All the foreign policy loopholes of the Biden government.
Less than nine months after the new US administration took office, its numerous foreign policy blunders have intensified criticism of the Biden administration.
Americans who believed that the victory of President Joe Biden in the election meant that the elders resumed responsibility for US foreign policy now have many reasons to question this conclusion.
The US government has taken a number of significant foreign policy steps, the National Interest reported in a report. The tumultuous withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan, which has severely eroded confidence among NATO allies in continuing the US leadership role, is just one of the highlights.
On the other hand, the mismanagement of the sale of nuclear submarines to Australia was so bad that France, a longtime ally of Washington, became angry and accused US officials of lying and temporarily recalling its ambassador to Washington.
The list of government mistakes must have included something else. The mistaken identification of an Afghan relief force as a terrorist and the carrying out of a deadly drone strike killed the relief worker and his family in the final days of the US presence in Afghanistan.
“Such fundamental mistakes mark the US government’s difficult start in foreign policy,” National Interest wrote in its report. In addition, the president and his advisers do not even seem to be able to make public statements on important direct political aspects, and such a failure is a sign of more widespread incompetence.
At one of the events in February, Pentagon spokesman John Kirby stressed that Washington supports Japan’s sovereignty over the Senkaku Islands. The Senkaku Islands are an uninhabited archipelago that has become a source of tension between Japan and China.
The US official position since 2014 has been that it rejects any use of force by China to end Tokyo’s rule over the islands, and Washington has not taken a position on the legal dispute over these territorial disputes. But Kirby’s stance has led the United States to be seen as endorsing Tokyo’s claims. It was clear that he was blundering because he, the Pentagon spokesman, was forced to step down the next day, giving an explanation and endorsing a more ambiguous policy.
In addition, other government officials should have made statements that could be considered embarrassing if they could not be described as shameful.
US Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milli initially described the drone strike in Afghanistan (which killed a rescue worker and his family) as a success, a necessary military action and the right attack.
Biden’s outrage in July 2021 (August 1400) that the government of fugitive Afghan President Ashraf Ghani would last against the Taliban caused widespread outrage.
“The Taliban are not the south-north Vietnamese army,” Biden said. They are not comparable in terms of capabilities (with Ashraf Ghani’s government army). There will be no situation at all if people are removed from the roof of the US embassy in Afghanistan. The situation is not comparable at all.
But Biden’s predictions came true and the Taliban advanced rapidly into Afghanistan, with Kabul falling and Ashraf Ghani fleeing within days.
“Instead of leading the 2020 election to a team of smart professionals in the United States, it seems to have brought together a collection of dangerous amateurs full of gaps,” National Interest wrote at the end of its report. America deserves better leaders.
