Easy answer is…of course not.
Our foreign policy of endless worthless wars will continue under Biden and his policies.
I have said many times that foreign policy is one of those issues that will draw me to a candidate….so far Biden has no draw for me.
Americans have opinions on foreign policy it is just not reported by the MSM…..
As the 2020 presidential campaigns hit the home stretch, the Eurasia Group Foundation (EGF) has sought to understand voters’ preferences for America’s role in the world.
This is the third consecutive year EGF has conducted a national survey to investigate the foreign policy preferences of the American public. More than seventeen hundred Americans were asked detailed questions about hot button national security and foreign policy topics. The following observations are included among the study’s findings:
Americans favor a less militarized foreign policy
Americans want to increase diplomatic engagement with the world
They also want less military intervention
https://egfound.org/stories/independent-america/diplomacy-and-restraint
Afghanistan will continue…Iraq will continue……the adventurism into Syria will continue…..in other words the foreign policy under Biden will show little change than that under Trump.
But the larger question remains…..
The “left” rationalization for collaborating with the neoliberal wing of the democrat party is premised on the argument that a win for the national Democrat candidate translates into better possible policy outcomes for the “people” and nation. More importantly though, they assert, Trump’s defeat will alter the rightist trajectory of U.S. politics away from what they refer to as Trump’s neofascist inclinations.
I will not attempt to address this argument here. I have dealt with this cartoonish and idealistic conception of fascism in other places. I have also raised questions with my friends in the left regarding the basis of their confidence that Biden and the neoliberal class forces he represents are in possession of any ideas or policies that will address the irreconcilable contradictions of the late stage of monopoly capitalism known as neoliberalism.
Of course, on this last question, the response from my materialist friends is sentimental gibberish about holding someone’s feet to the fire.
Here I just want to briefly focus on the very simple question that many in the global South are raising in connection with the upcoming U.S. elections. And that is, if Biden wins, what might the people of the global South expect from a Biden Administration? To examine that question, I believe that the Afghanistan situation and the process for arriving at the current peace talks between the Taliban, the Afghanistan government and the United States offers some useful indicators for how that question might be answered.
Will a Biden Foreign Policy Make a Difference for the World?
So the answer for me is that the main issues will remain the same with Joe Biden.
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The only foreign policy of ours that will ever have any success is that policy that provides us the opportunity to give billions of dollars to countries who will burn our flag, march in the streets against us and laugh at our antics on the world stage.
I disagree…I think we could do a better job without going to war for ever little incident. chuq
We would certainly do better as you say but I am not going to hold my breath until a more pacifist policy prevails in U.S. politics.
WE should but it will not happen in my lifetime…..chuq
I doubt Biden will be much of an improvement on Trump as far as any policy is concerned. But at least he is not just plain crazy!
Best wishes, Pete.
He will be a bit more sane than the present day leader…..but he is promising more thsn he will ever deliver. chuq
You are a little bit revolving the “Trojan horse”-theory of POTUS, but at least i have to agree. The military-industrial-complex will never go down. There is too much money to earn, by restructuring into “modern weapons”. ;-( Michael
And starting new wars chuq
For sure, as sad its sounding. ;-(
True that….be well and be safe chuq
You too, Chuq! Have you seen the fly resting on Pence head? Lol
Yes I posted that it won the night…LOL chuq
Lol – I had just heard that he did not want to take part in a virtual debate. He fears being muted.
Yep…he wants it his way or no way chuq
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THanx for the Ping….chuq