Quiet Reformation of Biden's Foreign Policy

[Dill]

(03-20-2020, 05:54 PM)oncemoreuntothejimbreech Wrote: Putin has started a New Cold War. Obama didn’t do much to combat the disinformation and cyber warfare. While Trump has actively encouraged or ignored it for his own benefit. Or gaslighted the American people in the face of our intelligence community reports.

Hopefully, someone will do something about this in the future.

Well you touch on something important there.

Whoever is president next year, if it is not Trump, will need to rebuild trust in the CIA, State Dept., and FBI.

Same for U.S diplomacy, though that will be difficult. It's one thing to withdraw from the Paris Agreement or TPP, but quite another to bust the Iran Deal, affecting Five major signers BESIDES Iran, forcing them to re-align their banks and economies--all when the deal was working as intended.

I'm a little bit worried that if a Democrat rights the ship for four years, another Republican could be elected and lurch the whole show back in some disastrous direction, like Bush did after Clinton. It would take decades for our former partners to trust us again. Even if down the road we got a really good president working for win-win Iran-Deal-style policies that appealed to everyone, there would still be the fear that another Trump type could be elected and crap on it all again.  

Maybe China's expanding alternative economic/political order will eventually produce the kind of economic consequences that re-ignite public interest in U.S. foreign policy and some clearer standard of measuring success. It will no longer be possible to pass off fruitless "historical summits" as themselves achievement.