The world is watching closely to see whether Joe Biden, the most experienced President on foreign policy in U.S. history, can prove America’s resolve after abandoning Afghanistan.
Biden’s showdown with Russia over Ukraine could affect U.S. interests around the world. The stakes include the fate of peace in Europe and the power of the Western alliance and, the world’s mightiest military coalition. More broadly, the crisis is about the balance of power between democrats and autocrats worldwide. It’s about “whether nations—big or small, powerful or weak—are sovereign and can’t be forced into a larger power’s sphere by coercion,” Taylor said.
At the same time, Leonard said, Biden’s strategy globally “will fail if it continues to increase the time, resources, and energy in Europe or the Middle East instead of the Indo-Pacific,”around which his doctrine is built. The challenge for Biden, he added, is “not to get sucked further into Europe and triple down his troop presence in Europe, or get into a military entanglement,” which would be a “massive setback.
favorably by up to seventy per cent of Ukrainians before its invasion and seizure of Crimea, in 2014, he said. Roughly one in four Ukrainians wanted the country to join. Russia’s image has since plummeted—to about twenty-five per cent who view Moscow favorably—while sixty per cent of Ukrainians now wantmembership. “As a matter of Russia’s self-defined strategic interests, it’s on one level hard to explain,” America’s top diplomat said.
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