One of the main criticisms of President Trump’s foreign policy was that it allegedly downgraded old alliances and denigrated traditional allies. And this was partly accurate when referring to some of America’s European allies such as Germany, or the European Union (EU).
But these critics totally ignored Team Trump’s deepening diplomatic ties with the UK, Japan, Australia, Taiwan, India and Poland, for example.
What the critics also seemed incapable of accepting was that Trump saw what they didn’t, that some of these traditional European allies had long ago stopped sharing similar strategic and other priorities with the United States. And some of these alliances – such as NATO – had lost focus and purpose.
The other important factor was style versus substance. As Ryan Tully, who served as the senior director for Europe on Trump’s National Security Council said in Vox:
In a lot of ways the Trump policies were right, but the European didn’t like the rhetoric. Now you’re seeing the right rhetoric, but I’m concerned there is a backsliding of the right policies.
But the bigger issue is simply that 2021 is not 1991, or even 2011. The global strategic environment has changed considerably in just the past few years. And the new Joe Biden administration – which is placing alliances at the center of his foreign policy – may soon be in for a rude awakening.
As Vox.com notes, simply put: “on a number of prominent issues from China to Venezuela to trade, the United States and its closest European allies are out of sync.” Erik Brattberg, the Europe program director at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, DC, said in Vox:
The Europeans are not keen on following the US in whatever it wants to do. Just because Biden is being nice and he’s not Trump doesn’t change that calculus.
In the three critical areas mentioned above, the European Union is taking a widely divergent path from the United States. As Alex Ward writes:
Last December, the European Union signed a long-promised investment deal with China despite the public concerns of Biden’s then-incoming National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan. The worry now is China will not only tighten economic relationships with America’s transatlantic allies but also use that newfound access to steal intellectual property from European industries.
This week, the EU as a bloc downgraded its support for Juan Guaidó, the Venezuelan opposition leader European nations and the US have considered the country’s interim president since 2019. Now the EU says Guaidó is a “privileged interlocutor,” potentially exposing a gap in the transatlantic strategy to depose the nation’s dictator, Nicolás Maduro.
Then there is trade, and Biden’s new “Buy American” commitment. The UK’s Financial Times reported that “America’s top trading partners and strategic allies, including Canada and a number of European countries, have long complained that buy American measures are a protectionist attempt to shut out their multinationals from the US economy.”
This new Biden focus is sure to create additional tensions with the EU.
If Biden thought that simply replacing Trump, and wishing everyone well, was going to change the underlying reality that Europe and the U.S. are not on the same track as before, he may need to quickly readjust his expectations.
Biden is picking up where the obungler left off.
DESTROY AMERICA!
It won’t last long. We will have a new President in bu at least mid March. Trump is on an extended vacation, one he really needs. Expect a new U.S. Capital City soon.
Just look @ his administrate, full of corruption & incompetent people LOL
I did no vote for. Biden. President Trump. Is. God’s. Chossen. Man. For. President. Of. America. God. even. Likes. the. Name. Trump
We. Need. Our. President Trump. Back. with. Us
Ken
This brain dead POS DEMOCRAP doesn’t even know his own name without someone telling him in his ear. How can he understand anything?
He only understands what it is to make money for his family. He gives a rat behind what Americans need!!
Biden will never do anything that Trump did, he will always do the opposite.
Impeach biden/harris immediately or NOW
❤💥👍CHRISTrump and all his US TRUMPlican Lawmakers successfully US 2020/2021/2024 Reelected Landslide
Amen & Amen👍💥❤
YEs, impeach them both immediately and all the demonRats too, Pelosi, Whitmer a list of names is long.
Otherwise there will be no USA
Is Biden even able to think or learn anything. He is a freakin MORON.
We saw what Mr. Crespo addresses in the German- Russian pipeline deal to the exclusion of United States energy resources, despite the peril in such a bargain. It reminded me of an old cartoon where Hitler, dressed as a strumpet, sat on Stalin’s lap after the pact they made on Poland in August 1939.
BIDEN IS A LOOSER……WHICH IS MAKING THE USA A LOOSER!!!!!!!! MORE COUNTRIES ARE LOOKING OUT FOR JUST THEIRSELVES……NOT WHAT THEY CAN DO FOR ANY OTHER COUNTRY????????? BIDEN IS SOOOOOO STUPID…..HE HAS NO CLUE…….THAT THE US IS GOING TO BE RAILROADED!!!!!!!!! AND TAKEN OVER?????????????
Biden and ‘learn’ are oxymoron. How could a walking dead learn? the crook can barely read what’s written down for him by barry in the shadow.
No, biden is not about to learn that President Trump was right regarding China; he has always known it. BUT he will do anything (no matter what hardship it brings to the American people) if he can harass our President in any way.
Obama is a Muslim terrorist and is making the decisions for Biden. They both need to go
along with Harris and many of the Clinton crowd of lyres and phoney investigators.
Biden, Harris and his cabinet are right on track to destroying America. Sad that the best the Dem’s had to offer up were these two losers.