Source: Responsible Statecraft
by Anatol Lieven
“President Joe Biden has called America ‘the world power’, and has referred to his ‘leadership in the world.’ If Biden does indeed see himself as a, or the, world leader, then he has been disappointing in his job and has mismanaged it. The world today stands on the brink of larger wars, even potentially world wars, on two fronts simultaneously. That is, perhaps, a more precarious position than the world has found itself in in over half a century, since the Cuban Missile Crisis, and perhaps longer. Then, the danger came from a single front: today, there is danger on two or even three. The Biden administration seemingly subscribes to a foreign policy doctrine of nurturing wars while attempting to manage them so that they remain confined to America’s foreign policy interests and do not spill over into wider wars.” (10/26/24)