Defense News, a weapon that would eventually become critical in the early days of the fighting against better equipped Russian forces. Meanwhile, the Biden administration at one point froze a $100 million aid package to Ukraine that included lethal weapons, a June 2021 Politico report noted, a move that came just months before Russia\u2019s eventual invasion of the country.<\/p>\n

All told, Koffler argued that Biden\u2019s Russia policy has amounted to no more than \u2018virtue signaling,\u2019 while Trump\u2019s policies were \u2018based on real actions that sought to deter Putin.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u2018Most importantly, Biden\u2019s policy of pushing Ukraine into NATO was a death sentence to Ukraine,\u2019\u00a0Koffler said. \u2018To think that Putin would fail to enforce his version of the Monroe Doctrine and allow NATO to absorb Ukraine, on which Russia relied for its security for centuries, was not simply incompetent. It amounted to signing Ukraine\u2019s death sentence.\u2019<\/p>\n

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But the administration\u2019s struggles haven\u2019t been contained to Ukraine, Coates noted, pointing to the U.S.\u2019s \u2018catastrophic surrender of Afghanistan\u2019 and the president\u2019s failure to ensure sufficient investment in defense by European allies.<\/p>\n

\u2018He has continued to tolerate the insufficient defense spending and investments by the largest EU economies that President Trump has rightly decried, leaving American taxpayers footing a disproportionate percentage of the cost of the war,\u2019 Coates said.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Bill Roggio, the managing editor of Long War Journal, argued that the administration has also seen its fair share of struggles in the Middle East, telling Fox News Digital that Biden\u2019s \u2018general policy\u2019 in the region has been to \u2018disengage.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u2018I think the administration has a policy of wishful thinking,\u2019 Roggio said. \u2018It believes it can impose its will on the Middle East when the exact opposite is happening. Afghanistan is an example of this, to believe that withdrawing from Afghanistan would solve the problem of terrorism, and we saw how that went. The Taliban had a different take on that.\u2019<\/p>\n

Roggio also pointed to the continued attacks on U.S. forces by Iran-backed proxies, arguing that the administration\u2019s actions to deter the attacks have been insufficient.<\/p>\n

\u2018This administration believes it can go after the proxies themselves, but on a very limited basis, in order to restore deterrence, but they\u2019re not getting to the root cause of the problem,\u2019 Roggio said.<\/p>\n

That root cause is the \u2018Iranians themselves,\u2019 argued Roggio, requiring the administration to target the country\u2019s assets throughout the Middle East.<\/p>\n

\u2018If the administration was serious about attempting to restore deterrence, it would go after the Iranian assets themselves, not just the proxies,\u2019 Roggio said. \u2018The members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard destroy Iranian intelligence ships that are providing targeting information.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u2018This doesn\u2019t have to be strikes inside of Iran,\u2019 Roggio added. \u2018Iran has a lot of assets throughout the Middle East and we can go after that. That\u2019s what needs to be done.\u2019<\/p>\n

But a White House National Security Council spokesperson defended the administration\u2019s record on Iran, pointing out that the U.S. has administered over 55 sanctions on Iran that have targeted over 550 individuals and entities, continued oil seizures to enforce existing Iran sanctions, and indicted leaders of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps for terrorism and other charges.<\/p>\n

Andrew Bates, the White House deputy press secretary, also pointed to Biden\u2019s work to secure additional national security funding to target Iran, noting that the administration is seeking to cut off Tehran\u2019s financial support for Russia and help Israel strengthen its defensive capabilities against Iran and groups backed by the country, arguing that a small group of Republicans in the House have worked to delay the critical aid.<\/p>\n

Away from the battlefields of the Middle East and Europe, Biden has also been forced to confront the growing threat posed by China. Ian Bremmer, the president of Eurasia Group, believes the president has handled relations with China well, telling Fox News Digital last week that Biden has facilitated a \u2018more functional and more stable\u2019 relationship with the country and has \u2018not given up anything that matters\u2019 during tense negotiations.<\/p>\n

Bremmer pointed to the fact that Biden has maintained tariffs on China at the level they were under Trump and has also secured export controls on \u2018semiconductors, cloud computing, the CHIPS Act and the chips agreement with the Netherlands, South Korea and Japan.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u2018That is coordinating U.S. industrial policy and probably the most strategically important part of the advanced economy,\u2019 Bremmer said.<\/p>\n

But Koffler also pushed back on the idea that the administration has been successful in China, telling Fox News Digital that deals the president has struck with the country on climate change have been a \u2018fiasco\u2019 and only served to benefit China\u2019s communist-led government.<\/p>\n

\u2018Team Biden through regulations seeks to compel Americans to buy more electric cars that are powered by lithium-ion batteries and fewer cars that run on gasoline,\u2019 Koffler said. \u2018The U.S. is rich in oil and China controls 58% of the global production of lithium compounds and dominates the electric vehicle supply chain. So, Biden effectively seeks to help grow China\u2019s economy and stifle the U.S. economy. The impact of these policies on U.S. national security will be profound.\u2019<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Koffler pointed out that the crisis at the southern border has also benefited China, allowing the country to potentially sneak in people hostile to U.S. interests.<\/p>\n

\u2018On Biden\u2019s watch, record numbers of Chinese are pouring into the United States through the southern border, which Biden unsealed when he took over the presidency after Trump,\u2019 Koffler said. \u2018More than 24,000 Chinese have entered the U.S. illegally in 2023. It is almost certain that the CCP has dispatched a good number of them.\u2019<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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