Joe Biden’s foreign policy worst in my lifetime

 

 Joe Biden’s foreign policy worst in my lifetime

In my 80 years I’ve lived under 15 presidents. Followed the governance of everyone but the first, FDR, due to being 33 days old when he died.

Living my entire life in the nuclear age, foreign policy has always been my focus as nuclear war, the worst possible outcome of reckless policy, can easily occur. The second most horrible consequence of such policy is nation destroying instead of nation building.

On both counts Joe Biden gets my nod as worst foreign policy president I’ve followed.

The irony is he began by pivoting to peace in Afghanistan after 20 years, 3,800 dead Americans and $2 trillion in squandered US treasure. After 2 decades Afghanistan is much worse off than 20 years ago, but at least the Taliban kicked out the American invaders. The US War Party blasted Biden over the blasphemy of losing a war, but he did the right thing.

Alas, that was Biden’s last foray promoting peace. He’s spent the last 41 months of his tarnished presidency destroying hundreds of thousands of innocents combined in war zones Ukraine, Gaza, Syria, Yemen, Lebanon, Haiti to name six.

His signature descent into foreign policy madness was provoking a proxy war between his Ukrainian proxies with hated Russia to weaken his and America’s imagined enemy. That war, now in its 35th month, has largely destroyed Ukraine as a viable country. Over half a million dead, over 15 million fled, shattered economy, authoritarian rule by a democracy destroying thug, with no chance of prevailing is a dastardly Biden legacy. Worse, every day of this endless war puts Russia and America on the cusp of nuclear war.

As horrible as Biden’s Ukraine policy is, it pales in grotesqueness to his enabling of Israel’s ongoing Israeli genocide in Gaza. The genocide is an Israeli project wholly supported by Biden with UN Security Council vetoes, public support and $22 billion in genocide weapons. Israel admits they could not do it without Biden’s help while the rest of the world recoils in horror.

The most recent Biden descent into regime change involved buddying up with Islamic jihadist group HTS to overthrow the secular government of Syria. To do so Biden pretended that HTS and leader Abu Muhammad al-Jawlani, who cheered on the 911 attacks, are now good guys doing America’s noble regime change work. Once again Christians and Alawites are being kidnapped, murdered, driven from their homes by Biden’s bloodthirsty new pals.

Sixty two years ago, President Kennedy’s reckless foreign policy in Cuba provoked a nuclear confrontation with Russia that nearly got us all incinerated. At 17, I lost all illusions that America was a sane, righteous nation in foreign affairs. But at least Kennedy learned the lesson that sensible diplomacy, not zero sum game brinkmanship, was the only path to saving peoplekind. He opened up a hotline to Moscow to prevent a recurrence. He bonded with Khrushchev who shared similar angst from Moscow’s version of the War Party. Had he lived the Cold War might have ended in 1963 instead of never.

Unlike JFK, Biden dumped diplomacy from America’s foreign policy toolkit. He even bragged about refusing to engage Russia’s Putin on matters that could lead to nuclear war. That is madness. His US propaganda machine, both governmental and sycophantic media, demonize anyone who dares suggest we talk to Putin. Biden phantacizes that Putin is recreating the Soviet empire.

He continues to squander tens of billions to fuel the ongoing Israeli genocide in Gaza. The pending ceasefire, if approved, will do nothing to end Israel’s colonial Apartheid destruction of the 2,300,000 Palestinians trapped in Israel’s open air prison Gaza made uninhabitable by Biden’s 50,000 tons of bombs. Biden refused to acknowledge that one visit by a Trump envoy to Israel closed the tepid ceasefire deal Biden couldn’t achieve since proposed last spring.

Biden may leave office Monday with his head high, but tragically for Ukraine, Gaza, Syria and others, he will remain in denial and delusion of this destruction of millions in countries worldwide.