A Better Biden Doctrine | Matt Duss | TMR

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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.

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  2. We didn't "withdraw" from Afghanistan, we "fled" Afghanistan. That was so sloppy and chaotic, there was no plan, and there were repercussions for that. The interviewee is being a bit kind when he uses "withdraw". The US/Saudi relationship is so toxic, but those weapons aren't gonna sellthemselves, eh? Only helping the Saudi's "defensively" is still a terrible thing, as Mr. Duss stated, we're still supporting them in some way that nearly directly contributes to the death of someone in Yemen. Much like the US supporting Indonesia during the invasion of East Timor. Providing weapons, transportation, training, and other forms of support makes you liable in my opinion, because without that support and the ok from the US for Indonesia to invade, that may have never happened. And the genocide that followed. If the US was so concerned about "spreading democracy" (which we're not), then why does the US support so many dictators? Hmmm…

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  3. Biden has been just repeating Trump on foreign policy, stop the middle east wars and super power direct conflict is back i.e. russia and china. Also incredibly reckless against north korea. Blowing up Germany's gas pipeline. They're insane.

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  7. I don't think 2015 exposed that Bernie was right for talking down on the establishment. I think it just exposed that we people we thought were a crazy minority during the Obama years were actually a much bigger part of the Republican party and American citizens than a lot of people thought and though I somewhat agree Biden could do more messaging about what he has done, but is he the only one that can say that? Has anyone else in the party that he listens to suggesting he speaks about it more or asked for permission to let the media know? At the end of the day will it help his poll numbers and people's desire for him to run in 2024? I think the average person would probably ignore much of it. The American people no longer care about accomplishments, qualifications, or your resume. They continue to vote for people who can barely put a sentence together or have no idea what they are doing. They only care about catchy slogans and being able to hype them up. I don't think Biden has been forced into anything or feels pressure because of a change in climate. He just believes in giving everyone a chance to voice their opinion

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  9. There is no reduced need for fossil fuel refinement nor will there be any time this century but yeA continue to waste capital on unrealistic platitudes turned into terrible energy policy that is and will crush our lower and middle class

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  10. 7:00 Emma brings up Biden Admin has reduced drone strikes
    8:00 Duss responds with a platitude vaguely suggesting ending forever wars in the table with Biden Admin, yet we have boots on the ground in a bunch of countries right now (Yemen, Syria, somalia, Kenya, Djibouti, Niger, any of those count???)
    15:30 Duss calls Biden Admin policy towards Ukraine, restrained doesn't mention Nord Stream 2 Bombing, doesn't mention the money spent on military spending for weapons. Doesn't mention instigation by Victoria Nuland call and backroom dealing, John McCain interference, NATO expansion). Talks about sovereignty norms, ignores the fact we are violating those RIGHT NOW by the USA (Syria). Talks about how Putin isn't interested in peace, ignores allegations of western admins forcing the hand of ukraine on not accepting peace talks (Biden Admin, Borris Johnson Admin)

    25:30 if we are going to talk about how China Sactions are bad in criticisms towards Biden, how can you not bring up all the other horrendous violent Sactions that the current Admin are imposing on other countries. This is supposed to be a critique of Biden Admin Policy yeah? Well there are other countries besides US China and Russia involved here. Look it up. Look up the list of sanctions.

    Not impressed with this guy. This is sugar coating. He's better than some of these issues for sure, but I think that some context is being left out in this conversation that can't be omitted.

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  11. For the bazillion-th time: THE ENDGAME IS UKRAINIANS AUTONOMY BEING SOMEWHAT REASONABLY GUARANTEED FROM RUSSIAN INCURSION. RUSSIAN AGRESSION ENDS: UKRAINIAN DEFENSE ENDS.

    NOBODY HAS EVER ACTED OR IMPLIED THAT THIS COULD GO INFINITELY FAR, UNTIL WE DEFEATED RUSSIA BUT MADE UKRAINE INTO SOMETHING WORSE OR WHATEVER SAM WANTS TO INSINUATE HERE. THERE IS NO EVIDENCE FOR ANYTHING ELSE, YOU HAD ENOUGH OPPORTUNITIES TO SHOW IT IF THERE WERE. SO…
    STOP. THAT. INCESSANT. BULLSHIT.
    THIS. APPROACH. IS. DONE.

    If he wants a discussion about the general issues with international conflicts, militarism and us involvement, fine, 0 issues there – but you can not force it by setting up strawmans that work directly in favor of the people who are doing the discrimination and militarism RIGHT NOW.

    At least come up with smt new. People in this community have been stuffing that hole for months now, and STILL. Incredibly disrespectful to just ignore that and start it again every few weeks, with no new points and nothing. YOU. WERE. WRONG. ON. THAT. ONE.
    TAKE!
    THE!
    L!

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  18. Imagine genuinely thinking we are going to take economic advice from the people who spent 18 months denying inflation existed, and also said the Russian economy would collapse if we took away their Big Macs 🤭

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  31. There are a few ex-Bush admin. folks who agree with Sam on the Iraq/China connection. He'll never have them on, but they seem to lend credibility to his position here. The destabilization in the ME caused by the Bush admin. seems to have opened the door to greater regional power for China, though. Weird backfiring.

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