A Better Biden Doctrine | Matt Duss | TMR

Matt Duss joins the program to talk about how President Biden's foreign policy could be a lot better. Joe Biden's foreign policy was viewed as being a part of the foreign policy establishment, but he aimed to reorient US foreign policy to account for the country's diminishing global power, the negative impact of trade policies, and the importance of climate change, pandemic preparedness, and anti-corruption. The Democrats' 2020 party platform aimed to reinvent US foreign policy for a new era. Biden has made significant strides in his first two years in office, including bringing troops home from Afghanistan, reducing support for Saudi Arabia's war in Yemen, and restoring diplomatic efforts to end the war. However, the infrastructure of US global military dominance remains in place, and the forever wars are not over. Biden's record in handling China and Russia is mixed, with the Democratic platform rejecting a cold war with China, but policy going in the opposite direction. To truly end the forever wars, legislation must be introduced and the administration must support it.

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Welcoming back to the program Matt Duss is now visiting scholar at the Conner degree Endowment for International Peace former senior policy advisor and foreign policy advisor to Bernie Sanders. Welcome back Matt. thanks Sam. great to be here. Hi Emma. Hey Matt. so all right Matt you and Stephen worth him over at the Quincy Institute have written a piece in the Republic a better Biden Doctrine. It is basically a look at an assessment of what Biden's been doing in terms of his foreign policy set against some of the pledges he made as a candidate. particularly in the general election. and made a little bit of an assessment I I'm gonna hold off on trying to give you and make you give him a grade. oh no that's like let's go through the things that you perceive leave our positives in the sort of the positive column and then we'll get into the things where the Biden Doctrine could get better. sure. yeah well as you said I mean we're not Stephen and I you know didn't like the goal here wasn't to kind of say here's our ideal foreign policy and here's what Biden's doing and here's how he's falling short. we're trying to kind of look at the commitments that candidate Biden made and the Biden team made on the Kane campaign Trail particularly in the in the party platform in 2020. and see how you know the last few years have stacked up compared to those commitments and those goals that they laid out. well and just and before you get into that I said will you just assess relative to what from your perspective might be a good foreign policy? like where was the Biden sort of I guess aspirational Doctrine let's call it that for a moment? where was that relative to where we have been in the preceding you know Democratic administrations and you know maybe Republicans? sure no. I think you know even though Biden himself as everyone knows is a long-time you know a member of Congress member of the Senate kind of a creature of the establishment in a lot of ways. I think the platform and you know the way that Biden and his team ended up talking about foreign policy was con you know a considerable Improvement. I would say even from the Obama Administration. not just you know with things like ending the forever Wars which again is something that Senator Sanders and others like Senator Warren in the 2020 primary were talking about.