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The Dreadful Foreign Policy Continuity Between Trump and Biden

The Dreadful Foreign Policy Continuity Between Trump and Biden

It is bad news for the country and the world that Biden is largely continuing the same policies that Trump put in place.

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Aug 25, 2023
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Paul Poast comments on Biden’s continuation of Trump’s foreign policy:

Many of the signature foreign policy achievements of Obama’s time in office, from the Paris climate agreement to the Iran nuclear deal, were immediately scuttled by the man who succeeded him in office, Donald Trump. The Biden administration seems determined to avoid a similar outcome should it lose the Presidential election in 2024 or a member of the Republican Party becomes president after 2028.

His administration might just pull off its goal. But that’s because the foundation the Biden administration is building is, in turn, being built on another foundation: the foreign policy of his Republican predecessor, Donald Trump.

Poast is right that Biden’s foreign policy is built on and mostly continues what he inherited from Trump. That fact should disturb a lot of people of all political stripes. Trump was correctly seen as a blundering militarist who created new crises and nearly got the U.S. into unnecessary wars. It is bad news for the country and the world that Biden is largely continuing the same policies that Trump put in place. It is even worse when we consider that Trump’s worst policies were among his least controversial in Washington. Now that Biden has left them in place, they are even less likely to be overturned.

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